Make Money Blogging

Now that you have your blog running. You have quiet good number of followers. What's next? If blogging is just as a hobby to you, that's fine. But, have you ever thinking of making money from your blog? Did you know that there's a lot of bloggers out there earns thousands from their blogs? Some even quit their day job since their income from blogging is much better than their earnings from day job. So, I would recommend that you blog for money, as a side income, even if it's not as good as your day job's earning.

How To Start?
First, choose what programs you'll participate to generate income. Most of bloggers agreed that one of the best source of online income, is a program owned by Google, called Google Adsense. It's a Pay-Per-Click program. You earns from each clicks on the ads shown on your blog which is associated with your Google Adsense's account. Earnings per click is vary between keywords. Payment can be made by electronic transfer, check, and for some countries payment can be received through Western Union Quick Cash. Check out if your country is in the list.

Chitika is similar to Adsense, but it's premium ads only pays for traffics generated from search queries made within United States and Canada.

Amazon Affiliate is another source of income. It's commission based. You earns from purchased made through Amazon ads shown in your blog. Give it a try, as your blog's topic might have some products available in Amazon's store. There's also another affiliate programs you may want to give it a try, such as Clickbank, eBay, etc.

Some bloggers also earns from link sales. Blogs with good Pagerank (PR) value usually attracts other website owners to rent yearly spot as blogroll. Pagerank is a link analysis algorithm assigned for sites listed in Google's search engine. It's ranged from 0 to 10, with 10 being the best. You can advertise your link sales through webmasters forums, such as DigitalPoint forum, Zymic, Webtalk forum, etc.

My Blog Is Ready With Ads, And I Wants More Traffics
Your blog may already received traffics from your followers, but is it enough to earns you good income? You need more traffics to generate more money. The best traffic usually comes from search engines.
First, do some keyword research for what keywords or keyphrase related to your blog's topic that being searched from search engines, eg. Google, Yahoo, or Bing. This step is to maximize your blog's potential traffics from search engines on top of traffics from your blog's followers.

  • Tips : Search Suggestion by Google, Yahoo and Bing could help. Try to type "make money" at Google Search, and you can see some suggestions given, such as "make money online", "make money fast", "make money blogging", "make money on youtube", "make money now", and more, up to 10 suggestions. The upper suggestions usually being more searched by search engine users, but accept the fact that the more a keyword being searched, the tougher competition you'll face to get your blog ranks high for that keyword.
What's Next?
After decision on which keyword best suited to your blog is made, do some onpage optimization. Change your blog's title and description to include the keyword. Keywords included in blog's domain/url would also helps on search engines ranking. Another optimization is offpage, such as links building. You may start build backlinks to your blog by submission to blogs directories, and I would recommend submitting your blog to DMOZ directory.

These are the basic on making money from blogging. Make your blogs pay for your studies, bills, rentals, or even groceries. But one thing to remember, be patient and never give up. Success or achievement won't come in a blink of your eyes. Happy blogging and make monies.