Can You Really Make Money Blogging?
If you are new to blogging and making money online, you may find it hard to believe that there are people who do this full time for a living and they are making good money out of it. Unless, you have been online for a period of time, you will never be able to understand how ordinary people can make a full time income through blogging. As a matter of fact, there are many ways for a blogger to make money through blogging.
Personally for me, I make money online through affiliate marketing, Google Adsense, paid reviews and selling of text links on my blogs initially. Nowadays, I am focusing my efforts on affiliate marketing, selling of products and services instead. As you can see, there are many ways to monetize a blog such as:
Should You Start A Blog?
Many bloggers when they first started out failed to recognize the significance of asking themselves this seemingly harmless and simple question. As I started to get more serious and learn more about blogging, I can’t help but notice that if I have had sit down and give some serious thought before starting a blog, I may not have run into so many roadblocks in my short life as a blogger.
While starting a blog is relatively easy (you can get tons of information online on starting a blog), you should consider carefully certain points so that you can integrate your personal plans and goals into building a business plan for your blog that is assuming you are going to monetize your blog in the future. Otherwise if you are starting a blog not for commercial reasons, then you can forget about reading the rest of this post.
How Long Should A Blog Post Be?
As a blogger, it is important to understand some of the key factors that keep readers coming back for more. Post length is a factor that you should seriously look into when writing content for your targeted audience. It is still a widely debated topic among bloggers when it comes to deciding how long should a bog post be. There a few points that you should take note when deciding the general length of blog posts on your blog.
If you intend to monetize your blog with Adsense ads, it would be advisable to keep your blog post to a minimum length of 250 words. One of the most profitable locations for Adsense ads is inside the content of a blog post. If you are going to place Adsense ads inside your blog post, 250 words is the minimum to ensure that your words can wrap around the Google ads.
What Is A Blog?
A person who is not internet savvy or new online may not understand what the fuss is all about with blogs. Some, although very few that I encountered do not even know what a blog is. Although it is quite hard to find someone who has been online for a period of time and not knowing what a blog is, I have friends who are ignorant enough to ask what a blog is and what it does.
I meant these are friends with a certain degree of knowledge in using the net for traditional surfing and looking for information and not those who have not touch a computer in their lives. Anyway, for the benefit of those who have been living under a rock for the past few years, I will try to explain in simple terms what is a blog and what it does.
3 Easy Ways To Profit With A Blog
Blogs are a great platform to make money. There are many ways to make money with a blog but let’s take a look at three of the most popular ways in which internet marketers used blogs to make money.
The first way to make money with a blog is through reviews of products or services in which you are an affiliate of. Normally, when you promote other people’s products and service, you will get a commission in the region of around 50% to 70% of the selling price. What you need to do is just to write a review of the products or services offered and if your readers valued your opinion, they will be more likely to buy from you than anyone else.
The other way to make money from your blog is through paid posting opportunities. Basically, you are being paid to review other people’s products, services or websites. This is a great way to make money from your blog if your blog is in a niche whereby opinions or reviews of related products or services are highly complementary. Please take note that your reviews do not need to be positive, if you feel that the products, services or websites are crappy, just state so. It’s more important to retain the loyalty and trust of your readers than a few advertisers. It is simply not worth the while if you spent so much time and effort to build up a profitable blog only to see your efforts went down the drain.
Why A Blog Is A Must In Today’s World
Blogs are getting more and more popular nowadays. Given the popularity of blogs, it’s no wonder more and more people and businesses are using blogs to reach out to their customers and their friends. If you have an online business, having a blog will take your business to the next level. There are many benefits to using a blog as an extension to your online business.
Blogs are used by savvy marketers as a means to connect with their customers. A blog is great for new product or service launches without great costs to you. Reviews and feedbacks can then be gathered and these responses can be used to better your product or service before the main launch. Surveys can also be put up on your blog to judge how your business is progressing or what your customers may think of it.
One of the main reasons why people visit blogs is for information. A frequently updated blog will always have readers coming back time and time again for information. Once your blog is up and running well, it’s like a traffic generator. People can’t stop coming back for the information that you provide.
Paid Posting Opportunities
If you decide to explore blogging as a means to making money online, there are a lot of opportunities available for you to monetize your blog. One of the best ways to do so is through paid posting opportunities. You are actually being paid to write reviews of products, services or simply websites.
However, you have to take note that this source of income is not passive and consistent. One moment, you could be getting tons of paid opportunities, the next moment you may have none or very few. It depends on numerous factors such as your blog’s Page Rank, Alexa ranking, traffic, link popularity and so on.
In this post, I will list down a simple guideline to help you make money from your blog after 3 months. Although you can start monetizing your blog as soon as you set it up, most paid posting opportunities sites required your blog to be at least 3 months old before these sites accept you into their paid posting programs.
