Make Money Blogging

There are many ways you can make money online, some are more difficult than others. However, if you are just learning to blog or are interested in seeking ways to make money online blogging, there is a wealth of information that you can find online.

Some of the information you will find is good information, some of it is bad. There are also bloggers that will try and sell you the “foolproof” way to make money with your blog that is a waste of your time and money. Heck, how do you think they are making their money online with their blog? They are selling you an ebook or software product that walks you through the steps of how to make an ebook and sell it to other bloggers.

You won’t find crap like that here.

If you are looking for a simple way, the most efficient steps to make money online with your blog, then stick around.

I will begin a series of articles that will be detailed to help the newest of bloggers and hopefully provide information to experienced bloggers that are wanting to make some money from their blog. If you are looking to expand into niche marketing and create new blogs, we’ll cover that too in good time.

So, let’s start with the basics. I will make no assumptions about what you know. Some of the information about blogging you might already know. That’s good! Help contribute to the conversations we are going to have. Be constructive and share your knowledge. Let’s get started with some myths about making money online with blogging and how they ruin the new blogger.

One of the first myths about how you can make money online with a blog is that you have to post a lot. This isn’t always true. It really depends alot on what your blog is about or who your audience is. If your site deals with a topic that changes frequently, such as the stock market or technology, you might need to post more frequently than someone with a blog about caring for your dog.

Oh, your audience. This is another myth that has been beaten into so many new bloggers by the so called “A-listers” that it makes me sick. There are two types of people that will visit your blog. The social traffic crowd, which come from social network sites such as StumbleUpon, Digg and other social bookmarking sites.

If you are wanting to gain a following and become a popular blogger, then this might be the way for you to go. Just don’t count on making much money with this. Especially if you are wanting to put Adsense on this site, you won’t make it. Social traffic to your site doesn’t click on ads and rarely buys items you are promoting.

Sure, there are exceptions to this rule with some of the more popular sites, but they have one thing going for them. They are targeting a specific topic for each post that people are looking for. They take a post, write a good article that is optimized for that specific topic and put a product with it that people will buy that will help solve that problem or fix an issue.

The next, and best kind of traffic that converts into sales and clicks on your ads is search engine traffic. Why does it work so well? It’s really simple really. If you are writing a post about a new product that will cure Acne and people are searching for it, then chances are much greater that you can monetize this post and site and make money.

This depends on another factor for your blog. Search Engine Optimization. These three simple words can make or break your site. One mistake many new bloggers make when trying to make money online with their site is that they go after the big keywords that are being searched for, such as “credit cards” or “car insurance”. This will lead to frustration and failure quickly. Why?

When going after keywords that people are searching for on Google, you need to check out your competition. You need to see what you can provide that they aren’t. What keywords can your blog target that they aren’t?

Take “car insurance” for example. You might not won’t make money going after that unless you really know what you are doing as far as keyword related backlinks, proper anchor text and how to fully SEO your blog. However, if you live near a town that has a pretty good population, maybe you could go after something like “Cheap car insurance in Cincinnati” or where ever you live. You might have a better shot at that one.

I know, this is a lot of information to take in. Your head is probably thumping right now with information overload and questions about what they hell I am talking about. Trust me, we will work it one step at a time. There are so many ways to make money blogging with your blog that each way is unique, however they most important methods of keyword research, focused anchor text backlinks and on-site SEO will come to you.

I hope you stick around and enjoy this series on how to make money blogging!

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