Learning how to make money blogging will take time and research to create a niche that is profitable. There are many ways to make money blogging such as affiliate programs and Google Adsense. The key to a successful blog is finding a profitable topic, researching the best keywords to use and setting up the blog properly so search engines will find it.
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- Think about 3-5 topics that you know a lot about or are passionate about. Some examples are hobbies that you have, a career that you are in or some specific and miscellaneous knowledge that you have.
- Research these topics using some of the research tools such as Google Trends, Google Keyword Search Tool, Wordtracker and see if other people are searching for that topic too. If there are copiously, competitions could be hard.
- Do research on how many sites there are out there that are actually using your main keyword. Just do a regular Google Search using "quotation marks" around the specific keyword or phrase. This will tell you what you will be competing against. The idea is to find a keyword or niche that has under 10,000 results when searched for in "quotes"
- Choose a niche to create a blog about. Narrow down your niche into a specific niche. Example: Weight loss is to broad of a niche. Lose weight in two weeks is a more specific niche that you can compete in.
- Using the top keywords that you find choose a domain name that represents what solution you will be providing or what your specific topic is.
- Research different ways to make money. You can make money using Google Adsense which will require that you create a lot of high quality content on your blog using specific keywords. You can use the Google Keyword Research tool to get an estimate on how much Google is being paid for keywords by advertisers. The higher the better of course. You can also make money with affiliate programs which is promoting other people's products. When you refer people to buy products you will receive a portion of the sale.
- Research reliable blog hosts and blogging systems. You can start on one of the free systems to learn about blogging but if you are serious about making money you will want a webhost that provides reliable hosting and support. A reliable host will have daily backups and help you in setting it up. Most hosts have a system called Fantastico that will automatically set up a blog for you.
- Use a blogging system like wordpress that will create an xml sitemap for you automatically so you can submit it to search engines. This will help in getting your site found.
- Write a few posts a day or at least a few a week using some of the quality keywords you researched previously.
- Create posts that are optimized for the search engines. Use the keyword in the title of the post, the first few sentences of the post and in the body of the post
- Install plugins if you are using wordpress to further optimize your blog. You will need something that creates metatags.
- Sign up at technorati.com and claim your blog.
- Use Article Marketing to promote your blog. Write articles and post them to other blogs or article directories to get back links to your blog. This helps in getting traffic to your site as well as helps with your search engine rankings.
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Hey, this is pretty good. I didn't really understand the whole "making money with blogs" thing, but know I kinda get it. I'm going to go make a blog. Haha.
ReplyDeleteGoogle Adsense is an easy way to make money from your blog. All you need to do is add a script from Google to your website and start displaying ads.
ReplyDeleteYou will get paid for every time a user clicks on the ad. These are called CPC ads.
What is CPC? CPC stands for “cost per click.” By displaying CPC ads with Google Adsense, you receive a set fee every time an ad on your website is clicked by a visitor. The cost per click is set by the advertiser. (This is in contrast to CPM ads, where you’re paid for ad views instead of clicks. CPM means “cost per thousand impressions,” where M is the roman numeral for 1,000.)
Google Adsense is a good way to start earning money online when you are first starting out.
You can see our guide on how to monetize a WordPress blog with Google AdSense to get started, and this tutorial on how to optimize your AdSense revenue for more tips.