Can You Make a Living Blogging?
By craig | October 6, 2008
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Tap Into The Many Available Revenue Streams
Is it possible to make a living blogging? This is not a rhetorical question and the answer is yes. How do we know the answer is yes? Because it is a fact a number of people have actually made a full time living blogging. While the way it is done is not easy, it can be done. The blogger simply needs to tap into one (or a combination) of the many viable financial revenue streams available to those who wish to make a living blogging.
The More Blogs, The More Money
On a baseline level, it is important that the blogger possesses more than one blog. Let the truth be told: it is not easy to generate a great deal of money from one blog and one blog alone. However, if you have a number of blogs and they are all possess solid search engine placement and solid traffic, you can quantify your income. In other words, if you have one blog earning $100 a month you will make $100. If you have 10 blogs making $100 a month, then you will earn $1,000. The more blogs you operate the more money you can earn provided you give each blog the proper attention necessary in order to become successful.
So, what are the revenue streams that exist?
Get Paid To Blog
The easiest way to make a living blogging involves signing up with a “get paid to blog” service. These services essentially pay you to write and place product advertisements as a blog entry. The fees for this can range from $3 an entry to $50 per entry. There are a multitude of these companies on the net (some more successful than others) that can provide a solid weekly or monthly income. They are well worth exploring.
Affiliate Sales And PPC
Other ways of earning money involve affiliate and pay per click advertisements. These methods derive money from visitor participation. That is, if a visitor buys something from an affiliate ad or clicks on a pay per click ad, the blogger gets a commission. The commissions, however, are very small so quantity is important here. That means your blog must have a great deal of traffic. Of course, several blogs that possess significant traffic will yield even greater financial results. So, while a lot of “legwork” is required to make a living blogging, if you do perform the legwork you may be quite successful.
My Favorite, Create Your Own Products
If you are not aware by now from reading my blog, the best way to make money blogging is to create products that relate to your blog niche. To me, putting in all the hard work to create sales pages, ppc campaigns, autoresponders, ect. to earn money as an affiliate when it could be my own products just doesn’t make any sense. Why do all that when I can be the boss. Remember my basic formula: Products + Copywriting + SEO = Successful Internet Business
Successful Internet Business Products
Get your own products, set up your blog, and put the time and effort into your internet business to make it successful. I have several products on the right hand side of my blog to help you get there. Make use of them. They’re not there for decoration. They work in my business and have worked for many others. If something is not effective, or doesn’t work, or lacks benefit, I won’t be using it and it won’t be listed. Make a plan, and work your plan. See you at the top!
Until next time, great success in all you do!
-Craig
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