What is your Productive Hobby?

This blog provides you ongoing info about new hobbies that may fill your pocket. And now it's the time to hear from you ..in the comment box!

Writing Is The Best Productive Hobby For Me

I like to write and it is my passion. It's my hobby, It's a source of my income - And that's why I term it as an Productive Hobby.

But if we look more precisely, then it would be clear in front of us that writing is a very attractive activity to me. It doens't necessarily mean that it should be yours as well. This is the reason, why I say do what you like the most and as soon as you'll be able to squeeze some profit from it, you'll gain succcess - yea, that's for sure.

Why I think writing is the Best Productive Hobby For All:

Do you like to see movies, read books or travel? Then you can share your knowledge through 'writing' and pass your knowledge to the next generation or the people who are inquisitive to know more about the 'field'.

It's possible to share your knowledge through a-
  • blog
  • book
  • daily newspaper
  • magazine
  • yearly journals
How to make profit from a blog? a book? a magazine? - These questions do not have that much difficult answers as you think.

My suggestion for you is to pactise whatever good hobby you have, write all about them in your diary and publish it in front of the world!

Don't know where to start? Join HubPages to sharpen your skills.
Want to do it professionally? Hire me to set-up a blog for you. 

Do you want to add anything in this article? Share in the comment box.
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8 Money Making Ideas For Kids

Many kids want to make some extra cash using which they can do or buy things according to their wish. But their age is the main restriction. They are unable to get any kind of jobs from the adults living in their neighbourhood. But now with the introduction of Internet, nearly everything has changed. And it's possible for the kids to make money.

Below, I am posting some methods following which Kids can easily make some extra income for spending in the coming Summer-

1. PPC 
May be you run a blog just for fun. If you integrate and monetize your blog with Google Adsense, Adbrite or Chitikia, it can give you much money.

2. Paid Sponsored Review Writer
Get Paid To Review is comparatively an old system. Use it to monetize your blog and get instant money. Some sites such as PayPerPost, ReviewMe etc. made it easy.

3. Working As a Web Reseller
Join a domain and hosting company. Promote them and earn for each sell. Before joining learn about domains, hostings and the related terms. It's a good idea.

4. Design The Web
Many people design the web and earn a living out of it. You can also do it. Just try for some

5. Paid Status
If you're a well-known user on any social networking sites, such as- Facebook, StumbleUpon, you have something great with you. Write paid status and make money for each and every one

6. Taking Surveys
You can utilize your free time by taking free surveys. You can try for SurveySavvy.com

7. Sell Your Stuffs on eBay
Don't know about eBay yet? It's the number one leading online auctioning site. You can sell your designed T-Shirts, coffee mugs for some $$$.

8. Affiliate Marketing is a good option
You can join different affiliate marketing programs and promote your affiliate links through the article directories.

These are some common but good ways to make money online. As nothing is so easy, so you should stick up with the methods and frequently practise your skills.

Tips & Warnings (The Parents Should Deliver To Their Children)-
  • Never go for many methods
  • Promote your skills by using the Social Networking sites
  • Don't work for money only and be crazy
  • It's quite obvious that you won't make money for around two years after starting, so don't loose your interest
  • Never hamper your studies
  • Tell your parents what you're are doing

Make Money Writing Articles By Some UpFront Payment Sites

Many sites pay the authors per article and the writer doesn't need to wait for long time to get paid, these are upfront payment. In this post, I won't go into details. But I am just willing to mention some legit ones below-
  • DemandStudios.com
  • Helium.com
  • AssociatedContent.com
  • Constant-Content.com
These are good and trusted. Try with those people suggest because if you go and try in scam sites then there is no use. So stop wasting time by searching Google about upfront payment sites. Rather, start with the ones stated above get your sure money. Enjoy writing!

10 Steps To Start A Blog Of Book Reviews

You love reading books? Want to utilize this valuable quality in exchange of some money? But can't do it? This article is going to answer these tripical questions with easy techniques.

