Websites are mainly designed to provide more information or entertain all the visitors of the website. As webmasters, we’ve been taking it a little far for a while now and it’s probably time for change. What kind of change you ask?

Well, you can start off by assisting your visitors/readers with a user-friendly website. Meaning that keeping all content and a great design in a place that it fits perfectly. Jumbling all content and advertisements all in one section is quite disturbing. Allow your visitors some room to breathe in!

Content:
In my opinion, content comes first before every other aspect of a website. If you’re not providing quality content, then your visitors aren’t really interested in it unless you have the popularity to out stand that crowd. There are quite a bit of ‘make money online blogs’ that do not provide any relevant guides on how to make money online but they do maintain to attain a large base of readers. We all can’t be that lucky; therefore, you must work on providing great content over any other aspect. It will save you a lot of time and money by doing this.

Design:
It has been proven throughout many websites that the overall design isn’t the first thing that attains a visitor but it’s still not a great thing to have the most hideous web design template on the net. This can be quite disturbing amongst many people. You can definitely go with a simple and plain template which gets the work done but definitely having a unique template can help you out much through branding.

Reader/Visitor Targetting:
When your campaigning to get your website more noticeable amongst new readers, target the right people for your website and not the wrong people. Advertise on related websites to get a better return and also to please your visitors. I surely wouldn’t want to be on a webmaster blog reading website reviews of animal sites. It would affect my overall view of the website and I probably wouldn’t come back if it was on a daily basis.

As they all say, your first shot is on your first impression. Messing up your first impression can determine the success of any business or website and taking these aspects on your website into consideration would be the most suitable position you would ever need to take. No matter what your next plan may be, always remember to consider your visitors’ perspective before everything else.

Big networks such as Adsense, YPN, AdBrite and other leading ad networks has been going on at this niche for quite a while. You can notice this through their reputation and their services. They aren’t new to the game and therefore; have the capabilities to attain many new publishers and advertisers at the same time. Putting all this into matters, I assume that it will be a bit different in the future.

Almost everyone today loves making money and as we, some webmasters and web publishers, make our minority or majority of our money through ad networks with an alternative to make money on the side, private advertisements. Selling private advertisements may be the future and the next big thing we may arise at as it seems as if many people will not mind cutting the middle man who’s taking a percentage of their profits.

As Google Adsense toughens their policies and suspends many publishers, I’ve noticed quite a bit of web publishers today have moved on to other networks. You can highly assume that the other networks aren’t providing as much as a great service that Adsense today. A few may but not majority of them. Adsense pretty much takes up a huge chunk of this niche so will there be other networks that can be a great competition?

With the recent rejection by Yahoo! to merge with Microsoft, I don’t believe there will be for quite a while. Programmers today have been working on projects/scripts that allows you to accept private advertisers which works similar as a regular ad network. The only disadvantage to this would be that you would have to search for your own advertisers and that’s probably where the role of webmaster forums plays in. In minutes, you can have your own system that would accept new advertisers, a control panel for both the admin and client and a system to do all the required tasks automatically.

Bringing in this thought, OpenX has come to my attention. OpenX, previously known as phpAdsNews and Openads, has been doing a pretty good job in providing a free script that works very well. I’ve been using it for quite a while and haven’t seen anything like it. The future may lead to things like this to cut the middle man off and it will only be a matter of time before we notice a change.

What are your thoughts of cutting the middle man and taking 100% of all revenue earned?

Behind every successful entrepreneur comes many failures and that’s what really make them who they are. The great thing about this is that you can really learn from their mistakes which allows you to avoid them in all circumstances when they may come through your path of success. Try to avoid the following 10 mistakes that you can ever do to your blog that can cause you failure throughout it.

1. Avoiding Post Consistency:
This can be a huge mistake that you can always make throughout your blog that you would really want to avoid. With your blog, you are connecting to your readers and basically talking to them. This is why this mistake is very important to not ignore. If you’re willing to write a post daily, then stick to it so that your readers are sure to check back everyday for that new post. Also, the time may be a hard aspect to master but that’s where post timestamps come in. If you can’t manage to write at the same time, simply write a day before and time stamp it at the same time everyday.

