Making Money with Your Blog
BY NELL
TALIERCIO
I’ve sure you’ve heard before
that it’s a possibility to make money with your blog and you
may be wondering how this is possible. And were they really
meant for making money or just for journaling your personal
thoughts? I’m not sure what they were intended for but they
are great ways to make money.
I have a personal blog which
is just my own private little place to go online and jot down
my thoughts, but I also have my business blogs.
Back in the Beginning
Now to be honest with you in
the beginning of my blogging experience I really wasn't sure
what I should do with my blog. I knew I wanted to make money
with it, but I didn’t know how. I didn’t know what I could do
to not only be a value to others so they would come back to my
blog, but that I would still enjoy writing it.
So it was really important to
me that I find a topic in which I would be excited about, and
have enough to offer so that I could blog every week or so.
After starting a blog that was meant to just be an add on to
my business at MommysPlace.net and struggling with the
direction of that blog, I came across one of Alice Seba’s
blogs. Which she used to write about her experience through a
traffic product.
Every couple of weeks or so
she would update her progress through this course. She would
tell us all about her successes with this product and how
great it was for her business. And it made me think of how I
could do something similar.
Product/Service Focused Blog
This is when the light bulb
moment went off in my head. This is when I realized what I
should have been doing all along. I have been a member of a
exclusive coaching program for mothers in business.
Since joining this program my
business has seen great success. My income has increased more
then five times what it was before I joined and my traffic has
increased even more then that.
I enjoy and believe in this
coaching program and it happens to have an affiliate program.
I often got email from other work at home mothers who wanted
to know my thoughts on this program.
Taking a cue from Alice’s blog
I decided to start my own such blog. And named it
Mom Masterminds Journey
- okay, not a catchy title, but I'm no good with picking names
;)
I used this blog for the
purpose of documenting my successes with my business. My
projects, new content added to my website, keyword phrases I
was ranking for... etc. Basically anything that had to do with my
business, that was directly or indirectly because of my
joining Mom Masterminds, I jotted down.
Not only was this the best
move I could have made for my promoting this affiliate link it
also served as a great way to really see for myself the
successes my business was achieving and also to keep me on
track.
This is one way you could make
money with a blog. There are other ways you could make money
with a blog if you don’t want to devote a blog to one service
or product you’re promoting.
Side Kick Blog
For instance, my
Mommy's Working Virtually blog is a side kick to
MommysPlace.net and my forums. This is a blog in which I
update my members on additions to the website, newsletter and
forums. Updating any important telecommuting or business news
and can promote my adsense and any other affiliate programs.
So this blog serves more then
one purpose. My main goal with this blog is to get traffic to
certain sections of my website. I have a large website and
it’s not always easy for people to find my information. So
this is a great way for me to keep certain new pages or
sections of my website in the public eye and get traffic to
those pages. It also serves as a way to make money with
adsense and affiliate programs. And lastly it gives exposure
to my forum and my newsletter.
There can be many ways and
many topics in which you can make money and gain exposure to
other businesses you may have or can help in creating you as
an expert in a certain field.
Just take the time to really
think about what you could be writing about and then how you
can make money with that as well. You can take a look at
others blogs to get an idea and see what other people are
looking for.
Making Money With Your Blog -
Resources
Blogs to Riches- is an ebook
that details ways you can make your blog profitable. And the
really cool thing with this is if you list the publishers link
on your blog for 45 days he will give you this ebook for free!
If you don't want to wait that long you can also purchase it
for a low price.
Increasing Adsense - is an
ebook about how to increase your adsense revenue. This ebook
isn't specifically geared towards blogs, but the information
you will learn you can use with your blogs. (As well as
websites and forums... anywhere you have adsense.)
Don't know what adsense is?
Go to
www.google.com/adsense to learn more.
Ready to Blog?
Are you ready to take the leap
into a blog? If so, it’s really very easy to set up a blog.
The one resource I have used for all my blogs has been
blogger.com. This is free, easy, and fun. There are many
templates to chose from and you can customize yours if you
would like.
I have used the general
template for my mom masterminds blog and I have customized my
Mommy's Workin Virtually blog with different
colors and fonts then what it came with. I also have that
hosted on my own domain, but you certainly don’t have to do
that.
Submit Your Blog
After you create your blog you
will want to submit it to blog directories to help get your
blog out in front of the public. Some of the directories you
can try are:
Feeds
Next, you need to add feeds to
your blog. What is a feed? Good question. I don’t know the
exact way to describe a feed nor do I have a lot of valuable
information on this subject.
This is still very new to me,
but I can tell you briefly what a feed does. You add a little
graphic to your blog. It can be for someone's yahoo page, msn
page and other ways.
When they click on that they
can add your blog to their personal yahoo page. Then every
time you add a new post they are alerted on their yahoo page
that you have posted AND it even shows the topic of the post
and how long ago it was posted.
This is one of the best
resources I’ve found in keeping people coming back to your
blog. They can subscribe to it so easily and they will be
automatically updated whenever you have posted. It’s pretty
easy to add an RSS feed to your blog. The resource I
personally use is
FeedBurner.
Watch Out Blogging World -
Here I Come!
Now, see how simple this
really can be? You can make money with a blog, gain exposure
for another business or websites, can create yourself as an
expert on a certain topic, can create a blog for free, get it
listed for free and start an RSS feed for free! Now get out
there and start blogging.
Nell Taliercio is the owner
MommysPlace.net, a work at home mom resource website packed full of
unique information for the telecommuter, business owner and
virtual assistant.
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