More and more people are realising that blogging is one of the best ways to start your own online business. It requires minimal start up costs, you can build an impressive and loyal readership over time and once you know how to monetize your blog it can also bring in a decent income that will keep on coming even on the days when you don’t update your blog.
There are several ways to set up a blog online. You could use WordPress, Blogger, or another free site that hosts your blog for you; or alternatively you can set up your own blog under your own domain name.
If you want to make serious money from blogging, you must have complete control over your blog – and that’s something the free blogging accounts won’t give you. You’ll be bound by their terms and conditions and that usually includes not being able to actively promote anything. There are plenty of people who have established a blog only to have it removed without notice some weeks or months later.
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It will cost you a few dollars to buy your domain name and set up a web server that will host your blog, but the benefits will far outweigh the cost involved. It can literally be as little as $20 a year we’re talking about here – and that buys you total freedom.
Once you’re ready to set your blog up you’ll need to choose a good theme and layout for it. You might find one that relates to your choice of subject (more on that in a moment) or else there might be one you just like the look of. But there are thousands of templates available for you to use – a simple search on Google will reveal the ones that will be best suited to your topic.
But perhaps the most important question is what you are going to blog about. The whole world is your oyster here – some people blog about their lives in general; some blog about their jobs; some blog about their hobbies; some tell the world about their kids and what it’s like to be a parent, and still others blog about the weird world of celebrities. But whatever you choose to blog about it needs to be something you are passionate about. Don’t forget, you are going to be writing about this topic several times a week, and if you don’t have the enthusiasm for it, that will show in your posts – and no one else will have the enthusiasm to read them.
Okay – so you’ve got your subject. Now you have to start writing your blog posts. If you take a look at just a few of the blogs already online, you’ll notice that the length of the posts varies a lot. Some people only write a paragraph or two each time, but you’ll get better results if you go for something a little longer than this. Around 400 to 500 words makes for a good post with a lot of information in it; some people write hugely long posts that are thousands of words long and could be called an e-book by another name.
But you can also take the format of this blog, by posting a short blog entry which leads into a longer article. This has the benefit of highlighting a lot of blog posts on the home page of the site, and people can then click through and read the ones they like the most.
You should remember however that there are no real rules when it comes to blogging. Over time you will naturally find what works for you, and your blog will settle down into a nice pattern that both you and your readers will enjoy. You’ll find your character and personality will start to come through in your writing too; don’t fight against this as it is one of the hallmarks of blogging. It is, after all, a personal account of an individual’s life and experiences, so show people what you’re made of! You’ll get a more loyal – and bigger – audience like this.
So you’ve got your blog up and running and you’re posting to it on a regular basis. The next step is to get it in front of as many interested eyeballs as possible.
One great way to do this is to submit it to as many of the social bookmarking sites as possible. You can also join social networking sites and build a profile which contains a link to your blog. Other no cost ways to generate traffic include writing free articles for article directories with a link to your blog at the end, and creating signatures at the end of any posts you make to internet forums, and also in all the emails you send out. When you really start thinking about it, you don’t actually need to spend anything to generate plenty of traffic.
All we need to do now is monetize the blog itself. You’ll want to generate some money from all the visitors you’ll start getting, and there are plenty of ways to do this easily. Google Adsense is probably the most well known method – you can join the program for free and display contextual ads that your visitors will be interested in to maximise your click through rate.
There are also a handful of websites which give you the opportunity to get paid for each blog post you make on a specific subject. Pay Per Post and Review Me are two such examples, and they will pay you a certain amount of money to review a product or website for the owner. In a similar vein you can also review and recommend other people’s products through affiliate links inserted into your blog posts, and earn money on commissions earned through any purchases people make.
And once you’re more established you can offer ad space on your blog too, and charge a fee for both classified and display ads if you wish. What could be better than setting your own price?
But there is one final step you can take with your blog if you enjoy a change of scene every now and again. You can sell your blog! Once it is established and has plenty of revenue and traffic, you can usually sell it for ten times its monthly revenue.
And then, you can start all over again with a whole new subject!
