How To Make Money From Blogging?
There is lot of curiosity about making money from blogging. Is it really worth investing time and money in blogging? Can it make money? Well, there are too many questions. I'm dedicating this discussion. First of all, let's do a reality check. There are many popular blogs on the Internet that make hundreds of thousands of dollars. If you've heard about Amit Agrawal of digital inspiration - the man makes couple of thousand dollars by blogging about software tips and tricks. If you want to make money from blogging - what should you do? How to go about it?
How do blogs make money?
There are several ways a blog can make money. However, be assured that how many money a blog makes entirely depends on how much traffic the blog gets, what is the topic of the blog and the location of visitors. In order to generate a significant income, you'll need at least a few thousand visitors to your blog every day from all over the world. Is it easy? Certainly no. Is it impossible. Of course no!
The most popular way for blogs to make money is by selling advertisements on their blogs. There are blogs that make money by recommending useful products/services to their readers (affiliate marketing). There are several other methods like getting paid to write on popular blogs or selling products directly through the blog.
Blogging Success
Success is blogging is majorly defined by how regularly you can write and how much original content you can produce. All the popular blogs of the world have anywhere from 10-20, high-quality, original posts every day! They do it for a long period of time to achieve the traffic and build a loyal readership. If you want to build a successful blog - choose a domain where you can generate lot of useful, informative content on a regular basis.
I invite your ideas, thoughts and questions on this topic in this discussion thread.
How do blogs make money?
There are several ways a blog can make money. However, be assured that how many money a blog makes entirely depends on how much traffic the blog gets, what is the topic of the blog and the location of visitors. In order to generate a significant income, you'll need at least a few thousand visitors to your blog every day from all over the world. Is it easy? Certainly no. Is it impossible. Of course no!
The most popular way for blogs to make money is by selling advertisements on their blogs. There are blogs that make money by recommending useful products/services to their readers (affiliate marketing). There are several other methods like getting paid to write on popular blogs or selling products directly through the blog.
Blogging Success
Success is blogging is majorly defined by how regularly you can write and how much original content you can produce. All the popular blogs of the world have anywhere from 10-20, high-quality, original posts every day! They do it for a long period of time to achieve the traffic and build a loyal readership. If you want to build a successful blog - choose a domain where you can generate lot of useful, informative content on a regular basis.
I invite your ideas, thoughts and questions on this topic in this discussion thread.
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ShrinkDWorldThere are many site/ domain which provide free hosting for blogs. what is your selection about that? Is you prefer free hosting or you will buy it? why? -
Kaustubh Katdare
Free hosting may have their own ups and downs. Check whether you are able to edit the code of your site with this hosting. If yes - no issue in going with them.gg_gauravThere are many site/ domain which provide free hosting for blogs. what is your selection about that? Is you prefer free hosting or you will buy it? why? -
ISHAN TOPREWhat is the difference between my free wordpress blog and Amitabh Bachchan's blog?
Post a detailed explanation for the two. Also tell how to convert an existing free blog into our own private blog.... 10 MKS (RTMNU) 😛 -
Ankita Katdare@Biggie: Thank you so much for the useful tips. I think I will share something in this space soon. 😀
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ISHAN TOPRE@AKD: Perhaps you can solve my above query. How to convert a free blog in to a private one? Do we need to purchase Internet space?
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Kaustubh KatdareI think both your questions aren't related to making money with blogs. Yet since no one has actively asked any other question, I"ll reply to them one by one -
Your free wordpress blog is technically the same as Amitabh Bachchan's blog. Amitabh Bachchan's blog is hosted on a different platform and it makes no different to the 'blog' itself. It's just the AB is already popular and you're currently on your way to over take him.ishutopreWhat is the difference between my free wordpress blog and Amitabh Bachchan's blog?
Post a detailed explanation for the two. Also tell how to convert an existing free blog into our own private blog.... 10 MKS (RTMNU) 😛
Free blog can be converted into your own private one. I'm assuming by 'private' blog, you're referring to a blog that runs on your domain. Otherwise, a private blog is the one which is accessible to only the people you choose.ishutopre@AKD: Perhaps you can solve my above query. How to convert a free blog in to a private one? Do we need to purchase Internet space?
The basics are the same: Get your domain name registered and then install your favorite blogging software on it. I recommend 'wordpress'. Once the software is installed, simply export your existing content to your new blog and add 301 redirects to your old blog (if its permitted). Wordpress provides very easy way to transfer all your blog content to new server. However how to do it is out of scope of this discussion thread. -
ISHAN TOPREThanks for the answers, I got that domain thing understood.
According to me, the query is related on making money only, although I am not arguing given that you are more experienced than me.
The thing is, we have to make our blog good looking first. I tried to add sections on it like technology, politics etc, but could not find anything. No theme supported Sections. Of course, now I post the content in different categories.
By the way, if I am able to make sections some how, won't it mean that I have created a website indirectly? 😐
Of course perhaps this will help. for many #-Link-Snipped-# -
greenprashAt the end of the day what matters is the traffic we are able to generate and this depends on the quality of the content we post.When more people are reading our posts, we can subscribe to Google Adsense and many such money generating programmes.
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ShrinkDWorldI tried to join Google Adsense but unfortunately i got message about lack of personal details. I tried so many times but this message comes out. Even i post about this in google help forum. but i didn't got any reply.😭
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ISHAN TOPREToday me and my brother were talking and I asked him the same question. What is the difference between Amitabh Bachchan's blog and my blog?
He replied, his blog is hosted on a website while your's is not.
By the way, my blog gets around 60 visitors per post. very good till now we should say 😀 -
Paul.Free hosting is good for the beginning, because you don't have so many visitors and you don't use a lot of bandwith. When your blog starts to grow, even if you want or not you have to buy a webhost plan.
Usually, people earn money with blogs, from Adsense. There are also blogs which promote different products and earn commissions for every sale. I suggest you to start with a simple search on google "free blogs" -
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ISHAN TOPREIt is a long time that I wrote something for my blog. This time when I opened my account it said " be the master of your own domain by $17 per year".
I think that I can be regular on it. How much feasible is it to invest this amount? What does "Be the master of your own domain" means?
Can anyone shed any light? -
Kaustubh Katdare
Where did you see that announcement/notice? Blogging income would purely be a function of traffic and depends on several factors like domain age, traffic geolocation, number of uniques, pageviews etc. Amit Agrawal of labnol.org makes about $30k/month; if that motivates you. Watch this video for some motivation: -IssueIt is a long time that I wrote something for my blog. This time when I opened my account it said " be the master of your own domain by $17 per year".
I think that I can be regular on it. How much feasible is it to invest this amount? What does "Be the master of your own domain" means?
Can anyone shed any light?
[video=youtube;yEwD36Dk1jw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yEwD36Dk1jw[/video] -
ISHAN TOPREI saw that announcement as I clicked on the DASHBOARD. I remember you once told us about him and other famous bloggers. Amit Agarwal is really an amazing guy and so is Michael Arrington and other bloggers.
Making money from blogging is surely an exciting concept but I think I can make enough from CrazyEngineers voiCE so as to bring a decent capital for my business in few years.
Kautilya's diary is just my hobby and I was asking about making it a little more attractive destination for readers. I guess we will discuss it in person someday. 😀
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