Having a blog is your opportunity throw your voice into the wind and have it travel around the world. Subjects that you can opine about are virtually unlimited. Describe your kid's first birthday or give away your grandma's secret cake recipe, but don't tell grandma. Your blog can be all about you and your interests or conversely some famous movie star or politician that you are zealously following online. Whatever it's about, after your blog is up, chances are that you are paying ISP and or hosting fees for throwing your powerful voice into the wind. So how about making it pay for its own weight?
Writing diaries and journals has been a popular activity since paper and pen were readily available. So when the internet rolled around, it only made sense that writers put their words on the computer. These diaries or journals weren't called blogs until Joran Barger phrased the term "weblog." It was through a simple joke from a blogger, Peter Merholz that cut weblog into we blog. Other bloggers began picking up the word blog and soon it spread like wildfire.
Bloggers were largely ignored as a force to be reckoned with until a specific televised event had critics up in arms. Some remarks made by 2002 Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, not shown by the media, were heavily criticized by bloggers. In fact bloggers made such a terrific din online about issues that the mainstream media had missed, that it raised a controversy at a national level which wound up with a very wounded and chastised Senator Lott stepping down unhappily from his lofty position.
It wasn't just politics that bloggers were interested in. Dan Rather, the news anchor of CBS, reported about President Bush's military record. The validity of the documents presented was called into question by bloggers. In depth research revealed the documents to be forged and the "rather popular" Dan Rather was fired over the incident. CBS was forced to issue an apology.
Some bloggers have a hard time keeping fresh content in their blogs or other activities come up that steal away their time. When this happens, they often put their blogs along with the domain name up for sale. This is where you can make money without actually having to write a blog. You can buy these lower priced blogs, fix them up a little just like you would for a renovation on an inexpensive house and then resell them for a profit.
The goal of many advertisers is to get customers to buy their products. To do this, they spend millions on advertising. You can profit from those advertising dollars by allowing those advertisers to place ads in your blog. Ad revenue sites such as Google Adsense, and Adbright can help you start earning ad dollars very quickly. Some think that the trick is to pick ads that fit the blog content, however in reality Google scans your blog and knows what kind of content ads to place there already.
The great thing about ads is that you don't need to constantly monitor your blog to get them. Visitors click whenever they want. Once the ads are in place, the residual income is yours to enjoy. There is no need to rotate them because the ad-services do this chore for you.
Affiliate marketing is one of the most powerful tools for generating income for your blog. Basically, you use your blog to sell someone else's products for a percentage of the sales. Usually, the best products to put nice pretty "affiliate tagged" images of on your blog are those that are related to your blog topic. Your enthusiasm for the related topic will help the product to sell itself to the customers. And as a bonus for helping to keep your blog interesting, you can get great graphics that are not **just pretty pictures**.
Some of the affiliated marketing sites you can look at are Commission Juncton, and LinkShare. Linkshare has a one time cost that is a little expensive, however most of Commission Junction is free, and clickbank the massive info marketplace is definitely free. These groups have a massive variety of products for you to choose from. Your blog can be the platform to showcase related products that sell themselves easily.
Cluttered ads on a blog are particularly unattractive to potential customers. A nice mix of valuable content combined with related product ads is your best bet at getting your product sold. Try not to put too many different classifications of products together. This can make your blog awkward looking and turn off some potential buyers. Another tip, the more focused the topic of your blog is, is the more money you will make from Google's adsense should you choose to use this easy option. Blogs that talk about everything under the sun, tend to have audiences that are searching and not buying. Blogs that focus on Polish Camera Lenses or light weight racing bicycles or dating in afghanistan ( note how specific these topics are ) tend to have audiences that are far more likely to buy or purchase something and Google and others are well aware of this distinction.
Traffic is the big key to making money from your blog. The more traffic you get to your site, the more money you can potentially make. Some things you can do on your own, like having family and friends help. You can also share links and make comments, pasting your link everywhere you can. Promote your blog through social networks as well.
Yahoo and MSN search engines prioritize blogs. To keep your blog on top, keep adding new content. Alert your readers to new content by submitting your blog to many of the ping services available. New content will automatically send a ping/alert to the 100-200 search engines particularly if you have added more ping services than the default rpc.pingomatic.com that is set up in your blog writing options area. This will re-prioritize your blog to higher levels in the search engines.
The power of a blog can be extraordinary. Most of us who have blogs update them once or twice a month, oblivious to the fact that there are others who are earning tremendous 6 and 7 figure amounts from their blog. At some point in time, most of us have heard of these few geniuses and have even tried a few things to see how we can monetize our blogs. Unfortunately most of us have failed or just not made more than a few dollars monthly. The truth is that sometimes a few simple changes can both increase traffic exponentially and also create a steady income of $50 to $100 dollars daily on autopilot, which most of us would find to be quite fantastic. What kind of changes would those be? Click below to find out.
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