Friday, September 30, 2011

Make Money Blogging


Make Money Online

Do you want to make money online blogging? If yes, you’re not alone. Thousands of bloggers are finding that blogging is a profitable media. Whether it be to earn a few extra dollars a week to feed their coffee habit, or making enough money to stop them having to get a part time job to get through college, or whether they’ve got it to a point where they are able to make a full time living from their blogging. That is why I’m putting together this list of 31 Genuine Ways to Make Money Online with a Blog“. 
This article is not only your average directory of money making tips but also summaries for what each element is how to use it, and where to find resources/examples.  The blogging money making tips are also divided into Beginner, Novice, and Problogger based on the differing qualifications and needs of each. Making money online is mostly about customizing a monetizing formula for your blog.  Depending on your skill level, network, and current traffic levels your blog has a variety of options.  Now find your blog’s formula below to maximize your earnings.

 For Beginner

You have known who you are- Low levels of traffic, relatively new blog, little or no internet experience, no design or seo skills, and probably a sense frustration over the lack of earnings. A few options in this section are better then others and matter of fact all of them can be used no matter what level you are currently at.  Novices can use any beginner level monetization methods and Probloggers have the luck of using everything and anything they see fit.
PPC – Pay Per Click is an advertising program in which ads are placed on our blogs and we are paid whenever our visitors click on the ads.  It is the most common method bloggers use to make money online.  It involves almost no effort and is so incredibly easy that many blogs have too much advertising on them.   Money is maximized as traffic levels increase.
CPM - Cost Per Thousand (“M” is roman numeral for thousand) is an impression based advertising system.  It means advertisers place ads on our blogs and we are paid based on how many times the ad shows up.  This can be profitable for blogs with big traffic, and can start to bring money to even the smallest blogs.  All we need is pageviews to increase this monetization method.
Money Widgets – It’s a very simple advertising system which is easily integrated into our blog’s sidebar with widget advertising.  Just embed the widget into our sidebar and watch the ads begin.
In-Text Ads – We know what these ads are. We have probably seen them all over small blogs and websites on the internet.  They are links with double-lines below them.  While sometimes useful for blog owner’s pockets, they eventually irritate and annoy most readers into leaving the blog and not returning/subscribing.  In-text ads should be used with caution.
Parked Domains – Have a few domains you are planning on using soon but are not ready to start?  Parked domains serve the purpose as advertisement and traffic redirection.  This is perhaps the easiest way to make money, though in small doses, online.  Just get a domain name and use the very easy parked domain programs.
Examples: Parked Google Parked
Donations – We have probably all seen the little button that says “donate” in some ones sidebar.  This is an easy and perhaps out-of-date way to try and earn some revenue. Some programmers use this still, but very little revenue is earned through the donation feature.  Think ourselves, have we ever donated?  But still it is simple and if we don’t mind the button then go ahead and try.
Examples: Paypal – it really is the only major ‘donate’ resource around!
Affiliate Marketing – Perhaps the most lucrative process for earning money online is by using our blogs to recommend useful and relevant products to your readers.  We have seen the examples by the many bloggers linking to different themes, ebooks and other products.  The best thing about affiliate marketing is that you are only marketing the product and not selling it.  Just make sure the product is relevant and not over-used.  Read more.
Text Link Ads – As our blogs builds reputation and traffic your posts/pages become great places for links.  Lot of people will even pay you to put their link on your website or page.  While it has earning potential, be leery of this form of revenue as it may be detrimental to our blogs in Google’s algorithm.  So study it out before we make our decision.
Feed Ads – An easy way to increase the advertisement on our blogs is by adding them to our rss feeds.  The simplest way is to get Feedburner and set it up for our blogs.  Once we have done that then click on the monetize tab and Google Adsense will be added to our feeds in almost one-click!
Paid Surveys and Polls –We fill out surveys and polls or place them on our blogs for others to fill out and earn money.  In doing this option is careful to find survey or poll companies that have credible backgrounds as this is a source for scammers.
Examples: VizuAnswers
Pop-up Ads – These pesky and annoying advertisements may be great for some of our niche blogs or sub-domains.  Not worth putting on blogs we actually want to build a community on, pop-up ads offer decent revenue to blogs looking to exist but not grow significantly.  But be aware that it is annoying to the reader.
Audio Ads – “You are a winner”, “You may have just won a free Ipod”, etc. These audio ads can be much targeted to our traffic and very successful or completely useless.  For instance, many surfers do not even have their sound on while they surf to avoid such advertisements.  I would recommend not using this sort of advertisement for long-term projects.
Examples: NetAudio
Article Marketing–  A two-edged sword.  We get both quality backlinks to your blogs and its posts while also creating earning potential.  I use Squidoo and Associated Content personally and earn enough money to support my blogging efforts and some advertising.  It’s also very easy through the simple resources available to us.  Using this blogging income source is both potentially lucrative and excellent marketing.

