Magic In Blogging

Ok, another new word, scraping.  I was notified that I had comments awaiting moderation. These comments showed a small portion of my original post, including a link back to my blog.  Usually I check the website address for the comment to see if it’s legit and found that these types of comments were on a useless blog.  I couldn’t figure it out….until today.

I have made it a practice not to approve comments that don’t really add to the blog, that are blatantly bogus. I subscribe to a ton of blogs and I found this post, "One Sure Way To Stop Scrapers From Earning Off Your Blog", from Blog Content Provider.com to explain it well.

Let me know what you think by commenting below.

Learn To Become An Amazon Associate

Monday, May 12, 2008
3pm Pacific Time / 6pm Eastern Time

• Looking for a passive stream of income?
• Looking for products to sell?
• Want to make your site work for you?

This is your chance to LEARN how to become an Amazon Associate. To LEARN how to create product links, widgets and online stores. Debra Simpson will teach you how to add product to your website, creating a passive stream of income. Why pay someone like Debra to do the work for you, when you can do it yourself, for a fraction of the cost?

This 90 minute long, hands-on webinar will take you through signing up, creating your product information and grabbing the code for your blog or website.

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What are you waiting for? Come and join us from the comfort of your home office, with a beverage of your choice!

We all want to make a little money, or maybe a lot of money, on our blogging efforts. In a continuing desire to assist you in developing monetization strategies for your blog.

I’ve also talked about using Google News Alerts to help you discover content for your blog posts. I’ve really been put to the test by participating in the 24 Days ‘Til Christmas Blogging.

I found a great post on developing an advertising strategy for your blog and wanted to share it with you.

I’ll be sharing more opportunities for you to create a passive income from your blogs and blogging efforts. If you have any to share, please feel free to leave a comment.

I posted about becoming an Amazon Associate over at Magic In Word’s Blog.

One of the WordPress plugins I really like is Now Reading, which makes use of your Amazon Associate ID, allowing you to display books on your blog. All you need is either the ISBN number, the title and/or author’s name.

Once you bring the book up through your search, you can manage it letting your visitors know you are about to read the book, are currently reading the book, or have finished the book. The images displayed through the Now Reading Widget are of the books you are currently reading. The others are shown as text links.

You can display the images in three different sizes and you’ll also have a "library" on your site. Just tap the book, or text link and you’ll be taken to the library page which will show all the books you have read. It’s a great way to monetize your site.

You can take it one step further and review the books as a blog post, giving your visitor a reason to tap the link to purchase the book.

So, are you an Amazon Associate? And, if you are, how are you using it to monetize your site? Feel free to leave a comment below.