Much has been written about making money the direct method, directly from blogs. But the opportunity for blogs to be leveraged to make money indirectly is something that has great potential and which is largely ignored by most bloggers.

Whether it be by using your profile from a blot to sell yourself as a consultant, author, employee, blogger on other blogs, speaker, business partner or whether you use it to sell a product or service that you or your business has produced - blogs are ideally suited for this type of approach.

So how do you make money BECAUSE of your blog indirectly?

Here ‘re the 6 In-Direct Ways:

(note: these six points made up a small part of my WordCamp Melbourne Presentation. You can see the full video here, although it’s a little sketchy on the audio at times):

1. Align Yourself with a Niche

One of the most powerful things that you can do is to pick the right topic to blog about and which is aligned with what you wish to ’sell’ from the blog. If you want to become an author on a particular topic - you’ll want to blog on the same (or a related topic). If you wish to do consulting in an industry, your blog needs to cover that topic. If you have a product to sell - you’d better pick a topic that naturally fits with that product.

2. Establish Trust, Expertise and Authority

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Traffic.. traffic.. traffic.. the most problem we all webmaster should face and confront. Well if your blog need some more traffic then the daily regular traffic you’ve already have, here’re the 10 ways to increase your blog traffic. And best of all, it’s FREE!

1. Comment on Blogs

Look for large traffic Blogs in your niche, visit them and leave your comments on their blogs posts. You may use blog search engine like Blog Search engine .com, Google .com / blogsearch and Search Engine Blog .com to find blogs in your niche.

2. Submit Articles

Write articles that are related to your blog and submit them to popular article directories such as Ezinearticles.com, Isnare.com, Articledashboard.com, Articlealley.com and Goarticle.com. Quality articles may drive you a lot of free targeted traffic.

3. Participate in Community Forums
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1. Pay-Per-Click (PPC) Advertising Programs

PPC advertising programs are the best money making programs for most of the bloggers. They are suitable to all kind of blogs with family-friendly content regardless of their traffic level and age. PPC programs work well on blog because they display contextual ads that are highly relevant to blogs content and bloggers will earn anywhere between 10 cents to 50 cents for each contextual ads click by their visitors. With proper PPC ads optimization and consistent amount of traffic, a blogger can earn a steady amount of money displaying PPC ads on his/her blog. Google AdSense is no doubt, the undisputed king of PPC advertising programs and Yahoo Publisher Network is the closest alternative of AdSense.

2. Cost-Per-Action (CPA) Advertising Programs

CPA programs is quite similar to PPC programs except CPA programs don’t pay bloggers for each click on the CPA ads hosted by bloggers. The blogger only makes money when the visitor takes an action on the CPA advertiser website. The action can be a sign up, making a purchase, generating a lead, downloading a product and more. CPA networks pay a lot more than PPC programs, for a visitor sent by the blogger from his/her blog to a CPA advertiser website and the visitor taken an action on the advertiser site, the blogger can earn few dollar to fifty dollar depend on the niche. But CPA ads tend to work well on large traffic blogs only. AzoogleAds.com, Commission Junction and Advertising.com are some of the largest CPA networks.

3. Promoting Affiliate Programs
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Google has updated their AdSense Search features. If you have AdSense, I highly recommend you integrate Google Search into your website vice using the search your site comes with. The search will for sure be more relevant and you’ ll earn some cash.

The major Google Search changes :

1. You can now limit your searches to your site, a list of sites or the entire web.
2. You now define your search engine to make the results more relevant to your site.
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Log into my Google Analytics account and my server to review my stats, daily. I look at several things to help me focus my attention on getting high quality traffic. To determine, I look at how many visitors the sources send me, the percentage of new visitors, the page views and the bounce rate.

The bounce rate is the percentage of visitors that visit your site then immediately leave.

Anything with a bounce rate of 50% or higher should be a source you should not waste time on. Focus your effort on Google and other sources that have a low bounce rate and a high percentage of new visitors that stay on your site.

Here are a list of sites that send me alot of traffic, but have very high bounce rates.
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Next important thing after you know how many backlinks you really need to get certain pagerank is:
“How we find backlinks for our site?”

There’re many ways on how to get backlinks, such as:
- link exchange,
- commenting in dofollow blogs
- put signature in forum, etc.

What I ‘m gonna write here is: the 2nd point, “Placing Comment in DoFollow Blogs“.

Placing Comment in DoFollow Blogs

Is it true, placing comment in another blog can be a backlink for our site?

Precise Answer: Absolutely. As long as you leave the your URL in the wensite field ofcourse.
It sure will be a backlink for your site.

I need to remind you that the way to get backlink is “placing comment in dofollow blogs“, not just “placing comment in some blogs“.

Why DoFollow Blogs?
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Some friends told me they got headache when they got stuck to these backlinks subject. What is backlinks? How to get backlinks for our site? Are we really in need of these oh so called backlinks? How many backlinks do we really need to get certain PageRank?
To get things clear we really should discuss them with a real in-depth discussion. And let’s start with the last one. How many backlinks do we really need to get certain PageRank?

To get some directions and the right pointers, as always, i did some digging and I found this useful writing about the exact subject we’re about to discuss, about how many backlinks do we really need to get certain PageRank.
So, let’s skip all the prologues, and get the party started.

How many is it Really?

You may take a look at the table below closely.
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Automated the SEO process completely? Nah, that for sure is impossible. Some says it’s evil using the tools, and it’s recently became a heated discussion over here if SEOs need to use tools at all. Here’re the points:

• tools lower the quality of SEO performed (as manual labor is always better than any automation).
• tools might be against search engine TOS as they send automatic queries.

Heads up : I personally disagree with the 1st point, and let search engines taking care of the second one.

So, here’re the 5 complete reason, Why I use SEO tools and plugins:
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Heard about the DoFollow movement yet? The one which was a quiet movement and nowadays became a full-blown revolution. Yes, that one. Joined yet? You should.
Just got invited by a friend who’ve joined earlier to this DoFollow Revolution.

NoFollow Situation

It’s all begin as an action answering the nofollow situation. Wordpress, other blogging software and most of blog provider adds the “rel=nofollow” attribute to all links in comments. That’s by default. The intentions are good - to prevent nasty spammers from leaving spammy comments.

However, it doesn’t stop comment spam in any sense really, and besides, with good moderation and effective use of plugins like Askimet, spam can be controlled reasonably well anyway.

Loren Baker have write a great article about 13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck, which give us a clear point of view about how this nofollow attribute did.

And guess what, even Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg says NoFollow was a failure;

“In theory this should work perfectly, but in practice although all major blogging tools did this two years ago and comment and trackback spam is still 100 times worse now. In hindsight, I don’t think nofollow had much of an effect, though I’m still glad we tried it.”

Be a DoFollower, Join the Movement
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I ‘m talking about a slice of Pizza and a soda for your blog. I’m talking about making your blog available to some of the biggest blog content providers (social bookmarking, blog farms, aggregators, etc) around. I will discuss two places, Technorati and Bloglines, to register your blog or blog’s feed so you can get tons of free traffic. Take 5 minutes to register at each of these sites and you will see more traffic (if your writing is good!).

Technorati
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