[Guide] How To Make Money Using a Blog

[0lgi]

Many friends have asked me whether we can make money from blogs or not. I told them you can make money even by selling lemonade at the corner of your school but the main problem is that you must have passion and time for what you will be blogging. Many people fail because they are starting blogs just to make money , they are writing 2 or 3 articles and they are using different affiliate links and other advertisement programs to catch any cents.

You must know that in order to make some money , at least you should know what you are talking about and not post just crap in order to increase number of posts in your blog.
Many newbies on the internet doesn't even know how to get a free blog online so in this article I will explain step by step what you have to do in order to make some cash from your blog

There are 2 big blog providers online which are

* WordPress.com
* Blogger.com

- WordPress has a lot of templates and widgets so you can use for your blog , you can create categories and you can even purchase more space and other cool features if you upgrade
- Blogger was purchased by Google so the best part is that you can get accepted to Adsense through Blogger. The bad part is that you cannot create categories but you can give Labels to your posts as they were categories (Im doing it)

You must know that creating a blog is really simple but updating it everyday with new and unique content is really a hard work (its not so hard if you speak about your favorite niche like I'm doing) So content will be the judger whether you will be a successful blogger or not, if you will update it once a week chances will be very low but if you will post good and unique content every day then you will be in the right road

So ok so far , you have created the blog , you chose your template and you are posting some articles. You will ask how will you get the traffic ?

There are tons of ways to drive traffic to a blog , I will explain some of the techniques I'm also using

* Register at FeedBurner.com
* Register at TechnoRati.com
* If you are a member of DigitalPoint Forum add your RSS Feed to your profile (it will be shown under your username everytime you post a new reply or thread)
* Write some unique articles and upload them at Article Directories (See this post for more explanations)
* Register at MyBlogLog.com
* Add your blog url to your signatures in every forum you are (if possible add also an avatar with your blog's address)
* Add your blog url to high pr directories

So with 7 easy and free ways you can start seeing some increases in your traffic (Note that if you dont post regularly your traffic may decrease again)

Now I know that all of you are thinking , how will we be making money from our blogs ? Its really simple but I would strongly recommend use just 2 or maximum 3 advertisments and do not put the advertisements from the beginning (wait until you have some traffic then you may add them) Make sure your advertisements and other widgets are like your template so you wont have a lot of contrast.

Here I'm listing the ways how you can make money from your blog once you have some decent traffic and some readers

* Adsense (CPM & PPC which pays differently for each niche)
* Text-Link-Ads (Get Money if someone buys a link to your site from TLA)
* ReviewMe (Get paid for different reviews you make , more traffic you have more you will earn)
* PayPerPost (same as ReviewMe but it has more advertisers in their network)
* Money4Banners (Doesn't matter if you have a small or big blog , you get 10$ when you sign up and 5$ every month just to display their advertisment
* WidgetBucks (this seems to be most promising program which pays very high rates but nobody has received any payment so far as its a new company)

So I'm listing just these 6 ways but if you would be interested on others feel free to contact me and I will share my experience with you.

Make sure you use proper keywords for each article and make sure your blog structure is like :

http://yourblog.com/this-is-how-your-blog-url-must-be.html

and not like :

http://yourblog.com/2007/2425.html (SEO Purposes)

Share your comments for this article if you found anything special !
This article was created for some friends who asked me how can we make money from blogs and I believe that an advanced webmaster knows almost everything explained here

SOURCE : www.olgizenullari.com

 

[Daniel]

I prefer blogger than wordpress. A lot of script available in blogger but not in wordpress.

Whao, seriously you think? I've never seen a platform (talking about Wordpress blog script, not Wordpress.com hosted here) with more ready made plugins than WP...

Edit: Just realised it was referring to Wordpress.com blogs... which I can't vouch for (not tried it)...

Never mind me.

 

[abdostar]

very nice post, when i start my 1st blog, it was a quite hard experience, i started with blogger and just using adsense, the most important thing is have unique and good content, also as you said to promote your blog, and take care of your visitors (the good ones, an the bad ones )

 

[Dirky47]

thank you for your post! i am motivated anyways in earning more money at my blog. thanks!

