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Learn how to Make Money from
your blog
- Today post is for people who
have their own blogs and working
on them for some months at
least. We need to be passionate
about our blogs if we want to
make any real money from it.
With passion, we need lots of
knowledge about the subject we
are blogging and lots of hard
work for doing content writing
and link building kind of stuff.
To start making money from a
blog, we need to have a blog
that gets lots of search engine
hits on daily basis and have
good page rank as well. We can
earn lots of money from our blog
if it’s about a particular niche
and gets lots of visitors from
major search engines like
Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ak.com.
- But we should not expect to get
rich overnight from our blog if
we don’t have substantial amount
of traffic on our blog. So the
key for getting rich and making
money with our blogs is
generating lots of traffic on
it. And when we have good amount
of traffic on our blogs, we can
expect of earning few hundreds
to thousands of dollars every
month from our blogs. So here
are some techniques we can
implement straight away on our
blogs to start making money from
it
 :
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- Google Adsense:
is a pay per click (PPC)
program offered by Google
where we get paid for every
click to an ad on our blog.
And the amount of money we
make from Google Adsense
depends upon the amount of
traffic we generate and the
kind of keywords we target
on our blogs. Google Adsense
has lots of advertisers who
are willing to place their
ads on our blogs. So if any
of you don’t have an Adsense
account applies for it now.
Google Adsense is the
easiest way to earn money
from any website or blog.
And if we already have a
Google Adsense account, it
goes not take much time to
implement Adsense ads on a
blog.
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- Blogads.com:
is
a website where we can sell
advertisement on our blog
and can decide the amount of
money we are willing to get
paid for every sold ad on
our blog. Best thing that we
get with Blogads is that we
have full control over the
advertisers that will be
placed on our blog which we
were missing with Google
Adsense. But to make any
real money with it, we
should keep ads rate
reasonable. We will not be
able to make any money from
our blogs if we become too
choosy about advertisers or
keep our rates too high.
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- Selling more
text/banner ads:
For addition revenue, we can
sell private ads on our
blogs by creating an ‘Advertise
here’ kind of section on
our blog. With private ads,
we can sell text and banners
in different formats on our
blog. In this kind of
advertising scheme, we have
full control over everything
and its up how much we
charge from the advertisers
and whom to show on our
blogs. The only downside to
this method is that we need
bulk of traffic if we are
looking to make any money
with private ads on our
blog.
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- Paid Reviews:
There are many
paid review websites on
internet where we are paid
for every review about a
product/website on our blog.
Some of popular paid
review/blogging websites are
PayPerPost (PPP),
SponsoredReviews.com,
ReviewMe.com and Smorty.com.
But we must do paid reviews
about websites that are
someway related to our blog.
And if possible, we should
do limited amount of paid
reviews in a month time. If
we keep on adding
paid/sponsored posts on our
blog, we are having the risk
of using credibility and
reader’s faith from our
blog.
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- Affiliate
programs: We can
try some affiliate program
to earn some extra money
from our blogs. Amazon.com
is a popular affiliate
program. In this kind of
advertising, we have to
place Amazon products on our
blogs with our affiliate ID
and when any of our blog
readers follow those links
to buy a product from
Amazon, we earn commission
up to 15 percent depending
upon the sold product. Some
other popular affiliate
programs are LinkShare,
CommissionJunction and
ClickBank
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- Adding a
Donation Button:
There
are some websites like
Paypal.com that helps you
add a Donation Button on
your blog. Asking some kind
of donation from blog
readers is the easiest way
to make money online. Some
of your blog readers may
help you run your blog with
some donation if they really
love the content on your
blog.
How To Make Money Blogging
- More and more people are realizing that
blogging is one of the best ways to start
your own online business. It requires
minimal start up costs, you can build an
impressive and loyal readership over time
and once you know how to monetize your blog
it can also bring in a decent income that
will keep on coming even on the days when
you don’t update your blog.
- There are
several ways to set up a blog online. You
could use WordPress, Blogger, or another
free site that hosts your blog for you; or
alternatively you can set up your own blog
under your own domain name.
- If you want to make serious money from
blogging, you must have complete control
over your blog – and that’s something the
free blogging accounts won’t give you.