2. Unrelated Topics:
Many bloggers goes through this mistake and it’s really not hard to not go through it. A blogger will go through this simply when they’ve ran out of great ideas for a new post and simply post unrelated topics on their blog. Usually they can slip with one or two of these kind of posts per month but making it a consistent habit can deter your readers from coming back.

3. Making Your Blog a Billboard:
This factor has been getting pretty chaotic lately and it all boils down to one reason! Everyone wants to make that extra dollar! However, this isn’t the best thing you would want to do at first; within the first few stages of your blog. It’s alright to place ads on your website but limit it. Readers do not come to your site for ads, they’ve came for the content!

4. Never Setting Goals:
Goals are what makes you succeed! Without setting proper goals and meeting them in a timely manner, you may simply never grow at a great rate. Someone that doesn’t set any goals will grow but someone who does set great goals will grow a lot sooner than the person who didn’t plan ahead or set any goals.

5. Setting Filler Posts Dates:
Filler posts are quick and easy posts that you can write up on days that you receive less traffic or days that you feel as if you can’t write anything big or major for the blog. It is strongly suggested to pick a certain day out of the week to write up filler posts. A suggested day would be every Friday as many people tend to be very busy on that day. Filler posts can be anything at random such as a interested video of the week or random links to other blog articles that seems interesting.

It’s really easy to lose a visitor but really hard to gain one; therefore, you must really work real hard to maintain all the readers that you possibly can. When your certain to have a nice quantity of readers that reads your blog frequently, then that’s the time when you can get edgier with these mistakes. It doesn’t mean that you should but you can always take a little break from now and then.

Behind majority of all successful websites came hard work and dedication. The founders did not simply do the obvious which was to provide content and hope for the best of their site to become a huge success. In order for them to be in the current position that they are in as of right now, they were willing to go outside the box and find out sources and tactics on earning a success. Popularity will not simply come to you; therefore, you must seek it. A few methods that would bring you some attention would include…

Paid Sponsors:
The most easiest way to become popular is through paid sponsors. You simply pay other companies/websites in your field and gain some quality exposure. Depending on how popular you would like would highly determine the amount of money that you would need to spend in order to do this. Behind purchasing paid advertisements, there are a few tactics that you can do in order to receive the fullest of the money you spent. If your not going to benefit in it, then I suggest you to not consider purchasing that advertisement.

Drama/Controversy:
Whether you like it or not, setting up a controversy with someone else can help you attain free traffic. Having controversy would help explain to your fellow readers your opinion based on many factors. It can affect you at times, but can also help you in certain situations. Google was highly discussed through message boards when they delayed their page rank update due to several reasons and by simply having that, they’ve gained a lot more attention during that period of time.

Free Traffic Sources:
There’s nothing better that can beat free traffic. It’s highly common to receive quite a bit of free visitors to your website to gain some attention. Majority of the sources will not help you gain the majority of the popularity that you will need in order for a huge success but it can always help you get there. A couple of popular ones that are most discussed would be Stumble Upon and Digg.

These are however just a few ways to gain popularity. Among these few ways, comes a lot of research that you must do in order to gain any at first. The main thing that you would want to do is study your niche and find other related blog/sites as yours and learn from what they do. Use their ideas and put your own twist into it and then turn it into profit!

It’s only the beginning of Dat Blogger dot Com and I’m looking forward to a great path in the near future. Within this blog, I plan on aiming to provide you with some useful guides to reaching an online success. With the past experience I’ve had with working online, I feel that it would be great to share some great thoughts that can be very beneficial to you and other people that are working for the same goal as you.

Dat Blogger dot Com is definitely not going to be a replicate of the ton of blogs that assumes that they are providing great content by providing the same information as the last ‘make money online’ blog that you may have visited before but rather more detailed information and descriptive experiments on real tests we’ve done. Taking such a title as that when you’re really not discussing this topic definitely makes it pointless to even consider it as your motto and therefore, we will not partake in this absurdity.

Having all this in thought, let’s wish for the best of all and begin providing you with the best guides to guide you in your online success. Bare in mind that this blog is for everyone. No matter how much experience you may have, you can definitely gain some information from it.