What’s the hardest thing about blogging? Coming up with fresh, new content! And you have to publish new posts frequently – twice a week at the very least – to keep readers interested and earn search engine love.

If you’re feeling stuck, here is a list of 50 blogging ideas that are sure to inspire you to come up with new content for your blog. Most of the ideas can be used more than once, so you won’t run out of blog posts for months to come.

And by the way, if you want to make more money from your blog, Blogger’s Paycheck shows you how to make passive income from your blog without spending all day at it.

1. Special events – Relate your blog topic to a special event, national day of, or holiday.

2. News – Subscribe to Google news alert on your keywords and write about the latest news in your niche.

3. Book review.

4. Respond to a post on another blog in a niche similar or related to yours.

5. Blog milestone – Write about your blogging milestones, such as publishing your 100th post, getting your 1000th comment…. Read More »

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“Both authors are successful and profitable probloggers and here they reveal at last some of their secrets.” (The Bookseller, Friday 14th March 2008)

Problogger.net is where bloggers worldwide go for advice and information on enhancing their blog’s presence. Whether you’re just starting out or have been blogging for years, these two professional bloggers show you how to turn your passion for blogging into extra revenue. This practical guide to creating an (more…)

Everyday a new army of bloggers join the blogosphere. Everyone who has got something to say comes in and writes in the blogosphere. There’s nothing wrong about this, but the best policy will be to learn how to be better than others so that you survive. I say this as many of the blogs fade out after some time.

A new blog is like a young tree. It needs proper care, essential nutritious materials, continual attention and so on. Are you sure you have provided all of this and many more items to make sure that your blog stands above the crowd and survives the condemnation of dying out after some time? If not, you need to take a blogging course and learn how to do it.

Isn’t Blogging as Easy as ABC?

This could seem what the reality of blogging is at first glance, specially if you are familiar with wordpress or other blogging platforms. They are content management systems (CMS) by which you can write and publish. If it was that easy, all of the bloggers would stay online and continue being there, being seen and gaining reputation, but only a handful of them get there.

Are you one of those who really want to stay there and gain readership, friends and business? If so, you should go professional and learn it form those who know the rules of the game and have managed to survive and even grow into web celebrities.

What’s Professional Blogging about?

The world of blogging is a huge specialized one where the experts make use of tools and techniques that attracts and retains lots of readers and followers to them. There are techniques about each of the following areas and more:

O About pages should be written professionally and differently

O Blog themes should be tweaked and set to attract readers

O Plug-ins should be installed to manage lots of non-existent functions

O Many functions are to be installed as they are not there by default

O Several other media should be used to enhance your blog

O Content should be created in different ways

O Content should be published inside and outside your blog to enhance it

O Participation in certain communities help your blog

O Triggering particular campaigns outside your blog can bring a lot in

O Certain methods should be added to bring readers via different media

O Writing for blogs should be conducted professionally to work like a magnet

I can tell you more and more about this, but there’s one point that I have to stress more than anything else:

You need to be trained to be a professional blogger. Take a blogging course, Interval training program, etc to make sure you are on the right path. This is the secret by which all successful bloggers have manages to survive and gain the attention they have deserved. If you do not go through this stage, your blog will be like many other ones that grow like mushroom here and there and die out easily as if they are condemned to such destiny.

Let’s face it. I do not like to promise that blogging can by itself take you to the land of your dreams, but I can promise that learning to blog as a professional strengthens your presence on the web so powerfully that you could even build a business with it and survive whereas the majority of bloggers cannot.

The Internet is an invaluable tool for anyone interested in saving money, making more money, or beginning a new career. The convenience of being able to use the Internet anytime, from anywhere is why it is so great. One can literally do all their shopping online, learn online, and make money online, all from the comfort of their lounge chair (or as I sometimes do, the comfort of my bed ). Remember, a good wealth building strategy contains each of these elements, saving money, and making more money at the same time.

