How To Make Money With Blogs
October 23rd, 2009 | by admin |
If you’re a newbie with a burning desire of learning more about making money with your blog, pay close attention.
NOTE: believe it or not, making money with your blog is free. Yes, making money with your blog does not require you to buy domain names nor order web hosting to host web sites.
While making money with your blog is not easy, it’s free and requires you take into consideration some suggestions and apply a few quick tips.
This article reveals little-known secrets about making money with your blog, secrets that just a few people know.
Want to join the elite of top blog earners?
Here are the nitty-gritty tips on how to make money with blogs.
First of all, you need to visit www.blogger.com and set-up your free account. The steps are easy:
1. You create a blogger account
2. You name your blog
3. You chose a blog template
Secondly, you are going to decide on how you want to monetize your blog. If you don’t have your own product (I highly recommend you create one as soon as possible), you should go about picking one, two or three top affiliate products (or services).
These affiliate products or services need to be 100% related to your blog theme (niche audience) if you want to get maximum results from your promotions.
HINT: you get to genereate more affiliate sales if the affiliate product you recommend is highly targeted to a specific audience. In fact, the success rate of closing the sale depends on how precise you can target your market.
One of the best affiliate program directories can be found at www.associateprograms.com.
Here you get free access to thousands of pages of affiliate programs, useful tips, money-making articles, researched recommendations, and a helpful affiliate forum.
Besides affiliate programs you can also monetize your blog by applying for Google AdSense Program.
You can get full info about this service here:
https://www.google.com/adsense
The beauty of this program is that you get paid a percentage every time someone clicks on an AdSense ad from your blog.
Making money with affiliate programs require you to actively promote the affiliate product and you only get paid when you generate a real sale, and not just a click.
AdSense is the lazy way to making money with your blog.
After you decide which income stream you want to go after (I suggest you go with both affiliate products and Google AdSense) you need to take into consideration this…
Final tip – regardless of your blog theme, if you want to make real money with blogs, you should copycat top blog experts into your field.
You need to spy on your competitors and find out how and why they are successful.
Try to contact them and ask them to share with you some tips about building a successful money-making blog. Most will gladly help you with some quick tips.
You’ll never know when that secret tip will make you a top blog earner and well known expert into your field.
It’s not that hard to find blog expert or spy on your competition. In fact, here’s how you can quickly and easily find blog competitors:
1. go at www.google.com
2. type into the search bar “your niche topic” + “blog”
e.g. “dog training” + “blog” or “acne treatment” + “blog”
I’m sure you get the picture. Once you find some listings go and browse the related Web Sites that fits your blog theme.
Make a list with top 10 blogs that you’d want to model.
3. Contact each owner of those 10 blogs and ask for help.
You don’t have to be shy. Ask any question that comes into your mind. Ask your most burning questions. I highly suggest that you do not ask more than 3 quick questions.
Most people don’t have time to write long e-mails. You’d want to keep your first e-mail quick and to the point.
In conclusion, if you put these quick blog money-making tips into practice, you too can become a top blog earner. That’s the only way to do it. Take action now!
Codrut Turcanu
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5 Responses to “How To Make Money With Blogs”
By new name on Oct 23, 2009 | Reply
How does one make money from blogs? How does one go about it or start it?
Just how does one make money from blogs? How does one start it or go about it? Is there a specific way to do it? Just how does one make money from blogs in the first place? Where does one get started in this? Do you have to advertise and use your credit card? Are there any certain kinds of rules you have to follow? Do you have to set the blog up yourself or are there ones that help you set up it up? How do you get advertisers on your blog? Are people limited to the number of blogs online? How often do you get paid?
Thanks for the help!
By ranimal100 on Oct 23, 2009 | Reply
First you have to get lots of traffic. Advertise, send e-mails, talk about your blog in other places, then once you get lots of traffice search out an advertiser that makes sense. If your blog is mostly about cooking then look for food/pampered chef/kitchenaid type advertisers. Call companies and ask for their marketing departments. You can also seek sponsors on your blog. Good luck, you will need to get several thousand hits a day to do well.
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By yeeblazer on Oct 23, 2009 | Reply
just send me $50 and i will give you all the secrets!
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By Gouthamlal TM on Oct 23, 2009 | Reply
Advertising Programs – Perhaps the most obvious changes in the past few months have been with the addition of a variety of viable advertising options for bloggers. The most common way bloggers seem to earn money online is via the contextual ad program from Google – Adsense. Another two popular ones with many is BlogAds. A more recent addition that many are using successfully are Chitika’s eMiniMalls and CrispAds, Text Link Ads.
Adgenta, Azoogle Ads, Intelli Txt, Peak Click, DoubleClickTribal Fusion, Adbrite, Clicksor, Industry Brains, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, AVN, Pheedo, Adknowledge, YesAdvertising, RevenuePilotTextAds, SearchFeed, Target Point, Bidvertiser, Fastclick Value Click and OneMonkey (to name just some of the options – I’m sure I’ve forgotten some) and there is a smorgasbord of options. Of course there is more to come with MSN Adcenter and YPN both in beta testing and with a variety of other advertising system currently in development (so I hear).
