A blog is an expression of yourself in written form. Basically, it is your thoughts, your ideas, your stories, your opinions, and your information displayed through your written voice. Blogs can be written on just about anything. Although making your blog pay you may not have been the original goal, it is certainly something that most blog owners wouldn't say no to, if they could make it happen. Earning revenue via your blog can be a very satisfying experience.
Writing diaries and journals has been a popular activity since paper and pen were readily available. So when the internet rolled around, it only made sense that writers put their words on the computer. These diaries or journals weren't called blogs until Joran Barger phrased the term "weblog." It was through a simple joke from a blogger, Peter Merholz that cut weblog into we blog. Other bloggers began picking up the word blog and soon it spread like wildfire.
Still for all this, the term "blog" remained relatively unknown to the mainstream public until bloggers ousted the 2002 Senate Majority Leader. Trent Lott. Senator Lott made some statements that were largely ignored by the general media who covered the event. Bloggers started writing about these hot comments. As more of the public became aware, Senator Lott became the center of a controversy. Finally, public pressure was too much and Senator Lott resigned from being the Senate Majority Leader.
Senator Lott was not the only victim of his own "fame". The popular news show "60 Minutes" also fell victim to the tenaciousness of the blogger community. News anchor, Dan Rather, was reporting a story about President Bush's military service. Documents presented to backup the story were later discovered to be forged and it was bloggers once again who raised the uproar. As a result, Dan Rather was fired and CBS had to broadcast a somewhat red-faced apology to the public.
Some bloggers have a hard time keeping fresh content in their blogs or other activities come up that steal away their time. When this happens, they often put their blogs along with the domain name up for sale. This is where you can make money without actually having to write a blog. You can buy these lower priced blogs, fix them up a little just like you would for a renovation on an inexpensive house and then resell them for a profit.
Advertisers spend millions getting word of their product out to the consumers. Your blog can tap into some of this money by placing ads. Ad companies such as Google ( Google Adsense) and Adbright pay you for visitors who click your ads. From there you can select from the thousands of ads that reflect the content in your blog.
The advantage of having ads is that they can generate residual income. You can leave your blog alone for a few weeks and still have money come in from them. It is not even necessary to move them around occasionally since Google can put video ads, picture ads or just plain text ads on your blog... Thus creating a kind of fresh pictorial content if thats the type of ad that you allow Google to place on your blog.
Affiliate marketing is one of the most powerful tools for generating income for your blog. Basically, you use your blog to sell someone else's products for a percentage of the sales. Usually, the best products to put nice pretty "affiliate tagged" images of on your blog are those that are related to your blog topic. Your enthusiasm for the related topic will help the product to sell itself to the customers. And as a bonus for helping to keep your blog interesting, you can get great graphics that are not **just pretty pictures**.
Check out places like Clickbank, Commission Junction, and LinkShare for finding the right related products to put on your blog. There are literally thousands of products that you can earn a commission on. More sales mean more money for you.
Just remember, too many ads are a turn-off to potential customers. Messy looking blogs with too much advertising turns away customers and everyone runs from over-commercialization. So keep your blogs looking like they are offering more information than advertising and you should be doing just great.
Getting more people to visit your blog is important to generating sales or getting more ad revenue. The more people who visit your site, the more potential for income that you have. Traffic can be directed toward your blog by commenting in other topic related blogs and leaving your own blog address in those. Consider putting your blog address in your signature as your comment in forums and don't be shy to put your blog url/address in your Facebook, Hi5, Orkut, Linkln or Myspace accounts for more curiousity seeking traffic.
These two big search engines, Yahoo and MSN appear to be making blogs a priority. If your blog is set up properly, instead of alerting just rpc.pingomatic.com when a new article has been added, your blog may or could ping/alert 100-200 additional search engines whenever you add new items to your blog. This can bring new readers and alert repeat visitors that there is something new on your site. It will help drive new traffic to your site when people are searching for a subject related to your blog.
The power of a blog can be extraordinary. Most of us who have blogs update them once or twice a month, oblivious to the fact that there are others who are earning tremendous 6 and 7 figure amounts from their blog. At some point in time, most of us have heard of these few geniuses and have even tried a few things to see how we can monetize our blogs. Unfortunately most of us have failed or just not made more than a few dollars monthly. The truth is that sometimes a few simple changes can both increase traffic exponentially and also create a steady income of $50 to $100 dollars daily on autopilot, which most of us would find to be quite fantastic. What kind of changes would those be? Click below to find out.
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