You have been blogging your fingers off for a few years now, and despite the ego rush of watching your hits soar, you are wondering what is the point – or rather, how do I make some cold hard cash from this thing. You will need:
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Blog
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Dedication
Optional:
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Good PageRank
Step 1
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Focus your blog. Blogs that make money are blogs with a specific market and a good PageRank. Be passionate about your subject and generate as much traffic as you can. If you are obsessed, others will be as well. Don’t expect to get rich from your blog – at least not right away. Some popular blogs report more than $40,000 a month in earnings, but unless you’ve got millions of visitors already, don’t expect to quit your day job any time soon.
Step 2
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Selling advertising is the top money-making method with a blog. AdSense established by Google, will place relevant ads from advertisers on your blog. If your reader clicks on the link, you get paid. Exactly how much depends on your traffic. The upside to this method is that it is very easy, but downside is that you don’t choose who advertises or what you get paid.
Step 3
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Some ad providers help you choose the advertisers you want, and give you the right to set the price. The upside to this method is that you are in control. The downside is if you set the prices too high or are too picky about advertisers, you won’t make any money.
Step 4
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Get paid to write a product review that relates to your blog’s topic. Some sites will match you with a product. Reviews are usually short and don’t have to be positive, but you will have to disclose you are getting paid. Stay credible, be honest, and don’t post too many paid reviews. If you look like a marketing show, you lose readers and money.
Step 5
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Sell merchandise. Suppose your blog has a really cool logo or you’ve developed some catch phrase that is caught on, put it on a T-shirt or coffee cup. A bunch of sites would do this for you. They earn the base price and you earn the markup.
Step 6
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Get an affiliate program. There are some popular sites on this. This works by having a specific product advertised on your blog, and if readers follow your link and buy it, you get a percentage of the sale.
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Affiliate programs are the better routes for newer blogs to make money, since it won’t be so crucial to have thousands upon thousands of clicks before you get a cheque.
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Many bloggers find they can earn money from their blog because it steers customers to a service they provide or to a product they are selling. Think of it as an ad for you.
Step 8
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There are few sites that will put a donation button on your blog. You are blogging your hat off, why not ask the audience to toss a coin into your hat?
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Did you know? The number of blogs doubles every 6 months.
