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So, you want to earn money from blogging. You’ve heard lots of stories and you want to start your own blog. There will be quite a bit of work to do to start with. You will need to build your page and then build up your following. You may not see any return on the investment of time that you will be putting into the project. However, once your blog is attracting a high volume of hits each day, then you will have created the ultimate machine for providing a passive income.
Pick Your Blogsite
There are a number of websites that provide blogs. A great example would be WordPress. It is fully customizable and you can add all manner of features onto your blog. You can start off with a free blog, however, if you want to make money from it, you will probably need to step up to one of the mid-tier plans that allow you to place adverts on the page and access specialized plug-ins that help drive traffic to your page.
What’s Your Niche?
Having a niche for your blog is important. Your readers will know what to expect from your blog and will make return visits based on the content that they have seen you posting previously. You may want to set up a technology blog with instructions on fixing a number of Mac-related problems. You may want to write a regular parenting advice blog, or you may want it to be all about food.
Writing Your Posts
The most important part of your blog is the content. You need to be consistent with your approach and style and you need to stick to a regular schedule. Ideally, you will want to post every day. If this is not possible, you should create all of your posts in advance and queue them up as scheduled posts to be automatically sent live at a given time and date.
Getting The Visitors In
There are two areas you will need to focus on to bring people to your site. Social media, and search engine optimization. Create a social media page for your blog and start posting to it daily. Do everything you can to build up your following. Engage with others and use hashtags.
SEO means getting keywords in your post to reflect what you expect people to be searching for to find you. It also means creating links to and from other websites to help legitimize your site.
Bringing In The Money
Advertising and affiliate marketing are the most popular way of making money from blogging. Affiliate marketing involves placing links to products from companies such as Amazon. If anyone buys one of those products as a result of your link, you will earn a commission. You will need to have a large following before you will get enough people visiting your site to earn from.adverts or links that have been placed. With that in mind, you need to work hard to build that following so that you can maximize your chances of earning money from your blog.