The 5 Steps
  1. Buy a domain: Carefully buy a short, relative and rememberable domain name.
  2. Buy a safe hosting: I suggest you to buy from Hostgator.
  3. Install WordPress: Go through the tutorial - codex.
  4. Choose a theme: Choose the correct theme matching with the genre of book in which you're reviewing.
  5. Start writing: Start writing short reviews with most valuable information.
  6. Movies: Tell that if there is a movie on this book.
  7. Link to amazon: Link to a book store which sell that book, and earn ongoing commissions.
  8. Link to the author: Link to the authors page.
  9. Make popularity: Promote that blog in this 105 Ways - Promote your blog in 105 Ways.
  10. Make money per review: Write paid reviews. Fix a payment like $10/per book at the starting.
Extra Tips
These are the 10 Steps to start a blog on book reviews. Enjoy! And comment below.

5 Steps To Create An Article Directory Without Knowing Programming In Wordpress!

We all net-users use Article Directory to read and submit articles in order to get various information and backlinks. Within so many thousands of sites and blogs some may not differentiate an Article Directory with other Websites and Blogs. For some quick idea I suggest you to visit Articlesbase and EzineArticles.


Why You Want To Create An Article Directory?

You can create it for various purposes. Firstly the money from monetizing. Secondly, to promote you other blogs. Thirdly, to share information and lastly, be the owner of a huge site.

How to earn money from Article Directories? Its a common question. Answer is simple too. Increase your quantitiy sign up for Google Adsense and gain popularity to earn per impression and click.

5 Steps To Create An Article Directory


#1 - Register a domain : 50% of your company and online success depends on your domain and hosting planning. Choose such a domain that is - 1. easy to remember -  2. easy to pronounce - 3. as short as possible.

#2 Wise Hosting - Always buy secured hosting. Otherwise, you are mostly probably going to be HACKED! I suggest you HostGator. And for this article directory you should better plan how big site you are willing to create and how much you can invest for articles. So take bandwidth accordingly.

#3 Install Wordpress - Installing wordpress is too easy. Look up here and work accordingly. It may take an hour to install if you are here for new and know nearly nothing how these works.

#4 Choosing the right theme (template) - You won't be able to work with a simple theme designed by your baby. Rather go for the Articlesss.com and get the theme. We all thank that site's owner for providing this fantibulous theme.

#5 Write Articles - Make categories, sub categories. And insert minimum five articles to go on. As soon as you have a minimum of 50 unique articles, go for promoting and advertising. And monetize wisely with Adsense and Infolinks (which are the best couples). Also tell your friends, family and known ones to submit and contribute articles.

Some Extra Tips

1. Get the best articles from me in bulk quanitity but in cheap price. Go in Hire Me page.
2. Or, buy an article re-writer from online providers.
3. Buy a fascinating theme with more options from here with $99. You may earn more. 


Warnings

1. Don't go for creating the directory without having $100 to invest. Its very risky.
2. Also do not come for creating the directory if you are unable to give enough time.

10 Qualities You Should Have To Survive in the Blogging Battle

Blogging is not for all. In fact 'Everything is not for every body'. In this post, I want to show you all and make you understand that Blogging Is For You or not.

So for this, firstly making you acquainted with the 10 Qualities would be definitely a wise doing. You should go through serially and look that each and every quality is inside you or not. If you find that a single one is missing, then Blogging is not for you, rather I suggest you Data Entry from the link left-

10 Qualities Which You MUST Possess To Survice in the Blogging Tussle


1. Believe yourself: You will require to believe in yourself. You will NEED to show off excessively to your readers. And have a tendency to speak that "What I say is correct". This quality helps to get more loyal readers.

2. To know what you don't know: Have you ever tried to tell about something you don't know full? While blogging, it should be clear from your writing style that, what you write - you are confident. And the tips you give are proved. This way your affiliate income may have a chance to increase at a great extent.

3. Be Social: Always keep in touch with your readers and similar bloggers. When  their help will be required to you, You don't know.

4. Understand yourself: Most of the guys have an enquiry : What will I blog about? To this, I like to say that 'Unless you get yourself the answer of this question, you aren't a blogger yet in real sense'. So self understanding is necessary otherwise belief in yourself is not going to develop in your mind.


5. Idea inventive capability: Make sure that you love your job and you aren't only doing it for MONEY. This way, you will get several ideas to keep up blogging.

6. Better Typing Speed And Quick Thought: Be quick on updating your blog. Who knows? Maybe, a dozen of people are waiting for your next post.

