Use the Post Feed Footer to Monetize your Feeds -Blog

First point! You have a blog. It's a good idea to Allow Blog Feeds.

Syndication is a great tool at making the content you are passionate about, accessible to a larger auidence.

• Using blogger.com go to the blogs settings from the dashboard
• Choose the Site feed tab.
• Make sure Allow Blog Feeds is set to Full.
• Now take the time to setup an account at Feedburner..(FREE)
• In the Post Feed Redirect URL you'll need to put in the http://feeds.feedburner.com/[VALUE HERE]
• Okay so now goto google and pick up some refferal code. Insert the JAVASCRIPT code in the Post Feed Footer.

You're feed is now monitized. Who ever picks it up get's the google ads.

You can also use this post feed footer to place any affilate links you wish, or even place in a banner.

Remember that if you do put these in, your feed may look like a billboard and might be passed over by website admins looking to place your feed content on their sites. It's up to you.
Just putting another idea out there.

Drive traffic to your new Blog

You've just started your new blog. You've realized after posting for a few weeks that you have had no visitors.
Problem is that no one knows the blog exists and it has no importance on the web, to anyone but your self.
What to do? Well you need to do a few things to start making your blog more publized. A few things you can do to start building traffic.

First, setup your google webmaster tool to point to the new site address. This will give you an idea of how your site is being seen on the web by the search engines. You will need to verify your site with the META tag verify key that google gives you.
Submit your new address to the search engines.
Setup google anaylitics now, it will help you break down how traffic is coming in. Where the traffic is coming from, etc.

Second, If you use blogger.com make sure you have your site feed turned on. Burn your feed with www.feedburner.com. This has a bunch of extra cool tool you can use to add a RSS feed subscription to your blog and also a RSS e-mail feed. It also will Ping out your new blog submission.

Third, signup and claim your blog a Technorati.

Fouth, take your blog entries and turn them into articles and post them to the article sites and referrence your blog address in the resource box.

Fifth, Label your posts with the important keywords in each of your blog posts.