Blogs are fantastic! They can drive traffic to your site through SEO, and through social marketing, and they can make you money through:
- Affiliate sales,
- Through banner advertising,
- And through contextual advertising programs (like Google Adsense).
A lot of people want to make money blogging and, according to the Wall Street Journal, blogging is America’s Newest Profession. Internet marketers all over the world, who know the potential value of a blog make good use of it. Most of them have several blogs on the go at all times. Some are for the purposes of SEO more than anything but some blogs do a great job of SEO as well as creating profit directly.
So how do you increase the chances of making money blogging?
- Pick a Niche. The search engines won’t know how to categorise a general blog so pick a niche that you can focus on. That way the search engines will know how to classify the blog and the visitors you attract are somewhat pre-qualfied for sales
- Careful ad placement. Don’t overdo it! A few well placed ads helps your reader see the ads instead of being overwhelmed with banners and links
- A combination of graphic and text ads. A picture can be enticing to click but so can a well-placed link that fits into a blog post
- Pre-sell something in the blog entries. By pre-selling something, people may click a link to buy
- Don’t give too much info away! Provide valuable information but create curiosity so people will consider clicking to learn more.
- Work to get the visitor’s email address! Just because they don’t buy today doesn’t mean you should give up. They could subscribe to your blog through RSS and / or get on your e-mail marketing list allowing you to market to them in future.
Can you make a full-time living blogging? Maybe; maybe not. It can be fun and it can definitely be profitable, too. be Happy Blogging!
Have a most outstanding day.
Sean RasmussenAussie Internet Marketing
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