So that’s it – profitable blogging in a nutshell. If you have any questions feel free to leave your comments in the form below. And once you’ve done that, get out there and get started building your first blog today.
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How To Make Money Blogging,
Yeah i agree with you Peter. When it comes to making money online, blogging always on the list but its not that easy to make revenue from blogs. Your blog should be attractive and consistent enough.
I’ll try …thanks. good post
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This is definitely an inspiring blog for a beginner to get started. I agree blogging can be one of the best ways to earn some extra money. If your blogging intention is only to make money then it’s wise to talk about common issues or popular topics like fashion/art/travel/food. Try give out useful tips from your experience. Impressing search engines with right no of keywords can help you drive traffic to your blog but again over doing it and copy pasting content will also effect your blog negatively. Go through popular blogs which are available, analyze the pattern they follow and get inspired.
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please, i’m really willing and determined to learn and start a blog; but i can only make or receive payments via liberty reserve or western union. please, can you, in anyway direct me on how i can use any one of these online payment systems in making some online income.
remaain blessed and thanks for this wonderful tips.
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Thanks!
Great post. It because of people like you that helped me get my feet on the ground with setting up my blog and getting it to generate some extra revenue. Keep up the good work!!
Blogging is one of the easiest and fastest way to make some money online. However, a lot of people get the wrong impression that blogging can make you rich or even replace that daily 9 to 5pm job.
Can you imagine the fact that a blog is created every second!. Setting up a blog is easy and free, the challenge though is how to make your blog stands up among the crowd.
You can’t make a full time living by just blogging alone. Anyone who tells you that you can become a millionaire by just blogging alone is lying to their teeth. You can however leverage on the power of blogging to enhance your main website though.
do you really need to be a good on this so you can earn more money? im not a good blogger, i dont even do blogs, but i really wanna try these
I would like to thank you all for all the comments because i really got most of what i was looking for now
I just have one question if someone can help me please:
when you make your own blog and write about your life, how can that make me excited or making me wanna read it all or send it to friend to read?
i wish you got my point and i’m sorry if you’ll find my question silly but i’m still a pretty new in that.
Thanks
i want to start to make more money on blogging
what a great information you’ve given here. Thanks a lot and keep on with the good work.
Yes, me and my group have started a few people out on blog related incomes. The traffic to their site has just begun & there is absolutely no way for us to know what the outcome may be in the future.
Starting a blog is great, but getting it up into the the ladder of Google Bing or Yahoo is another challenge. You have to hustle your website to the top. Work on it at least 30 mins a day before you can start to see some results.
Blogging is one of the best methods of making money online, but its hard work running a blog. But it gives a constant stream of income once it has a decent traffic.
Your article is really good and i would recommend it has one of the primary methods of making money online.
Thanks for the post.
Hello
Suppose we have a very good number of visits a site and want to put ads where people hire to display their ads on my blog or website.
How exactly I do not charge for this service?
And put an article talking about this advert?
Yeah, I agree with a lot of people here that blogging is not the best way to make the most of your money, because even with a decent audience you cannot make a lot of money. But when you come to it, it is worth the time to make a blog since you can use it to promote other things online that generate you more income.
Nice article though, I have enjoyed reading it. I wonder how much income you make in total.
Blogging is a really guaranteed way of making money. Keep the great posts up
I would agree with you, as long as you are willing to update your blog regularly.
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i am one of those who wish to do good on blogging and i think your article will be a really great help. ^_^
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Blogging is a great way to get your website noticed and you can make some great money also. I have found that if I post at least 3 to 4 times per week you will start moving up in the search engine ranking fairly quickly. Great blog
Great tips for starting a blog. I have been looking for the company that pays you for adding a double underlined word in an article on a blog. Do you know that company? TIA!
Yeah, try Kontera.com
Blogging is one of the best ways how to make money online. But at the same time is the toughest one and it takes very long to start making revenue from blog.
If people want to succeed in blogging they have to be clever, be bale to write in interesting way, be enthusiastic in bloggin niche and very very persistent.