5 Simple Ways to Make Money Blogging

2009 December 29
by admin

It doesn’t matter if you pay for hosting or if you use a free publishing platform like WordPress, Blogger or LiveJournal, you can make lots of money online with your blog. So how do you get started turning your website traffic into revenue? First you must have content worth visiting. It doesn’t matter how well you apply the following steps if you have useless disposable content. If you have content that does not hold a readers attention it will drastically impede your ability to monetize your blog. If you do have a blog with rich interesting content, that you want to monetize, this article is for you.

1. Affiliate Networks
Affiliate Networks are the most powerful tool to generate online income. These free networks connect advertisers and publishers who want to increase sales and generate a nice revenue stream online through affiliate marketing. They include: Pay Per Lead – Networks that pay you for referring people to their site that signs up for something. Pay Per Sale – Networks that pay a percentage of a sale when someone you refer buys something from their site. Pay Per Click – Networks that offer affiliate programs where they pay per click-through to their site. You can make money with Google AdSense, a free PPC program that enables website publishers of all sizes to display relevant ads.

2. Marketing
Also referred to as web-marketing, online-marketing, or e-Marketing, is the marketing of products or services over the Internet. Internet marketing also refers to the placement of media along different stages of the customer engagement cycle through search engine marketing (SEM), search engine optimization (SEO), banner ads on specific websites and e-mail marketing.

3. Social Bookmarking and Networking
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to share, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web resources. Unlike file sharing, the resources themselves aren’t shared, merely bookmarks that reference them. Sites like Twitter, Yahoo! Buzz, Digg and del.icio.us are popular social bookmarking and networking sites that can deliver free traffic and increase your page ranking.

4. E-Commerce
Sell your product over the Internet. Owning an e-commerce website can be a rewarding experience. Buy or build a storefront that accepts online payments with PayPal® and Google®. These real-time payment services allow your customers to pay with their credit and debit cards.

5. Ping Services
Ping services are a free way to get traffic. They can help you to increase visitors and earn you money by allowing you to automatically notify blog directories and search engines that your blog has been updated. The bigger your ping list the higher the chances of receiving traffic from those sources. If you ping popular blog notification services, you’ll start getting traffic nearly immediately! Ping servers, like Ping-O-Matic update multiple search engines.

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