Yaro Starak is a young entrepreneur from Brisbane,Australia who consistantly makes between $4000 and $8000 from just one blog.Since 1998 he has operated and sold several successful internet businesses.He nows makes his living as a full time professional blogger with his blog called Entrepreneurs-Journey.com.and trains others to do the same with his Blog Profits Blueprint.Yaro was born in Brisbane Australia on July 19th 1979 to his mother Zahava Stark and his father Yaro Stark senior,who had earlier emigrated to Australia from Canada.
Yaro first came into contact with the internet while he was studying for a business management degree at the University Of Queensland.He was given a free student internet account and email address and from then on he was hooked.
His first website was a hobby site for a card game called Magic:The Gathering which he created on Geocities.com.This later developed into MTGParadise.com which allowed him to market all over Australia.It was while running MTG that he started to hone and perfect his marketing skills.
Later he produced a website called Better Editor.com an online proof reading and editing system for students.
In 2004 Yaro Starak sold MTGParadise and continued to concentrate on Better Edit.
Around the end of 2004 he started to look into blogging and decided to start a blog on internet marketing called Entrepreneurs-Journey.com which he still runs today.Yaro makes several thousand dollars a month from his blog and can teach you to do the same at BlogMastermind.com
Yaro first came into contact with the internet while he was studying for a business management degree at the University Of Queensland.He was given a free student internet account and email address and from then on he was hooked.
His first website was a hobby site for a card game called Magic:The Gathering which he created on Geocities.com.This later developed into MTGParadise.com which allowed him to market all over Australia.It was while running MTG that he started to hone and perfect his marketing skills.
Later he produced a website called Better Editor.com an online proof reading and editing system for students.
In 2004 Yaro Starak sold MTGParadise and continued to concentrate on Better Edit.
Around the end of 2004 he started to look into blogging and decided to start a blog on internet marketing called Entrepreneurs-Journey.com which he still runs today.Yaro makes several thousand dollars a month from his blog and can teach you to do the same at BlogMastermind.com
Top Ten Blogging Tips From Yaro To Make You Money
10.Write At Least Five Major "Pillar" Articles.
A pillar article is a tutorial style article aimed to teach your audience something. Generally they are longer than 500 words and have lots of very practical tips or advice. This article you are currently reading could be considered a pillar article since it is very practical and a good "how-to" lesson. This style of article has long term appeal, stays current (it isn't news or time dependent) and offers real value and insight. The more pillars you have on your blog the better.
9.Write One New Blog Post Per Day.
Not every post has to be a pillar, but you should work on getting those five pillars done at the same time as you keep your blog fresh with a daily news or short article style post. The important thing here is to demonstrate to first time visitors that your blog is updated all the time so they feel that if they come back tomorrow they will likely find something new. This causes them to bookmark your site or subscribe to your blog feed.You don't have to produce one post per day all the time but it is important you do when your blog is brand new. Once you get traction you still need to keep the fresh content coming but your loyal audience will be more forgiving if you slow down to a few per week instead. The first few months are critical so the more content you can produce at this time the better.
8. Use A Proper Domain Name.
If you are serious about blogging be serious about what you call your blog. In order for people to easily spread the word about your blog you need a easily rememberable domain name. People often talk about blogs they like when they are speaking to friends in the real world (that's the offline world, you remember that place right?) so you need to make it easy for them to spread the word and pass on your URL. Try and get a .com if you can and focus on small easy to remember domains rather than worry about having the correct keywords (of course if you can get great keywords and easy to remember then you've done a good job!).
7. Start Commenting On Other Blogs.
Once you have your pillar articles and your daily fresh smaller articles your blog is ready to be exposed to the world. One of the best ways to find the right type of reader for your blog is to comment on other people's blogs. You should aim to comment on blogs focused on a similar niche topic to yours since the readers there will be more likely to be interested in your blog.Most blog commenting systems allow you to have your name/title linked to your blog when you leave a comment. This is how people find your blog. If you are a prolific commentor and always have something valuable to say then people will be interested to read more of your work and hence click through to visit your blog.
6. Trackback And Link To Other Blogs In Your Blog Posts.
A trackback is sort of like a blog conversation. When you write a new article to your blog and it links or references another blogger's article you can do a trackback to their entry. What this does is leave a truncated summary of your blog post on their blog entry - it's sort of like your blog telling someone else's blog that you wrote an article mentioning them. Trackbacks often appear like comments.
This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.
This is a good technique because like leaving comments a trackback leaves a link from another blog back to yours for readers to follow, but it also does something very important - it gets the attention of another blogger. The other blogger will likely come and read your post eager to see what you wrote about them. They may then become a loyal reader of yours or at least monitor you and if you are lucky some time down the road they may do a post linking to your blog bringing in more new readers.
5. Encourage Comments On Your Own Blog.
One of the most powerful ways to convince someone to become a loyal reader is to show there are other loyal readers already following your work. If they see people commenting on your blog then they infer that your content must be good since you have readers so they should stick around and see what all the fuss is about. To encourage comments you can simply pose a question in a blog post. Be sure to always respond to comments as well so you can keep the conversation going.
4. Submit Your Latest Pillar Article To A Blog Carnival.
A blog carnival is a post in a blog that summarizes a collection of articles from many different blogs on a specific topic. The idea is to collect some of the best content on a topic in a given week. Often many other blogs link back to a carnival host and as such the people that have articles featured in the carnival often enjoy a spike in new readers.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.
To find the right blog carnival for your blog, do a search at blogcarnival.com.
3. Submit Your Blog to www.blogtopsites.com
To be honest this tip is not going to bring in a flood of new readers but it's so easy to do and only takes five minutes so it's worth the effort. Go to Blog Top Sites, find the appropriate category for your blog and submit it. You have to copy and paste a couple of lines of code on to your blog so you can rank and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. You will probably only get 1-10 incoming readers per day with this technique but over time it can build up as you climb the rankings. It all helps!
2. Submit Your Articles To EzineArticles.com.
This is another tip that doesn't bring in hundreds of new visitors immediately (although it can if you keep doing it) but it's worthwhile because you simply leverage what you already have - your pillar articles. Once a week or so take one of your pillar articles and submit it to Ezine Articles. Your article then becomes available to other people who can republish your article on their website or in their newsletter.
How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.
How you benefit is through what is called your "Resource Box". You create your own resource box which is like a signature file where you include one to two sentences and link back to your website (or blog in this case). Anyone who publishes your article has to include your resource box so you get incoming links. If someone with a large newsletter publishes your article you can get a lot of new readers at once.
1. Write More Pillar Articles.
Everything you do above will help you to find blog readers however all of the techniques I've listed only work when you have strong pillars in place. Without them if you do everything above you may bring in readers but they won't stay or bother to come back. Aim for one solid pillar article per week and by the end of the year you will have a database of over 50 fantastic feature articles that will work hard for you to bring in more and more readers.
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- ronpass ronpass Sep 6, 2008 @ 3:40 pm
- Hey Alex - Yaro's my blogging hero and he lives in Brisbane too. Looking forward to seeing this lens evolve.
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