7. A Blogger=Author: Always keep it in mind. So keep a stylish english and no mistakes in spelling and grammar. So your readers get fun and don't become bored. You are not here to write hundreds of dumb posts only; rather some qualitiful ones.

8. Doesn't like to depend on others: Blogging is a kind of independent writing. You should not depend on other's content even with money. Write yourself and customize yourself with easy Wordpress or Blogger platform. Many people think that they will succeed by buying content. In most times this thought is totally valueless.

9. Be 100% Unique: If you have a tendency to be 100% unique all time, you will surely succeed in the journey whether soon or later.


10. Patience is the only key: If you are an impatient man or something like that, do not come to this holy Blogging world. Look at me, I blog around 2 years and earn a good deal of money but I am not a Darren Rowse or John Chow yet. It takes time....time....and time....

Write about your feelings you have (after reading this post) below. Write about new points and gain some backlinks for your site through the comment box.

110 Ways To Promote Your Blog or Website

Woking hard. Img. copied from here.
When someone starts a new blog like I did for this one, s/he has really a hard time in promoting that site. Writing content is not a SO hard job. But when no one is here to read and explore your blog, you will just simply become disheartened and stop blogging. But the key is here. If you do not just stop out here, you will be able to become a Pro Blogger. For blogging promotion and ultimate success, read other famous blog like Problogger.net by Darren Rowse, 2createAwebsite.com, DailyBlogTips.com. They all did hard jobs and battle in the online field to establish themselves as Success Stories. And now they ARE!

But if you get the perfect guideline, idea and tips at the starting, then the journey may become a thousand times easier than me! So, for this reason, I am writing here 105 Ways To Promote Your Blog, which I have done throughout my entire blogging life.

Massive useful, unique and original content

1. Discover what people are writing in their high-trafficked blogs. Utilize their writing style and structure and  apply it into your own post.
Write Content. Image from here.
2. Guide people by writing how-to articles and working guides.
3. Post the interviews you made with popular figures.
4. Share your own stories and how you just do everything. But be sure, that is relevant to the your site's theme.
5. Post Manifestos.
6. Try that your sites are indexed by Google. Then rewrite them with some of your concepts taken from the article, make them short and submit it various content directories like Hubpages.com or, Squidoo.com.
7. Hire some freelance writers (or write by own) and submit articles to the directories in order to get some traffic and create the link juice. You can also hire me for cheap here.
8. Celebrate your and your blog's birthday gorgeously in order to show your readers that, you share whatevery you know. This will increase their faith on you. And the faith results in Affiliate Ca$h! 
9. Make some variation in your post styles. Take a glimpse at 15 kinds of posts here. 

Find other blogs and utilize them
10. Appear as guest authors in other famous blogs.
11. Go to Google Blog Search and find fresh posts to comment.
12. Try your best to become the first commentor.
13. Try to reach the Top Commentor list.
14. Try to find 'doFollow' blogs and comment them. If you do not know about doFollow blogs and how to identify, then read the article at ezine.
15. You should join a blog newtork. See what Darren Rowse has said here.
16. Also write in Small Blogs, then it is more likely to get your articles approved and get traffic from them.

Get Traffic From Facebook

17. Try to build a huge community in Facebook and advertise your blog updates. But please never indulge yourself in Spam activities. This simply damages your image.
18. Start a Facebook Fan Page like I have created here. Like it in the right sidebar of the blog.
19. Update your fan page and import your blog frequently. You can also make an automatic system. Learn more.
20. Create a Facebook App for your blog.
21. Create a Facebook Group and utilize it.
22. To earn some extra money from your community, then visit PaidStatus.com (Extra Point).

Utilize videos online

23. Make a youtube channel and update it with daily fresh videos on your niche topic.
24. Create another video and distribute through tubemogul.com
25. Convert your videos in various formats, slightly change the videos and renew it. Test the videos under different titles and keywords to come up on Google.
26. Be sure that your full blog URL is viewable in the top ot bottom of the video screen.
27. Think and research which video titles and tags are going to rank well in the Search Engines.
28. Try to buy the famous youtubers and then add your blog address in the description bar. This just works!
29. Reply to all your Youtube Video comments.
30. You can record concerts (where cameras are allowed) and publish it as fast as possible in your blog. And try to post relevant ones.

