Simple guide on how to make money with blogging
This video explained everything you need to know about making money with blog. The video is a must watch if you are interested in blogging business.
If you are new online, blog simple means micro website, where you can share your personal opinion, express your feeling and expose your business to a wider audience. Presently, blogs have become more popular than traditional websites. Blog offer a lot of advantages over traditional websites. Blogs can be very easy to manage without knowledge of programming. There are thousands of bloggers that are making passive income through their blogs. Many bloggers like John Chow make over five figures a month just blogging. I believe you can achieve it, if you are focused and determined.
If you are new online, blog simple means micro website, where you can share your personal opinion, express your feeling and expose your business to a wider audience. Presently, blogs have become more popular than traditional websites. Blog offer a lot of advantages over traditional websites. Blogs can be very easy to manage without knowledge of programming. There are thousands of bloggers that are making passive income through their blogs. Many bloggers like John Chow make over five figures a month just blogging. I believe you can achieve it, if you are focused and determined.
Frankly
speaking, to make money blogging you must have patient and blog regularly.
Blogging is not a fast method to make money online. It is possible to blog for
months without making a dime. Thousands of bloggers quit after blogging for
months without making money. In this writing, I give solid guidelines that will
help you to make money with blogging. Let’s start with ways you can use to make
money with blogging.
Different ways you can use to make money
with your blog
1.
Sell your product and services.
One
of the easiest ways to market and sell your product is through blog. If you
have any product or service, you can create a blog for it.
2. Market or
sell for others
If
you don't have any product, you can use your blog to market and sell for
others. Majority of bloggers are using this method to make money for
themselves. Marketing and selling for others can be classified into two groups;
a.
Affiliate marketing
Affiliate
marketing is one of the numerous ways you can use to make money with your blog.
There are hundreds of affiliate networks you can join and start to make money.
In affiliate marketing, you earn a commission once a buyer makes purchase
through your affiliate link.
As
you can see, you need heavy and well targeted traffic in your blog for you to
make reasonable income from affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is best
for website or blog that have huge readership base. Here are list of some of
the top affiliate network;
b.
Ad
networks
Ad
networks are closely related to affiliate marketing. Sometimes, you may see the
words used interchangeably. Thou, there are networks that are both affiliate
and ad network. Ad networks are solely
interested in adverts placement. Ad networks acts as a middleman between
advertisers and publishers (bloggers included). They help advertisers to manage
their ad campaigns. On the other hand, they help to monitor and track links.
How
ad networks works? Ad networks serve ads on websites of their publishers and
pays when a visitor clicks the ad. One of the most popular and highly effective
ad networks is Google adsense. Here are list of other top ad networks ;
media.net
Buysellads.com
Clicksor.com
Google adsense
media.net
Buysellads.com
Clicksor.com
Google adsense
Many
bloggers start monetizing their blog with ad network and I believe is the best
bet for blog with low traffic.
3. Review and pay per post sites
This
is another method bloggers use to earn money online. There are tons of review
and pay to post sites that earnestly want to pay you to blog for the
advertisers. These sites pay you per any action you take to advance the cause
of their advertisers. Here is a list of pay per post blogging sites;
3. Review me
8. About.com
14. www.epinions.com
5. Build and sell the blog
Top notched blogger, John Wu, sold his site
for a whopping amount of 15 million dollars. Buying and selling blog or website
is a huge business. There are many marketplaces online where you can buy and
sell a blog or website. Some of the most popular marketplace includes;
Many
webmasters use to build blog from scratch and drive traffic to the site and
sell it.
Beginners guide on how to start blog and
make money with it
1. Choose a
blogging platform or go solo
There
are many blogging platforms you can choose from, it all boils down to a choice.
Most of the blogging platforms have similar functionalities except minor
differences. But remember a small difference can make a whole lot of
difference.
If
you are a newbie that doesn't know much about the technicalities of how to set
up a blog, I will advise you to start with free blogging platforms and learn
the rope before buying a hosting plan. Blogging platforms like Blogger and WordPress are okay for
beginners.
These free blogging platform can serve
virtually any purpose. The true remains that if you want to be a professional
blogger, you must learn how to manage your blog. There a lot of free tutorials
online where you can learn how to manage and set up your blog. Below are some
resource centers where you can learn how to set up your blog;
www.blogstarting.org/
www.theblogstarter.com/
2. Choose a niche that has market value
Not
all niches have market value. If you want to make money blogging, the second
step is to identify a niche that has strong market value. If you have passion
for the niche that is added advantage. Don’t choose a niche because you have
passion for it, if you want to make money blogging. Before you choose a niche,
ask yourself these questions;
A.
