How To Make Money from A Blog

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Make Money from a Blog

This article provides an overview of how to make money from a blog. If you need more detail on each step, I recommend that you check out this article how to make money from a blog.
The first step is to own your own domain and place your blog on your own website. Do not use a free blogger such as blogger.com or wordpress.com or .org. You need to choose a domain name with a .com extension. My favorite source for domain names and WordPress hosting is Godaddy.com. I have tried other hosting services, but find that when I run into issues, the customer service and technical support at Godaddy.com are unbeatable.

Setting Up Your Blog

When you are setting up your Godaddy account, you will need to register your domain for at least two years…longer is actually better for convincing the search engines that your blog will be around for the long haul. The higher your website’s ranking in the search engines the easier it will be to make money from a blog. So register the domain for as long as your budget allows.

Next you will need to set up your hosting account. Be certain to select the option for hosting a WordPress account. You may choose to pay month by month. However, the more months you pay for at one time, the less expensive the cost per month. If your budget allows, pay for at least 12 – 24 months at a time.

Once your WordPress account is set up you are ready to begin blogging. How you arrange your actual blog is a matter of personal choice. However, in order to make money from a blog, it is important for you to blog every day. You should be as genuine as you can. Make yourself as real to your readers as possible.

Marketing to Make Money from a Blog

To make money from a blog, you must aggressively market your blog in order to receive traffic (i.e. visitors) to your website. However, it takes time and diligence to market effectively.

One of the least expensive, yet highly effective ways to market your blog is on the social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, etc. You can also get valuable backlinks by visiting various forums related to the topic of your blog and leave a value-adding comment with a link to your blog in your signature. It helps to be part of a network of people who are also blogging. That way, you can support each other through the various social marketing networks.

Another way to make money from a blog , depending on the nature of your blog, is to choose to advertise your blog via PPC (pay-per-click) ads on Google, Bing, or Facebook ads. There is a bit of a learning curve on using PPC ads…so be sure to check out some of the YouTube videos explaining how to use them without losing your shirt.

How to Make Money from a Blog

After about 30 days of blogging, or once your site has been found by Google, it is time to monetize your blog so you can at last start to make money from a blog. This is when you start choosing the approach you wish to use to make money with a blog.

One option that you have probably heard of to make money from a blog is Google Adsense. Just one precaution about strictly using Adsense ads is that Google may decide not to approve your site for any number of seemingly random reasons.

Another option is to become an affiliate and place ads for the products for which you choose to be an affiliate on your site.
This option include banner ads, text ads, or link ads in the blog itself.

Another way to market your blog and increase traffic is to become a guest blogger on another site. You may want to arrange a trade. The owner of that site does a blog for your site and you do one for his. That way you both get free exposure to each other’s readers. The more traffic to the blog, the easier it will be to make money from a blog.

The more exposure your blog receives both online and off, the more traffic you will have to your bog’s website. Traffic is essential for you to make money from a blog.

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