Start a Blog to Earn Extra Money! Everyone is doing it right now. Every single day, hundreds if not thousands of new blogs are created. People from all over the world create blogs to share everything about themselves and the cool things they know. Further more, if they know what to do, they can easily earn extra money from their blog.
How much can they earn? It depends! Generally, the more visitors the blog receives daily, the more money the blogger will make. But in order to receive a lot of visitors, the contents on your blog has to be interesting.
Have you ever come across something interesting, humorous or out of this world that just have to forward the email or share the url with your friends? Now that’s the kind of spark your blog should have.
It is really easy to start a blog and most of them are provided freely. Some of the famous free blog providers would be BlogSpot.com and Wordpress.com! If you don’t have a blog, you can visit either one of those sites to get a free blog.
If you have already have a blog but you are not sure how to monetize it, there’s a couple of things you can do:
• Add Adsense to your blog.
I’m sure you know about adsense but just in case you don’t, an adsense ad can look something like the images below:
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Adsense blocks comes in different shapes and sizes. You can also customize the colors to match your blog’s theme. Learn more about adsense and how to have them displayed in your blog from Google Adsense.
• Join an Affiliate Program and Promote Affiliate Products/Services
A good practice would be to have 3 to 5 personal blog posts before posting something you intend to promote. You can promote almost anything on your blog. Whether it is a dating site, cool gadgets, books etc it is up to you.
Here’s an example of how an affiliate product/service promotion post should be like:
(For this case a dating site)
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“Recently, I met this girl from this Dating site(make sure you include your affiliate link here). I think she is the kind of person i have been looking for all my life. I’m glad to have found someone who can potentially be my lifetime companion.
<picture of the girl>
Isn’t she attractive? Well, we are planning to meet up sometime next week so please wish me luck!”
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A post like from the example above can easily earn you a decent amount of money when you readers click and sign up to the dating website through your affiliate link.
If you pay close attention to the message, there is no selling intention from the writer’s part. He was just sharing his news about meeting a new companion from a dating website that’s all.
• Selling Text links or Banner Ads in your blog.
If your blog is receiving 100s and 1000s of viewers per day, you can visit webmaster forums and post a message stating that you are leasing out textlinks and banner ads at your blog. When you post, provide your blog’s traffic details and the url of your blog. Be clear and reasonable with your asking price and be open to negotiations and bargains. Leasing out textlinks and banner ads on your blog is a decent way to earn residual income.
Implementing any of the 3 monetizing methods to your blog will get you to earn extra money.
However, do not over commercialize your blog as it will turn off your readers and make them turn away. People get irritated when too many ads are displayed. So have at most one or two ads displayed per page on your blog.
There are alot of great books that give you detailed information on how to blog & earn extra money. You should consider getting some of them to read.
