Extra bucks from your Blog
How to earn from your blog?
How to make money from your blog?
These are the common questions that come to one’s mind before foraying into a blogging career.
Let’s find out the ways by which we can convert our writing skills to glittering dollars.
The journey of Information Developers Foundation started a Blog.
What to write
The first thing before blogging is to choose a profitable niche for writing if your sole objective is to earn from your blog.
Do an extensive research to find out what topics do people are interested more. Know about the current trends and the hot topics doing the round.
Certain domains are the most researched and queried about. Make a list and choose your expertise among it. The topic that is closest to you and you can write relevantly and with ease.
Once you decide your niche you have crossed the main obstacle, because a hot topic attracts traffic that will ultimately reflect in terms of dollars.
Setting up advertising objectives
Before advertising, we need to identify the objective of advertisement. It clears the goal we want to achieve and help tap relevant audience.
Original quality content
In today era of self-publication dearth of original content is glaring. If you are able to curate original and unique content definitely you will be able to command the high price. I’m sure you must be aware of a famous quote Content is King.
Your content should be appealing enough to compel the audience to share it. Quality is the only criterion that adds value to a blog.
A share-worthy content reaches and advertises your blog to the remotest of audience ultimately driving traffic to your own website.
More share increases your credibility and you start getting referral views also.
Creating website
A website should always describe your motive or goal behind the blogging passion.
A blog written with some motive motivates others to read it. You should clear your intentions behind writing on your website.
Your website should promote your goal to increase the interest of the viewer so that he revisits and subscribes.
Multiply your audience
Growing your audience is very necessary because they are the one from where you can generate money.
Increasing your connections, social media presence, relevant contents, proper advertisements, referrals are few of the means by which we can increase our audience.
A bigger audience will lead to increased conversions.
Utilising social media
Social media is a very big platform to showcase your talent and attract an audience with your magnetic writing skills.
Your blog can reach to maximum people through likes, shares, comments and thus increase your presence.
Do keep in mind that you have to stick to it, jumping from one page to other or creating different groups won’t work.
There should be one platform that marks your brand.
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Guest posts
To drive traffic towards your own blog write eye-catching and influential guest posts on other websites that have a larger database of viewers.
People often try to explore more about your posts if they find it worth reading.
Information Developers Foundation provides an excellent platform for guest posting. You can post without any hassle and it is very easy to use.
Syndicating your content
When your blog posts are featured on relevant popular websites they are more prone to get noticed and ultimately driving the audience to your own blogs.
Network with bloggers
Competition is everywhere but, to reach the top we need to grow our network with the bloggers having the same niche. This will mutually benefit you as you get a platform to write guest posts, syndicating your own published content etc.
After driving traffic we need to choose the right monetizing methods to convert the views into dollars. This can be done in various ways. Let’s discuss them.
Google AdSense
This is the pay per click advertisement program of google wherein you earn money whenever someone clicks the advertisement displayed on your website. Related advertisements next to your articles are more likely to get clicks and you get paid for every click.
Affiliate marketing
It is one of the methods to monetize your blog where you get paid for the business for your own marketing efforts as affiliates. It is a performance-based marketing where you get your cut of revenue from the business partner.
Selling courses and e-books
In today’s era, people are moving towards online classes and prefer e-books.
To monetize your blog you need to take advantage of this phenomenon and sell relevant courses and e-books. If I write a blog on technical writing, selling technical writing courses can be rewarding for me.
E-mail marketing
Many experts believe email marketing is dead but I believe still this is one of the best ways to communicate with your readers.
E-mail marketing is also a profitable way to monetize your blog.
You can market products to your own mailing list and the conversion ratio are more likely to be on the higher side because they are aware of you and your area of performance.
Writing reviews
Your review is a recommendation for your readers. This is also one of the best ways to monetize a blog.
You can write product reviews and get paid for it and you should be honest and unbiased doing the review.
Most of the companies hire bloggers to write product reviews and pay them a good remuneration for it. This works very well for affiliate blogs.
Banner Ads
You can monetize your blogs by posting banner ads on your blog. You can charge the companies to display their banner in different shapes, size, and place on your blogging property and charge according to your authority. You can relate this displaying banner, hoardings in the prime locations of your city.
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Consulting
Consulting can also help you generate revenue. Your blog gives you credibility and presence that convinces the audience about your knowledge and you can convert this credibility into money by consulting.
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