You’ll be bound by their terms and
conditions and that usually includes not
being able to actively promote anything.
There are plenty of people who have
established a blog only to have it removed
without notice some weeks or months later.
- It will cost you a few dollars to buy your domain name and
set up a web server that will host your blog, but the
benefits will far outweigh the cost involved. It can
literally be as little as $20 a year we’re talking about
here – and that buys you total freedom.
- Once you’re ready
to set your blog up you’ll need to choose a good theme and
layout for it. You might find one that relates to your
choice of subject (more on that in a moment) or else there
might be one you just like the look of. But there are
thousands of templates available for you to use – a simple
search on Google will reveal the ones that will be best
suited to your topic.
- But perhaps the most important question is what you are
going to blog about. The whole world is your oyster here –
some people blog about their lives in general; some blog
about their jobs; some blog about their hobbies; some tell
the world about their kids and what it’s like to be a
parent, and still others blog about the weird world of
celebrities. But whatever you choose to blog about it needs
to be something you are passionate about. Don’t forget, you
are going to be writing about this topic several times a
week, and if you don’t have the enthusiasm for it, that will
show in your posts – and no one else will have the
enthusiasm to read them.
- Okay – so you’ve got your subject. Now you have to start
writing your blog posts. If you take a look at just a few of
the blogs already online, you’ll notice that the length of
the posts varies a lot. Some people only write a paragraph
or two each time, but you’ll get better results if you go
for something a little longer than this. Around 400 to 500
words makes for a good post with a lot of information in it;
some people write hugely long posts that are thousands of
words long and could be called an e-book by another name.
- But you can also take the format of this blog, by posting
a short blog entry which leads into a longer article. This
has the benefit of highlighting a lot of blog posts on the
home page of the site, and people can then click through and
read the ones they like the most.
- You should remember however that there are no real rules
when it comes to blogging. Over time you will naturally find
what works for you, and your blog will settle down into a
nice pattern that both you and your readers will enjoy.
You’ll find your character and personality will start to
come through in your writing too; don’t fight against this
as it is one of the hallmarks of blogging. It is, after all,
a personal account of an individual’s life and experiences,
so show people what you’re made of! You’ll get a more loyal
– and bigger – audience like this.
- So you’ve got your blog up and running and you’re posting
to it on a regular basis. The next step is to get it in
front of as many interested eyeballs as possible.
- One great way to do this is to submit it to as many of
the social bookmarking sites as possible. You can also join
social networking sites and build a profile which contains a
link to your blog. Other no cost ways to generate traffic
include writing free articles for article directories with a
link to your blog at the end, and creating signatures at the
end of any posts you make to internet
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- s, and also in
all the emails you send out. When you really start thinking
about it, you don’t actually need to spend anything to
generate plenty of traffic.
- All we need to do now is monetize the blog itself. You’ll
want to generate some money from all the visitors you’ll
start getting, and there are plenty of ways to do this
easily. Google Adsense is probably the most well known
method – you can join the program for free and display
contextual ads that your visitors will be interested in to
maximise your click through rate.
- There are also a handful of websites which give you the
opportunity to get paid for each blog post you make on a
specific subject. Pay Per Post and Review Me are two such
examples, and they will pay you a certain amount of money to
review a product or website for the owner. In a similar vein
you can also review and recommend other people’s products
through affiliate links inserted into your blog posts, and
earn money on commissions earned through any purchases
people make.
- And once you’re more established you can offer ad space
on your blog too, and charge a fee for both classified and
display ads if you wish. What could be better than setting
your own price?
- But there is one final step you can take with your blog
if you enjoy a change of scene every now and again. You can
sell your blog! Once it is established and has plenty of
revenue and traffic, you can usually sell it for ten times
its monthly revenue.
- And then, you can start all over again with a whole new
subject!
- So that’s it – profitable blogging in a nutshell. If you
have any questions feel free to leave your comments in the
form below. And once you’ve done that, get out there and get
started building your first blog today.
Become A Paid Premium Blogger On Other People’s Sites
- There is always a lot of talk about writing your own blog but what about the opportunities that exist for writing blogs for other people?