For Novice

Now think us as a novice and we have more experience and a lot more traffic.  Because of the increase in visitors the potential to earn more is also greater.  Here are a few extra things we can include into our earning formula from the beginning level.  Again, make sure to find what is right for our blogs.
Direct Banner – With PPC and CPM advertising there is potential to make money, but direct banner ads bring advertising on our blogs to a new level.  It takes a little more work but we can find ourselves making much more money and doing it pretty quickly.  I use OIOPublisher and it is a premium plug-in that completely rocks.  It even offers affiliate incomes to others who will try to get advertisers for your blog.  Read more.
Premium Content – Proper example of premium content is SeoMoz.  They have lots of great content on SEO for free, but to get the ultimate SEO resources we have to pay a monthly fee. To make premium content on our blogs just have to create a post or page using WordPress.  Then in the publish toolbox click on “edit” on the “visibility” option.  Then choose “password protected”.  Set our password and publish.  The only to do then is create a lead page that explains the premium content and allows people to pay, using paypal or another source to get the password emailed to them.
Examples: WordPress, Paypal
Sponsored Reviews – These are reviews of products through direct contact by the product owner or through a review site.  A good example of a product review is WP Content Robot.  It is easy and you usually get to try out some pretty cool products for free.
Sponsored Post - Like a sponsored review these are posts paid for by others.  What this usually looks like is a post created about a specific website or allowing the post to link to another blog with very specific and targeted keyword links.
Examples: PayPerPost
Theme or Template Sales – To get this money making product going we first need some serious design skills or the money to pay for someone to develop it.  Once a unique design is created premium themes can go from $19 -$200.  There is great earning potential in creating themes and another very advantageous bonus.  When we create your theme a link is put into the footer of the theme with our blog’s url.  So the more themes that are used the more backlinks to our blogs.
Private Forums – Creating a private forum is a great way for bloggers to capitalize on their contacts and build a tight-knit and motivated community.  Some of these communities can be used for social media manipulation and many other “secret” and “exclusive” means.  We can make the fee yearly or monthly if you wish and start to build a steady income through member participation.
Site Flipping - The process of site flipping usually involves the creation of design, content, and some traffic to then go and sell the blogs.  The easiest way for doing this is by forming a partnership and getting someone to design the blogs while the other writes content and markets it.  For more about read Site-Flipping.
Examples: Digital Point Sitepoint (both are great for selling your site)
Plug-in Sales – Warning: programming required!  If we can develop or know someone who can develop a plug-in for wordpress then we have the potential to make and sell premium plug-ins.  The first step is to find something extremely useful and unique.  Then create an affordable plug-in to assist bloggers in their task to rule the blogosphere.
Email Newsletters – These are becoming extremely popular.  The purpose of the email newsletter is to build up a mailing list of email addresses and then use the emails you send to drive traffic, sales, or income in a variety of ways.  Creativity is the best way to use this revenue source.  Additionally it is important to start building your email list as soon as possible.  But be warned that most newsletter services of any value cost money (but not a lot).
Ebook Sales – Writing an ebook is a great way to establish credibility and expertise in our niche while also providing a handsome income.  The way it works is that we provide a very useful resource – like an electronic book and then others buy it.  The best way to understand the process is by learning how to write an ebook and then how to sell it.
Examples: E-Junkie WP E-Commerce (2 great ways to sell your book)
Freelance Work – Once we have established ourselves we can start consulting, writing, designing, and offering other services through our blogs.  I have had a lot of experience with consulting and it is a great income and a lot of fun. So let’s use our blogs to showcase our skills.  Blogs are the ultimate portfolio.
Examples: Paypal WP E-Commerce (ways to sell your services)
Membership Site – If we have the drive to make great lessons, tutorials, classes, or other content worthy of a membership site then we should definitely do it.  They are all the rage right now and show a great way to earn a regular income.  With new products online, the set-up has never been easier.  I would definitely check out the resource if you have ever thought about a membership site.
Examples: Wishlist

Problogger

After completing above steps, we are an expert at getting traffic and building our blogs.  The next thing we need to do is apply all the right things from the list above and use our traffic to leverage the new moneymakers below.  We’re the expert so get started!
Job Boards – Big blogs and bloggers have realized that there is great money in job boards.  A great example of this is Problogger’s job board.  Anybody gets a monthly fee just to post the job opportunity and creates a lot of buzz for his blog with it too.  When we become the place for people in our niche to come to, start a job board.
Event Sponsors – Having events on our blogs are great ways to get more traffic and revenue.  For example hold a blogathon (blogging marathon), contests, featured story, giveaways and other events to bring traffic and get sponsors to pay us for.  A good example would be to have a webzine that is extremely publicized and then to get a relevant company to sponsor the event.  Thus we are getting more traffic and money in one big hit.
Selling or Renting a Single Page – Doing this is difficult but far too under-utilized.  The process involves in building a great blog with good traffic and especially good pagerank and then selling internal pages/posts to anyone willing to pay.  They get a sales page or whatever on a great blog and you gets an income.  A good example of this is Pagerank10
Marketplaces – Sitepoint is the best example of a marketplace.  It is just like it sounds a place for everyone to sell products, sites, domain names, services, etc. on your site. We get the traffic and links along with commission in many cases while the user gets to buy or sell.  Traffic or a very unique niche is a must to succeed with this income earner.
Hardcover Book - Afterwe have established ourselves in our niche as a leading authority we can now publish a book on our topic of choice.  Some publishers even go from blog to book with almost no effort.  So if we are interested in seeing your book in the flesh (paper flesh) then looks into these resources.
Others - In addition to all of the above there are many smaller incomes. Speaking Fees is one of them. I get asked to do a lot of speaking and increasingly they are paid opportunities. I’m not able to do as many as I would like on travel usually. However, I did a couple of events and the income was enough to include in this list.

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