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Be sure you have a GOOD content and use all the methods to advertise it then only you will be able to earn. And traffic will follow. Also, if your blog is new don't put Adsense because they might think that you just want to earn money.
#27, Blog without ads for the first 12 months. That one is pretty much impossible when your goal is to make money. When you start a new blog you want to see those earnings, no matter how small, they encourage you to continue. Sure, your blog might appear more trustworthy to the public when it has no ads, but putting all that effort without any gain for an entire year? That's tough. Any of you guys do this?
I wait a few weeks on a new blog. First I wait until Google has listed my blog. Then I give it a few more weeks. Then I put adsense in
In short, unique content. The design is important, how you market is important, and how you lay out the posts are also very important, but ultimately the best blogs are the ones with good, unique content. Focus on that and the rest will follow.
#14. Hosting is cheap, get your blog out of those free blogging platform. Then why do you have your "Daily Seo Tips" blog on free blogspot?
Both are useless, they may provide you quick traffic, but not quality and these traffic never clicks ur ad nor read other blogs.
Write some tutorials, especially ones for complete beginners. Quite often I'll dig around the first 50 results trying to find a good, well written tutorial that solves my problem. Put your mug shot on the about me page. Switch off nofollow for the comments section, at least until you're driving crazy traffic to your site. If you're going to use Adsense, make it secondary to the content. With some blogs, the Adsense is the first thing you notice, which is extremely offputting.