How to Blog For Money

Blogging is profitable. I am a blogger and every month I receive payment form advertisers. However, to make your blogging profitable you need skills in multiple areas and you need to work hard. Blogging pays well but it is not possible to make immediate income through your blog. It might take years before you will be able to make money from your blog. If you are patient, you can make money and even build a business through a blog

How to Start Your First Blog?

Even though you should ultimately build your own self hosted blog, it is not a good idea to start with a self hosted blog. There are a couple of reasons why this is not a good idea. One, it is very difficult to rank your blog and blog posts on search engines. It is very difficult to bring traffic on your self hosted blog. It costs money to run a self hosted blog and for newbie, this can be challenging. So, what option do we have if we want to start our first blog? Well, begin by blogging on free blogging sites and content aggregator sites. You can start on Hubpages, Medium, Vocal, Publish, etc. There are many benefits, one, you make money, two, you grow your audience. Then finally when you have built readership, start your own blog.

How to Create a Blog on a Low Cost

You can create a blog for free but when you are running a free blog you will have difficulty in getting ranked on search engines, building traffic, monetizing the blog, and generating revenue.

Creating a self-hosted blog costs money, you need money for the domain and hosting. However, there are ways to launch a blog for a low cost.

Register a domain (it costs less than $8 for a dot com), create a blogger account, and then map your domain with your blogger account. By doing this you will be using Blogger’s hosting platform to launch a blog with a custom domain.

There are also hosting companies that offer free domains if you buy their hosting plan. For instance, by paying around $35 for a shared hosting plan for iPage, you get a domain for free.

If you still cannot buy a domain, your dream of creating a website does not end. You can use a free domain and free hosting.

How to Build Content on Your Blog

A blog is basically a content site. In order to build traffic from social media or even search engines, your blog needs to have a lot of content, your blog needs to be updated with fresh content regularly. If you are already a blogger, you will understand how difficult it is to build content on your blog. However, there are a couple of methods that can help you build content.

Guest posting: You can open your blog for guest posting. A lot of people are willing to write for free provided they are allowed to share their website link. You can even find a lot of people willing to write for free just for exposure.

Muli-author blog: This is another easy way to build content. You can open your blog for multi-author blogging. In case you don’t find good writers willing to write on your blog, you can even pay some cash for your writers, or offer to share revenue for regular writers.

The Easiest Way to Make Money From a Blog

Even though a lot of people will tell you that you can make money through blogging, you will discover that it is one of the most difficult methods to make money when you start blogging. However, there is a comparatively easier method to make money from your blog.

Create a multi-author blog

A multi-author blog is a blogging site where there are many contributors as opposed to a single author. There are numerous benefits of having a lot of authors on your blog

Your site will be updated regularly with fresh content

Your authors will bring their own readers from social sites

You will also get more traffic from search engines because of fresh content and a lot of content

The authors will read fellow writers' articles, thus creating a lot of internal traffic.

The authors will comment on fellow writers' articles, thus creating a lot of engagement.

Traffic is the blood and bone of a blog and when you have a lot of writers on your blog, generating traffic will become much easier.

Tips on Revenue Generation on Your Blog

You can monetize your blog through network ads, affiliate ads, product sales, ad space sell, etc. However, these methods will bring you revenue only when you have traffic.

In order to build traffic, you need to improve your search engine ranking by implementing strategies like adding high-traffic but less competitive keywords on your title, subtitle, content body, description, tags, etc. You will also have to share your website and post links on other websites that are ranked higher than yours.

Build followers on social media and start posting your links on social media. There are two major benefits, one, you get traffic, and two, you get social signals. Social signals work just like backlinks.

The more traffic you have on your blog, the better your revenue. However, you need to remember your traffic should come from reputed sources, otherwise, there will be no conversion. No traffic conversion means, no revenue. Traffic conversion means visitors are engaging with the ads on your blog.

How to Use Blogs To Maximize Your Earning

Blogging and monetizing your blog with affiliate ads is one of the best ways to make money online. On your blog, you can not only run ad networks like google adsense and infolinks but also run affiliate ads like Amazon and clickbank to make money. The best thing about blogging for money it is low cost, you do not have to spend a lot of money. Interestingly, yo can even build your business on a blog by creating shops in your blogs

Blogging becomes profitable only when you are able to build substantial traffic.  A successful blog is not about how many posts you have and how long you have been running the blog but rather the quality of your blog post and the search engine ranking of your blog posts. If you have managed to build a blog with some traffic, you can maximize your earnings through multiple methods. Running ads and promoting products are the most common methods but you can also do sponsor posts, sell ad space, create a shop page on your blog and do dropshipping, print on demand or sell from your inventory.

How to Sell Advertising Space on Your Blog

Even though running ads and promoting affiliate products are common ways to make money from a blog, you can also sell ad space on your blog and make money along with adsense and Amazon. Your blog can become advertising space for other businesses. You can sell advertising space on header, footer, sidebar, or even inside the post. You can even publish a sponsored post for advertiser. You will be able to sell advertising space only when you have a lot of traffic. A lot of advertising markets want at least 30k monthly traffic.

Profiting from a blog means you are making a lot of money. You can make a lot of money only when you get a lot of traffic. This can happen only when your blog is highly ranked on search engines and you have done proper digital marketing to bring people to your site. If you have a huge traffic, no matter what kind of monetization method you are using, either adsense, amazon or selling your own products, you can always be on a profitable side

What Topics Are Good For Blogging

If you want to blog, you need to blog on topics that you like and the topics you know very well. If you enjoy travelling and have travelled to a lot of places, travel blogging can be a good idea. If your interests are in cooking and if you can write recipe articles, you can concentrate on a recipe blog. On your recipe blog, you can publish about traditional and ethnic recipes which are very popular these days. If your interests are in gardening, you need to work on this topic. The best topic is always the topic that you have command over.

What to do If Your Blog Fails?

Starting a blog requires money, what if your blog does not generate any revenue, and you have to spend money on domain and hosting renewal every year and also spend money, time and effort on marketing, SEO, and content creation? It might not be possible to continue to run a blog if you are not many any money? Well, you have a couple of options. The first one is to sell through website marketplace like Flippa. Some people might find value in your blog? Second option is to shut down your blog and put your domain on sale. Third option is organize a crowdfunding campaign and ask people to support you.

Common Mistakes to Avoid if You Are Blogging

Some common mistakes committed by new bloggers are:

Poor interface

Poor user experience

Slow-loading website, etc.

Interface is the overall look of the website. You need to improve the aesthetic value of your website to improve the interface. Use colors and themes that give a better look to your website. Use plugins and add-ons to improve your website look.

Visitors will have a poor experience on your site when they cannot find pages and posts easily because you do not have an easy navigation menu on your site. You need an easy-to-navigate menu. Your menu should show important pages on your website such as Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, Contact, and About Us. Your posts should be categorized according to topics and should be easily found via the menu.

You can use images and graphics to make your post look appealing, however, you also need to avoid using too many images, embedded videos, flashy banners, etc. Too much media will increase your page size and thus decrease your page loading speed.