How to Make Money Online Blogging
Blogging is one of the best legitimate ways to make money online for beginners .
A blog is basically an online journal. A blog is a dynamic content management tool and while updating a normal web page or website can be pain on the a**, blogs by their very nature are created to be updated on the fly.
As a conversational medium, a blog is composed of short essays called posts.
Although blogging was popularized by the youth market, more and more businesses have caught on to the value of the technology. More and more businesses are adopting blogging as part of their business activities and blogs are used to post announcements, updates, articles and more.
What can you blog about to make good money online? You can run a blog on a wide range of topics from technology to politics, music, business, sports, name it.
Your blog can be based on literally any topic that’s of interest to you and your readers or which you are knowledgeable about and therefore you can write about on a frequent basis. You will get loyal readers as long as you keep providing them with useful content on a frequent basis.
Your blog posts don’t need to be such long; just write short articles that will interest your readers and let your personality be felt along the way. Also don’t be afraid to be a bit controversial from time to time if need be.
The key with blogs is having quality content both for your readers and the search engines and solid monetization channels.
And did I tell you that blogs fare well in the search engines? Yeah, they do because they are content heavy and get crawled by the search engines over and over again.
Let’s say you started a blog related to golf. What are some of the topics you could blog about?
-Top ten tips to improve your golf swings
-How to choose the right club
-How to kill your slice (a nightmare to over 90% of golfers by the way)
-How to shave strokes of your game
-how to roll your putt at the right speed
-How to liaise with celebrity golfers for signature designs
The ideas for blog posts are as you can see, not limited. Just let your imagination loose not to forget that keyword research will get you tons of ideas for your blog posts.
As for the blog posts, you can post your usual articles or even include multimedia files such as videos and audios.
A blog is really easy to setup and free for the most part.
You can get free word press blog software at www.wordpress.com or www.blogger.com . You should consider hosting the blog yourself as this gives you lot more control.
Here’s a little secret by the way (there’s kind of always a secret, right? ). If you use a reliable web host, such as Hostgator, you can use a tool called Fantastico Autoinstaller to set your own wordpress blog in less than five minutes.
That’s just another reason why you should choose and use Hostgator for your hosting needs.
Did I hear you say, come on Kevin, show me where the money is.
Okay, I hear you. I won’t keep you waiting anymore. After all, this was all about making money online blogging, right?
The revenue potential of a blog is unlimited and just as varied. Here are some of the ways to monetize your blog:
1. Pay per Post: This is a website that helps bloggers find advertisers willing to sponsor specific content on their blog.
The advertisers create opportunities that outline the content they are looking for (e.g. feedback, reviews, buzz, video etc).
The bloggers then choose opportunities in an area that interest them. Once the blogger has written a blog post or posted a video that matches the requirements, pay per post then reviews the post against its requirements and terms of service and deals with the rest.
There are many other blog advertising networks online today that you can earn money from.
2. Your own products and services: you can link to your own products/ services. So even if you already sell your own products/services, blogging can be an effective way to promote them. You can even post articles exclusively focused on your own products and services.
3. Affiliate marketing: you can earn affiliate commissions by promoting affiliate programs on your blog.
You can include affiliate links for products or programs to which you are an affiliate as well as banners. You can also use product reviews to promote products on your blog.
4. Adsense: you can also incorporate Google adsense ads on your blog and earn revenue from them.
5. Advertising space: when your blog becomes popular, you can sell advertising space and earn good money.
As you can already see, the profit potential of a blog is simply put, unlimited. So go for it if you think blogging is for you
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Thanks for such an informative post. It will be of great value to people like me seeking to make money online.
You can also monetize your blog with adbrite banners
You Rock Kevin!!!
Wow what a nice post..very interesting..Hmm i like your post..
It helps me a lot..
I like using Alexa to check on the traffic rank of various blogging platforms, to make sure I use the most popular ones.
Its surprising just how high platforms like wordpress, blogger (blogspot), hubpages and squidoo can get.
Hubpages and squidoo are still in the top 250 internet sites list for example, and wordpress and blogger are much higher of course.
Good Post!
nice list of way to earn ..
Newbie blogger might think that blogging for profit is easy as eating bar nuts. Then you got a wrong motivation. Now that you already have the information how to make money online, then you choice this time is to take a right away action build much traffic to your site.
By the way, you must evolve yourself as a blogger into an online entrepreneur.
- Felix Albutra
Blogging for Profit recently posted..How Bloggers Evolve into an Online Entrepreneur?
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says:
You got it right “Blogging for profit”.
I like the statement and post on evolving yourself as a blogger into an internet entrepreneur
Wow earning money through blog really helpful .Thanks for sharing such a great post.
nice post.i enjoyed the read.thanks