How to Make Money from Blogging

Believe it or not, you can turn your blogging hobby into a cash machine. You can do blogging to pay for your bills, treat your partner out for dinner, or to pay for your upcoming holiday. It works for everyone and the good news is there’s no secret to make money blogging.

All you need is to become familiar with the different blogging frameworks, know which works best for you, and of course know how to get started. Well, it’s not a difficult process so read on, learn the basics, get started, and start making money now!  

1. The Big Blog or the Flagship Route

This is actually the most-time consuming yet the most profitable blog venture. The Big Blog or the Flagship Route method allows you to focus only on a few blogs to make them extremely popular in their market niche. Flagship blogs generally have a large audience and high visitor traffic numbers. In addition, these big blogs usually offer different options for monetization especially with direct advertising and marketing sales playing a very important role in revenue generation.

Keep in mind however that not everyone has the ability to create a big blog successfully so try this route only if you are confident that you have the required niche knowledge, marketing know-how and networking skills.

2. The Get Paid to Blog or Pay per Post Route

This is a lot simpler than the Big Blog. With this route, you can create multiple niche blogs using free blog hosts or your own domains. Keep them updated and focus on writing relevant contents and building up their link profile, Alexa rank, and Google page rank.

Submit your blogs to different “get paid to blog” sites such as Blogsvertise, Blogitive, Sponsored Reviews, Review Me, LoudLaunch, PayPerPost, and others, and then start writing your sponsored blog posts. 

3. The Splog Route or Automated Blogging

The Splog Route involves creating blogs which routinely pull contents from search engines, news sources, and RSS feeds to serve as contents on your website. Some bloggers use this method to pull partial RSS feeds excerpts, which do not violate some copyrights.

You may also choose to include excerpts with links back to the questioned sites. You may earn from this blogging through contextual ads such as affiliate programs and Google Adsense. 

4. The Selling Blog Route

You make money through this method by selling text links to different businesses and webmasters who want to improve their Google site ranking. While selling text links works best for the flagship and other blog models, websites may also be built for text links primarily.

The overwhelming part of the Selling Blog Route is on niche relevancy and Google Page Rank so you will definitely need to concentrate on these two important factors. You can choose to convert your domain into a sponsored post selling blog and a text link blog or you can buy a domain with an existing PageRank to quickly sell text links and generate income. 

5. The Made-for-Affiliate-Marketing or Made-for-Adsense Route

This method involves creating a blog focused on a specific topic with reasonably high priced keywords. All you need to do is to write around 25 articles with keywords related to the topic, optimize the keywords for searches, set up affiliate or Adsense programs, and leave them to work on their own.

This method emphasizes more on building links to specific Web pages, based on the long tail keywords you are targeting. The visitors will then check your blog and wither convert on a certain product or click on your ads. For this method to work, you will need to be good at SEO in order to get traffic to your site.

6. The Contract Blogging or Blog Network Route

This method involves participating in a network of different blogs and generating income to create blog contents and maintain the blog sites. You will get paid based on the amount of page views. You may also receive a token-based fee or even have a shared on the ad revenue of the blog. 

7. The Branding Route or Blog-as-Marketing

This method is applicable if you have an online business or if you provide freelance services like copy writing, marketing consultation, and Web design. You can use your blog to promote you business or personal brand and attract more potential customers.

The branding route method is an indirect method of generating income. If possible, this type of blog should not be placed with paid reviews or ads because these can tarnish the image of your brand. 

In conclusion, there are different strategies to choose from if you are really interested in making money from your blogs. You can try different methods in order to understand better how blogs really work.

You may also start with a strategy that interests you the most. Whatever strategy you choose, it is essential to understand that you will be successful when you are willing to invest your time and effort not only as a blogger but also to constantly learn how to better grow or monetize your blog.

Improving your knowledge level and skill-set is very important if you are planning to use your blog as your cash machine.