Not everybody wants to make money from their blog. Lots of us just want to keep an online blog for the fun of it. But if you do decide that you want to turn your blog into your own personal ATM there are cetain steps you will have to take to make that happen because making money from your blog, while it can be done, is not for the faint hearted.
Many people make hundreds of dollars a day from blogging. Some might keep one super huge blog and others may have hundreds of small blogs each making a few cent or couple of dollars a day. Everyday there are more and more ways to turn your words into cash through your blog and we’ll look at a couple of them in a moment.
But first, take note of this …unless you are very very very lucky, your blog will not make money without A LOT of SERIOUS EFFORT from you. I’m taking about a couple of hours a day or more everyday posting fresh content to keep your readers interseted and coming back, promoting your blog around the Internet and keeping track of your earnings and what is working or not!
So you won’t make money from your blog if …
- You neglect it … posting seldom irregularly
- Write dull or boring content that sends your visiting running a mile from your blog
- If you don’t put in time promoting it, hooking up with other bloggers, doing link exchanges, guest post, social booking and more.
- If you expect it to make $100’s a day. Not to say it is impossible … just not likely.
Once you do decide to make money from your blog, you’ll need to decide what the best way of monetizing your blog for you content and particular audience. This can take a lot of trial and error so the trick is to experiment until you get it right.
Some of the most obvious way to churn cash from your blog is by places advertising on your blog. This could be in the form of goolge adsense, which is probably one of the most popular forms of monetizing content out there. You see the ads right at the top beside this post. Every time a visitor clicks on your ads you get paid a few cent or dollars depending on what the ads are for.
Other popular ways to make money from you blog including selling a product relevant to what it is you are writing this. This is called affiliate marketing and means that when you sell a product for somebody else, they pay you a percentage of the sale as a thank you!
