Many of you have asked me how to make money online, simply
by maintaining a blog. Well, I have listened to your questions and just like my
walk-through on easily writing a research paper, I am going to attempt in at
least putting you in the right direction. Continue reading to find the 12 steps to make money online easily by blogging. If my instructions are unclear or you
need help in any way, please leave me a comment at the bottom, on twitter, or
even Google+. I would love to know how I can make someone’s life easier.
Maintaining a blog is a great way to earn money while
working at home. One thing that many people tell me is that they don’t have
anything to write about. To be honest, that is perfectly fine. Topics come much
easier than you would think. All you have to do is turn on the TV, look at a
magazine, or hold a conversation with a random person for more than 10 seconds
to generate an opinion on something, and the best part about a blog is that
your opinions don’t even have to be completely supported by facts.
1. The first step in starting a blog is to pick a blogging
platform. Personally, I like Google’s Blogger because it easily integrates
with Google+, YouTube, and Adsense. They make it very easy to set up and
customize your blog as well. Click here for 9 reasons to use Google for all your blogging needs.
2. After you set up your blog, you should sign up for a
Google Adsense account. If I remember correctly, it doesn’t take long and you
don’t even have to give them financial information right away (you don’t get
paid until you make at least $100US).
3. Integrate the blog with your Adsense account. To do this,
click on the “Earnings” tab on the left of your blog’s dashboard and follow the
instructions. As long as you use the same Google account for everything, it is
very simple to do.
4. Edit the layout of your blog to maximize your ad-earning
potential. The best places to put ads are where your readers will see them,
even though it makes you feed obnoxious. I recommend putting them on the top,
side, between articles, and on the bottom. The thing is, Google only allows you
to display three ads per page, and if you promote the link to just one of your
posts there won’t be multiple articles to squeeze an ad between (which is
ideal). For this reason, I added another ad position on the bottom of the page
and if it isn’t used, that is just fine. Does that make sense?
5. To get even more ad revenue from your blog, I suggest
setting up in-text ads. Those are the little links under specific words in my
articles. They are pretty unobtrusive, yet allow you to have more than the
default three ads per page. I have been using InfoLinks for a while, and I
am impressed with the performance. The only downside with going through them is
that it might take a few days for your account to be approved.
6. Now that you have your blog set up, it’s time to start blogging!
Anything that comes to your mind is fine, but you can only expect to earn a
decent amount of money if you have content that people want to view, and also
matches up with higher paying ads. Don’t just post a few articles and expect to
hit it rich, either. Make blogging a part of your routine and knock out at
least a few every week. Starting out, I would actually suggest more – once or
twice per day. Remember, one or two pictures could be the difference between
getting people to click on your link or not.
7. Now that you have blog entries, you need to find a way to
get people to see them. There are many things you can do for this. First, get a Twitter account and do whatever you can to gain followers. To start, follow
people who are into the same things you are writinTwitterFeed, that do it for you. I use it and it worg about. More than likely, they will follow you back. Stay away from #followback and internet twitter follower increasing scams. What you really want is people who pay attention to what you say and want to click the links to your blog articles. You can manually share your articles on twitter, but there are free services out there like
8. Promote your articles through your friends and family.
There is nothing wrong with sharing everything you do on Facebook, then asking
your friends to do the same.
9. Join blog search engines like Technorati so people can
find your blog. Note: Getting approval from Technorati seems to take forever.
For me, it was over a week.
10. Use services like PingOMatic, which ping your blog
from search engines like Google and Yahoo and can increase your position for
searches, also helping people find you.
11. Consider also starting a YouTube channel, where you
can also use Adsense ads to make money. The beauty behind this is that you can
then promote your videos on your blog, which gives you the opportunity to get
double the amount of ad views.
12. Finally, and probably most importantly, create a
StumbleUpon account and add the page for every post you make. You can
actually sit and watch your page views go up immediately after you do this,
which is pretty cool.
That’s pretty much it. Keep in mind that the process is very
slow at first, but if you follow these 12 steps to make money online easily by blogging, keep with it, and find your own ways to market to
current and future readers, people have gotten quite a bit of money. For other ways to make money online, check out my 4 proven ways to make money online.
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