 

[axolotl]

re. Attachment

Sorry for bumping, but as Agar says, the attachment is unavailable. Is someone able to host this txt file?
Thanks in advance!

Did anyone ever set up a new link to the (now blank) attachment ?
If so, post link or PM list ?

Thanks

 

[Keral_Patel]

To find some updated directories lists you can go to http://addurl.nu

Thanks.

 

[Phare]

Make sure you use proper keywords for each article and make sure your blog structure is like :

http://yourblog.com/this-is-how-your-blog-url-must-be.html

and not like :

http://yourblog.com/2007/2425.html (SEO Purposes)

In WordPress, how do you make your URLs like that? Could anybody tell me how?

Thanks.

 

[hawkaw]

In WordPress, how do you make your URLs like that? Could anybody tell me how?

Thanks.

The easiest way to do this is to download "All in One SEO Pack" for Wordpress.

You can also specify a custom structure under "Permalink Settings" in your WordPress-admin panel. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it should be something like

/%postname%.html

 

[amcdonald]

I have made more money on blogs than on parking, but not on domain sales!

 

[Phare]

The easiest way to do this is to download "All in One SEO Pack" for Wordpress.

You can also specify a custom structure under "Permalink Settings" in your WordPress-admin panel. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it should be something like

/%postname%.html

Thanks.

+rep added

EDIT: Hey how do you change the the title tag on your browser? At first mine was "Halo 3 News, Information, Pictures and Video" before I installed that plugin, but now it's back to "Mozilla Firefox." The <title> tag doesn't seem to work anymore?

 

[godfly]

list all directory

I'm interested to see mee2k7 list ( list-dir.txt ) but i can't view it for some reasons.. i already tried ie and ff.. is it still there?

 

[hawkaw]

EDIT: Hey how do you change the the title tag on your browser? At first mine was "Halo 3 News, Information, Pictures and Video" before I installed that plugin, but now it's back to "Mozilla Firefox." The <title> tag doesn't seem to work anymore?

Sorry for the late reply, Phare. This can be done in the admin interface of Wordpress under "Settings -> All in One SEO -> Home title". By default, this plugin only displays the page title, not the description, so if you want to have the description on every subpage you must do this manually by adding %description%:

... | %blog_title% %description%

 

[Jenie0109]

Very helpful post.. Thanks for sharing.. :D

 

[atomicca]

wow great,,

permission 2 bookmark :D

 

[husanet]

thk you for such a help full post

 

[bamaboy]

I own a blog and i haven't earned much yet.
This article has every potential for a blog to start earning.

I think you got all the best ways into one place.
Good Job, well written. Thx

 

[pithu7]

Nice tips. Thanks for sharing. It was really a good one to get started

 

[ajay0547]

If you purpose of blogging is to earn money, then don't do it at all

 

[Smifunk]

Permalink Structure

If you purpose of blogging is to earn money, then don't do it at all

For Wordpress you want to use this Permalink structure for the best SEO of your pages/posts (under settings/permalink settings:

/%postname%/%post_id%/

 

[mhiktrice]

thanks for this. And yeah changing the url structure really make big differences especially to seo. And also install the sitemap generator.

 

[neeru.seo]

Thanks for sharing it. It is really a good one to get started with blog.

 

[tdave]

Thanks for explaining "How To Make Money Using a Blog"to us.

 

[redshift]

If hosting wordpress is it best to go to wordpress.com and request a user name?
is this necessary to do first?

 

[thedreamer09]

good guide , but i want to know whether you can use adsense on wordpress , i think it is against their tos

 

[kmamaji]

Thanks the tutorial was awesome and of course really helpful, for me it was helpful don’t know others opinion about it.

Thanks for the advice, will do. Though, i just did more research on blogs and saw so many of them being automated and are making money. I'm still looking into it :td:

For you I suggest to go with blogger.com it’s much easier to understand for a new one and if any questions come in mind related to how to manage or organize just go through bloggers official blog bloggerindraft.blogspot.com

 

[somebody_rb]

thanks for the info