How can I make money from blogging?
Blogging Profits on Dec 21 2008 | Filed under: Money from Blogging, Advertising, Affiliate Marketing, Blog Income
How can I make money from blogging? How many times have you asked this yourself? Once, twice, thrice, or maybe everytime?
How to make money from blogging is one question mostly asked by blog beginners and you will be surprised — even by those who have been blogging for years!
Blogging and making money from blogging are two different things. Blogging is posting and writing without even worrying if the time you spend blogging translates to money; the latter is a deliberate, conscious effort to turn blogging into an income-generating activity.
Making money from blogging is a much abused phrase, and in fact it has become a profitable industry in itself at it has spawned the the birth of so-called probloggers or professional bloggers who are no different from yesterday’s freelance writers. Now there are “blogger jobs”as there are writing jobs.
To make money from blogging is no different from making money from webmastering in the Web 1.0 of yesteryears. Only now with the emergence of one-click publishing tools like Blogger and Wordpress, making money on the Internet has never been more easier.
So let’s break down a list of ways to make money from blogging.
1. Promoting your own products. Maybe you have an online store or your company manufactures a certain line of products? Blogging is a way to connect to your market and turn them into loyal, involved readers. Whereas before you have a boring shopping cart, now with a blog, you are showing your human side. Your business website begins to “talk” to your site visitors through the blog.
2. Promoting other people’s products. In the internet marketing world, this is called affiliate marketing. You write reviews or you may even just simply mention a product, with a link to the product page on the seller’s website. Clicks are tracked and successful transactions are credited to you via commissions (Pay Per Action). You may find products to promote on Clickbank, eBay, Amazon, Commission Junction, Linkshare and ShareASale. Of course, you owe it to your blog readers to be honest in your reviews.
3. Pasting advertisements on your blog or the “Passive Method”. This may also fall under promoting other products, but putting ads is a passive method compared to outright promotion. In this method examples of these are advertising networks such as Adsense, Adbrite, Chitika, Shopping Ads and Widget Bucks. You do not necessarily endorse the products shown on the ads as these are served by the advertising network. Youearn when your visitors simply click on the ads (Pay Per Click).
4. Selling advertising space. In this method, you do not depend on any action from your blog visitors. You make money from people who pay for web real estate or space on your blog. In this method, you know how much you will earn on a regular basis. You will sell advertisements only when you get a good amount of traffic and in some cases, a good number of RSS Subscribers; advertisers usually ask for statistics.
5. Offering your writing services to another blog. Do you know that there is an entire industry that revolves around freelance blogging? Yes, you need not have your own blog to make money from blogging. You may “ghost write” or become a regular staff for a blog or blog network who may pay per post or per month. Usually, however, you need to show samples of your blogging wizardry before you land a job. In that case, you may have to start blogging for yourself first.
6. Selling your blog. Blogs are properties and if your blog becomes hot property due to a blog post that gets Digged or gets media attention, you may even get offers from companies or people who want to own your blog, and these are usually blog networks. But since a blog is only as good as its blogger, actually selling your blog does not mean giving away the website and leaving with your money. You may be asked to remain as the blogger, but you may either be given a salary for staying there. The concession is, advertising revenue goes to the blog network who bought your blog.
This is not a definitive list of ways to make money from blogging, but BloggingProfits.com believes that this is a good start in your search for money from blogging. You may find other resources on making money from blogging on our Resources Page. Good luck!
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