Tuesday, March 17, 2009

How to Make Money with your Blog

Before I get started, I want to tell you right off the bat... there is no easy way or special formula for earning money with your blog. Just like any job that pays, you need to expect to put time into your blog in order to see any revenue.

Most people that blog won't see a problem with that... because they are already putting in the time performing the single most important task..... Blog entries.

If you want to earn money with your blog, you need to post an entry EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Now, how can you make money? There are really 2 ways, you can sell a tangible items, or you can sell advertising.

Digital items or electronic items are very easy to sell on blogs. All you need is a product, (ie. Electronic book, digital photographs, music) a Payloadz account (http://www.payloadz.com/ is a method of selling digital downloads) and a Paypal account (I'm sure you know, that http://www.paypal.com/ is a method of receiving payments online)

If you don't have a product, you should consider the second method for making money, Advertising.

Again, there is really no easy way to make money.... but there are proven methods that work.... or don't work. Adwords is popular because it takes the keywords from your blog entry and displays ads for items that are similar. If you are using a free blogging platform like www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com they have automated the implementation of adwords. That means, once you sign up for the Google Adwords account... and following your blogging hosts instructions to ad the widget... your work is done.

I have not had much luck with Adwords. My blogs don't get the traffic that is required to make advertising money in that way. However, if you are writing to a particular niche... the amount of traffic... is not as important as the quality of traffic.

However, the second option, affiliate advertising is a different story.

In essense affiliate advertising allows you to find products you trust and enjoy... and earn money promoting them. For instance, I recently purchased the program Rob Benwell - Blogging to the Bank


I have been blogging for years and was only making marginal income.... it wasn't until I read this 54 page ebook that I realized what mistakes I was making.

This is really a great product, and as a result I have a great time promoting it and earn a commission each time it sells.

If you are interested in investigating affiliate earnings, there are several places you should visit... www.clickbank.com and www.cj.com both of these websites are basically warehouses for companies that will pay you a commission for people that purchase items by clicking through your site.

In closing... it's important to keep writing. It's important to enjoy your topic, so that you can engage your reader... and it's important to find products that you are excited about so that you can promote them honestly on your blog.

Have a great day... keep blogging.
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