Blogging is an easy way to make extra money just by writing about what you know

A blog (web log), is something you probably are familiar with. What you might not know, however, is that ANYONE can do it! The best blogs simply are simply written about things the author knows a lot about. And we ALL know at least something well, and there are always SOME people who will want to read about it. After you have a blog and have written a few posts, you can then use a service like Google Adsense. They will automatically put ads on your sight and whenever someone clicks the ad YOU make money. Sounds great right? To make money online you need traffic (people visiting your site). One way it to pay, the other way is to get natural, free traffic from places like Google and Yahoo. Blogging is great for the latter option, because they love original content that YOU write. Blogging for profits (see link at the bottom) is a great site to give you step by step information on blogging. You can sign-up by following the link for Blogging for Profits at the bottom of the article.

You can learn many new skills and trades online

Often we need to learn new things, but we either do not have the time or money to go to an accredited institution. Many sites online offer free Interval training in many subjects for VERY little money, or totally for FREE! One example of such a site is Prosper U. It is a site with the solitary goal of teaching people how to make money online. As just another example (from the former professor of a friend) is “Nethercode” (See the link at the bottom of the article). An online, FREE school for learning how to make video games. To read about Prosper U and sign-up for free, you can visit Find Free Offers Now, the link is at the bottom of this article.

You can find a lot of deals on both Amazon and E-bay

Amazon.com is a great site for getting good deals. Often, and the part I really like, is you can get free shipping. Just look for the deals marked “FREE Super Saver Shipping”. e-Bay is also great. Many times you have two options to purchase from a seller: By Bid or “Buy it Now”. By strategic bidding you can usually get something at much less than market value. The “But it Now” option, of course, will always be more expensive but still generally you can get a good deal with the convenience of it being shipped right to your home. Both sites offer everything under the sun from bicycles to mobile phones. You can even be eligible for a free (Yes, free) $500 gift card from Amazon, just go Find Free Offers Now to sign up (The link is at the bottom of the page).

You should use the Internet as a free, additional way to market your skills

If you have a special talent, that you are currently not getting paid for, why not advertise for free on the Internet, and attract potential clients? This is the BEST thing about the Internet. Anyone can have a virtual shop space just by getting their information into the Internet. Great ways of doing this:

• Make your own website
• Make a blog (On your own domain name, or hosted by a service like blogger.com)
• Using classified sites like Craig’s List (craigslist.com)

You would be surprised how many people not only make money but find new careers simply by letting the world know what they can do. I, myself, became web developer by doing this, years ago. You can sometimes get products and services for free, if you know where to look.  Let’s face it, most people will not give you something for nothing, BUT you can often find free deals, and free trials by signing up for newsletters,

Here you can find some useful e-books and free tools for download. Hope it will helps to give you some ideas on some of the topic you are searching for to start an online income. If you have any good free blogging or IM tools to share, please email me at Contact Me page.

Free e-books

Website Traffic

1./ 77 Ways to Get Traffic (By Allan Gardyne)

2./ Viral Traffic Generation

Blogging

1./ The Blogger’s HandBook (by Alvin Phang)

2./ Blogging For Cash

Make Money

1./ How To Make Serious Money Online

Free Useful Internet Marketing & Blogging Tools

Affiliate Network

1./ Clickbank

2./ PayDotCom

SEO

1./ SEO Tools Rank Checker

Keyword Tools

1./ Google Keyword Tools

2./ WordTracker Free Keyword Tool

Highly Recommended Marketing Tools That Are FREE!

7 Zip: 7-zip.org (free download)
An open source, free alternative to WinZip.

Audacity: audacity.sourceforge.net (free download)
An open source software used for recording & editing audio files.

AVG: free.avg.com (free download)
Anti-virus and anti-spyware protection.

BrowserShots: browsershots.org (free online tool)
Use this site to view how your website look in various browsers.

