How To Make Money With A Blog

How to make money blogging I’ve had a few people ask me lately how to make money with a blog. It’s not a super easy question to answer because making money with a blog consists of a few elements. I’ve done my best to lay them out here in a way you can use to make money with a blog right away.

1. Targeted Traffic - to make money with a blog you need traffic; lots of it, and it needs to be “targeted.” All this means is you need the people reading your blog to be predisposed to what you’re offering. That means actively promoting your blog on social media sites, commenting on other blogs (other blogs in your same market, but not in direct competition with) with links back to your content.

2. Good Content Posted Consistently – Good content doesn’t just mean interesting, it also means keyword-rich writing to let the search engines know what your site is about. You should aim to have at least four per cent of the words on your page be your identified keyword – without having it look like you were just randomly stuffing keywords into the article. You’ll notice on this page I mention how to make money with a blog several times in this post, but not so much that it seems completely unnatural.

The more regularly you post to your blog, the more often the search engines will crawl, or index your site – which means your fresh blog content will be available to more readers more quickly for the keywords you choose.

3. A Great Offer – To make money with a blog you need to have a great offer; something your readers want or need to have. Give it to them for free if possible. If you blog about fishing for example, you could give away a free ebook or free video series of how to catch a particularly elusive fish. If you have expertise, you should consider creating your own information product. If not, you can find hundreds of great offers on sites like ClickBank. Just be aware that doing it this way builds someone else’s list – not your own.

3. Carefully Chosen Advertising – choose to advertise products that will be beneficial and appealing to your readers, and also provide a good pay out with every purchase. Commission Junction is a great place to find offers to place on a blog.

4. Great Follow-Up Offers – if you are building your own list (which you should always be doing), make sure and keep your readers informed of other great products or services you have to offer to them. Remember to keep the offers relevant. The best list building service I’ve used (and I’ve tried many) is AWeber.

Once you get used to it, you can make money with a blog with just a little effort. If you love writing anyway it’s well worth your time to hunt down some great offers and get them on your site asap. They can pay for your hosting fees if nothing else.

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