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You Can Learn How to Make Money Blogging
There are two major types of business models that entrepreneurs use to make money blogging. The first and most common way to turn a blog into a profit making machine is to sell advertising to different companies and brands who want to reach that blog’s readers.
The second kind of money making blog is one that helps a single brand improve its image by creating positive associations between the blog and the product in the mind of consumers. Both kinds of blogs can make a lot of money, especially if the creator has a keen mind for marketing.
If you are blogging with the goal of selling advertising, there are two basic ways that you can go about recruiting sponsors who want to put ads on your site; you can let someone else do all of the legwork, or you can do the work yourself and keep all of the revenue. Within the first group, many people make money blogging by selling space through Google’s AdSense program. The advantages of this program are numerous, as it requires very little effort on the part of the blogger or webmaster to begin raking in profits. However, most people discover that they make less money through this method than they had hoped that their blog would earn.
Selling advertising directly to companies who want to put banner ads or sponsored links on your blog can take quite a bit of time, but it is often fairly lucrative. If you have a lot of contacts in industries that are related to the topic of your blog, you may want to try to go this route. People who have a strong background in sales and are experienced at pitching proposals can make quite a bit of money by renting blog space to interested companies. The most serious problem with this model is that you often have to build quite a sizable readership before you can attract advertisers, which can mean that you have to do several months of work before you start to make money blogging.
As blogging becomes a more and more lucrative business, a lot of established companies are considering how they can get into the action. One way that companies are capitalizing on the blog movement is by having blogs that provide a kind of friendly face for their corporation. Often, a company will employ an established blogger to create a weblog designed specifically to appeal to that company’s customers and to create positive associations with the brand in consumers’ minds. More than one writer who never even dreamed that he or she could make money blogging has been approached by a company and offered quite a pretty penny for this kind of gig.
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How do I make money from blogging?Sorry to sound so naive about blogging, how do you make the money ? I don't even understand it. Can some one help please? Thankyou
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January 23rd, 2010 at 9:06 am
The easiest way of making money with your blog is with Google Adsense.
If you already have a gmail account you can use that to sign up for Adsense. If you are using your own domain with wordpress.org for your blog there are loads of plugins to download to add Adsense to your blog.
To make big money you could also open an affiliate account with Clickbank or Amazon and advertise their products related to your blog.
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:27 am
Hello!
The biggest secret to being a "profitable" blogger is blogging about your passion. Blogs that are built with a reason of making money usually don't make it far and do not make money.
You need to update your blog often. Once a day is the BEST but if you cannot do so, try to update it at least 2-3 times a week – this way your readers will see that you update often, they will come back and read your blog again, maybe click on some ads, buy something from your blog…
Blogger.com is great but I prefer Wordpress.com
To give you an idea, check out my blog: http://blog.extra-paycheck.com – I built it with Wordpress and I do not have any DESIGN or technical skills!
Best of Luck,
Alex
January 23rd, 2010 at 9:57 am
tried it it works
January 23rd, 2010 at 10:31 am
same here and it pisses me off
January 23rd, 2010 at 10:30 pm
Hello Patrick,
Thanks for posting this question.
Infamous, Minh, Belinda, Miss Expert have covered some great topics!
In addition to what they have already covered, here's my 50 cents:
How do you make the money?
>> The best way is to take a course from someone who is already an expert. It'll save you weeks of time, effort and money.
How much can you make?
>> A four or five figure per month income depending on how much effort you put into your blog.
Is it hard? Is it easy?
>> Well, like any new concept it has a learning curve (probably a few days). Once you know the basics, its really easy…
Is it time consuming?
>> Nope. I spend about 30 minutes on my blog every time I post something. Usually two or three times every week.
Is it worth it?
>> Absolutely. Blogs are FREE, and Search engines love them. It is the easiest way to get organic traffic without spending a dime.
Patrick, assuming you want your blog to rake in cash, you're going to have to go about it in the right way. Sure, you could probably manage to make a little bit of money here and there simply via advertisement revenue and by promoting certain offers – but this probably isn't going to bring in the sort of riches that you dream of.
Truth is, if you're set on making as much cash as you can from your blog, you're going to need to ensure that you've covered all your bases and have tweaked them so that every aspect of your money making process is performing in tip top condition.
How do you do that? Well, the best place to start is to look at each ingredient of a successful money making blog individually:
1. Traffic ========
More traffic normally means more sales. At least, it definitely means more potential customers which in turn means that you should be making more sales than previously. Course, traffic is a very wide topic and there are countless ways in which you could generate it – so what you need to do is pursue as many of these as possible.