CamStudio: camstudio.org (free download)
Lets you record all screen & audio activity on your computer and create video files.

CCleaner: ccleaner.com (free download)
Removes unused files from your pc allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up space.

Color Cop: colorcop.net (free online tool)
A multi-purpose color picker – great for web designers and programmers.

Down For Everyone: downforeveryoneorjustme.com (free online tool)
Is your site down? Use this tool to see if your website is down for other people.

DupeFree: dupefreepro.com (free download)
Quickly check for duplicate content & LSI keywords.

Evernote: evernote.com (free download)
Scan your notes, receipts, etc … it will OCR the content, sace it, and make it searchable)

FileZilla: filezilla-project.org (free download)
Open source FTP program for uploading files to your host.

Firefox: http//mozilla.com/firefox (free download)
Alternate web browser.

GIMP: gimp.org (free download)
An open source program used to create & edit – free alternative to Photoshop.

Give Away Of The Day: giveawayoftheday.com (free download)
Unique site that offers you a free license digital product daily.

Kompozer: kompozer.net (free download)
An easy to use WYSIWYG HTML editor.

Marketing Forum: resell-rights-weekly.com/forum (free online tool)
Very helpful forum with lots of good info on internet marketing. Friendly members too.

NicheBot Classic: nichebotclassic.com (free online tool)
Online keyword research tool helps you target the correct keywords.

Open Office: openoffice.org (free download)
Open source office software – word processing, spreadsheets, databases, presentations …

OSWD: oswd.org/ (free downloads)
Open Source Web Design offers free web design templates.

PDF995: pdf995.com (free download)
Use this tool to easily convert files to PSD format.

PDF to Word Converter: pdftoword.com (free online tool)
Easily create editable Word Doc files from PDF content – for legit purposes only!

Pixie: nattyware.com/pixie.php (free download)
Great for web designers – just point to a color and discover the code value for that color.

Resell Rights Weekly: resell-rights-weekly.com (many free downloads)
Free membership where you can download over 300 PLR/RR products for free.

Roboform: roboform.com (free download)
Easily & safely manage your passwords.

ScreenHunter: wisdom-soft.com/sh/sh_free.htm (free download)
Software that allows you to “capture” any part of your desktop, a window or full screen.

Skype: skype.com (free download)
Make free calls over the internet to other people on Skype.

Textpad: textpad.com (free download)
A powerful text editor. I personally like Textpad for editing HTML code.

VLC Media Player: videolan.org/vlc (free download)
Media player capable of reading most audio and video formats.

WordPress Help Sheets And Resources: 1stwebdesigner.com/wordpress
23 extremely helpful WordPress help sheets and resources.

Links Tracking

WP Plugin

MaxBlogPress DealDotCom Widget -
Using this plugin, you can easily put DealDotCom’s deal of the day at the sidebar of your wordpress blog.

Max Banner Ads -
Easily add and rotate banners in your wordpress blog anywhere you like without editing any themes or touching any codes.

Akismet – akismet.com/signup/

Ad Codes Widget – www.primothemes.com/post/product/ad-codes-widget/

Ad Squares Widget – www.primothemes.com/post/product/ad-squares-widget/

All in One SEO Pack – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/all-in-one-seo-pack/

Contact Form 7 – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/contact-form-7/

Custom Post Template – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/custom-post-template/

Dagon Design Sitemap Generator – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/sitemap-generator/

Easy Privacy Policy – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/easy-privacy-policy/

Google XML Sitemaps – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

Login LockDown – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/login-lockdown/

Pretty Link (Lite Version) – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/pretty-link/

Quick Adsense – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/quick-adsense/

Search & Replace – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-and-replace/

Secure WordPress – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/secure-wordpress/

Simply Show IDs – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simply-show-ids/

Smart YouTube – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/smart-youtube/

WP-Cumulus – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-cumulus/

YouTube Embed – wordpress.org/extend/plugins/youtube-embed/

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