- There are a number of ways you can do this and you could pick the one that appeals most to you or even do a combination of all of them if you wish. There are some people around who really do blog for a living, and not all of the money they earn is from their own monetized blogs.
- All you need to know is how to do it and where to look for opportunities…
- First off, there are a number of sites that allow you to write for their own network of blogs. A typical example of this is Creative Weblogging. This site has a number of blogs that it manages, and subject to opportunities being available you can apply to manage and write for one of their blogs in return for an agreed payment every month.
- You do need to show that you have some experience so you’ll need to set up a blog if you don’t already have one and keep it up to date for a month or two before you apply. Alternatively they do sometimes elect to add new blogs to their network so you can always contact them if you have one you think they would like.
- Another option is to write for other companies on your own blog. Websites such as Pay U 2 Blog use this kind of system and it works very well if you want to add another income stream to your own blog.
- But if you would rather write for an existing blog – or at least one that is run by someone else – then you can also look for existing job opportunities. More people than you might think are willing to get someone else to write their blog for them. You would be ghostwriting it as each entry would appear under their name, but you will usually get paid per entry for a fixed number of entries per week or per month.
- If you market yourself as a premium blogger in this way, there is no reason why you can’t eventually take on several blogs and start doing it full time. Blogging for a living like this is a great job to do as there will always be success stories online that are looking for someone else to write their blog for them. You can have lots of jobs on the go and even if you should lose one or two you won’t notice a significant dip in your income.
- The best places to look for work writing other peoples’ blogs are the sites where you bid on work offered by other people, and also in the writing websites job boards. Craigslist is also worth a look, and there are also some ghostwriting teams that have websites advertising for people to write blogs for clients.
- Once you get started it doesn’t actually take that long to find work – you just need to keep at it. And with a combination of finding work yourself, working for a site like Creative Weblogging and working for a ghostwriting outfit you could soon be blogging for a living.
- One final point – just as Creative Weblogging advises, if you want to become a professional blogger for other people it helps to have plenty of blogging experience. So it’s worth setting up at least one blog of your own if you haven’t already got one.
How to Make Money Online with
Blogger (Google) blog
- It’s not really difficult to make money online with a
free blog from Blogger.com if you are getting some
decent amount of traffic on it. In today’s post, I will
share some ways to monetize your blogger blog:
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- Google Adsense: Join Google
Adsense publisher program if you already don’t have
an account on Google Adsense and add Google Adsense
textual and image ads in your blogger blog header,
footer, sidebar or in the post section where you
want them to appear. Adsense ads are highly
customizable and can mix with your blog look quite
easily.
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- Text link ads: if you have a
blog with good page rank and decent Alexa rankings,
you have a chance to make some real money by selling
text link ads on your blog. There are some text link
selling and buying marketplace available on internet
like text link ads, TNX, Linkworth, Linkadage etc
that you can use for this purpose. Click here to
know
how to make money online with text link ads selling
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- Paid blogging websites: there
are many paid to blog websites where you are paid
for every article that you wrote for them. Some of
paid blogging networks that you can try to make
money online with your blog are SponsoredReviews,
ReviewMe, Smorty, Blogsvertise, LinkWorth etc. Click
here to see all
paid blogging networks to make money online with
your blog
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- Affiliate products: You can
make some good amount of money with affiliate sales
if you have a blog about a particular niche or some
specific product. Some of popular affiliate’s sites
that you can try for selling affiliate products are
Amazon.com,
ClickBank.com, LinkShare, Commission Junction
etc.
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- Private Ads: You should create
a ‘advertise here’ or ‘your ads here’ type of page
on your blog if your blog is very popular in your
targeted niche. There will be lots of advertisers in
your niche who will be interested in placing some
text or banner links on your blog for some fixed
amount of money for a month or so. There will be
even some advertisers who will be eager to pay you
high amount of money for a review about their
products and services on your blog.
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- In-text Adverting networks:
there are some in-text advertising networks
available on internet like Kontera, Vibrant Media,
Infolinks etc that allows you to place textual ads
with in your blogger blog content. When a user rolls
over any of such link, an advertising pop-up box
will open and when the user clicks on these ads,
blog owners are able to make some money online with
that click. There are some blogger available on
internet who are able to make good amount of money
with in-text advertising method.
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