How do you make money from blogs?
I’m thinking of starting my own blog but don’t know how to make money from it. Among the thing I’d like to know are:
1. how do I market it to potential advertisers?
2. how do I make it visible (since it’s a new blog)?
3. how do I link it to various sites like yahoo, redbook and others?
4. if I register with blog sites like wordpress and my blog generates a high traffic, do I get compensated?
Please include links, if possible…Thank you.
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1.) It is not easy, and in most cases it doesn’t happen. You need high number of traffic to get people interested to advertise. You will need more than 10,000 visitors a month for advertisers to be interested.
2.) Just submit your blog to the search engines. Usually this will be automaticall done through the blogging website you used.
3.) Just create links and link to them. If you want them to link to you, it won’t be easy or cheap. Try looking for similar blogging groups and interlink with each other. THat would be the best option.
4.) No, there is no reason why they should compensate you unless you are an affiliate and you help them sell something. Haha just be happy that they are giving it to you for free, don’t expect them to pay you for it.
There are a few real methods that people use to make money with blogging. I think the two most famous and efficient are google adsense and ad reviews.
If you are not sure about them, I recommend the website below as a source of reading. It discusses some of the methods used to make money in blogging as well as discuss the strategies.
Could prove to be useful to you. Hope it helps.
I recommend first planning how you are going to make money, and I doubt that an answer on answers.com is going to be sufficient. This is the million dollar questions, I would start by reading alot of other blogs that do make money and see what they are doing, you can take a look at the list of blogs I read in relation to online marketing and exposure.
http://bloginstall.tumblr.com/post/95456820/10-make-money-online-inspiring-blogs
Regarding blogs where and how, certainly get your own domain so that you can always move the site to wherever you want. If you are not sure what type of blogging system to use you may get some pointers from this post.
http://www.blog-install.com/wordpress-vs-tumblr-which-blogging-platform-to-choose.html
You first need traffic before you can look for advertisers, so I would certainly put most of your efferts into GOOD CONTENT of your own and learn how to expose your site with some search engine magic, the seobook.com is a great book to start with, it really has all the info required to do seo yourself. I have read it!
I would also read this article on making your own personal brand
http://www.skelliewag.org/how-to-start-or-start-over-building-your-personal-brand-877.htm