Is Making Money From Blogging Haram

Note: For the record, let me just say that I do not claim to be a religious scholar. But having some domain knowledge, we'll try to discuss some issues majorly related to ethics and morality, and not very specific to a religion. Anyone can benefit from reading this post, as it applies to the blogging community as a whole.

OK, so moving on. A lot of people don't think twice about such issues, but apparently, some do. They are worried that their earnings might not be lawful for them from a religious point of view, since money made online can come from a lot of different sources, lawful or unlawful. 

 

The concept of 'haram' for Muslims refers to anything that is unlawful, and prohibited. This could anything from unlawful food to unlawful attire to unlawful deeds, and so on. Hence, anything that is

Are Advertisements The Only Way A Website Makes Money

1. Sponsored Reviews

Paid reviews are a very common method of making money. Authoritative websites, or websites focused on a particular niche get paid to review certain website, app or web service. If you have a website with a decent traffic, you can contact a review network too and get paid for writing reviews on your website. Some of these networks include PayPerPost, ReviewMe, and BlogVertise etc.

2. Affiliate marketing

Affiliate marketing is a form of advertisement, but not if you do it properly. Instead of just stamping an affiliate ad in your website's sidebar, it's far more important to actually create content about the product you're advocating. People write reviews, comparisons, rounds ups, and so on about the affiliate

How To Delete Bad Quality Posts In Blogger Without Effecting Blog SEO

What makes a post 'bad'?

As mentioned before, certain content remains relevant only for a limited period of time. For example, a job listing is irrelevant once that position has been filled. Similarly, online shopping stores have to deal with products going out of stock all the time. Some eCommerce sites might even stop selling products from a certain vendor.

Blog posts tend to get outdated too. News highlights are a common example. But more important are the reviews, tutorials, and round-ups that you write. For example, the top 10 most useful WordPress plugins might not be the same in 2014 as they were in 2013. And suppose you wrote a plugin development tutorial based on WordPress 3.8. What if WordPress completely changes in version 4?

Another common problem among bloggers is, they have to put up with a lot of low-quality posts they put

Top 5 SEO Skills in 2014

1. Public Relations

This era is all about public relations! They've always been an integral part of any successful marketing campaign, but are now more important than ever. Today's customer is harder than ever to get.

Public relations can be used to build strong powerful links - links that don’t trigger penalties such as Penguin. Understanding how to pitch a story to news outlets, get them to run the story, and then link back to your site, will be one of the most powerful link building tactics now and in the future.

2. Research

Whether it’s keyword research or content development; research is becoming an increasingly important step with SEO. Not to say that it wasn't before, but is now more so than ever. The Google Hummingbird update has now forced (or is trying to force) webmasters to develop

How Do Links From Social Networking Sites Effect Website Rankings

What about fan-base and followership?

The problem with extracting followership information is, it requires a lot of engineering work to try to extract this data from webpages. In the process, GoogleBot runs the risk of getting blocked from crawling the website. This has happened before once. So Google now tries to avoid doing anything that might get it blocked again from crawling these social sites.

Google crawls the web, and samples it at finite intervals of time, rather than in real-time. The problem with that is, something on a webpage can change after it has been sampled. This happens with many websites, but for most of them, this isn't a problem. Usually, the content change isn't much (or not at all), and Google can pick up that change in the next crawl.

Social sites, however, are unlike most other websites in that they are very dynamic. Content on them changes often. And these changes are important. It doesn't matter much if I add an extra paragraph to a blog post after Google has crawled it, since it's not very important. I can simply wait for the next

Best Advice For Making Money Online in 2014

1. Taking risks

People often tend to get intimidated by their competitors' numbers. Often, businesses try to inflate their statistics as a propaganda. So often times, they may be exaggerated. Studies show consumers are still being more careful with their money and not putting as much on credit. So not every business is doing great. There's no need to panic. If you or your product are worth the price you have listed, and you are not pricing yourself out of the market then stay put with your prices!

Also, now might be the time for some good investments. Do not be afraid to take risks, because what's business without risk, eh?

2. Show your public face!

Most business owners don't know, or care about it, but customers actually convert better when they

How To Use Social Media For Online Fundraising

1. Create Videos on YouTube

Videos are the best! You can do more for a cause in a video than an article or book ever can. Touching, motivational videos are what often secure the most amount of support for a project/cause. If your projects is going to do some good for the community, then it shouldn't be hard making such a video.

But don't just stop at a single video. Provide your patrons insights into what you've been up to, where you can justify the need for more funding. Some generous people might keep supporting your project until its done. So don't let them think they're wasting their money. Give them reason to support