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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Make Money Blogging
The internet is full of ways to make money. There are a lot of different approaches you can take to make money online. Let me introduce you to blogging - more specifically let me explain to you how people make money blogging.
What Exactly Is Blogging Anyway?
According to Wikipedia:
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.
In plainer English, a blog is a website that shows the newest entries at the beginning, usually on the homepage. This website is a blog, and for that reason you will always find my newest writing on the homepage, at the top. As you scroll down, you will find the other entries I have written, newest to oldest.
What Are Blogs About?
There are blogs about everything! This blog teaches people how to make money online. There are blogs about sports, news, fitness, cooking, humor, teaching, parenting, celebrities, and everything else you can imagine.
Blogs are a great format for news sites. Since blogs show the newest entries first, readers can easily find the most recent news stories. Bloggers (those who blog) post news about every industry, and provide their own opinions on the subject matter.
When blogs first started, they were created primarily to be online journals, but have now evolved into websites about anything and everything.
How To People Make Money Blogging?
The simple answer to that question is that blogs get traffic and convert it into money. Getting traffic is very possible with a blog, in fact it’s much easier to get traffic to a blog than it is to get traffic on traditional websites. Traffic is a subject that I won’t discuss here, but if you’re interested in that you can see the promoting your blog section of the site.
Blogs can develop quite a following by people interested in the blog’s industry. Popular blogs can get thousands of hits per day. Gizmodo, Engadget, and Perez Hilton are three mega popular blogs which all get hundreds of thousands of visitors per day.
The traffic of most blogs is converted to money through advertising. That probably sounds difficult to you if you’re new, but it’s actually really easy. The primary revenue streams of most blogs are:
Ad-Boxes
Google Adsense - Anyone can sign up for this service and it’s 100% free to use. Google will display ads on your blog and pay you when they get clicked on. This is by far the easiest way to make money with your blog. If you look closely at my pages you will find ad units labeled ‘Ads by Google’.
Yahoo! Publishing - Yahoo’s version of Adsense. Yahoo’s version is also free to use.
Contextual Ads - These are ads that are displayed throughout the text of your blog. If you look closely through my pages you will see links that are double underlined. These are actually ads and if you hover over them, a little ad-box will pop up. The contextual ad company will pay for clicks on the links or the ad-box.
Intelitxt - The first major company to offer this type of advertising. It’s quite difficult to get an account with them unless you have over 500,000 hits per month.
Kontera - Another player in the contextual ad game. Kontera is easier to sign up for when you’re still small.
Affiliate Programs - Many bloggers sell products and services for other sites and receive appropriate commissions. There are tons of sites out there that offer free, affiliate programs including:
Amazon
eBay
Shopping.com
Text Links - Bloggers can sell links from there pages to other websites. Most bloggers that use this kind of revenue stream use a company called text-link-ads.com. Their service is free to use and their company will sell the ads for you. The sites that purchase them pay monthly, and you get paid monthly.
Direct Sales - Some bloggers sell their own products and services.
How Much Can A Person Make Blogging?
That’s really tough question to answer. Some blogs create $500,000 per year and some make $0. The amount a person can make with a blog depend on a lot of factors including:
Blogger’s Knowledge and Experience
Quality and Quantity of Blog’s Information
Marketing
Determination
Longevity
Luck (This isn’t a joke but it is of course possible to create luck.)
I think that it’s very possible to create an income in the high five and even six figures for individuals that posses the right talent and determination. If you are thinking about becoming a blogger, you should visit this article: Making Money Online - Is This Business For You?
In my opinion, blogging is the easiest of all the methods of making money online, at least for beginners. It is also a stepping stone for those wishing to move onto more difficult online, money-making methods. If you’re interested in starting a blog, you should read this: 5263 Words On Starting A Profitable Blog.
If you would like to learn more about blogging and making money online, subscribe to my full feed RSS. My RSS feed is updated daily.
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What Exactly Is Blogging Anyway?
According to Wikipedia:
A blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.
In plainer English, a blog is a website that shows the newest entries at the beginning, usually on the homepage. This website is a blog, and for that reason you will always find my newest writing on the homepage, at the top. As you scroll down, you will find the other entries I have written, newest to oldest.
What Are Blogs About?
