Elijah Potter asked:


Blogging is as popular as ever, and all indications are that blogging will remain a major part of the Internet landscape. But most bloggers do not make much money from their blogs. In this article I will discuss my ideas on how to make money blogging.

First and foremost, in order to make money blogging you must get traffic to your site. This is indeed the hardest step, and familiarty with Internet marketing is essential for success. Unless you have experience with marketing, you will probably need to get some tools on Internet marketing to help you get started. It is likely that there are quite a few marketing tactics you could employ which you are not aware of.

Some quick basic tips for getting more traffic to your blog are a) rewriting your posts and posting them on article directories, b) posting on forums with your blog in your signature, and c) submitting to blog directories and rss feeds.

Once you have managed to get some traffic to your blog, the quickest and perhaps the most easy way to make money from your blog is by using Google Adsense. These ads are very convenient since they will automatically present ads that are most relevant to your page. Do not paste Adsense ads all over the blog as this could have the unintended consequence of lowering your payout for each click. Playing them in two or three noticeable spots is probably optimal.

Along with your Adsense ads, you should definitely join some affiliate marketing programs and put up some ads to some products or services that relate to your blog. You can even review these products and recommend them if you like, but be aware that if you do this, you must provide a disclosure statement on your site stating that you provide affiliate links to products you recommend (see the new FTC rules on affiliate marketing).

Finally, when your blog achieves some popularity, many businesses will pay you to blog about their products. To find such people, visit websites such as reviewme.com.

Take your blog seriously and approach it as if you are running a business, since you are. Sometimes it helps to have a step by step guide, which many successful bloggers sell online.

Preeti girl asked:


I just come to know about blogging & publlish the same & you will earn money.
Now, I want to ask you about your experience. Its Limitations. What should I take care. Its advantages.
Almost, everything. Pls help me. Do let me know about its all aspects. I am thinking to blog on Google. IS that worth it? Is that safe? Should I do this … If NO, WHY? IF YES.. then also WHY?

What do you think on which topic should I blog?

Pls .. help me by answering me. Thanks to you all in Advance…
Hope to get valuable & honest answer which will rreally help me.

Thanks again!!!
Hi Duster!!
Thanks for your answer.
But Im not thinking for making alot of money right now. You can say I will blog twice or thrice a month & making sure whatever I will write that should be upto the mark & I know Im not that good but will try to better.

Help me in future too.
Thanks again!!!

WhoaBaby asked:


i know you can get paid for blogging by putting adds through google on your page. i already got accepted from google to use their service. iv been using livejournal.com for quit some time now and i was wondering can i get paid using that website? i know you have to add a code to the html of the website and i tried but i cant seem to get it done right.
i also signed up with blogger which is with google.
if you know any one or you yourself get paid by blogging can you tell me how? step by step? i read that people can get thorough college with that. i cant find a job and i really want to make some money to get by through college.
thanks a lot!

Brandon Hong asked:


The question “How to make money blogging” sits high on every blogger’s mind.

In fact I received many questions on “How to make money blogging” when I conducted my first webcast to answer my subscribers’ most pressing questions on Blogs and Rss.

You can make money Blogging in a number of ways, and in this article I share with you up to nine ways in which you can make money blogging.

1. Make Money Blogging by Selling Advertising Space

Before the advent of Blogs, we have e-zines and selling advertising space on ezines was a popular way to earn extra money. If you run your own Blog, you can let others advertise in your Blogs with banner ads, solo ads, sponsor ads, classifieds and so on.

Now that we have Blogs, you can repeat the same business model that e-zine publishers do, that of selling advertising space.

One popular advertising company that helps Bloggers look for advertisers is Blogads (www.Blogads.com).

Besides placing advertisers ads on your Blog, you can also make money Blogging by placing Google Adsense into your Blog.

In my “Marketing Rampage with Blogs and RSS” Videos, I show you how you can customize your Blog template to include the Google Adsense into your Blog template so that you can make money blogging.

2. Make Money Blogging by providing technical services such as Blog hosting or setting up Blog

You can also earn money blogging by providing technical services such as helping people to set up their Blogs or providing your own Blog hosting service.

One example of this is www.typepad.com . This is a Blog hosting service provider that charges a monthly fee. Typepad lets you create your Blog and they will host your Blog for you, and provide you with a number of Blog features.

