How to Start Blogging For Money

Don't Make Unrealistic Expectations From Your Bog

I have been blogging for 2 years and based on my observation and also experience the biggest mistake committed by most bloggers is unrealistic expectations. A lot of bloggers expect the traffic to pour into their blog and they believe they will start printing money. Well, due to these unrealistic expectations a lot of bloggers abandon their blogs within 6 months. When you decide to blog, you need to prepare for a long race. You need to be prepared to work for 1-2 years to see any positive results. If you decide to blog for money, you should probably never start a blog. This is not the field for anyone who wants to make quick money. If you want to make a lot of money, do something else but never blog. You should also never attempt to blog if you are not passionate about writing. Blogging is basically about writing. Blogging calls for multiple skills. You need to be a good writer, digital marketer, and SEO expert. If you are not good at writing, marketing and SEO, you should probably never start a blog. You cannot succeed as a blogger if you do not have any skills and expertise in these area.

Blog Language: Do You Have to Blog in the English Language?

If you want to blog, you don't have to necessarily choose English if this is not your first language. You can blog in your own language, there is absolutely no problem. However, if you plan to make money, you might have to see what are the monetizing options for the blogs in your language. Go to AdSense and see if your chosen language is accepted or not? Adsense does not support many languages, well it does not support my language, that's why I started blogging in English. If you are blogging in English as a second language, it is very likely that your English writing is not very good (unless you are a university graduate in English language and literature), In that case, a language app like Grammarly comes very handy. While using a free version of Grammarly has many limitations, you can still benefit from the free version. The language and grammar suggestions given by grammarly browser extension can be very helpful. If you are here to stay for long (want to blog for a long time), you should also consider attending English language class as well as writing class. These classes will help you grow s a blogger and writer.

Generating Revenue: Why Traffic Matters

Traffic is the main reason why you are not making money. I get about 30 thousand monthly visits on my website and make just about $100 (via adsense, adhitz, a-ads, infolinks, and amazon). If my website is able to generate 100 thousand monthly traffic, I would probably make at least $300 per month. So, the key to making money from your blog is traffic. Based on my experience, I can say you need at least 500 daily visits to see 50 cents to $1 daily earning (however, this is not a guaranteed earnng). You need traffic from reputed sites like google, bing, facebook, twitter, pinterest, etc. If your traffic is coming from traffic exchange sites, you will not earn anything. 

Sometimes you don't make money even when you are receiving good traffic. That's because your content does not have focused keywords. If you are running a contextual advertising solution like adsnese, you need focused keywords so that relevant ads are shown. When your site displays relevant ads, the chances of getting ad clicks are increased by many times. If you are running CPM ads, you need traffic from tier 1 or at least tier 2 counties. That's because a lot of advertising networks do not recognize traffic from tier 4 and tier 5 countries.

If you want to blog if you want to build traffic on your blog if you want to make money on your blog, choose a topic that gets high volume traffic and has a high CPC rate. High volume traffic means the topic keyword getting more than 5k search hits per month. High CPC is the topic that gets high bids from the advertisers. Now, you might ask what if I have no knowledge on the topic that is gets high volume traffic? Well, you can look for the second best option or even the third or fourth-best option.

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