How to Make Money With a Blog
Most people start their first blog simply out of interest - as a way to talk about a favorite topic, as a personal journal, or to explore the idea and format of a blog. Many never realize that making money with blogs is even possible, but for the minority who do realize, the possibilities are wide open.
Ways to Make Money From Blogging
Increase your blog profit using these multiple streams of income
- Publish ads on your blog using a variety of different programs and methods
- Request donations from those who find your content useful
- Have a "hire me" page to market your services
- Sell your own product(s)
- Sell affiliate product(s)
- Get paid to write reviews
- Write posts for other blogs or magazines who will pay you
- Hire yourself out as a blogger for companies who want a corporate blog
- Create blogs, build traffic and get them earning a little money, then sell them
- Consult and/or speak on your blog topic once you've built a reputation
- Start a job board related to your topic, and charge employers to post want ads.
- Create a members-only section with premium content, and charge for it.
Test Test Test
You won't know which income stream(s) work best for your blog unless you test. Don't assume: test!
Making Money With a Blog Requires these Skills
You can learn them as you earn, but you need to learn them.
Setting up a blog - a free one on Blogger will do to start with but you'll probably want a self-hosted blog before long. That means learning how to find and register a domain name, research and buy hosting, attach your domain to your hosting, and set up a blog on it.Dealing with comments (and comment spam), trackbacks and pings
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) - how to write your content and set up your posts and pages so that both search engines and humans will love you
Coding and scripting related to your blog platform (CSS, HTML, PHP and others). You can hire this out, but you need to understand the basics to know what needs to be done.
RSS and Ajax feeds, syndication, and aggregators.
Social networking and bookmarking
Traffic statistics and analytics
Keyword research, tagging and categorizing.
Advertising (both context-related programs like Adsense and individually-sold ads)
Product promotion (your own products, affiliate products or both).
Internet marketing in general
Learn by Doing
Don't just read/watch/listen - take action and build a test blog!
Learning to Blog for Money
There are a variety of resources available to those who want to learn about making money with blogs, some for beginners and some more advanced. They include:Study Programs
- Blogging to the Bank 2.0 (Rob Benwell, paid program)
- Blog Profits Blueprint (Yaro Starak's free starter system)
- Blog Mastermind (Yaro's paid program for the more advanced)
Websites and blogs
- Problogger (Darren Rowse)
- Dosh Dosh (Maki)
- Entrepreneur's Journey (Yaro Starak)
- Daily Blog Tips (Daniel Scocco)
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