How To Make Money Blogging

The two strategies you need to know if you want to learn how to make money blogging, one more profitable than the other. First of all, small business owners find a great advantage in the use of blogs that provide rich informational content and the opportunity for great marketing promotions. Now let's take a look at how you can be making money with blogs in almost no time.

You either get paid for allowing other business owners to advertise on your site or you can use your blog as part of an affiliate program, which involves promoting the products or services of a specific business. For instance if you've got a blog dealing with diving, you can very well turn into an affiliate for a company that sells diving equipment.

The amount of money you are supposed to get is usually part of the individual agreement you sign with the other party, and it usually depends on how well you manage to use the blog to actually convince people to purchase one of the products. Friendly links, special discounts, promotions and e-news letters are all part of an affiliate campaign that could turn a simple blog into a great revenue generator.

Now Shall we get started and learn how to make money blogging?

1. Market Research
Market research is a must, especially if you want to make money and be successful. You must first find a hungry market that’s looking for the type products you are selling. sites like clickbank and comission junction are great for research. Look for products that pay well and have low competition and high conversions. Without doing research first you may find that your efforts are like trying to sell ice to Eskimos.

2. Create your Blog
Once you’ve completed step one you should have a profitable market with low competition. Now its time to create your blog, there are many platforms from witch to host your blog however, the two that I recommend are Blogger.com and Wordpress.com. You can open a free account and get started today.

Ad revenue is one of the best ways of earning money. Normally you would leadvertisers place banner ads or a text link on your blog for a predetermined amount of time and charge them whatever your ad rate is for the amount of time they want to display there ad.

Now there is a much simpler and easy way to do this by using Google Adsense, all you have to do is place your Adsense code on your blog and Google will display relevant ads on your blog. You make money when someone clicks on a Google ad you get a percentage of whatever the advertiser ad cost, whether a purchase is made or not. Warning: “Do not click on your own ads”-Google will shut you down for these practices.

4. Getting Content
Now you have a blog that can make you money you need to add content so that when search engines crawl the web your blog will get indexed for the keywords that you have targeted in your content. There are several ways to get content to your blog, its best if you write your own original content (Google loves this best), you can use Private Label Content (PLR) or outsource your blog content for around $7-10 per article at site like elance.com or guru.com. When getting articles wrote have 10 or more done at a time to make it worth the while of you freelancer.

5. SEO Tips
There are things you can do to let Search Engines know why your blog is better than other blogs on the same subject, this called Search Engine Optimization (SEO). This is one of the best ways to get your site listed high in Google, Yahoo, MSN etc. If done correctly.

There are many different views and opinions on SEO, just remember to stay away from any black hat tactics that can get your site banned and your Google account shut down.
SEO is essential to your long term online businesssuccess, one of the best resources I know for this is Wild Seo.

6. Flooding your Blog with targeted Traffic
Now you have a blog full of relevant content that is promoting an affiliate product you get paid on and you also have Adsense down the side that pay you every time a visitor clicks on them. All you need now is traffic, without it your blog is virtually dead. There are two types of traffic paid and free, of course you want more of the latter.

Free traffic methods:

Building one way back links to your blog and on page optimization is essential to getting your page ranked high in the search engines and getting tons of traffic. How do you get quality back links?

Method 1- Articles
A good way to get back links from high PR sites is by submitting articles to directories like ezinearticles.com, Contentdesk.com, Articlealley.com etc. It is free fast and very ethical.

Method 2- Press Releases
Writing and submitting a press release is great way to get back links. There are free and paid ways to do a press release and its not as hard as most people make it seem. You can use a sit like prfree.com

Method 3- Forums
Posting in forums will get you quality back links, but this method Must be done the right way. Please don’t go spamming forums with tons of links, you will surley get banned, you must work your way in by making quality post and providing quality content.

Paid Traffic Method:

You can use Pay Per Click (PPC) such as Google Adwords where you pay every time someone clicks on your ad. you can get as much traffic as you want with PPC starting in about 30 min. But word to the wise… I don’t recommend this method for total newbies as it can put a hole in your pocket and drain your bank account dry if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing.

However, you can also make tons of cash using PPC if you do it right, and for those of you who want to give it a try, don’t do it without first listening to audios in my Top PPC resource: Get Money From Google

7. Creating a Network
Now you should have a successful blog. You must continue the process and create more blogs within a niche targeting a different keyword and link them with anchor text to your main blog.

8. Ping Ping Ping
Whenever you add new content to your blog, you want to tell the blog directories about it, this is known as pinging. Some Blog providers automatically send out pings when you update, but to be on the safe side you will want to do manual pings too. ONLY PING WHEN YOU UPDATE.

You can ping at PingMyBlog or another good choice is I use Ping-o-matic. Remember, to only ping when you update or you could get blacklisted.

9. Test & Track
Testing and tracking your results will prove vital to your online business. test everything from headlines to click through ratio (CTR), this will help you improve your marketing efforts and explode your online income.

10. Wash Rinse Repeat
Wash Rinse Repeat… Wash Rinse Repeat… Wash Rinse Repeat...

Making Money With Blogs is easy if you follow the above steps.

Here are a few things to remember, don't give up. I'll tell you now the fact that you won't become rich overnight should not stop you, this is a real business and if you are serious about making money with blogs stick with it and you will make money online.


My Top 3 Resources
1. Blogging To The Bank
2. Wordpress Goldmine
3. BookMarking Demon


How To Make Money Blogging