Making
Money via blogging is often considered as a easy piece of cake. In
fact, numerous bloggers starts their blog only to start making money.
It’s not wrong to have the motives of earning from blog but what wrong
is to expect money without any efforts (or rather I would say fewer
efforts).
Now,
some of you might raise their concerns and ask me: “Some are blogging
from long time with a lot of efforts but still they are not making
money, Why?”
Yes! I’ll be coming to each of these points through this article (& through the comments).
Most
of the times when I do write a long post, I divide it in a mini index
to give proper idea of what I’m going to write. So, here is the
structure of this article.
Making Money From Your Blog
- What’s your aim?
- Reputation of Your Blog Among Google, Social Networks & Readers.
- What are the ways to earn money from my blog?
- How much do you invest in growth of your blog?
- Golden Question – When Will I Start Making Money From My Blog?
Aim of Your Blog
What was your aim when you started blogging? Is
it that you started out of your passion for writing informative and
helpful articles or is it because you saw some random bloggers making
some earning from blog?
If it is purely out of your passion, I will say, forget about the earning.
Yes, forget about the earning and start building your blog better. Your
passion will help you to start making money. And if you’ve started your
blog purely for the purpose of earning some cash, then you’re not wrong
at all. In fact, a lot of bloggers have same sort of aim when they
begin blogging. But what you’ve to remember is, you still have to build a good blog to start making money.
So,
my point here is, whatever could be the reason, you’re perfectly right
from your side. The thing is you got to be serious and patient in both
situations.
From Avi: Pawan is completely right and I agree with his point of view. What ever your aim may be, first you’ve to put your efforts to build a better blog.
If you’ve a blog which is very popular and ranks well in it’s niche
then you’re surely going to earn a lot of money. You don’t need to worry
about making money at the initial stage because, once you’ve build up a
great blog money will simply flow to your bank account from many ways.
Reputation of Your Blog
If
you’ve started your blog recently then you’ll find it difficult to rank
for most of the small keywords. There are already thousands of sites
with better reputation and they won’t really allow you to overtake them
so easily. In order to start earning from blog, you got to have a good reputation in front of Google
(& lots of other search engines) & social networks. You must
concentrate on building a reputation before thinking of earning some
bucks from your blog.
Now,
if you’ve a well-deserved reputation for your blog and finding
difficulties in making money out of it then here are some questions that
you should ask yourself.
- Do you’ve strong link building for your blog?
- Are you writing a paid post reviews genuinely?
- Which methods you checked out for earning? Why did they fail for you?
- Do you’ve a good social followers and readership?
Ways of Making Money From Blog
There are several ways through which you can be making money from
your blog. It goes like this: If you’re able to figure out what exactly
is your niche and what exactly you need to target, you’ll be able to
pin down some methods of building your reputation and thereby earning
some hard cash.
Here are some examples of the kind of earnings that you can expect from different blog niches:
Niche – Blogging Tips, Make Money
Of
all niches present, blogging tips and certain relative niches such as
making money from marketing and SEO tips are most accepted niches by
advertisers. If you could just roll your eyes for the moment on BuySellAds.com,
you’ll find high number blogs with merely 50000 pageviews receiving
advertisement offers. The other forms of advertisements for this type of
niches are WordPress theme and plugin reviews, some social media or SEO
tools reviews etc. Socialspark.com is one of the great
sites which connect advertisers with publishers for paid reviews. Apart
from these methods, you can be making money by placing a backlink,
making affiliate sales and using your social profiles for promotion
related activities.
Niche – Technology
It
is one of the most popular niches and I’ve seen newbie bloggers opting
for this. It has equal opportunity of getting advertisers such as the
one I explained above. For technology related blogs, you’ll most
probably receive offers to review software. Don’t turn them down
directly! Take some time to do research and decide wisely.
Extras
In addition to these general ways of making money, there are numerous other ways of making money. One of the great examples is earning $5 from Fiverr.
There are high numbers of sellers who are offering quality service for
$5 and yet making 3-4 figures in dollars every month. There are some
handful of internet marketers who are using landing pages and promoting
products to earn affiliates earnings. What I’m trying to say is there
are numerous ways of making money; you just need to understand and
implement the methods properly.
Investment in Growth of Your Blog
How much you’re willing to invest or already investing in growth of your blog?
It’s
always good to share the profit or put it all to giveaway some goodies.
Make sure you ask them to do like, tweet, follow and +1 while
conducting giveaways. In simple words, if you’re investing some amount
in growth of your blog in it’s initial period, you’ll be getting good
returns in the later stage.
When Will My Blog Start Making Money?
Yes!
That was our original question and you might think that I’ve gone out
of the topic. Actually, I wasn’t. I was giving you an idea of what does
it take to earn from a blog.
Now, coming back to those four questions I asked earlier.
1. Do you’ve a strong link building for your blog?
If
yes then you’re obviously going to earn good bucks by allowing company
backlinks. If you don’t have good number of backlinks then you should to
start building backlinks.
Ultimately, such do-follow links are the ones which will pass their
juice and get you Google PR. Once you’ve a good Google PR, you’ll start
earning.
2. Are you writing paid reviews?
The
question becomes important when you’ve strong readership and/or Google
PageRank and social profiles. It is important to conduct a genuine
review because your readers trust you for the information you’re
providing. Don’t hesitate to mention cons or disadvantages. Also, try
out some networks such as socialspark which provides opportunities for publishers by connecting a bridge between advertisers and publishers.
3. What are the methods you’re currently following to earn money from your blog?
If
those methods are not making money, it’s time to put them to the rest
for some time. Start researching new methods of making money through
your blog. For example, a blogger from blogging niche can definitely try
out providing WordPress related services or logo services etc.
4. Do you’ve a good social followers and readership?
Try
to build an excellent social followership around your blog. It is not
good to rely completely on Google or any other search engine. Who knows
when an update in their algorithm might just hit you hard! Try to build a
community of readers around your blog. That’s the best way of keeping
yourself on safer side.
May
be, I’ve been stretching it a lot! Well, every blogger has its own
speed and writing quality. As per my knowledge, you can definitely start
earning good bucks once you’ve good PageRank, reasonable traffic and
strong social profiles. The timeframe varies by niche to niche. For one
of my Android blog, it took merely 4-5 months to build good environment
and start earning whereas my another blog which is focused on blogging
tips, guides, SEO tips & making money is progressing slowly and
steadily.
It takes a lot of efforts to build a profitable blog. In fact, it also takes a lot of time to start making money from a blog. Don’t
give up within a few months. Treat your blog as your favorite thing in
this world, work hard to build it better and most importantly, “Love
it”!
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