Is there money in the niche market?
B.
what is the PPC rate of the keyword?
C.
what is the competition medium of the niche?
D.
Is my prospective audience (customers) spenders or consumers?
E.
What is my knowledge base as regard to the niche?
First
do a personal assessment before doing a keyword search. Personal assessment
will help you determine if you have the capacity to venture into the market.
3.
Be professional- call it a business
One
of the major reasons many bloggers don’t make money online is simply because
they take blogging as a hobby. Invest your time and money into it.
Remember,
what makes professional different from amateur is the way they do things. Below
are simple guide that will make you appear professional in your blogging
adventure;
A. Blog regularly
Blog
regularly and give your audience quality information. If you don’t have time to
write or you don’t have the skill, outsource it. There are many writers out
there you can pay to write for you on regular basis.
B. Give free- e-book, coupon etc.
One
thing that attracts people generally is free stuff or gift. Man is greedy by
nature and wants everything to be free. Use free stuffs to build trust and
relevancy. You can still use it to collect tons of subscribers.
C. Have a professional looking blog
If
you are not an expert in web design, hire a webmaster to give your blog
professional outlook. Most bloggers underestimate this aspect because it
involves spending some cash. Secondly, let your blog have simple and easy to
navigate interface. It is annoying to online users when website or blog is
difficult to navigate.
D.
Buy domain and host it yourself
Buy
your domain to look professional. Have a unique web address is a good sign that
you are out for business. Moreover, it gives you total access to manage your
site without restriction.
4.
Monetize your blog to earn
Blogging
itself does not to fill your pocket with money. You have to monetize your blog
to earn residual income. There are different ways you can monetize your blog.
You can read more about how to monetize a website or blog at the below links;
https://websitesetup.org/33-ways-to-monetize-website
www.investopedia.com/financial.../how-to-monetize-your-website.aspx
https://www.shopify.com/content/11-ways-to-monetize-your-website
5. Drive traffic
A
blog without traffic is dead. There must be a conscious effort to get people to
interact with your blog. I believe, it is a wrong move to wait for traffic to
come naturally. You may wait for ages. There are different ways you can drive
traffic to your site. Traffic source can be classified into two;
Free
traffic
Paid
traffic
Free
traffic
One
major source of free traffic is search engines. Therefore, there is need to
index your blog. Moreover, search engine crawlers use to index blogs very fast.
There are many methods you can use to make crawlers index your site very fast.
Some of the ways include;
Social
media interaction
Meta
tags
Sitemaps
Paid
advertising
Outbound
links
We
will not go in details because the topic is beyond the scope of this article.
You can read about how to make search engine crawl your site very fast at
this link-
https://www.shoutmeloud.com/top-10-killer-tips-to-increase-google-crawl-rate.html
https://www.shoutmeloud.com/top-10-killer-tips-to-increase-google-crawl-rate.html
Paid traffic
As
I said before, top bloggers use to advertise their blog to get traction fast.
Secondly, paid traffic brings targeted and quality traffic. Moreover, it is
quite difficult to rise to the top of the algorithm table overnight. It needs
dedication and a whole lot of patience. Therefore, it may be a waste of time to
depend on search engines to get free traffic.
I prefer Google adword and Facebook ads when it comes to paid traffic.
These two adverts platform can deliver quality traffic in few hours.
Social
media traffic
Social media is another traffic source that deserves
to be included in this post. Social media is trending and millions of people
have social media accounts. Social media can give your blog steady traffic if
your post is worth sharing. Your blog post can go viral in minutes. Include
social media buttons in your blog so that it will be easy for your visitors to
share your post. Kissmetrics.com have a wonderful post on how to use social media to drive
traffic to your blog, read it at the link below;
6. Foster relationship with your readers
It
takes more than to write good and quality content to retain your site visitors.
Some of these points can help you to build a better relationship with your site
visitors;
1.
Quality and easy to read content.
2.
Quick respond
3.
Freebies
4.
Give professional advice
5.
Follow up through newsletter
6.
Interact with your visitors through social media.
Conclusion
There
is more to blogging and money making than one blogger can envisage. You can add
more value to the post by sharing your opinion in the comment space. Thank you.