Tim Yu asked:


Monetizing blog is not all about the making money but it covers all aspect that is covers the process and the system on how to make money through blogs. Monetizing blog is about the process that involves a person who blogs and becoming a blogger. The difference of a person who writes a blog and a blogger is that the latter makes money while being the former. A person may write a blog but does not make money from it. Another scenario is that a person who writes a blog and uses monetization tool but still does not make money from it. Thus, a blogger is a person who writes a blog and at the same time makes money from writing a blog. There is a big difference from actually trying and achieving what is being tried.

Most people who read the amount being earned by blogger thought that when they start to write a blog they will automatically earn loads of cash from it. Everyone would see the success of a blogger and may not know the story behind the success. A blogger is not a story of an overnight success and a product of a get-rich-quick scheme. Every successful blogger is a person who is persistent and has within him even a small fracture of an entrepreneurial spirit. Monetizing blog requires building one’s reputation, establishing his blog as a provider of quality and informative content, and generating a sizeable amount of steady traffic.

The effort to making money through blog is a combination of meeting the requirements of an established blog and an integration of the right monetizing tool such as advertisements, paid reviews, and site sponsorship. It might be helpful to remember that though you could generate passive income with blog, one must be able to sustain one’s readership and traffic in order to create a sustainable income from it. Remember, you are providing a service to your two types of consumers when you make blogging your business: the advertisers and your readers. In any business, the customer always comes first and is always right. You must be able to sustain the interest of your blogging community and at the same time provide a sustainable number of leads for your advertisers. But at the end of the day what matters to both of your customers is that you are able to provide the service that are relevant to their needs and of nothing less of value and quality.

Mei Galang asked:


Maintaining a blog or an online journal is often done by people as a hobby but it can also be used to gain extra income. For people who are passionate and spends several hours to create a content for their blog, it will be useful to know that they can actually monetize it.

Maximize Your Blog

Every now and then, it has been emphasized that “Content is King”. Aside from gaming or other entertainment purposes, people go online to research for information, news, movie reviews and more. Blogs are great venue to share information about the topics that are interesting to you. These days there are a lot of blogs available for people to read. To make your own mark, target a specific blog audience that shares with your interest. Maximize your blog, by writing about topics that you are knowledgeable at. Create entries about the places or events that you have experienced yourself. Through this, you can generate a unique content and not some copy paste entry from other people’s site.

Aside from creating a unique content, you should target to create something useful as well. You might be ecstatic to share about a specific interest in your blog but to maximize the result, you should choose to write about growing topics that haven’t been touched about in every other blog.

You can choose the popular topics but make sure to do your research since there are a lot of bloggers competing for it.

Monetize Your Blog

There are several advertising platforms that you can use to monetize your blog. The most popular is Google Adsense wherein Google ads are placed in your blog and you’ll be paid every time a visitor clicks it. The good thing about this platform is it adds related ads based your content.

Another popular advertising platforms is applying text link ads, where you create a content and put a link on the advertiser’s product pages. Involuntary donations can also be done by visitors who appreciate your website because of the content that you offer.

You can put any type of ad on your blog but make sure not to overdo it. While designing the placement of these ads, put yourself in the position of your readers who want to read a useful and unique information. Ads can be annoying if its cluttered over the page but it can complement your content if done a proper way. Within your web pages, your content should be emphasized and not these ads.

Maximize and Monetize

The key to maximizing your potentials in blogging and earning at the same time can be done through encouraging and keeping your visitors. You could have created a good blog entry with different ads properly placed but if no one get to see it, then its worthless.

