Blogging is perhaps one of the most interesting activities in the internet. People of any age do blogs and there must be something interesting to it that makes them spend most of their time doing it.
Blogging comes from the root word “blog” which literally means online diaries with articles, writings, photos, web links and other entries or items made by the “blogger” or blog creator. The entries in the blog are arranged in a chronological order wherein the latest post comes first. Blogs created today mostly allows other people to leave comments to topics.
There are different kinds of blogs; the simplest would be text-only blogs. This kind of blogs is created by Web surfers to express their varied and random thoughts. Blogs also caught religious, political, business, and media organizations. Most of these kinds of blogs contain multimedia content (videos, photos, audio) and postings.
But these are not only what blogs are for. They are not merely for writing about politics, religion, business and the like. They’re not only for the sole purpose of having online diaries. So, what else can blogs give us?
Actually, the truth behind the colorful templates is the opportunity of dollars that we can generate. Seems interesting right? Here are some tactics on how to get money from blogging:
Big blog route or “Flagship” – this is the most time-consuming and the most profitable blog venture. This method directs your focus on a few blogs to make them popular. Flagship blogs must have a large audience and a high number of daily visitor traffic.
Advantage: big blogs market or promote themselves automatically as long as it has reached a certain level of fame. It gives more monetization options for your logs and personal satisfaction.
Disadvantage: A lot of work and creative ideas is needed here if you want this route that’s why this is very time consuming.
Get Paid to Blog Route or “Pay per Post” – these is done through setting up multiple niche blogs on a free blog hosts or in your own domain and maintain them over a period of time. Concentrate on writing content and building their Google PageRank. You can then submit your blogs and get paid to blog websites and you can then start writing sponsored posts.
Advantage: you don’t need to have a large audience just to make money. If you can have at least 20 visitors a day then you can make $15 out of it.
Disadvantage: This has no passive income and writing multiple sponsored blog is needed that could be tedious and time-consuming.
Automated Blogging – what needs to be done here is the set-up of blogs that automatically pull content from search engines, news sources and RDD feeds to serve as content to yours site.
Advantage: a little work will do here since you don’t really have to write the content. A little regular maintenance and SEO might be needed here.
Disadvantage: If you don’t understand the whole process you’ll surely earn a little too. You also need a large number of blogs here to earn a lot.
The Text Link Selling Blog Route – this method is the selling of text links to webmasters and businesses who wants improvement in their site ranking in Google.
Advantage: This is much easier and much work is not involved here. Traffic is not a factor in this blog, as long as the site has a high PageRank; this will be very attractive to link buyers.
Disadvantage: There could be a limit to the number of links you can post and your earnings here is not consistent since this will depend if you attain the high PageRank.
The Made-for-Ad sense or Made-for-Affiliate-Program Route – this is a method wherein you focus on a specific topic with moderately-high priced keywords.
Advantage: Little time is needed to update and write the blogs since you don’t need to write the content.
Disadvantage: There could be a lot of competition that can make your earning-of-money tough.
The Contract Blogging Route or Blog Network – this is where you get to join a blog network and earn money by submitting blogs.
Advantage: Stable income is assured in this method.
Disadvantage: if you are good in creating blog you can create your own blog but this will depend on the agreement you’ll receive.
The Blog-as-Marketing or Branding Route – one can only use this if he/she owns an online business or providing a freelance service like marketing consultation, copy writing or web design.
Advantage: helps your business to develop visibility since you can create your own creative content in promoting your business.
Disadvantage: your earning will depend on the quality of service you are offering. Income is inconsistent and indirect with this method.
So if you want to start earning dollars from blogging, be sure to pick one of those methods mentioned above.
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