How to Make Money Blogging

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  • More people want to know how to make money blogging then ever before. If you have a blog and you're going to be using it even a little bit, it never hurts to think of ways you can get money for doing what you would be doing anyway. What better form of residual income is there than to get paid for doing what you normally do?

  • Tips

    • Blogvertising, affiliate programs, and contextual advertising are the most common blog revenue sources.
    • Perform a search engines search for 'paid to blog' to find websites or blogsite that pay for blog posts.
    • Stay current on bloggin and advertising laws, especially blogvertising, to ensure you comply with the FTC.

  • Did You Know..

    • Having your own domain to host your blog will make your more money?
    • The four authors on boingboing.net earn over one million dollars in ad revenue every year from blogging?http://www.boingboing.net/
    • TechCrunch blogs earn between $200-300,000 per month in revenue from advertisinghttp://www.techcrunch.com/

  • Introduction

    Blogging is all the rage, both for business and social purposes. Whether you have a niche blog on a specific topic that you use to inform people or you have a personal blog where you talk about your life and daily struggles and successes, it is possible to learn how to make money from blogging, even without overt advertising. Of course, the more you're willing to promote and put into your blog, the more money you can make from blogging.

    While there are many different ways to make money from blogging, we're going to look at the most popular in this guide.

  • Step 1: Contextual Advertising

    Contextual advertising for blogs is a type of advertising that scans the text on your blog and then serves up advertisements that contextually match what your blog is about. For example, if you write a blog about potty training your child, the ads the server pulls up with be for diapers, potty chairs, potty training, etc. If you write about your newest iPhone app, the ads will serve up for purchasing an iPhone or the apps for one.

    Contextual advertising is unobtrusive and you can choose where to add the code for the advertisement to display on your page. When a user views your blog, they can choose to click on those ads for more information about that topic. You will receive money for every click through on the ads that appear on your blog, based on the money the advertiser has offered to pay for the display of the ad.

    You don't have to work with the advertiser, because the ad network (like Google Adsense or Yahoo! Publisher Network) consults with the advertiser. All you have to do is put the code on your blog to display the ads. They even collect the money for you and credit your account, paying out to a bank account of your choice when you've reached the payout levels.

  • Step 2: Blogvertising

    Blogvertising is the name for writing a blog post that appears to be a blog post but in reality is an advertisement for a product. There are many sites that pay bloggers to provide this service. Generally, the advertisers posts what type of a blog post they are looking for such as a product review or a website/service review, and then states the number of words and what links should be included.

    Recently, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is cracking down on this type of advertising, because of it's propensity to be fraudulent. Be aware if you're going to do product and service reviews on your website, always let your readers known whether or not you were paid or received free products or services in exchange for the review.

    There are many websites you can sign up with to blogvertise for their clients, and the amounts per post will vary. Be sure to do your research about the company before agreeing to advertise on your blog for them.

  • Step 3: Affiliate Programs

    When writing a blog, you might sometimes mention certain products or services that you have used or maybe a book that you've read. An affiliate program with a website like Amazon.com will allow you to turn the reference of that book, product or service into a link that, if your blog readers click on it and make a purchase, will give you a percentage of the sale as a commission.

    Other affiliate programs let you put banner ads, widgets, and other advertising blocks on your blog, and share revenue with you when people either click through to visit the site or give a commission on every sale garnered through the affiliate link.

  • Step 5: Other Blogging Avenues


    There are other ways to make money with blogs, such as finding a blog site that pays you revenue share for the advertising they do on the site, or finding a blog site that pays you for the page views you receive on your blog. You can even sell space on your blog for advertising, or you can write guest blogs for other people on the blogs they own and get paid by them for your post.

    When it comes to blogging, the rules and revenue abilities are still being made up as the internet grows and changes. There are many different ways to make money blogging, and with time, you'll find the one that is most comfortable for you that provides the greatest income.

  • Hints & Tips to Make Money Blogging


    1. The more focused your niche topic, the better chance of attracting high-paying advertisers and getting higher traffic.
    2. Getting quality back links to your blog helps with traffic and PageRank.
    3. Higher PageRank means better listing in Google when people search.
    4. Promoting your blog helps drive traffic.
    5. The more passionate you are about your topic, the more others will see that, read and comment.
    6. Ask questions to get comments on your blog; you'll get more traffic that way and more participation.
    7. Be patient and realize no blog is going to make a good income overnight.

  • Step 4: Sell Products & eBooks


    Sell personalized products on your site, including coffee mugs, calendars, t-shirts and buttons that have cute logos or sayings that can be found on your blog. Websites like CafePress.com or others like them can help you do this without any inventory or overhead costs.

    If your blog has a niche, you can write a 50-100 page PDF formatted eBooks for anywhere from as little as a dollar per book to upwards of $20 or more dollars per download. The eBook can be about anything you regularly talk about on your blog that might interest your readers.

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