How to Make Money with a Blog

According to Wikipedia, a blog (a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. When blogs first hit the Internet they were basically online journals/diaries of individuals. The blogging sphere evolved and now it seems everyone has a blog and many companies both big and small will have a blog sometimes written by a team.

What is the difference between a Website and a BLOG?

A blog is to all intent and purposes a website. The main difference is that a blog is geared up for easily publishing content on a particular subject and is therefore more regularly updated when compared to a website which is more static. Also the content is usually more bite size and opinionated when compared to the content of a website.

Can I Make Money with a blog?

Most definitely! Pretty much the same way you can make money with a website and some more besides! The easiest and cheapest way is to use Google’s www.blogger.com, which hosts the site for free and is relatively easy for the newbie to get up and going. Also offering a similar service is www.wordpress.com that has a slightly steeper learning curve but is the Internet standard for blogging. Although the method of blogging is popular for newbie bloggers as it is free the people serious about blogging host their own site in their own registered domain.

The following are the methods on How to make money with a blog

Advertising Programs – There are variety of good advertising options for bloggers looking to make money from their blogs. The most common way bloggers earn money online is through the famous ad program from Google – Adsense. There other similar programmes which people are using out there like Chitika.

RSS Feeds Advertising – This is also another advertisement which method which bloggers use fto generate revenue, when people subscribe to your blog, they receive alerts in their email and the adverts are embedded in the posts which earn then revenue when clicked.

Sponsorship – Sponsors nowadays pay some bloggers to write on certain topics by companies either in one off or a regular fashion and they are able to make big money from their blogs doing so this is only possible if your blog has a good command or authority in its niche so it would attract good sponsors and that in return would give you good money.

Affiliate Programs – One can choose to use big affiliate programs like Amazon, Linkshare, Clickbank and Commission Junction or the small ones that are also effective.

Digital Assets –Many bloggers today have produced digital assets to support and add revenue streams to their blogs. This is through e-books, tutorials and tele-seminars being run by bloggers. This is an activity to watch for.

Blog Network Opportunities –Many bloggers are combining writing for themselves on their own blogs with taking on blog network blogs as additional income streams.

Business Blog Writing Opportunities – Blogging has gained popularity and today businesses have started their own blogs. Many of them have staff to do this but a number of them are hiring specialist bloggers to come on and run their blogs. Many bloggers have been approached for such paid work.

Non Blogging Writing Opportunities – There are opportunities for content writers for non-blog articles eg. Magazines, books etc.

Donations – Some bloggers have been able to put donate buttons on their blogs eg paypal to get donations from their readers as a way of promoting the good work that they are doing.

Merchandising – You can brand your items and make merchandise to sell eg. T-shirts, mugs, mousepads etc.

Consulting and Speaking – While it has been popular for established consultants to add blogs to their businesses we’re also starting to see bloggers with no consulting background able to make money by charging readers for their time in consulting scenarios because of the profile that their blogs have built them. Blogging has the ability to establish people as experts on niche topics and we all know the value of being perceived as an expert.

You will realize that there are many opportunities for making money with your blog, your ideas and experiences are welcomed.

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