RSS Advertising – The past 12 months have seen some advances in RSS Advertising also. I’m yet to hear of any bloggers making big money through it to this point – but as improvements are made to the ad programs exploring this I’m sure we’ll start to see examples of it being profitable.
Sponsorship – In addition to the array of advertising programs that are available to join there is a growing awareness in the business of the value and opportunity that exists for them to advertise directly on blogs. I’m hearing more and more examples of this and have been fortunately to have a couple of ad campaigns of my own in the past month – one with Adobe a couple of weeks ago and another just completed with Ricoh for a new digicam over at my Digital Camera Blog. These are not isolated cases – as I say I know of many blogs exploring sponsorship with advertisers at present and suspect we’ll see more of it in the year ahead. Sponsorship is also happening on a post by post basis with some bloggers being paid to write on certain topics by companies – either in one off or a regular fashion – and they are able to make big money from their blogs doing so.
Affiliate Programs – There are larger affiliate programs like Amazon, Linkshare, Clickbank and Commission Junction but also literally thousands of others from the large to the very small.
Digital Assets – Increasing numbers of bloggers have been developing other digital assets to support and add revenue streams to their blogs. By this I mean that I’m increasingly seeing e-books, courses and tele-seminars being run by bloggers. My recent foray into this with the first series of the six figure blogging course that Andy and I ran a few weeks ago and have just released the study version of. This type of activity will only increase in future – in fact this week I’ve seen numerous examples of bloggers running courses.
Blog Network Opportunities – with the rise in popularity of Blog Networks – bloggers are also being presented with more places to earn an income from their blogging – by writing for and with others. While it might be difficult to get a writing gig with one of the bigger networks – there are plenty who are always asking for new bloggers to join and who are willing to pay bloggers using a variety of payment models. While there are distinct advantages of blogging for yourself – blogging for an established network who will handle a lot of the set up/promotion/admin/SEO etc has it’s advantages also. More and more bloggers are combining writing for themselves on their own blogs with taking on blog network blogs as additional income streams.
Business Blog Writing Opportunities – as blogging has risen in it’s profile as a medium more and more businesses are starting blogs. Many of these companies have internal staff take on blogging duties – but an increasing number of them are hiring specialist bloggers to come on and run their blogs. I know of a number of bloggers who in the past month or two have been approached for such paid work. Check out Bloggers for Hire if you’re looking for this type of work.
Non Blogging Writing Opportunities – Also becoming more common are bloggers being hired to write in non blogging mediums. Manolo’s recent coup of a column in the Washington Post is just one example of this as bloggers are increasingly being approached to write for newspapers, magazines and other non blog websites. Along side this is the rise of bloggers as published book authors – this is to the extent that one blogger I spoke with this week complained to me that they were one of the few bloggers than they knew who didn’t have a book deal!
Donations – Tip Jars and donation buttons have been a part of blogging for years now but this last year saw a number of bloggers go full time after fundraising drives. Perhaps the most high profile of these was Jason Kottke of kottke.org who through the generosity of his readership was able to quit his job and become a full time blogger.
Flipping Blogs – Also more common in 2005 was the practice of ‘Blog Flipping’ – or selling of blogs. This has happened both on an individual blog level (I can think of about 20 blogs that sold this year) but also on a network level (the most obvious of these being the 8 figure sale of Weblogs Inc to AOL).
Merchandising – My recent attempt to sell ProBlogger.net T-shirts wasn’t a raging success, but it is an example of how an increasing number of bloggers are attempting to make a few extra dollars from their blogs by selling branded products through programs like Cafepress (although I have to say they’ve lost one of my own orders and are being quite unresponsive to my requests to follow it up at present). While I didn’t have a lot of success with merchandising – quite a few larger blogs are seeing significant sales – especially blogs with a cult following. I’m not at liberty to discuss details – but I know of one largish blog which will see sales over $20,000 in merchandise for the calendar year of 2005.
Consulting and Speaking – While it has been popular for established consultants to add blogs to their businesses we’re also starting to see bloggers with no consulting background able to make money by charging readers for their time in consulting scenarios BECAUSE of the profile that their blogs have built them. Blogging has the ability to establish people as experts on niche topics and we all know the value of being perceived as an expert. I spoke to one blogger last month who charges himself out at over $200 an hour for speaking and consulting work – his area of expertise was something that he knew little about 18 months ago – but through his blog he’s become a leader in his field and a minor celebrity in his industry.
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problogger.net
By eafoste on Oct 23, 2009 | Reply
You can’t make money from blogs…oh wait I just didn’t read your whole question haha–just like you do. You need to read peoples whole question before making judgements about them. Just a tip for the future
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you were rude in answering my question and have a negative attitude without knowing the facts