Cory Threlfall asked:


m having to have a blog to start with blogging for money is actually pretty easy. If you love to write you can make a decent living with your blog. There are a few key points to focus on when considering the possibility of blogging for money, the first one is diversity. It is hard to make a decent amount of money on a regular basis with a blog if you only employ one method of monetization. Monetization Methods 1) Adsense: This is perhaps the most commonly seen form of blog monetization. It is easy to start, you don’t have to do anything at all after you have it set up, and it has the potential for earning you a reliable amount of money and is facilitated by a reputable company—Google. 2) Paid Blogging: This seems like a no-brainer but there are a few different ways to make money creating paid posts. There are several companies online that will have opportunities for you to write posts for pay. The two main differences to look for when considering this type of work are the form posts need to take when doing the opportunities from those companies: freeform, or advertorial. Freeform type posts are easier to do because you can write about any subject that interests you so long as it includes a particular keyword or phrase with a link. Those types of posts also keep your blog from looking like one big billboard and that will make your readers happier, and your traffic up. 3) Affiliate Links Programs: These are gaining popularity amongst blogging for money community because they allow bloggers to choose the types of links they put in their posts or sidebars making them more focused on the subject of their blogs. You can usually find affiliate opportunities at any company selling items online, or one of the many affiliate ‘brokerages’ that will not only keep track of your link sales but pay you directly in a lump sum for all of your links at once rather than having money filtering in from various companies individually. 4) Asset Sales: If you know a subject well and can write about it consider developing your own eBook on the subject and selling it from your blog. Your readers already know you, like your style of writing, and are probably interested in the same things you are so will pay for the information you know about it. EBooks are easy to put together and sell online with, or without a publisher and you can often do the entire thing yourself saving you a great deal of money and earning you a good income from sales. 5) Paid Blogging Networks: This is a slightly different way to make a profit blogging for money. Instead of using your own blog or blogs you join a network that hosts a blog for you and pays you a portion of sales proceeds from links they place on your blog. All you do is post regularly and encourage readership and receive a tidy check on a regular basis for the effort. It is one of the simpler forms of blogging for money. Donation Buttons: Don’t want to advertise or sell banner space on your blog? Just ask for money. How simple is that? Set up a PayPal ‘donations’ button and get money sent to you by appreciative readers. It works, and it is just one of the many ways to start blogging for money. 7) Blog Flipping: This is one of the more unusual methods of blogging for money as it doesn’t actually involve advertising anything at all. People who flip blogs are much like people who flip houses, they open a blog, build it up, make it pretty, and then when it is in a good position to make money, that means it is old enough to join companies that will pay the owners to blog, popular enough to sell banner ads, or link ads, they sell it to someone who wants a blog that is ready made to do the work.

Douglas Anderson asked:


If you’ve been in Internet Marketing for a while, you undoubtedly have thousands of articles gathering digital dust in your hard drive. Some you paid for, some you got free from various giveaways, and some were freebie bonuses accompanying products you purchased. You had good intentions: “Someday I’ll use these to build a web site or blog”, but they are still sitting there, unused, after all these many months.

Well, guess what? “Someday” has arrived.

Now there is a very easy way to make money from those articles. You need to do two easy things.

First, set up a blog with a subject or theme related to something you want to promote. That could be a web site, a single product, a mall, whatever. Setting up a new blog at Blogger takes two minutes, typically.

Second, you should find products to promote at ClickBank, PayDotCom, Commission Junction, or any other product supplier. You’ve probably got a list of affiliate links already.

There are several PHP scripts available, ranging in price from free to $75, that will copy articles off your hard drive and into a web site; usually they use FTP (File Transfer Protocol). The problem with these scripts is two-fold. First, the only way to monetize the articles is to put them inside a template that has AdSense or some other means of attracting clicks.

Second, they don’t do anything to the original article, just copy it into a template.

PHP scripts either post articles to a web site immediately, or rely on a scheduled job (typically a CRON job) to run at set intervals. Some ISPs don’t allow CRON jobs.

There is nothing inherently wrong with this concept; some people have made lots of money setting up thousands of pages in this manner.

Getting the site indexed each time you update it, though, is a problem, which is where blogs come in. You see, blogs get indexed very fast, usually the same day, and usually within two hours of an update. Web sites, on the other hand, can take weeks to get indexed.

So once a web site is set up with informative content, AdSense, and some affiliate-linked product ads, an excellent way to promote that site is to make a blog related to the web site theme, and post articles to the blog frequently: daily or several times a day.