There are blogs about everything! This blog teaches people how to make money online. There are blogs about sports, news, fitness, cooking, humor, teaching, parenting, celebrities, and everything else you can imagine.
Blogs are a great format for news sites. Since blogs show the newest entries first, readers can easily find the most recent news stories. Bloggers (those who blog) post news about every industry, and provide their own opinions on the subject matter.
When blogs first started, they were created primarily to be online journals, but have now evolved into websites about anything and everything.
How To People Make Money Blogging?
The simple answer to that question is that blogs get traffic and convert it into money. Getting traffic is very possible with a blog, in fact it’s much easier to get traffic to a blog than it is to get traffic on traditional websites. Traffic is a subject that I won’t discuss here, but if you’re interested in that you can see the promoting your blog section of the site.
Blogs can develop quite a following by people interested in the blog’s industry. Popular blogs can get thousands of hits per day. Gizmodo, Engadget, and Perez Hilton are three mega popular blogs which all get hundreds of thousands of visitors per day.
The traffic of most blogs is converted to money through advertising. That probably sounds difficult to you if you’re new, but it’s actually really easy. The primary revenue streams of most blogs are:
Ad-Boxes
Google Adsense - Anyone can sign up for this service and it’s 100% free to use. Google will display ads on your blog and pay you when they get clicked on. This is by far the easiest way to make money with your blog. If you look closely at my pages you will find ad units labeled ‘Ads by Google’.
Yahoo! Publishing - Yahoo’s version of Adsense. Yahoo’s version is also free to use.
Contextual Ads - These are ads that are displayed throughout the text of your blog. If you look closely through my pages you will see links that are double underlined. These are actually ads and if you hover over them, a little ad-box will pop up. The contextual ad company will pay for clicks on the links or the ad-box.
Intelitxt - The first major company to offer this type of advertising. It’s quite difficult to get an account with them unless you have over 500,000 hits per month.
Kontera - Another player in the contextual ad game. Kontera is easier to sign up for when you’re still small.
Affiliate Programs - Many bloggers sell products and services for other sites and receive appropriate commissions. There are tons of sites out there that offer free, affiliate programs including:
Amazon
eBay
Shopping.com
Text Links - Bloggers can sell links from there pages to other websites. Most bloggers that use this kind of revenue stream use a company called text-link-ads.com. Their service is free to use and their company will sell the ads for you. The sites that purchase them pay monthly, and you get paid monthly.
Direct Sales - Some bloggers sell their own products and services.
How Much Can A Person Make Blogging?
That’s really tough question to answer. Some blogs create $500,000 per year and some make $0. The amount a person can make with a blog depend on a lot of factors including:
Blogger’s Knowledge and Experience
Quality and Quantity of Blog’s Information
Marketing
Determination
Longevity
Luck (This isn’t a joke but it is of course possible to create luck.)
I think that it’s very possible to create an income in the high five and even six figures for individuals that posses the right talent and determination. If you are thinking about becoming a blogger, you should visit this article: Making Money Online - Is This Business For You?
In my opinion, blogging is the easiest of all the methods of making money online, at least for beginners. It is also a stepping stone for those wishing to move onto more difficult online, money-making methods. If you’re interested in starting a blog, you should read this: 5263 Words On Starting A Profitable Blog.
If you would like to learn more about blogging and making money online, subscribe to my full feed RSS. My RSS feed is updated daily.
Tags:blogging, blog_information, make_money_blogging, profitable_blog
Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Related Posts:10 Things Everyone Ought To Know About BloggingIt isn't easy - on the contrary it's quite difficult. You have to be pretty smart to be good ...What I Enjoy About BloggingJohnathon at SmartWealthyRich.com tagged me on a 'why do you blog' meme, which I thought was a prett...5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Blog About Blogging1. It's not that interesting. I'm really interested in SEO, so it's pretty interesting to write abou...Blogging Zoom ZoomingBlogging Zoom Top 10,000 Alexa Ranking The traffic coming to Blogging Zoom is already unbelievabl...Secret ‘Blogging Traffic Booster’ In WordPressThere is a crazy little WordPress trick that I found a while back that can really help you to get mo...Good Reads For Money MakersI've been doing a lot of reading on other sites today, and have found some really good reads that te...
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