EARN FROM BLOGGING

Make Money Online from
Home - A Beginners' Guide
Times are hard! But as
those wise old philosophers
in the US of A say "when
the going gets tough, the
tough get blogging!" So,
you have decided to make
money online blogging .
You figure how difficult
can it be? A bunch of other
loonies are doing it so why
not me? You just create a
blog (free with Blogger).
Sign up for AdSense (free).
Stick the AdSense ads on
your free blog. Write some
stuff. Then check your
AdSense account ten times
a day to count the money
rolling in! Easy peasy!
The bad news is, it ain't
that easy, but the good
news is - it is possible!
So before we get going
here is a little poem I
wrote, I call it - "I'm
Blogging for Money,
Honey"
(Nervous cough)
Making money blogging
Has got to be easier than
logging
No more hard work
slogging
Chopping up that wood
No more hunting beaver
With your dirty cleaver
Now you're a high achiever
Beaver likes you good
I think that about sums it
up. Become a famous
blogger, make a pile of
dosh and those pesky
beavers will take care of
themselves. Beavers have
apparently already invaded
cyber space, gnawing away
at cyber logs with their
little teeth, hypnotizing
law-abiding citizens by
fluttering their cute beaver
eyelashes and generally
creating havoc. But fear
not, with your new-found
beaver trapping skills you
will soon have them eating
out of your hand. Do
beavers eat wood? Who
knows? But that's
something for you to
Google (later! - pay
attention I'm just getting to
the important bit). Right
now we've got to trap the
smelly little critters.
So, here goes. To make
money blogging there are
basically two methods,
which I have very
considerately numbered 1
and 2 to make them easier
to follow.
Two Ways to Make Money
Blogging
1. Copy what other
successful billionaire
bloggers do.
2. Do something totally
unique i.e. something
that no-one else has
ever done.
If you want to follow route
no. 2 that's fine, you just
need a unique (and
interesting) idea - like
those guys who created
that cute cat can i haz
cheezeburger site, which
just took off and made
them a pile of money. Your
great unique idea gets a
viral infection and a million
visitors a day fall about
laughing at cats (I was
going to say pussies but I
don't want people thinking
I'm crude) and you make
pots of money. Good luck.
If you don't fancy the route
1 way to making money
blogging, then you need to
follow good old route 2
i..e. copy what other
blogging trailblazers have
done. We ain't proud.
Now this is where it gets
complicated, so I will now
subdivide this route no. 1
into two further sections
will I shall call 1A. and 1B.
[My night at a swanky dog
food restaurant - Chez
Woof]
In method 1A. you follow
the route of the famous 'A'
list money-making
zillionaire blogger 'gurus'
e.g Mr Problogger, Mr John
Chow, Mr Shoemoney, Mr
Dosh Dosh, Mr BigFat
Money Maker etc... and
others who all write the
same 'wonderful
content' (wonderful if you
can't get to sleep that is) -
haven't you heard 'content
is king' ha ha - you write
wonderful content about
how to catch your beaver
by enticing it in to your lair
with an old sock or was it
an old sack ? hmmmm I
must check that out again,
maybe I got it wrong ? -
they all have wonderful
sites (usually on
Worpdress) and thousands
of adoring beaver fans who
religiously dissect the
entrails of their blogs every
day, click on their ads. and
buy all that stuff they
advertise down the sides
and on the top. Thus
making the gurus a whole
pile of dosh, but not
making the disciples a cent.
They make their money
from advertising or selling
stuff which the disciples
buy.
That certainly is one way of
trapping those beavers. Like
Mr John Chow once said "I
make money by telling
people how much money I
make."
These sites do work,
apparently (let's face it I
ain't got access to their
bank accounts so I gotta
take what they and others
say on trust) - but they
have largely cornered that
particular beaver market
and so you would have to
be some sort of genius
brain surgeon rocket
scientist smelly nerd
ubergeek to get a piece of
that action. But once
you've cracked it, it don't
matter how disgusting you
look, those beavers will
find you irresistible !
Can it be done? Maybe.
Good luck. But, bear this in
mind, one guy who had a
site that looked very much
like these guru sites and
who had lots of readers
and adoring fans leaving
multiple comments along
the lines of "gee thanks
Garry for the great post" !
(despite the fact that you
can read the same posts on
any and every blogging
site) recently said it was all
a crock of beaver poo.
Despite the fact that he
had a great looking site
and lots of fans and
readers, he wasn't making
any money ! How do we
know this? Am I guessing ?
Have I hacked his bank
account ? No, that was not
necessary, because in an
admirable display of
honesty he wrote a post
explaining how his blog
made NO MONEY and
never would and how
"social networks are
stupid" and how they have
provided "absolutely ZERO
help towards the growth of
this blog". Way to go Garry!
It takes courage to do that,
and Garry Conn had (and
still has) a good-looking
blog going. You can Google
him too (later !) - I ain't
puting a link up, 'cause
although he told it like it
was he still don't deserve
one of my PR0 links !
