Can you give me Tips to Help to Make Money Blogging?

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Can you give me Tips to Help to Make Money Blogging?

[WhoJayBe]

Man, if I had a nickel every time I heard that.

Let's see, where should we start...

First thing you need to do is build a blog, add content, build links and get traffic, monetize it by either PPC ads or affiliate ads and once you do that, keep building links and focus on getting the traffic up.

Of course, there's more to it and I cover a lot of it on my blog but I'm sure it won't be very appropriate to link to a ton of my articles... don't wanna look like a shameless spammer.

[HeavyD]

Please do share your blog if it pertains to the question.
The most valuable thing you can do to make money is to have valuable information on your blog. You know the saying, "Build it and they will come" and it holds true if you build it well with information or entertainment people want to see.
Companies pay good money to advertise in newspapers as well as at ball parks and arenas. You will make money when you have a lot of eyes on your pages...

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Here's a place to start: Make Money Blogging

[WhoJayBe]

Well, my blog is DatMoney.com and I just write about my online entrepreneurship in general. Hope it helps!

[axiomwolf]

A good place to start is waiting until you have over 500 unique visitors a day before you start bombarding them with ads, charging for memberships or anything like that. Keep it simple at first, keep it content based. Then you can worry about money later. Blogs are not a quick buck. It will take at least 6 months minimum to start making any money at all.

[WhoJayBe]

Originally Posted by axiomwolf

A good place to start is waiting until you have over 500 unique visitors a day before you start bombarding them with ads, charging for memberships or anything like that. Keep it simple at first, keep it content based. Then you can worry about money later. Blogs are not a quick buck. It will take at least 6 months minimum to start making any money at all.

I actually disagree with the six month minimum on starting to make any money at all with a blog. If you do it right, you can potentially make decent money within the first month. But it all depends on how hard you work on them, what your niche is with the competition, how you're monetizing (it will vary depending on PPC, affiliate links, etc) and so on.

But if you spend good time on it then you definitely will see good money way before you hit six months.

[HeavyD]

WhoJayBe- What type of money are we all talking here? I would love to be able to have blogs that could turn 3k-5k a month. I am very new to blogging and my current blog thedouglasduo(dot)com is currently just for fun and I never started it with the intent to make money but I have found I really enjoy blogging thus far and would love to be able to make real money doing it. Is this truly possible? Thanks

[ChickenFreak]

Originally Posted by HeavyD

WhoJayBe- What type of money are we all talking here? I would love to be able to have blogs that could turn 3k-5k a month. I am very new to blogging and my current blog thedouglasduo(dot)com is currently just for fun and I never started it with the intent to make money but I have found I really enjoy blogging thus far and would love to be able to make real money doing it. Is this truly possible? Thanks

I think that it's quite unlikely for a blog that you don't actively run as a hardworking, lots-of-hours-and-some-investment business to make any significant amount of money. There are lots and lots of get-rich-quick schemes, but I think that they'll generally turn out the way that all get-rich-quick schemes do.

[Maa]

What do you plan on writing about? You need to choose a topic or niche before you even think about making any money. Because the affiliate companies you choose should revolve closely around your niche. Have you decided on which blog platforms you are going to use yet? Than you have to get traffic to your blog. More traffic equals more money.