If you have a web site about apples, for example, and it has AdSense and Kontera text links and some ClickBank affiliate product ads for apple-related products, then it makes sense to create an apple-related blog and post articles to that blog frequently. This will get the blog indexed daily. It will appear in blog search engines, and pretty soon, free traffic will appear from people interested in apples, apple cider, apple pies, apple tarts, etc. If there are links on your blog to your web site, some of that traffic will visit your web site. If you’ve got a lot of articles about apples sitting on your hard drive somewhere, you can use those to update your blog.

For “apple” in the paragraph above, substitute anything for which you have articles and a web site: golf, motorcycles, relationships, on-line dating, natural health products, whatever.

Posting articles by hand is certainly feasible; it only takes a few minutes per article. But if you’ve got many web sites and thousands of articles, there’s now a simple way to automate that task.

Blogger can accept articles by e-mail. The version of WordPress available at many ISPs can also accept input by e-mail.

A new program for Windows, called “3-Click Article Poster”, will enable you to submit hundreds of articles, automatically scheduled, while automatically appending footers with affiliate links, and substituting affiliate links for keywords in the body of the article. No more “ad cents”, instead you make affiliate dollars.

The program requires a POP3/SMTP e-mail account at an ISP; it does not yet work with web mail services such as HotMail, Yahoo Mail, etc.

You tell the program about your blog: name, e-mail address to which articles should be sent, when you want articles submitted (days of the week, hours of the day), and what to do with articles after they have been submitted (save on your hard drive, delete).

You can also define up to 6 footers that are context sensitive: a footer will be appended if a certain keyword, that you specify, is found in an article. For example, you might have a footer that promotes an ebook about golf swings, triggered by the word “swing”, and another footer promoting a different ebook about putting, triggered by the words “putting” and “putter”.

Similarly, you can define up to 6 different text substitutions; these are affiliate links that are attached to a specified keyword. In a blog about dogs, for example, you might have an affiliate link for a dog training product triggered by the words “aggressive”, “aggression”, “barking”, etc. You can have any number of keywords trigger the same affiliate link, and you can have up to 6 substitutions defined per blog.

The program remembers links and URLs so they don’t need to be re-entered every time, and in general, is designed to be user-friendly and easy to operate. There’s even a simple way to make a hypertext affiliate link.

Once a blog has been defined, you can submit any article with just three clicks (hence the product name):

First click: select an article.

Second click: select a blog.

Third click: press the GO button.

The software reads the article, scans it for the keywords you specified, substitutes your affiliate links, appends a footer, and checks to see if it can be posted now or should be queued for submission later.

You can select any number of articles at one time, and they will be queued and submitted according to the submission rules you define.

The search engines will index your blog very quickly. Your traffic should increase and hopefully, you will make more sales, easily justifying the cost of the software.

Bill Mann asked:


If you’ve been involved with blogging for very long, you’ve heard two things over and over. One is that content is king and the other is that offering real value to your readers is vital. These things are necessary to make money, but they’re not enough in themselves. One of the big blog income secrets is that content and value aren’t enough. That may sound like a contradiction, but don’t worry. It really isn’t. Keep reading to see why I say this.

In addition to great content and value, the top blogs, the ones that make money, have several other key characteristics that set them apart from lesser blogs. The most important of these is that they have traffic. In other words, thousands of people a day read their blogs.

Great content is crucial. Providing real value is crucial. But if no one finds your blog, you’re not going to make money. There are tens of millions of blogs out there. If you’re writing about a popular topic (and you should be), you’ll have competition. You’ll probably find tens, if not hundreds of blogs covering the same topic. Getting enough visitors to your blog is challenging but doable.

Once you have lots of loyal readers, you’re getting close, but still not out of the woods. Earning money from your blog (monetizing it) is the next step you must take. Lots of people reading your blog is important for making money, but just getting the visitors isn’t enough. If you want to earn significant blog income, you need a good monetization plan.

Clearly, giving your readers valuable content isn’t enough in itself to make money. Two more things are necessary. One is getting visitors, lots of visitors to your blog. The other is getting them to spend money. You’ll need to master both of these if you really want to profit from your blogging.