How To Make Money With Your Blog

I’m sure you are already familiar with a blog and you are aware that some people are making money with it. Anyway, to those who are not familiar with it yet, a blog is a website filled with articles, reviews, or journal-style writing organized in a chronological date-based way and is often updated with content called “blog posts”. Mostly, the latest blog post will be shown at the top of the blog. Blogs are incredibly easy to get started and maintain with little technological experience.

Someone who blogs is called a “blogger”. Bloggers make money from their blogs both directly and indirectly. Successful bloggers usually do a combination of both.

How to Make Money Directly from Your Blog

Direct means of earning refers to driving revenue directly off of traffic, page views and clicks.

Affiliate Advertising

These are text links and/or banners you add to your site, which pay the publisher if a sale is made on the merchant’s site. You don’t need to have your own product to make money with affiliates. There are many affiliate sites you can join for free like Clickbank. You can sign up with Clickbank and search the Marketplace to find products you like to promote.

CPC (Cost Per Click) Advertising

These are text links and/or banners you add to your site, which pay the publisher if a site visitor clicks on the ad. One example is Google Adsense. But you need to have a website or a blog to apply with Adsense.

CPM (Cost Per Impression) or CPT (Cost Per Term) Advertising

These are banners you add to your site, which pay the publisher for every time the ad is viewed on a page (i.e., per 1000 impressions), or for a set period of time (i.e., per month).

MLM and/or Homebased Programs

These are banners or text ads displayed in your site, which earn you a commission if a visitor joins in your link.

How to Make Money Indirectly from Your Blog

Making money indirectly from your blog means to make money because of the influence your blog helps you to establish. Consultants, freelancers, speakers, coaches, and anyone who wants to promote themselves as an expert in their field can use their blog as an extremely effective marketing tool. Additionally, you can use a blog as a launchpad for creating and/or publicizing products to sell to your readers – Books, eBooks, seminars and conferences, workshops, and retail products can all be sold on a greater scale than you could without a blog.

Get Started Blogging

 The most important skills needed to be a successful blogger are copywriting, social networking, affiliate marketing, and web marketing. Knowing a little html and the ability to do a little bit of design work will help you tremendously as a blogger – but if you don’t have these skills, you can easily learn them. You can buy and register a cheap domain here and purchase an affordable webhosting.

I recommend you buy a domain from Godaddy.com and a hosting service from Hostgator.com.

After registering your domain and setting up your hosting, install WordPress in your site/domain and choose a WordPress theme to suit your niche.

There are many WordPress themes you can downloan in the net but I prefer to choose a premium theme. I can recommend you the theme I use in this blog because its simple but combines the following:

• A Google Friendly Design
• Optimal Advertising Placements
• Easy Navigation
• And An Eye-Grabbing Look

So download here the Astonishing & Eye-Grabbing Ultimate Blogging Theme/Design