Wednesday, 10 March 2010
Setting Up a Blog to Start Making Money Online
How to Turn Your Blog Into a Real Online Money Maker
Many people are making money from their blogs while at the same time having loads of fun from blogging.
Blogs, which are just website logs shortened to "blogs", have evolved into popular & powerful tools for individuals to not only
share their activities, interests & hobbies with the world, but more importantly to monetize them into becoming income generating machines.
So assuming you want to create your blog to do with your favorite sport, it still begs the question: "how can you make money from a blog"?
Following are the steps to setting up & monetizing your new blog...
5 Steps to Setting Up Your Free Money Making Blog
Setting Up Your Blog - For Free
The first thing to do is to go straight on over to Blogger where you will be able to set
up your own blog for free.
You will find that is very easy to set up & can be customized to the theme you prefer for your blogging business.
Furthermore Blogger is owned by Google & therefore a reputable application which allows users to place advertisements and so on which
is an important aspect of the money making part of your blog which we will examine below.
To help you get started quickly have a look at these
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Decide On Your Blog's Topic or Niche
The topic and focus of your website is a result of a number of factors to do with your own interests, skills, resources & your
business model which in this case should be one of profit.
So bearing in mind that your aim is to make money from your blog you need to ensure that your blog's topic is one that has a certain
amount of popularity
For instance if photography is something you are passionate about you could center your business around photography & selling
photographic equipment.
Just remember whatever niche you decide on must have the following two components;
- a large demand, ie a niche that is popular
- a market, ie hungry buyers
In other words if you can sell the stuff that masses of people want & are already buying you are on your way to online success
Whatever you choose, whilst it would be a good idea not to get into something that is too popular & therefore too competitive it would
also be of no use to promote something for which there is absolutely no demand or interest, like selling ebooks on the mating habits of the
north sea clam.
Create Lots of Great Content
Once you have idnetified your blog's niche you need to start creating great & compeeling content for it.
Furthermore the information you put on your blog should be original & informative to ensure that your visitors will keep
on coming back & recommending your blog to others.
With lost of great content you will attract more traffic and more engaged visitors which will increase your chances of
getting your visitors to perform one of the desired actions with regards to the monetizing your blog.
Without useful information or other benefits, your blog visitors will lose interest fast & close your blog's window before you can say knife.
Ways to Make Money From Your Blog
Here are some easy ways to monetize & earn loads of cash from your blog;
- Adsense
Sign up with Google's Adsense program which is a popular &
lucrative way of monetizing blogs.
Once Google has approved your account you will be able to copy & paste a few lines of code into your blog which will then serve up
advertisements related to the topic of your blog's page.
So when your blog visitors see these ads they are likely to click on them for more information or products to do with your blog's content.
Every legitimate click will earn you anything from a few cents to a few dollars which can add up to hundreds or thousands of dollars a month.
- Affiliate Marketing
This is how many very wealthy online marketers have made their money.
Affiliate marketing is in essence selling stuff for a commission.
You could obviously sell your own products but you would then have the onus of shipping, billing, collecting the payments etc. but if you
read below you will find out how to sell on online without incurring any of the hassles just mentioned.
- Donations
If you have a really good blog with valued benefits you could just ask for donations - blog owners do actually do it.
How to Sell Stuff From Your Blog?
Once you've decided on the products & services you want to sell from your blog, you can sign up with the affiliate networks that offer these
products which you can choose from & sell for a commission without having any of the hassles of shipping, billing or worrying about payments -
the affiliate network will handle all of that & pay you the commission for each sale.
You can sign up for free with any or all of the following popular affiliate networks;
So once you have your products with your affiliate ID embedded into their links you can start marketing them.
A quick word on your affiliate link - this is the link that when clicked on will direct the site visitor to the vendor's
landing page where they will hopefully make a purchase & you will be credited with the commission as you will be identified
as the referrer via your affiliate ID embedded in the link.
Your affiliate link could look something like this: http://AFFID.vendor-site-name.com
You could market your chosen products with a Google Adwords campaign which many internet marketers use very successfully, however for the
uninitiated it could cost a lot of money for very little reward.
To find out how to combine the power of a Google Adwords campaign with ClickBanks Marketplace get a copy of the very popular
Google Profits guide here »
Not only can Blogging provide you with a decent income, but it can also give you the freedom that so many of us search for...
..you can work from home whenever you want & especially when you feel inspired to do so - you also get to spend your time doing something
for your personal growth & enjoyment.
For more information & tips on how to make real money from blogging, find out here
How to Turn Your Blog Into a Real Online Income Earner with these 5 Keys to Making Money From Blogging »
PS.
If you are still wondering whether blogging can really be a lucrative form of online business, you should read
How One Dumb Little Automated Blog Earned $14,480.13 in One Month »
This should allay any fears that you may have about not being able to generate a more than decent income with your blog.
