Boosting your Blog # 13: Bundle your posts as an Ebook

Continuing our discussion of things you would need to do now to improve your blog, today's tip — the last in this series — is:

This is a variation on the first post in this series, about how to create a productcan, but for those of you feeling overwhelmed by the prospect of creating a new product from scratch it is a good first product.

In fact my own first two ebooks (both of which are still my best selling ebooks —31 days to build a better Blog and The Essential Guide to portrait photography) are largely made up of content that was previously published on my blogs.

In both cases, I added to the previously written content, new content and updated the existing materials. And in both cases my readers overwhelmed me with thanks for the previously distributed content in full ebooks to compile.

These 13 methods are just the beginning. I am sure that there are many more ways to boost your blog.

Take a little time today to create sustainable and significant improvement in your blog business model. If you have any suggestions, please feel free to add them below.

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Boost your Blog # 12: creating a "best seller" list

Continuing our discussion of things you would need to do now to improve your blog, and today it tip:

If you promote products on the Amazon Affiliate program, why not dig into the reports, look at what your readers are buying, and make a list of "best seller"?

I have one of these on my blog photography, and I update every six months or so (see the popular digital cameras and gearon).

I link to it from the front page of my site, and it drives significant revenues each month in the committees. Read more about bestseller lists here.

Do you have a best seller list on your blog?

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Boosting your Blog # 11: Link to Hosts and theme Providers with Affiliate Links

Continuing our discussion of things you would need to do now to improve your blog, and today it tip:

I was talking with a craft blogger recently who has a small and medium-sized blog and told me that her third-strongest revenue stream came via two links in its sidebar that just people on her blog host, pointed this out, and they used to the WordPress theme. Each was an affiliate link.

Around the links gives them a short blurb on why they use the services, along with a no-pressure call to action for other bloggers in her niche who are looking for such services. They also contains a note to say that the links are affiliate links, and that the sale helped her run her site.

She saw by sales of each link and, over a year, they added up to a five-figure income (especially if the hosting committees were recurring).

You create a link to your blog theme or host provider with affiliate links?

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Boost your Blog # 10: make a hire me page

Continuing our discussion of things you would need to do now to improve your blog, and today it tip:

This will not cover all the bloggers, but you have a skill or service you can offer your readers, not just assume that they will come knocking. Sometimes they should see that you offer a service and hear about what it means.

A page on your blog that shows the needs, you are able to help with, and outlines how the service might work (the costs and logistics) are something that you can connected striking significant revenues in the long run. Chris Garrett Hat tip to for this suggestion.

Does your blog a hire me page? If not, should it?

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Boost your Blog # 9: Create A Resources page

Continuing our discussion of things you would need to do now to improve your blog, and today it tip:

A page on ProBlogger that has worked well for me blogging Resources page is a (it's actually a page that I need to update below).

The page serves as a starting point for bloggers to create blogs, and contains a mix of free and paid resources (some of which are affiliate links to paid options). This page is linked to from many places on my blog. I have already thanked for by readers, and it is a page that has me money over the years, too.

Dr. Mani Hat tip to for the suggestion.

Do you have a Resources page on your blog? You can build one today?

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Boosting your Blog # 8: Incentivize your email Opt-in

Continuing our discussion of things you would need to do now to improve your blog, and today it tip:

Chris Garrett proposed that discussion on Google + when I raised the subject of this post, and he is a man who has seen real advantage of doing it.

Chris offers a couple of ebooks when you are on his list subscribers only, and from what I can tell it greatly increase the opt-in rates are lists. Of course, increased opt-ins can lead to many benefits over the life of your blog.

You have incentivized your list subscription? Can you do it today?

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Boost your Blog # 7: Interlink your posts

Continuing our discussion of things you would need to do now to improve your blog, and today it tip:

Another task that I am trying to do on a regular basis (not as regularly as I should!) is back to go through old messages in my archive and looking for opportunities to interlink them.

Many times bloggers write multiple posts on their blog on related topics, and each is an opportunity to interlink relevant content. This benefits your readers, if you read them further on the subject, and helps with your search rankings (internal links help your SEO a bit).

Pay particular attention to the possibilities to link to your own products in older posts — this can be a money spinner.

You frequently back and interlink old messages?

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