It looks like Problogger, Darren Rowse, is diversifying from purely earning from Google AdSense and selling ads across his network of sites. He is teaming up with Andy Wibbels in offering a course on how you can duplicate his success. He even got a mention on CBS Marketwatch and a live interview on CBS. That’s gotta do wonders for selling more of his course. According to the report, there are already 800 people signed up for the preview course call. With the price tag of the course at $270, that amounts to $216,000 if all 800 people end up buying the course. That’s a nice chunk of change!

The strategy to offer a course is a good one after riding on his success breaking the $10,000 per month barrier with Google Adsense. The only thing with blogging full time is that it’s not passive, i.e. hands-off, income. You’ll have to work day in and day out updating your blog or blogs. That amounts to a full-time job. So if you’re looking for something that you can set up and then let run on autopilot, you should take this into consideration.

Unless you can afford to hire a bunch of bloggers to maintain your blogs, that means that you have to do all the hard work. Having said that, if your archived blog posts are indexed in the search engines, you’ll still be getting traffic to those pages and probably generating income from them. So in that sense, it’s sort of on autopilot.

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Ever wonder what others are making with Adsense?

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Having a mailing list for your blog can help to generate traffic on demand to your site. Be sure to offer your blog readers a chance to sign up for your newsletter. Generally, your newsletter will be related to the topic of your blog. For instance if you’re blogging about the latest electronic gadgets such as MP3 players, you may want to have a monthly newsletter with reviews of the latest MP3 players in the market and offer tips on where to find the best deals.

Offer an incentive for people who sign up for your newsletter. Along the lines of the MP3 player blog, you could offer your subscribers a free report on the top 5 MP3 players that you have reviewed. This will be something of interest to anyone who visits your blog looking to purchase an MP3 player.

With the mailing list, you can earn additional income by including your affiliate links to merchant sites where your readers can buy the product. You can also include in your free report suggested online sites where readers can purchase the gadgets that you’ve reviewed. Once again, you’ll earn a commission if they buy after clicking on your affiliate links.

So while putting Adsense on your blog may serve as a nice income stream, be sure to think about other ways to generate revenue with your blog.

If you need a good company to host your mailing list, check out Email Aces which as you can see is what I use for this blog.

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This post at Jason Calacanis’ blog says that Weblogs, Inc.’s income from Adsense is reaching the $1 million per year mark. Granted they have many bloggers and blogs in their network. But even if you emulate their growth on a smaller scale, you should see your revenues increase. Here’s a rundown of their growth numbers:

January 2005: $580/day on average.
March 2005: $737/day average.
May 2005: $1,585.57/day average.

Now those are daily averages - very impressive. If we calculate the total earnings for the month of May based on the reported average, this will give us $49,152.67. That’s a very respectable figure.

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I just read on Darren Rowse’s Problogger that he’s now making between $10,000 and $20,000 per month from his network of 20 blogs. You can read the post where he talks about it. It’s interesting that he mentions the top earners are only 2 or 3 of the 20 blogs. So he’s understandably concerned that if those blogs should drop off in the search engine listings, his earnings will take a dive as well. It’ll be interesting to watch and see if the earning levels can be kept up month after month.

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After you have done your research and created your blog, you’ll be ready to get your site listed with the search engines. When developing your marketing strategy, it is important to include a plan to get your blog spidered quickly. In order to get your blog indexed you must let the search engine spiders know you are there in the first place.

You may have wondered if there are ways to lure the spiders to your web site other than manual submission. But first of all, I don’t see any harm in letting Google know that your site exists.

The best way to get your blog spidered quickly is to link your web site from another site that is already indexed, that is related to your site, and that is spidered frequently. Sites having a higher PR usually are spidered more often. That’s why if you link from one of those sites, the spiders will find a link to your new site and visit it. In the long run, you’ll see the value of building a network of closely related sites. For example, you may have a site for baby toys, another on baby clothes and yet another focused on parenting.

Having your site mentioned in news releases can get your site your web site spidered very quickly, sometimes within days. Check out PRWeb where you can submit a free press release.

You can also use the more traditional methods including posting in forums. If you choose this route, be careful not to spam. Follow the posted rules, give helpful answers, and do not go overboard on your “sig file”. Put a link to your blog in your signature file. A word of caution - private forums are not always indexed, so make certain that the forums where you post display recent posts and are listed in search results.

You can also write some articles and submit them to popular articles directories such as EzineArticles. Once again, check the PR of the article directories and specifically the pages for the category where your article will show up in.

No matter which method you choose to get your web site spidered, you will need a good site map. A site map lists and links to all pages on your site. If your site consists of over approximately one hundred pages, consider using a multi-page site map. Make certain that every site map page links to all other site map pages. You should have a link to your site map on your home page and preferably on each of your pages. You should make sure your web site pages are simple and free of useless clutter.

There is also a new product called RSSIndexer. I’m still testing this product so I don’t have results to report so far. However, I think that it’s a valuable concept. RSSIndexer will spider your entire website and create an RSS feed which it will then submit to various RSS directories. It will do this little by little daily so that it looks “natural”.

Getting your web site spidered quickly is the most important thing you can do to achieve success as an internet marketer. Using the methods suggested above can be very helpful in getting your web site indexed.

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If you’re looking to register more than a few domains, I suggest taking a look at NameCheap. Dot info domains are only $2.88 each with complimentary Whois protection.

The other domain registrar that I use often is GoDaddy. I’m happy with both of these registrars. I’ve used them for both .com and .info domains.

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If you have a blog or website related to online dating, be sure to take a look at the FriendFinder affiliate program. You can select different payout models either based on a percentage of the signup fee, fixed per member commissions or fixed signup commissions.

For the fixed signup commissions, for example, you’ll be paid $25 per order regardless of whether the person signs up for one month or more.

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Country Music Television (CMT) is paying Christopher Nelson $100,000 per year to blog about Dukes of Hazzard. His job will be to watch reruns of the show and blog about it. How about that for a job? And the job title? Vice President of the Dukes of Hazzard Institute.

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Here’s a great resource for getting “private label” articles you can use and modify for posting to your blog. Read this excerpt from the publisher:

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