Utilize every @tweets

31. Make a huge number of followers.
32. Join Twiends and increase followers to five thousands. (Free of cost!)  
33. Put a hash tags (#nametag) in your tweets.
34. Follow back any one who follow you.
35. Try to follow only relevant people who are related to your business.
36. Extra : Earn money for every sponsored tweets.
37. Tweet on a daily, regular, schedules and planned way.
38. Try to put affiliate links as less as possible.
39. Try to help people as much as possible by your tweets. So they will look up for your coming tweets.
40. Follow me @shafinbest. I will back you :)

Use wordpress and blogger

41. Use All in SEO Pack in wordpress.
42. Create a theme and distribute it making a footer link.
43. You can release a free plugin. Make a link. If the plugin is good, then people will love.
44. Please try to use meta tags. For blogger users go here to learn how to.
45. Ping automatically on lots of ping services.

Do some little SEO

46. Register your domain name for 10 years.
47. Make some link juice.
48. Comment more and more in doFollow blogs to increse Page Rank.
49. Do some Article Marketing in a wise and targeted way.
50. You can try thesis.
51. Write link bait.

Social Networking

52. Use Facebook and Twitter wisely as said above.
53. Try to join every network and make a list and schedule when to use them.
54. You can join in small numbers but be sure to use them very efficiently.
55. Create list on Amazon.com.
56. Answer related question at Yahoo! Answers. Put your website link in the resourse box.
57. Write reveiws on Amazon.
58. Try to be very active in relevant ning.com communities.
59. Create reviews for Amazon products here
60. Use Mahalo Answers here.
61. Submit your site on Dofollow social bookmarking sites here.
62. Use LinkedIN Answers here.
63. Join Digital Point Forum and start answering keeping your site URL in the signature.
64. Submit your site on AllTop.com
65. You can try twitterfeed.com to send your latest content automatically to various places.
66. Use FriendFeed.com and network with others.
67. Write an article which will be mainly focused for Digg.com
68. You can try this bookmarker to automatically bookmark for you!
69. Be friend with one of many Digg Power Users.
70. Convert your blog posts into PDF format and then share them by Scribd.com
71. Find out the most trafficked and best posts in your blog and submit it on blog carnival.
72. Add your Scribd documents into relevant groups.

Utilize email marketing

73. Use aweber.com
74. Put your blog link in the Email Signature
75. Distribute your content through FeedBurner.

Let's do some PodCasting

76. Try to start a podcast and submit it to iTunes directory.
77. Submit it to podcast directory.
78. Convert your audio files into video formats and share them through tubemogul.com.

Use Stumble Upon

79. Try to make friend those people who stumble your content.
80. Place a stumble button in your post template.
81. Work regularly on stumubler to understand what is it actually.
82. Have other people initially submit content.

Are you willing to pay?

83. Buy some Ad Space.
84. Make people write about you. Test: Microworkers.com and PayPerPost.com or ReviewMe.com
85. Send out a Press Release.
86. Start using Facebook Ads
87. Its nice to try Google Ads (or, Adwords).

Utilize every people

88. Tell people about your blog and make them remember your domain.
89. While talking to any people, try to convert the conversation topic relevant to your blog. And tell him to pay a visit to your hard-worked site.
90. Attend several meetups.com.
91. Tell your firends, family and colleague about your new blog.

What's adf.ly and bit.ly?

92.  Bit.ly is a URL Shorter. Such as an address is http://productivehobbies.blogspot.com/2010/10/start-with-hubpages-before-you-start.html (So big with more than 85 characters)  but by shortening this with bit.ly I get a link with http://bit.ly/cWzD6n  20 Characters.
93. Share short links with your Facebook Friends, Twitter Followers and more.
94. Adf.ly is somehow same like bit.ly but it pays for every click your links get.
95. Use su.pr

