The story of Michael Dunlop, his blogging career and how he made online money is really an interesting as also a motivating one to many of us. Just at the age of 20, Michael started earning a full time income from the internet. Starting at the age of 16 and have been fortunate to interview some big personalities and get in contact with them, Michael Dunlop now is one of the top most young online entrepreneurs earning a huge amount of money.
The most popular site created by Michael is IncomeDiary.com. Before creating this site other sites like RetireAt21.com and WebDesign blog earned him a handsome income but that was not something remarkable. He has always aimed to earn a six figure income and that has motivated him to improve the content of his writing every time so that his sites get a huge traffic.
Creation of IncomeDiary.com
The idea to solve the problems of the society has led Michael to launch the site, IncomeDiary.com. When people used to ask him about how to create a blog or how to earn from internet, the idea of creating a new blog came to his mind. Michael thought why not share his own experiences on internet to let others gather some knowledge. At the same time it will inspire many to start writing and bring out their own thoughts and expressions.
During a seminar Michael along with his friends helped people to set up their own blogs and this way he earned $200 which made him to think to create an e-course to help people to learn how to blog.
What Michael believes
Michael firmly believes that starting up a business in blogging is not that easy as people think they are. Initially he has found people posting their writings regularly but once they start earning, the publishing of posts gradually becomes less frequent. According to Michael Dunlop in order to earn a handsome income you should first give people what they are looking for, which in turn will generate your income in terms of value.
He himself got excited to earn $10 a day with Google Adsense, but he never stopped there. Today this figure is much higher and still he is trying to increase his income.
No Leakage Rule followed by Michael Dunlop
The concept of the rules means not to allow advertisers to your site, not using links of other websites in your own website so that visitors can leave your website only by closing the browser or via an affiliate link. By promoting only affiliate products Michael started earning $2000 every month without any issue. Using this trick Michael started earning more money.
Michael tries to attract visitors by providing audio interviews in his site
Michael tries to display the audio in his blog by using Podcasting Plugin and also get the audios transcribed by CastingWords to enable people to listen the audio. Such display of audios help him a lot in search engines because he tries to make his contents rich in keywords.
Michael also uses WP-Contract Form, for creating a contract form in his website which he thinks is simple and perfect. Comment Notifier he uses for alerting people who subscribes and to know their comments. He uses All in One SEO Pack also for helping the search engines to optimize the blog.
Promoting the right products
Michael thinks recommending the right product is very important as your income is dependent on it. A great product along with a great customer service could offer a great affiliate deal. He offered his best services to make people pay more. He brought all his domains through GoDaddy to promote them whenever blogs are created for clients and friends. Michael uses HostGator to put his name behind them. This way he got the monetary success he was looking for. He thinks to promote something that you yourself believe in it.
Certain improvisations to the site raised his dividend
Adding a custom homepage to drive the visitors to the actual places on the site and also a thank you page on the site for those signing up for the e-course increased his earnings gradually. He has decided to make his site bullet proof that is providing every single aspect that a site needs to have, to earn maximum.
Where Michael Dunlop stands at present
At present, before waking up, Michael earns what a person earns in a full day or a week. Average tweets he gets on his site is 100 times every day. About 5000 people have taken his free e-course to learn how to make online money and he broke into the top 20,000 websites, which was quite a big target.
Michael has always tried to do something different in his site. For this initially he started taking interviews of great people so that his visitors can get the best piece of advice. Secondly he always tried to inspire others from his writings. Thus his hard work and certain tricks has been the key to make him earn from $0 to $ 100,000 per year.
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