While you're at it you should also be aware that you're looking for as highly targeted traffic as you can. Using keywords, you should find that you're able to achieve this well.
2. Conversion Rates ========
How many of the potential customers that visit your blog actually end up buying stuff from it? In a nutshell, that's your conversion rate (though it is normally measured as a percentage, i.e. X% meaning X sales per 100 potential customers). Ensuring that your conversion rate is as high as possible is an extremely good idea because it means that you're going to be taking advantage of more of your traffic.
By capitalizing on as much of your traffic as possible, you'll be getting the most out of your efforts, and not 'wasting' any of the traffic you've worked so hard to obtain.
3. Repeat Customers ========
Having made the effort to clinch a sale with one customer, it would be a crying shame if you simply let them leave and never hear from them again. Seeing as they've already bought something from you it means that they are interested in the niche that you're in, and more importantly – they're willing to buy products in that niche!
So if you could just take down their details, you should be able to turn them into repeat customers (or at least stand a good chance of doing so).
Yes, we're talking about list building, though nowadays using things such as Twitter can be just as good. End of the day, the choice is yours so long as you're able to set up some system whereby you can continue to market to your proven buyers.
If you're able to take care of each and every one of these key ingredients, you'll quickly find that you're able to turn your own blog into a successful money making blog too! None of this is really all that tough, and now that you know what you should be looking at, why don't you head over to your own blog and see what you can improve!
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There's a guy called Jason Gazaway who makes Five Figures from blogs every month. Read about him if you have the time — http://bit.ly/21da2M
Have a nice weekend!
- Swarup
January 24th, 2010 at 12:38 am
i make a little bit of money through a website called treasure trooper.
you dont have to write blogs. all you have to do is complete offers. it only gives you about 70 $ a month but its allright with me. ( im 13 )
please join under my refferal link so i can get 20 % of what you and your refferals make
http://www.treasuretrooper.com/305231
January 24th, 2010 at 2:30 am
There are so many ways but before that you have to find out a profitable niche. Next you have to do keyword research and then promote your blog to get traffic. once you started to get traffic you can make money.
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January 24th, 2010 at 3:14 am
Sure, you can make good money blogging and it is easy to start for free, just sign up to http://www.blogger.com and set up a free account.
You now have a few choices, you can:
1.Earn from the Google Adsense Program
2. Promote an affiliate product
3. Sell your own product
4.Do a combination of the above
I have a perfect example of this, 3 days ago I created a Twitter Adder program and set up a free Google blog to promote it.
Here's the site I made:
http://twitteradderpro.blogspot.com
I then created a Twitter account and using my software started to build a following. I then pomoted my product, but not aggressively, just the odd update and snippit of information I thought people might be interested in. By the end of the second day the orders started to come in and I got an amazing testimonial from one of my buyers. I think the reason why the testimonial was so good was that the guy couldn't believe what he was getting for his money…I set out to provide value and achieved what will be a loyal, returning customer.
The secret is to write about something you are passionate and knowledgable about. If you can then create a Ebook on your subject then you can offer it for sale on your site. The ebook should be in PDF format and you can easily create one online using Google Docs.
As you can see, you can do it in a couple of days and promote the blog by using social networking sites like Twitter, Myspace, Facebook etc. You can also use forums in your niche to promote your product too.
I expect to make a couple of hundred dollars by the end of this week and will also have a recurring source of income.
I have some tutorials, free ebooks and software for bloggers on my website. I recommend you go there and learn everything you can.
It really isn't hard to do, just be passionate about your subject, arouse your readers curiousity and make some money.
Good luck, you can do it
January 24th, 2010 at 10:32 am
I need to boost
January 24th, 2010 at 1:40 pm
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January 25th, 2010 at 3:19 am
you can make a lot of money blogging on the internet.
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January 25th, 2010 at 10:09 am
Nice 1 Bruv!!
January 25th, 2010 at 12:10 pm
if you are on the plane can you jump onto the roof?
January 25th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
whats the song name anyone. Thanx?
January 25th, 2010 at 9:44 pm
No, not really. You only make money by blogging if you have something to say that other people will pay money to read. The average 13 year old doesn't have anything to say that would be worth paying money to read. Other teens might be interested, but they generally don't have the money to spend, nor do they have access to money to spend.
January 26th, 2010 at 6:10 am
dose this work for PS3?
January 26th, 2010 at 4:37 pm
You have information that is so interesting that people are willing to pay for it. You have to give each person a password so they can enter your blog. The most-likely ones to earn money are: real estate, interest rates, stock picking, and child-raising.
There are 133 million blogs on the internet. Most of them have an audience of one person.