Learn The Main Fundamentals, first

96. Firs motivate yourself.
97. Patience is the only key for bloggers.
98. Those who of you want overnight success, you will loose everything for sure.
99. Use Wordpress for easy blogging. Blogger is also good for me :)
100. Share your expertise and what you have gained on the field in which you're blogging otherwise no one is going to even look at your tips.
101. Try to blog on a daily basis.It is necessary to update it everyday. But make sure that you're on the journey in a scheduled way.
102. Remember, the more you work the more you gain.
103. Do not get confused while choosing Advertising Media from hundreds. Use Google Adsense and Infolinks. And Amazon, (or clickbank, or commissionjunction) for Affiliate Marketing. Chitika and Adbrite would be your second choice. And use PayPerPost.com for writing Paid Posts.
104. Express your cool personality in the writing.
105. Tell your readers what you do online.
106. Give some recreation to your blog readers with games or others you like.
107. Obviously make your blog family friendly for your ultimate success.
108. Make a plan how  many comments and guest posts you are going to contribute to other blogs. And keep it going on.
109. Learn and feel the importance of context here.
110. Find similar bloggers and connect yourselves.


 




    15 Ways To Receive More Comments In Your Blog

    It is a very common phenomenon that new bloggers are tired of writing content more and more without a single comment. Today I am writing a post with 15 Techniques which may help you to increase your comment amount to a high extent. But make sure that you apply all the techniques step by step.

    1. Make a relation with new visitors: New visitors will obviously have a hard time to understand what you provide and how to get the most from it. You can help the new visitors by a quick chat or something like that in this time. Use this service from Woopra .

    2. Reply to each comments you receive: Once you receive a comment from your visitors, reply them even if they do not ask a question. By this another visitor will be interested and subscribe to comments in the blog. This is a good way of getting more comments.
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    3. Ask some questions inside the content: In your blog post do not forget to ask one or two questions to your audience. But please do not spam the post with a bunch of questions.

    4. Give some value who comment regularly: Keep a widget in your blog with the title 'Top Commentors'. So people will be interested to see their name there with their blog link and photo if possible. Learn from here.

    5. Expose yourself: Try to tell about your bad sides in a friendly manner to your blog readers. This is going to increase your comment quantity. If you are lazy, if you look bad, if you failed to do something share it with your readers. Because people are more interested in other's activities!

    6. Make the process as easy as ABC! : Here, I mean that make your commenting process a bit easier. In Worpress, the bloggers are having a good time in getting comments. But for blogger users, they must cutomize the systems and make easier. For this go to 'Settings' tab and 'Comments' sections to customize. Check the 'anonymous' button to enable comments from all people.

    7. Do not say everything: You do a great research on the post but do not give all the information. Then people won't have any  point to share in the comment box.

    8. Disable the register option: When I find somewhere that I will need to register and then comment, then I normally do not comment in that blog. Because I am a bit lazy and do not want to share my information all day long!

    9. End with a invitation:  When you finish writing your post, then tell your visitors to comment your audience 'Teach me in the comment box' or something like this.

    10. Give your visitors opportunity to edit their comments: Sometimes people make some mistakes in spelling and grammar. If they do not get the right to edit their own comments, then probably you're going to loose some valuable subscribers. For Wordpress users, use the plugin: here.

    11.  Reward with name in the post: When some commentors ask you a question very much relevant to your blog topic and you know a lot about it, then you can reward a post for him. And write that 'Dedicated to (name) .' in the intro.

    12. Make 'Recent Comments' like I did: I placed a widget in the right sidebar titles as Recent Comments. To see your name there, comment me below! You should place the widget to give some additional value to your readers.

    13. Enable 'emoticons': Haven't you seen a smiling face in the comments, yet? When visitors type :), then the the sign automatically turns into a smiling face. When, :(, then it shows that the commentor is sad. These are called emoticons. In most cases, in Wordpress it is automatically enabled. But in blogger you should look for here for a box full of emoticons above the comment.

    14. Enable 'DoFollow' tags: Do you know why nowadays people comment like mad? They comment specially in dofollow blogs to increase their Google Page Rank. If you are interested to give something free to your visitors, then enable that system. If you are hearing new about dofollow, then read the article here. To enable it in blogger, go for here.

    15. Let users make your blog a discussion forum: You can enable threaded reply system in your blog. So if someone comments your blog something wrong, then let another reader reply and correct him.

    These are the systems to get more comments in your blog in a short period of time. If you know some more points, please let me know below.