It’s been more than a year of my absence from blogging. Maybe because I’m no longer actively engage of my area of interests-philately and numismatic. Subject which I keep sharing on my blog, treskeidecamania.blogspot.com, dealing on my personal stamps, covers, postal history and coin collections. Until one day, I stumble on my Google account and was surprised when I noticed that my AdSense earned decent dollars from monetizing my blogs with little effort put into it. AdSense is a Google program for website owners to make money by hosting business’s advertisements on their websites. These AdSense ads can also be hosted on a blog. We will tackle the technicalities and how to take advantage of this google features in my next post.
Realizing the earning potentials out of blogging, many blog enthusiasts make it as online business platform. With serious effort put into it you can build impressive and loyal readership over time. Once you capture your niche and you know how to monetize your blog, it can bring decent income.
Before we expound on the intricacies and earning potentials of blogging, let’s talk first it’s very nature. Blog is simply a website which is written in a friendly news format which is frequently updated. Blogs are somewhere you go when you want new and interesting topic on any given subject. A blog serves the sole purpose of entertaining and educating people. A blog can simply be an online diary or notebook you use to publish you thoughts. Your blog can be personal or professional as you want it to be.
Blogging is one of the free start-up business model online. There are several ways to set up a blog. You can easily set up your blog account from free blog service the likes of Blogger.com and WordPress.com. These are some of the sites that offer free hosting of your blog. Alternatively, you can set up your own blog under your own domain name but it entails extra dollars from your pocket. The good thing about having your own domain name is that you have complete control on your blog unlike the one offered by free service, you are bound by its terms and conditions.
One consideration in setting up a blog is the theme and layout. It’s just simple, you don’t need to be tech savvy and apply great programming languages to make your blogs pleasing to your readers. There are customized themes and lay out offered by free blogger service like Blogger that would relates to your blogs. The built-in settings are simple for you to effectively manage the theme and lay out, no need for you to learn HTML and other programming languages.
Now you have your blog account set up, the important thing you come to mind is the topic you want to write about. There are vast of topic you can write about, maybe it be personal or professional in nature. Whatever it is, it must be something you are passionate to share. Blog about something interesting, both interesting to you and your prospective niche. Something you either know a lot about, or have the desire to learn about. Topic must be engaging and most of all fairly frequent. You publishes your blogs with goals in mind, to bring people to read your blog and to keep readers coming back to read it as often as possible.
So you have now your blog running, the next step to do is how to drive traffic and earn loyal readership overtime. One way of generating traffic is through article submission, may it be your first blog topic or something you come up to post in an article directory site. Submitting an article to an article directory site the likes of ezinearticles.com and goarticles.com is simple, free and easy. You submit your articles attaching an information about you and a link to your website. Readers from here maybe interested on visiting your blog or website. One way also of bringing leads to your blogs is by submitting your blogs to blog directories. These are sites where people can go to find the whole list of blogs on any specific topic of interest to them. Submitting your blogs to directories will help you get both back-links and more readers from your blog. One great way also is submitting to social bookmarking sites as many as possible. Linking your blogs at your social networking sites could help drive traffic. Comment on other blogs and forums and linking your blog site will also help increase readership. Another consideration is to have knowledge on Search Engine Optimization (SEO), something that will improve your page ranking on search engines and bring people to your site.
After knowing the ABC’s of blogging, we come up with a decent blog and the next thing in mind is to take advantage of the earning potential from blogging. A blog by itself will not generate income for you. In order to generate income from your blog, you need targeted traffic and good quality content. You need readers because these are people of interest to what you may offer from your sites that may have earning potentials for you. Blog with quality content help visitors keep coming back.
Having a targeted traffic and good quality content, this is the perfect opportunity for you to explore earning potentials-that is monetizing your blogs. There are few ways to make money with blogging such as Google AdSense, Blog advertisement, product recommendation and many more. Google Adsense is the most popular wherein Google allows you to sell space on your blogs to host other people’s advertisement. This is completely 100% free to implement. Everytime your readers click to your AdSense ads Google pays you. Earnings may come also from site offering a Pay Per Post basis, they pay on what you post that may have significance on their business. Affiliate marketing are one of the great opportunities blogging may offer. You post affiliate links selling their products and in return you earn commissions on the purchase people make. Once you established your blog and capture the market, you can offer ad space to your site. These are some of the few earning potentials that blogging may offer.
As a final thought, having fresh ideas, being responsive to our chosen niche, and taking advantage of the technology is what successful blogging is all about. It opens our doors to vast opportunity which can be translated to a major source of income.
Hope this article is of great help. Enjoy blogging.