So, that's enough of make
money blogging method
1a. - I could go on, but you
get the picture - nice-
looking blogs are fine and
may make you some
friends, and may make
money for the A list
bloggers, but in these harsh
economic times you will
need to be good to make
money doing what they do
(and catching those furry
wriggly little beavers of
course!).
So now we come to
method 1B. - much less
glamorous, but more
effective. And also more
logical.
Method 1a always seemed
illogical to me and I thank
Garry for confirming my
belief. But for method 1b I
have to thank a certain Mr
Grizzly, who explained how
a beginner should go
about making money
blogging.
First, find something you
want to blog about and,
more important,
something that other
people want to read
about (personally I
recommend an actual
product that people
already want to buy e.g.
loft insulation -
mmmmmmmmmm loft
insulation, crazy stuff
but people do actually
buy it, if they've still got
a house that is).
Second, create a blog
(free using Blogger) so
that you can actually
blog about loft
insulation, not just think
about it.
Third, sign up for an
AdSense account (free).
Fourth, blog away to
your heart's content
about loft insulation,
then stick your AdSense
ads. on your blog. That is
the basics, but to
actually make any
money is a bit more
complicated there are a
few more things you
need to do . A blog that
nobody ever visits is
clearly of no use to
anyone. People have got
to find your blog! You
need visitors to make
money blogging. So,
how do people find
blogs? They type stuff
into Google that they
are looking for and click
search. Then what do
they do? They click on
the sites that are first in
the list!
There are statistics
somewhere that show that
something like 60% of
people click on the site
that is Number 1 on Page
1. 20% click on Number 2
5% click on Number 3 etc...
- so if you are on page 245
for loft insulation then you
will be waiting a long time
before you catch that
beaver !
The only way people are
going to find your blog
about loft insulation is if
your blog turns up on the
first page of Google when
people search for "loft
insulation". Google at the
moment gives me 442,000
pages if I Google loft
insulation without quotes,
if I put it between quotes
"loft insulation" I get
244,000 pages.
That's a lot of competition,
but if you add another
keyword to your search
such as 'savings' the results
are reduced to 43,000 -
that's more manageable, so
when writing your loft
insulation blog posts make
sure to include the word
savings - that's just an
example by the way. Make
plenty of posts and include
the same keywords each
time.
This on its own, however, is
not enough. In addition to
the keywords (and don't
repeat the keywords too
often - as Google doesn't
like it and will penalize you
for it - Google has lots of
hoops you gotta jump
through, but unfortunately
Google is the boss, as it's
their ball you're playing
with, so you either play or
get gone and find your
own beavers) - you need
backlinks!
What are backlinks? They
are links to your site from
someone else's site and this
is the tricky part. Reciprocal
links i.e. you link to my site
and I link to yours are not
so good - another Google
hoop - Google is not too
keen on reciprocal links,
although they are better
than nothing, what you
need are one-way links
from someone else's site to
yours.
One way, and, allegedly,
the best way to get
backlinks is to write articles
and post them to places
like GoArticles.com. Why
would you do that?
Because you can include a
backlink to your blog at
the bottom of your article.
If your article is really good,
or even if its really awful,
other lazy people will
download it and use it on
other sites, so you get more
backlinks and your traffic
increases exponentially !
That is the theory, but I'm a
lazy ole son of a gun so I
ain't got round to doing it
yet. which probably
explains why my sites are
languishing on page 699 of
Google and people find
this blog by typing in crazy
stuff like 'Fila
Brasileiro' (it's a dog in case
you were wondering).
Well, that's the beginning,
forget about trying to
outgolf Tiger Woods (he
makes most of his money
from sponsorships anyway)
do what works. Bloggers
are basically publishers
and, like newspapers, they
make their money from
advertising. So, this make
money blogging post is
long enough and longer
than I intended and I need
a rest. I will carry on with
this intriguing beaver hunt
at a later date, for reasons
known only to myself, in
the meantime, as I am a bit
of a novice in this
particular area of blogging,
despite having been
around for two years, I
recommend you check out
Mr Grizzly's site, he is a
veritable encyclopedia.
So far, as far as I can tell
he's the only one who talks
any sense (but once again I
ain't checked his bank
balance so I'm taking a lot
on faith - although he has
posted about how much
he makes) - he knows a lot
more than me (but he ain't
so good looking) and if
he's right then it is feasible.
Do I make money from
blogging? Yes. But not
much with this blog as yet.
Most of the money I make
blogging comes from my
financial blog - about
online stock trading how
much do I make ? Not
enough to pay the rent but
enough to make me carry
on 'cause I think I can do it
better.
So if you've read this far
then well done and thank
you for sticking with it. I
recommend you check out
Mr Grizzly's site - the link is
somewhere back up in this
post - and that represents
another gratuitous one-
way link back to Griz's site -
like I said he appears to be
the best at explaining how
it works.
So until I come back and
continue this saga I will
leave you with another
poem
Staring at my PC screen
I saw that life was just a
dream
But I was broke
Which was no joke
So I awoke
And now there's no-one to
be seen
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