Become a micro-entrepreneur by blogging-Passion to Earning
The Web has opened a world of opportunity and wealth creation to entrepreneurs. You can earn, sell, market, spend, leverage your skill and acquire clients from your home or garage start-up. Here we examine how to make money by blogging and Google Adsense.
Write
your way to income by Blogging, micro-blogging, Tweeting, freelance writing,
editing, e-authoring, and translating.
SKILLS you need:
Comprehensive writing skill and expertise in any specific field.
Potential INCOME: from zero to $120,000 per month!First Step:
Once you explore and decide the topic and target
audience and you get serious, it may be better to have your own website and
domain name. This gives you a specific identity, and if you submit your blog
to search engine optimization, it will start getting impressions and
click-throughs on organic search on Google. The charges for a domain name
usually range from INR 300-1,000 a year. The chief source of income for maximum bloggers is Google AdSense,
which places contextual ads on Websites.
Consistency and Focus
However
writing seems easy at first glimpse, if you want to earn money from it, you
will have to labor hard. Professional bloggers put
in about 2-5 hours every day and constantly strive to write on topics that
provide updated information. You need to be regular and prompt in answering
your readers’ queries.
Google Adsense-Blog Monetization
Adsense is the concept that has bloggers and
website owners start the dream of minting money, waiting to cash in on the riches,
but leaves most disappointed, with nothing to show for their efforts
For most bloggers, this purposed money delivery program just never pans out and
leaves them wondering what the great secret to success is. Others do it, why
can’t they? The reasons are as simple and as complex as most online
entrepreneurial prospects, but the fact is, there is money to be made: you
only have to look at what top earners draw in annually.
Google pays out up to $500 million dollars quarterly for Adsense publishers!
The biggest earners rake in several hundred thousand dollars every year just
for having those Adsense strips on their sidebars, headers, footers, or in
between posts.
Some of the Internet’s top Adsense earners are (monthly earnings):
§ PlentyofFish.com: USD $900,000
§ Digg.com: $250,000
§ ShoeMoney: $132,994.97
§ Weblogs, Inc: $120,000
§ Freeweblayouts.net: $100,000 per MONTH
§ AskTheBuilder.com: $30,000
§ Digital Point.com: $10,000
Steps to Success in Blogging.
Niches
Websites and blogs that determine a target market do better than those that
ramble about anything, and everything. Picking a niche isn’t enough, however.
You have to examine the popularity or need of a specific niche. Going after
the biggest niches isn’t always the best strategy. Those markets are flooded
with others who are trying to get a piece of an already sliced up pie. Find big
niches that do not have a lot of presence. This works for websites, blogs, and
even discussion forums for getting a lot of traffic to their pages that have
Adsense on them.
Blog regularly and frequently
Yes, your Adsense is working all the time, even when you’re asleep, but that
doesn’t mean that you can take it easy. Operating the top-earning websites,
blogs and forums is a job. It is an enterprise. It takes effort to build, and
keep it thriving.
Quality
You can’t attract loyal readers to your corner of the web if you put out
unoriginal or scraped content. Without original, engaging, relevant content,
your blog will not be visible on top pages of Google search. Without traffic, you have no one to click on your Adsense boxes.
Offer freebies
A bait that works well is giving away something with real value for free. It
works amazingly well for FreeWebLayouts.net. A small 3 line Adsense bar at the
top of their page gives them $100,000 a month in revenue.
The bottom line is if you want to make money online using Adsense you have to
give your readers a reason for coming to your site. If you offer information,
make it good. If you offer a service, make it good. If you offer something
for free, make it worth that click.
Making
Money from Tweeting
As new mediums open up, you need to adapt and
leverage these.
Thanks
to companies that are desperate to reach consumers in the social-media crowd,
it’s now possible to make a buck or two — or much more — on Twitter. A company
called IZEA, which made its name connecting bloggers with companies willing to
compensate them for plugs on their sites, has set up a similar service for the
Twittersphere. At the appropriately named site Sponsored
Tweets, Twitter users can sign in, set the price they want
companies to pay them for the privilege of tweeting an ad on their behalf, and
wait for the offers to come in
Hrish Thota has been blogging for almost a decade and joined Twitter when it was launched in 2006. He is now a professional Tweeter, has 18.4 K followers, and earns a good amount a month. This former employee of consulting firm Capgemini began his Twitter career by writing about events and computer hardware in Bangalore. Within a year, companies began to approach him to Tweet about their products. He was involved with a campaign for Ford Figo for around a month-and-a-half, Tweeting, and photo-blogging about the events in real-time. On average, he earns INR 30,000-40,000 a month per brand.
What are the methods bloggers make money (Various Revenue streams)
There are numerous methods that you can use to monetize your blog. Depending upon your level of blogging and the category of the blog, you could choose the method that equals your style.
- Using Ad Networks like AdSense, Media.net
- From Direct Advertisements
- With Affiliate marketing
- With Native Advertising
- Opting for Paid reviews/Sponsored posts
- Selling Digital Products (eBooks, Blueprints)
- Launching an Online Course
- Offering online consulting
- Offering skill-based services
F A Q
What should I blog about to make money?
In case if you don’t like to blog about your life and pondering about the best topic from the blog monetization viewpoint, here are 4 aspects that you take into consideration.
Passion: Things that you are already passionate about or have an interest in. This doesn’t necessarily have to be something you are learning at an institute or at the workplace, but it could be as simple as something that your friends, relatives, and others call you to take your opinion. For example, automobiles, Food, Finance, Travel. Get a pen and paper, and tag it as “Passion list”. Now, list down every matter that you think you have a curiosity about and you could blog about.
Traffic and trend: You would want to confirm that there is a generous amount of traffic and interest in the topic that you have discovered by creating your passion list. Trends will give you an idea if this topic is budding or fading. Trends.google.com is a free tool that lets you measure the traffic trend of any subject.
Monetization: The 3rd influential factor that will help you to find a moneymaking blogging idea is an option for monetization. You need to understand how you plan to monetize your blog. Is it going to be Ad network such as AdSense or is it going to be Affiliate marketing?. Take an example of the keyword, “Whatsapp” as a topic is growing certainly fast and you may be passionate about it, but the monetization sucks. Even with high traffic, making money is insignificant.
Competition: This is the last but not the least factor. If you are getting into a competitive niche, you will find it tough to stand out and also outrank existing big players. Not to demotivate you, but if you have a choice between 2-3 topics, select the one with average or low competition. If you end up choosing a wider niche, for example, fashion, in a competitive slot, it would just take some extra months to ace it. So, remember this when checking at the competition.
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