Making Money Blogging

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Learn tips and tricks to make money blogging!

At some point or other, you've probably wondered if it's really possible to make money online. Well, it is! You just have to sign up for the programs that are actually legit and aren't just a scam.

Here are some tried-and-true websites/affiliate programs you can sign up for and make real money with, including paid advertising, affiliate marketing, launching your own digital products like e-books, and real success stories from bloggers who made bank!

Make Money Blogging Tips

Here are some general articles and tips on how to make money through blogging. Although there are ways to make money online without a blog, the links and tips on this page are specifically for bloggers, so...

1. The first step is to make a website or a blog through a website like blogger.com or wordpress.com.
2. The next step is to read some of these general articles for making money blogging.
3. Then you'll want to come back to this page (bookmark it!) and look at the more specific sections like paid advertising, affiliate marketing, and launching your own digital products.
4. If you're stuck or in need of inspiration, look at the success stories in the last section on this page. There you can see other people's online earnings and what the possibilities are for real people.
5. Rinse and repeat with each program! Implement links and ads and write articles and keep trying until you start making money.

Important!

Making Money with Blogging Tip:

Find a niche (a very specific topic) and start a blog about it. Cover every aspect of that niche possible with blog posts!

You are more like to make money blogging about a niche than a general category because you will receive targeted traffic and the visitors to your website will be more interested in buying the specific product you sell/write about/review.

Examples of a niche: best reusable water bottles, kid-friendly vacation destinations, baby turtle food

Make Money with Paid Advertising

Personally for paid advertising I use Google Adsense and Text Link Ads. I'd recommend both programs because they have the potential to earn a lot of money.

With Google Adsense you earn money every time someone clicks on one of the ads that you put on your website. The amount per click varies, but it is generally between 1 cent and 1 dollar, averaging closer to 5 cents per click.

With Text Link Ads, you make an account and must have your website approved first. If your website doesn't get enough traffic, they won't approve it. If you pass, your site becomes part of their advertising marketplace and people will pay to put text link ads on your website. The pay depends on how much traffic your website gets (not a per click payment). For me, when my website was getting about 500 unique visitors a day the payment was $25 a month per ad split in half with Text Link Ads, so I'd make maybe $12 a month per ad. You can put between 1 and 10 ads on your website, and they can be only on your homepage or on all pages.

Text Link Ads

Make Money with Google Adsense

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Make Money with Affiliate Marketing

There are many affiliate programs out there with every product in the universe available to sell. I personally am a member of several, including the Lunarpages hosting affiliate program, the Allposters affiliate program, which also allows you to put their posters of photographs on your Squidoo lenses to decorate them, Makes Parties, and Party Works.

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Make Money with Paid Article Writing

The most popular examples of paid article writing are Squidoo, Hubpages, Ezinearticles, and Associated Content. There are many other websites that will pay you to write articles or review content, as well as sites like Karma Lynx and She Told Me that pay you in Google Adsense revenue for posting links or excerpts of your articles. Paid article writing is an easy but rewarding way to make money online. If you want to integrate this with your existing blog, go for Karma Lynx and She Told Me so you can create backlinks to your blog posts and earn extra revenue. If you want to write on topics your blog doesn't cover, sign up for one of the article writing sites like Squidoo.

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Important!

Paid Article Writing Tips:

In order to make money on sites like Hubpages, Squidoo, and Ezinearticles, you need quality and quantity - that is, you need pages and articles with good, original content that you have written yourself along with the products or ads and you need lots of pages.

To make a decent amount of money on Squidoo, you should have around 100 lenses (pages) and be around for at least 2 or 3 months before you see significant earnings.

Whatever you do, stick with it for the long run!

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Selling and Launching Digital Products

The most common digital product you can sell online is an e-book (other examples might be paid membership sites, paid resources, paid graphics, paid Wordpress themes, etc). With the articles and tips below, they're not too difficult to make either. Writing an e-book can be a significant time commitment, however, so keep in mind that in order to make a lot of sales it's a good idea to already have a strong following on your blog before your invest several hours writing an e-book.

Here are the basic steps for publishing an e-book online:
1. Research keywords and decide what niche you want to write about.
2. Write and format the book in a Word document.
3. Save the file in the .pdf format.
4. Write a blog post about your new e-book with what it has to offer and sell it with PayPal (or try to get it on an affiliate site like ClickBank).

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Important!

The Most Important Thing

....to remember about making money by blogging or online in general is to be persistent. It takes time for pages and blog posts to get indexed by search engines by Google and to get more traffic and clickthroughs and such. So, just be patient.

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Comment on these Making Money Blogging tips

  • davespeed Jan 1, 2012 @ 6:07 pm | delete
    Thank you for this terrific resource. I've bookmarked it and will visit again. I'm new to Squidoo and am excited about learning to make money online. Happy New Year!
  • miaponzo Dec 31, 2011 @ 12:23 pm | delete
    Thanks so much for these great money making tips! Blessed!
  • bloomingrose Dec 22, 2011 @ 11:31 pm | delete
    This is a rich lens, I will come back here to learn more time to time.
  • sidther Aug 11, 2011 @ 7:34 am | delete
    These are great tips! I started a blog, but have struggled to actually use it for anything other than "hey, check out my new lens on Squidoo!" (I am too addicted- every time I try to branch out, I wind up back here making new lenses on the day I had scheduled to spend on the other ones)- I wanted it to be more than that... I will try to fix it! Thank you for these great tips to make money blogging!
  • goldenrulecomics Jul 25, 2011 @ 8:54 pm | delete
    A very nice collection of resources and tips. Thanks for putting it together!

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