3. Make Money Blogging by setttin up joint venture marketing

Joint Venture marketing is a powerful marketing strategy employed by many top online marketers.

Basically how joint venture works is this: You promote person B’s products to your subscriber and customer list, and you get a cut from whatever sale that follows from this promotion.

You can apply the principle of joint venture marketing to Blogs as well. If you have a substantial readership to your Blog, you can also promote or endorse certain products to your Blog readers and this way, and split the profits from the sales generated. This is another way to make money blogging.

4. Make Money Blogging from using the Membership model

Over time, if your blog has lots of postings and provide good quality content, you can consider turning it into a membership site and charge access for it, again giving you another avenu

5. Make Money Blogging by turning your products into

Another way in which you can make money blogging is to repackage your Blog contents into an e-book or an audio product and sell it. For example, if you run your own Podcasting show or an ‘online radio show’, you can easily compile your podcast recordings into a CD compiliation and sell it.

6. Earn Money Blogging by swapping blogs

You’ve heard of ad swapping when it comes to e-zine publishing, where publishers publish each other’s ads in their own e-zines. This way, you save on adveritising costs.

You can repeat the same model to Blogs, as swap ads on Blogs as well. So instead of paying up front, you get to save, which means more money for you to spend!

7. Earn Money Blogging by turning yoyr blog content into RSS feeds and sell it as premium feeds

Your blog contents can be turned into an RSS feed. If the content is good, you can look for web businesses that are looking for good content for related topics and sell their feed to them.

8. Make Money Blogging by well, asking!

Hey, who’s stopping you from putting a PayPal donation jar or button on your Blog? After all, there are lots of generous people out there you know.

9. Make Money Blogging as an Affiliate Marketer

Another way you can make money blogging is by promoting other people’s products on your Blog. This is also known as affiliate marketing.

In affiliate marketing, you get paid a commission when someone clicks on your affiliate link and makes a purchase. Depending on the subject of your Blog, you can recommend products that solve people’s problems.

For example, I had a subscriber who asked me how she can blog about cats and make money from blogging about cats.

I shared with her that firstly, perhaps she might want to go niche instead of targeting the broad category of “cats”, and using the example of a Persian cat, which is a niche by itself, she can start a blog on Persian cats, providing valuable information as well as recommended solutions and products to the upkeep and maintenance of Persian cats.

Zackery Lim asked:


Blogging for profits usually involve a blogging tool or platform. Blogger.com and Wordpress are two of the most popular ones. This article focus on using the former and why I do not think it is an ideal tool to use if you plan to make money blogging for the long term.

No doubt Blogger.com is a popular blogging platform which attracts thousands of people who want to start making blogs and post them on the net. However, for business savvy people, blogger may prove to be a liability instead of a tool for making money. For one, if you apply for a blogger account and use it to post affiliate links, sometimes blogger will detect these links as malicious, spam, or **** links and will automatically shut down your account. Blogger also posts your blogs to certain blog directories such as blogspot, where you cannot sell your blog or receive any earnings easily.

Google bought Blogger.com in 2003 in an anticipation of the rush of bloggers and blog posts and creation of new content. As such, Google created a different search tool called blog search. This search tool screens all blogs to its search domain, leaving other non-blog sites to be picked up by the normal Google search. In short, this means that you cannot create good back links and have a high ranking for your blogs in Google. Ultimately, blogger is not a reliable tool for search engine optimization.

Aside from these, blogger has limited plug-ins, themes, and add-ons compared to the likes of Wordpress. These perks improve your blogging experience and sometimes come in handy when posting blogs depending on your preference. Blogger may be free, but there are cases where Wordpress seems to surpass Blogger.com when you really want to earn money. Most blogging veterans do not recommend Blogger.com if earning money is the concern and would rather endorse Wordpress.

Another concern most bloggers have is the lack of control or rather the ownership of the blog. Since it is hosted on Blogger.com, you are basically building someone else’s website by adding unique content regularly. Yes, Blogger does allow you to redirect a domain to your blog but still you don’t own it.

That’s why Wordpress is much preferred because you can host it on your own server and as you build it up and attract more targeted traffic, your earnings potential will soar accordingly.