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How To Make Money Blogging: Part 2

May 30th, 2010 No comments

Make Money Blogs: Consider The Following First!

Everyday aspiring Internet Marketers are looking to blogging as a viable way to make money online. But the ever-present question is “how do I do it?”

Answer: One blog at a time.

The prevailing temptation (as a result of massive hype) is to jump into creating a blog, slap on some AdSense ads or an affiliate link, perform a little SEO and voila… just wait for the commission checks to start flying in.

In truth, if it sounds to good to be true; it probably is.

But before you bounce, know that you can make money blogging, if you know how.

To make money blogging requires both knowledge and work your part.

First, let me make it clear that blogs don’t make money; systems do.

Blogs like any other online tool are a means to an end. To succeed you need a plan!

In other words, the notion that starting a blog in itself will somehow reap you windfall online profits is ludicrous.

Before you even start a blog you should consider:

  1. The topic of your blog? What are you going to blog about?
  2. How much time can you commit to writing and posting blog articles?
  3. Which blogging platform will you use? Will it be a free blog service like Blogger or WordPress.com or will you purchase you own domain name and hosting and use blogs powered by WordPress.org?
  4. How will you monetize your blog? Will it be with Affiliate Products, Contextual Ads, Contextual Links, Physical Products, CPA or Selling Ad Space. Or maybe you’ve decided to flip your blogs once they achieve a certain level of readership and income.
  5. Where will you get content? Research?

The choice is up to you, but it is important to think about these things before you start your blog.

The #1 Reason most bloggers fail to make money with blogs is they do not do their homework.  Your homework begins with research; niche research and keyword research.

For example, you may be interested or motivated by underwater basket weaving. But if no-one is spending money on Underwater Basket Weaving guides or products, it won’t matter how good your blog is, you’ll never make a dime.

Proper research will save you time, money and frustration.

Another major thing to consider is TRAFFIC./strong>

Traffic is the life blood of your blog. For that reason, learning how to drive traffic, targeted traffic, will mean the difference between making sales or not.

Marketing online is about numbers; Click rates, Click-Through-Rates, Conversion Rates, etc.

Which brings us to “Tracking.” Tracking your efforts and results will allow to to precisely evaluate the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.

For most bloggers, tracking is an after-thought. By the time they get around to it, if they ever do; weeks, if not months of valuable time and effort have been wasted.

So, before you start, spend some time thinking about what it is you want to accomplish and what resources (paid or free) will be needed in order for your to succeed.

How To Make Money Blogging Part 1

Next time… Part 3 Launching Your First Blog

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How To Make Money Blogging… For REAL!

April 13th, 2010 No comments

More and more, aspiring Internet Marketers are turning to blogging as a way of earning online. Most fail and the forums and places like Yahoo answers are filled with inquires about how to get it right.

The simple answer is, you make money blogging one blog at a time.

The notion that you can profit online by just launching a blog is a myth. Maybe that worked a few years ago, but blogging is now mainstream and there are literally millions of bloggers on the Internet, many of whom are online marketers selling to a common audience.

The first mistake new bloggers make, which leads to disaster, is not having a bone fide plan of attack. Without a game plan, you’re casting your efforts to the wind.

The prevailing temptation is to fall prey to hyperbolic marketing ploys that guarantee success instantly with little or no effort. (Think about the last time you achieved success at anything without hard work!?)

The fact is, anyone can make money online with blogs with some old-fashioned sweat equity, study and patience.

Before you begin thinking about “method”, you should begin with planning and research.

Here are 8 things to consider before beginning a blog.

  1. What are you going to blog about?
  2. Where will you get your information? (Are you an expert on the topic or will you have to do research in order to create relevant posts?)
  3. How much time can you devote to writing and posting to your blog?
  4. How often will you post to your blog?
  5. Will you be using free blogs (i.e.  Blogspot.com, Blog.com, WordPress.com, etc.)
  6. Will you be using domain hosted blogs (i.e. WordPress, Drupal, Xrummer)
  7. Are you technically proficient? (Do you know HTML? Can you install a WordPress Blog?)
  8. Are you familiar with C-Panel and FTP?

Once you have answered those questions, you will be in position for the next step, which is to research your niche to determine if it is profitable.

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