Can You Really Make Money Blogging?
November 6, 2008 by Reba
Filed under Blog, Blogging For Money, Hot Topics
Blogging has been available on the Internet for quite some time. It first started as a creative outlet for people to make their personal journals public so they could share them with family and friends. It didn’t take long for people to figure out that a blog is a great place to share information and soon they were being used in all kinds of ways to generate income.
Blogs are loved by the search engines because they are updated so frequently, unlike a normal website that has a more static nature. For that reason they tend to get a lot of visitors from the search engines and can be excellent tools to help you earn extra money without having to invest a lot of start-up cash.
People love reading blogs and millions visit blogs every day for both informational and entertainment purposes. Many blogs have loyal followings where visitors come back day in and day out to check in on the blogger’s latest entries. Bloggers link to each other’s blogs and that helps increase the reader base. As a blog’s traffic grows the chances for earning increase substantially.
One of the most popular ways of monetizing your blog is to place AdSense ads on your pages. By strategically placing the ads on your blog, you can entice visitors to click them. Each time a visitor clicks an ad you share in the earnings of the profits Google makes. A blog with a high flow of traffic and ad clicks can earn substantial revenue.
In order to earn a lot of money with AdSense, you have to have a high traffic flow to your blog. The most important concept to consider when trying to earn money with AdSense is that you have to make the ads visible. The more clicks you get, the more money you’ll make.
Another very popular way to make money with your blog is to offer advertising space to other businesses. Advertisers will pay handsome prices to place their banner on a popular blog. Most are willing to pay you based on the traffic numbers you generate and the position available on your blog with the most visible and highest trafficked pages receiving the highest advertising rates.
There are many ways to monetize ad space. You can charge a flat fee, take a commission based on the number of click-throughs, or make a deal where you get a percentage of the sale of a product much like affiliate marketers do. If your blog is extremely popular, then there’s a good chance advertiser’s will compete to have their banners placed on your blog.
If you already have a product or service, either online or offline, a blog can help you add revenue to that business by drawing in more customers as they learn about and start to trust you and your company. If you blog about your products and services and invite readers to subscribe to a mailing list, your blog will consistently add to your bottom line. It can also be used to build a second stream of income through the promotion of affiliate programs.
Unless you have a very diverse business, it isn’t possible to provide everything your market needs directly. There are always opportunities to recommend other products and services. If you can find an appropriate vendor who offers a percentage or flat fee commission for referrals, go for it! By posting recommendations, when you discover them and also creating a page on your blog where you can update a list of recommendations you can add another stream of income to your business. Blog experts encourage you be transparent about your affiliate links and let your readers know that you will earn a commission if they act on your recommendation. Be sure to keep your ‘second stream’ posts are in an appropriate ratio with your other posts or your readers will grow weary of them.
Now I have a recommendation to make and yes, it’s an affiliate link. In this article I’ve only discussed a couple of ways to monetize your blog but there are many other ways as well. Yaro Starak is the owner of a membership website called Blog Mastermind that teaches how to blog for money. Yaro is a professional blogger who makes over $5000 per month from his blog and his mentoring program is designed especially for people who want to earn a full time income from blogging part time.
You can download Yaro’s “Blog Profits Blueprint” ebook for free by going to his site and giving him your name and email address. This free book shows you everything he did to build his blog up to the point where it makes over $5000 a month. It’s definitely worth reading if you’re thinking about blogging for money.
Blogs are a good way for baby boomers to earn extra money while still working full-time. By sharing your thoughts, feelings, knowledge, wisdom, or even just your daily tasks you can build a nice on-going income over time. And by choosing a topic that has a high number of searches and properly setting-up your blog, you can implement a money-making strategy by just posting on a regular basis about a topic you enjoy. Now that’s an idea that could really help with retirement.
My next post will be about finding a good niche.
Cheers!
Reba
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I am wonder where a newbie like me can start. I have bloged on myspace, but that doesn’t seem to be the same as the real thing. what’s a good place to start, website and a good way to start?
Thank you very much
Hi LB,
There’s tons of information to get you started. I’m going to publish a video very soon that will show you how to set up a domain name and hosting account so you can have a website. And in that same video I’ll show you how to set up a Wordpress Blog on that site. I absolutely hate to edit video so it’s taking me a little longer than anticipated. But keep watching here on our site, it won’t be too much longer.
In the article above I recommended Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind program, it takes you from the very beginning. It’s a fantastic program that will teach you EVERYTHING.
For some however, Yaro’s program will be too expensive especially when you’re first starting out, so I have a recommendation for you that’s not quite so expensive. I just got an email last night from Alice Seba that was very timely. She gave me a link to a free16-page report that you can download that gives a very good overview of blogging for money. In the report there is an offer for a program called Blogger’s Paycheck by John Yeo. I haven’t reviewed this program but I’ve followed Alice for years, have most of her programs and trust her explicitly.
Here’s the link to John Yeo’s free report “Blogger’s Ultimate Guide”
I hope this helps LB ~ good luck and keep watching here on our site for more info about Blogging for Money.
Oh and, if you want to follow Alice’s blog, just click this link: Alice Seba’s Internet Marketing Sweetie
Reba
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Blog has been used in many ways and Top Bloggers used it to make money online. It is also a big help for everyone to be successful in online business.
I manage thousands of affiliates and I love this post. I don’t have a journalism degree, but I do have an English degree and I am writer by passion and by trade. I can’t tell you how often I am infuriated by people who fail at writing but think they are great at it.
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Well you can make money on several ways:
-internet
-working
-saving / interest
so why not blogging
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