Blogs provide you with a stage to present yourself to the audience who wants to read your experience and advice thinking that it might help them. This is the reason why so many companies and people have their own blogs along with their own websites. But now, most of the blogs are created with the aim of making money and not with the intent of communicating with online community. Such bloggers realize soon that it takes more to maintain their blogs compared to what they can earn from it. Let’s try to understand why their attempt to convert their blog into cash fails so badly and how you can start your own community friendly, money making blog.
Just make a list of all the blogs and their respective bloggers who according to you are making lots and lots of money. You will soon notice that all these blogs have content which people will find useful in some way. Each blogger in your list will have unique style of writing and every post will be unique in itself. Their blogs are also related to the topic in which they are involved and where their knowledge is matured enough to make useful contribution to online community. Thus, their blogs are flooded with lots of readers. Eventually they end up making good amount of money.
Exactly how much money they make from their blogs depends of variety of factors. The factors include but not limited to the number of visitors they get everyday and the approach used to turn their blog into some kind of money making tool. The blogs could be monetized using CPC advertising programs like Adsense or with affiliate programs. Sometimes, for your topic, adsense won’t provide you with high paying ads so you should focus more on the use of affiliate programs. Now, with this information in hand, let’s see how you can start your own blog that can earn you some real cash.
1. Think of a topic in which you can do some valuable contribution to online community.
2. Open a free account at blogger or at wordpress. You can also spend some money and buy your own domain name and host for your blog.
3. Write every post so that people will find it useful. Make sure it’s unique.
4. Use various marketing techniques to get visitors to your blog.
5. Get comments and feedbacks from your visitors and improve the quality of your blog and posts.
6. At the end, experiment with different approaches to monetize your blog. Make sure that while playing with advertisement programs, you won’t end up degrading the value of your blog.
7. Keep posting and keep earning.
The main point I want to stress here is that the first reason to start your blog should be to provide value to online community. If you can do that, then you will eventually end up making good money. If you try to hurry, you will loose precious visitors as they will find out that your motive is only to make money and not to help them. Don’t let this happen to you. Keep adding value and have an exciting blogging experience.
Anay Kamat is a software developer having experience in developing web applications in .NET and PHP. You can find many articles related to web hosting, website design, Ajax and PHP programming on his blog. Visit his blog at AnayKamat.com.