Do not worry. You need not to be a computer whiz to
make money online
from blogging. What you need to do is perseverance. This is what sets
the winners apart from the losers. You can be one of those winners by
following these five steps. Take them in order and do not skip a step
and you will succeed. Once you have one small success under your belt,
learn from it, and replicate it. This is how you will be growing your
online blogging empire! You can do it.
5 steps to make money from blogging:
Set up a blogging account
You
have websites out there like Blogger.com and WordPress.com where you
can set up an account and blog to your heart’s content. The two we just
listed are free to use. But do make sure to read their terms of use. We
know that WordPress.com does not allow affiliate Click bank links to be
placed on any of their blogs.
Of course, there are other blogging
platforms out there, but those two are the most popular. Look around
and choose one that fits your style and one that allows you to monetize
it.
If you are serious and sure that you can drag your blogging
for years after years, then you need a bit investment in terms of buying
a domain name, renting a server and installing WordPress blogging
platform (which is of course free and distributed through
WordPress.org). You can read our two articles on how to choose domain
nice names and why you should prefer a .com extension over other
extensions.
Research what people are interested about online
The
best place to start is with keyword research. You can use Google’s
external keyword research tool to find out what people are looking for
when searching Google. This will give you a wealth of information! Learn
to read in between the words. Every term is a question someone has. Try
to figure out what that is.
Write content for your intended audience
You
can also visit forums where your audience hangs out to find out what
they are talking about and any issues they have. Once you know what is
on their mind, give it to them. Give them good information and do not
try to force a sale.
Remember that blogs are for information and
not for selling. Do not let this trip you up. You might be surprised
that a good informational article can do a better at selling than an
actual sales does. Think about when you read about this wonderful
product that so and so found and it helped you tremendously. Did not you
want to know more about what it was to find out if it would work for
you? Exactly! This is what you want to accomplish with your blogs. Give
them useful information and make them thirst for more!
Find or make products that solve the problems of your audience
If
you find that many people need a solution for a certain problem, write
it down and start looking for products out there that solve their
particular problem. If you do not find one, think about creating your
own. This is the key to success. We can give a bunch of suggestion right
now. A lot of people are interested about handicrafts, embroidery and
gardening. There is really no full SEO optimized competitor blogs in
these fields at the time of writing this article. Show people how to
weave a nice table cloth for the next Christmas present for her near and
dear ones. How you will represent it, it is up to your plan! Later,
after a year, you will see you have gathered around 200 or more such
tutorials. You can publish and market a book from that. This is double
bonanza. Who will read your book will come to your site and who will
read your site will read or buy the book. We already have solution for
that idea too, you can read it.
Put affiliate links or advertisements on your blog
Once
you have found a product, you can do an Internet search for (the
product + affiliate) to see if they have an affiliate program you can
join. With affiliate links, you will be making a percentage of
commission every time someone that you sent over makes a sale. Note
that, that company must be of your choice and well reputed. Do not push
rubbish products, that might give you instant benefit, but in long term,
people will go away from you.
Now, we are coming to indirect
advertisements, such as we have in this page. There are several
measurements like Pay per click, Cost per impression etc. Practically,
you need a good number of pageviews and visitors to see any monetary
gain. To us, it is about 1000+ page views with around 500 visitors, which
really started to show the cents.
This is the last step and it is the step
that will make you money. You would not get just one payday, but
several. This is what is called passive income. What you have just
created will continue to work for you until the day you decide to take
it down. Can you see the potential? If you continue to grow, the bigger
your income can get. The numbers that you might see other Internet
marketers spewing is not just a dream, but it is a reality. We have
written many times, again writing it : you must write unique articles.
Unique means, simply do not copy paste from other sites. That's it.
