What is Blogging and How Bloggers Make Money from Blogging?
Back to the Basics
Whenever someone come across to my blogging thing or whenever I tell someone that I am a blogger and write a make money online blog, then surprisingly a question mark immediately appears on their faces, hands goes up and a little shout “what the hell blogging is, I still don’t know what you are doing man”. Ha Ha, Blogging is still not very popular on India. The next important question they ask to me is “are you making money out of it?’. Actually in India we believe in doing everything for money, and if it isn’t for money we Indian consider it as waste of time.
So I’m trying to explain here what blogging is and how we make money from our blogs. It’s a efforts to introduce blogging and making money from blogging to a newbie and a journey back to the basic for those who are already blogging and making money out it.
What is a blog?
A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries called blog posts consist of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order.
It means:
- A blog is a specific website
- These are organize by writing articles called blog posts
- Blogs usually maintained by Individual persons
- Posts are displayed in reverse chronological order i.e. most recent post at the top.
- Each blog posts can become a discussion to comments left by its readers
From year 2003 more then 113 millions blogs have been created worldwide. The big deal about blogs is that each individual works as a news media source, express his or her opinion which is read by a high number of a small community. Its now has become a powerful tool to convey your voice and reach a large audience. Most blog readers are other bloggers of similar interest who reads, comments and links each others blogs. A celebratory blogger can now interact with his/her fans through a blog.
A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important feature of blogs.
How to start a blog?
[1] You can start your own blog for free as there are so many websites which provides you space to create and maintain your very own blog. There is not much of technical or web designing skill required for creating and maintaining a free blog with these sites. Two most popular website which offer free blogging space are:
[2] If you decide to blog but don’t want to use free blog services like blogger.com or WordPress.com then you can setup your blog on a remote host by buying web space form any hosting company, install a blogging software available at WordPress.org, Joomla, Drupal, etc and start blogging. No doubt you need some technical skill to install and setup blogs on a self hosted space. The basic difference between a self hosted blog and a free blogs are:
- If you chosen a free service then your blog URL would be something like www.yourblog.wordpress.com or www.yourblog.blogspot.com whereas in self hosted blog you can buy any domain of your choice. Like this blog is setup on a self hosted space using WordPress blogging software.
- In a free blogging site you probably not have much control over designing and look of your blog and would have to choose your design from free generic theme or templates available by free blogging service. While in a self hosted blog you can adopt various themes and design to give unique look to your blog.
- If you are blogging to make it a business then free blogging sites will not help you a lot as you would not have much control over selling ad space and monetizing your blog.
How to make money from blogging?
Now the second question how bloggers make money from blogging. But First I want to make it clear that there are various ways you can make money from “internet” but I’m giving you only means to make money from blogging.
[2] Google AdSense
This is the most popular and easy way to make money from blogging. You just need to register with google AdSense program, submit your blog to google for approval and then if they approve your blog for AdSense program then you need to paste Google AdSense codes at space where you want to show Google AdSense ads. Google AdSense display targeted Google ads on your website’s content pages and earn from valid clicks or impressions. AdSense gives you access to Google’s vast network of advertisers, so you can show ads that are suited to your audience’s interests. But do remember before submitting your blog to google for their AdSense Program you must fill in your blog with 20 to 25 articles or blog post on your subjects.
After that you need to optimize your blog for google search engine, gain high page rank and increase visitors from organic search.
[2] Selling Private ads on your blog
Selling ads on your blog is not easy, for this your blog must receive high traffic, high readership. You can sell ads on your blog in various formats. Selling ads on a blog which is on a free blogging platform like blogger.com or WordPress.com is hard. Whereas a blog on self hosted space can place and market private ads more easily.
Read this post for further help.
[3] Paid Review
If your blog has a high page rank then you can submit it to various sites which offer paid reviews. To rank high in google index various products and service sites needs bloggers to write reviews about their products or services and pay high amount in return. This is a great way to earn a little extra money from blogging.
I’m giving you some sites where you can register your blog for writing paid reviews.
- B5media
- Bloggerwave
- Blogitive
- Blogsvertise
- InBlogAds
- Payperpost
- PayU2Blog
- ReviewMe
- Smorty
- SponsoredReviews
- Weblogsinc
[4] Selling Affiliate Products or services
You can sign up with various affiliate networks, a small list of recommended affiliate network given below, can opt to market an affiliate products related to your blog niche and promote it by writing reviews, if someone click on those affiliate link and purchase the product or services then you get paid a handsome commission by affiliate ad network. Again the condition is that your blog must have at least 1000 or more unique visitor per day then only affiliate marketing through blogging can be effective otherwise people choose to use e-mailing system to earn through affiliate marketing.
Hope this article will help newbie to understand what blogging is and how bloggers make money from it. If you still need any clarification or have opinion about any thing explained above and you are more then welcome to comment below.
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I think the harder one is to get a private advertiser on your blog. So far I haven’t been active seeking one and usually wait until someone contacted me through the contact form
As you know, AdSense on technology blog is like getting peanuts (2-5 cents a click mostly)
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You are right michael…. It is difficult to get the private advertiser and adsense pays……nill.
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Adsense is the way to get money with blogging. By the way, I like the human evolution picture =)
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I think the only way of making money with adsense is that you have a really high volume of traffic coming in to your website.
Great post.
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Great post, I wish one day I’d get good money from ads and private advertisers. I’m still at the beginning of the blogging way…
Nice article for new bloggers . I have not tried ” paid review ” yet , I guess it might work out. Thanks for the links
You must try it now.
So far I haven’t been active seeking one and usually wait until someone contacted me through the contact form
i like that picture, very funny. Anyways, blogging is not also an easy business. You can’t post anything on your blogs just to put something on it, you have to be careful in the content. Thanks for this nice post.
The subject of very useful
I’m afraid I’m wasting my time blogging. But not completely because when it’s comes to making money by blogging, I rely on Google Adsense. Though it takes forever to earn a hundred bucks, it’s still money in the long run.
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Shanker, you’re absolutely right about it. My first blogger blog, Wilhb81′s Fun Place is set up about two years ago. Honestly, I satisfied with Blogger’s feature tools. The only downside is I didn’t monetize my blog with money maker program, such as Google Adsense!
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Nice article…. If u can get very good traffic.. then you can make decent money every month..
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Blogging in a nutshell! Even the least tech minded person will be able to have a good grasp of what blogging is after reading this. Nice easy read too, I like it!
Really thorough, You guys are really expanding on all this and it’s essential.
i used CPA network to make money.It is Good.
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this information helped me a lot – nice outframe of things.
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it was great to stop by your excellent and informative work.
I wish if you have time to visit my site and tell me your opinion.
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Well put together in your post.
One thing I would suggest regarding the decision between many small niche sites and a large authority site is that you should be doing both. Use the power of all of your small niche sites to build linkpower to a central authority site. For example, a large authority site could be about sports, and then you build niche sites at least once per week about snowboarding, skiing, bowling, etc. Each new niche site serves to “push up” the central site as well as make a little bit of money.
The easiest way to make money online (or offline) is to do what you enjoy and the money will follow. I think the easiest thing to do is sell products that you buy at wholesale, mark up, and resell for profit. This can be done on Ebay because of Ebay’ s reputation but that’ s not the only site. You can consider Ebay auction or buy it now or store formats or a combination. Ebay also owns a site called ProStores… check their website for a trial offer,. But again there are other online selling sites
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Good overview of what blogging is and how to make money off it. This is gold for noobs.
Shankar, Do selling paid adverts worth anymore ? because the agencies wont deal that much ….