The purpose of this article is to show you how to create a blog and make
money with it.This is homepage of the blog and on this big article
there have been given a lots of tips on earning money through blog.(here are some other ways to earn money as well).
This article is very long (like 20 posts or so), but I wanted
it to be helpful resource for those who want to make a
blog or make some more money from the one they already have and fill their bank accounts.
I
have seen a lots of ways to earn
money from the internet and i myself have tried many of them but those
ways are either not good enough or some of them can not generate the
passive income as my prime motive is to
generate passive income.
Basics of blogging
If you don't know nothing about
the blogging then read it from here or If you have got a blog then you
can skip this topic.It is not just a small topic.There have been written
a
whole lots of books on this subject,so I won't be able to cover
everything here (If I tried so then only God can help me with my style
of blogging)
,well,dudes and dudeess you can easily search a book on our
great google or
master wikipedia.Lets get started with mind bobbling blogging,whooo....
1. What a blog is?
I
won't tell you the technical definition of blogging as it doesn't
matter.A blog is something that you can use as a platform for showing
the world what information you have got on products,books etc.For
example,you people would have shared your experience on various social
media sites like
most popular facebook,
google+
etc.So what blogging is also quite a similar thing but the benefit is
that here you can earn money also either through advertisements or
selling products,like a website does.Most of the bloggers don’t know any
programming language and are not technically skilled persons.One must
say, Starting a blog is one of the easiest ways out there to start
a website. If you haven’t got a blog yet(If you are reading this then
you haven't got one), why not make it? It is quite quick to create and
it can be completely free (it depends what kind of site you are looking
for,as you further go downward you will understand this).
2.can it be difficuilt to start a blog?
No as I posted above ,It is quite
easy. Maybe sometimes you can find it confusing but there are lots of
help that google can provide you with its resources. Right now there are
more than 30 million blogs and youth is quite passionate about it.so if
it was hard then people would not have gone through it in this large
number.
3.Web savvy
my meaning of websavvy is 2o best things to be known before starting a blog . Here
Websavvy is nothing but a little functional understanding of various
web technologies in order to use them for your blog. For becoming a
blogger one neednot to be a programmar ,but he muse understand some
basic things ,these basic things are called websavvy. There are many
basic things that include these -
1.
HTML/CSS,
2.comments,spam
click here to see more
4.Is it a blog costly?
Well you can create a blog as
cheap as just for free.Services that offer to start a blog for free are
given below.If you are just a beginner then use free so to get wet with
blogging. Once you decide you are liking it and wanting to make more
money then i would recommend you to move up to a self hosted
blog.Getting a self-hosted is quite inexpensive and what you have to pay
is like $10 for domain name and some $4 for web hosting monthly.
All
3
of the options given below are free.The first 2 options are very
easy to use,I would recommend begginers to use out of these two.As they
are free so they are limited in features and controls.If you are well
aware of blogs then you should try self hosted blogs so that you will
have more control on your blog and earnings will be far more comparing
to that of free hosted blog.
Blogger.com
– Blogger is
an easy to use user friendly set up from google for creating blogs
,It is absolutly free to use blogger
,there are given options to customize the theme and as it is free,so
blogger.com provides .blogspot.com domain to the user.Beginners can have
it but i wouldn't recommend this to the proffesionals.
WordPress.com
– like blogger wordpress is also free,can easily be set up,theme can be customized and their domain name is .wordpress.com.
WordPress.org
– wordpress.com and wordpress.org both are different as wordpress.com
is free but wordpress.org is not free to use.Most of the proffesionals
choose wordpress.org.in additon to wordpress.com,wordpress.org provides
self hosted wordpress blog and yes,its not free.you get more control
over the site and the provided features are also increased. When a
beginner reaches to a point where he can afford to have self hosted blog
then he must get it.
If you are a beginner and want to use the first two above options as your host then you should skip this section no. 5.
5.Setting-up a self-hosted blog
If
you are serious about blogging and are looking for the serious ways to
customize your blog’s look and other features, then getting a
self-hosted blog from WordPress.org is probably the best way to go. It
is currently the top choice for most bloggers. It only requires a few
bucks but when you have it then you can use your own domain name (for
example yourblog.com,yourblog.info etc.).well I recommend you to use
only .com names. WordPress.org has a
great
step-by-step guide to make you set up.Some points are given below on how to stup your blog.
A.Get A Domain Name
1. First of all you need to go to a site that sells domain names,for example if you go to
hostgator
,first you need to search there that which domain name is available
(use any suitable domain you want for your blog,remember that the
keywords of your content are in that domain name because search engines
like google gives a chance of getting your site in a higher one) ,when
you find the desired domain name then you can buy it on their site and
hence now your domain is registred.
B.Choose a Suitable hosting plan
For storing all your files
for your blog you need to have a web-hosting plan.Million web hosting
companies are there that can provide you a suitable plan.
I wouldn't recommend you searching for a cheapest one because some of
them are not reliable and your sight get down at times.
Hostgator is best
web-hosting company.If you are using
hostgator,then you can simply choose a suitable web hosting package .
varyhost are very cheap,reliable and have a very good customer support.If you paste this code on their website then you will get 25 % discount there. the 10 character code is-
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C.Getting a customizable theme
After taking the step the self-host this site, the next step is choosing a highly-customizable
theme. I don’t necessarily recommend doing this at the beginning becuse
it costs money to have a nice theme, but once you are committed to
blogging and are willing to invest a few dollars, putting that money
towards a good theme is a good investment.
If you are a programmer,then you can make all the customizations yourself to any
basic theme and you will not bee charged for getting themes.
CPC Ad Networks
Cost per click ad networks can be used on any website.The most popular and successful one is the
Google Adsense. when you apply for them and they approve you (let me tell you,google is
very strict in approving sites for their adsense programme,basically
you need to have
these qualifications),
they will read an article and allow you to place ads
that are relevant to it and show them in the article. There is one plus
point about adsense
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How long does it take to make money from a blog
I would again say that blogging is not a get rich quick
programme.It takes time,one has to be patient . it depends on your hard
work oops smart work that how much time it is gonna take.
There
are some tips in this article that will make things go a lot quicker, but there
is no getting around the fact that it is going to take time to get
there. But just like anything, the more you put in, the more you get
out. The two keys are consistency and a willingness to learn. Without
them, I would say that it will be very difficult to make money with your
blog.
Getting traffic to the blog
First of all,You need to write some very good articles and then you have
to feature them in your homepage or sidebar. In the beginning, people
will not find your blog as it is quite new. There are some of the tips
given below that you can do to achieve great traffic. As I said above,
first write some great articles because when visitors come to your
site,you would want to impress them with your content and hopefully they
will come back.
1.Commenting on other blogs :
Go to different blogs, read their post carefully, according to their
content place your opinion in the comment box on that particular post
with a link that leads to your blog ar site. For example, You can
comment like, "very good post, I liked most of the content but
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SEO
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is kinda art that makes your
site rank higher in the search engines.The traffic that comes through
the sarch engines is absolutely free. It takes some time to reach to a
quality traffic from the
search engines.Obviously search engines like websites that are old and
reputable.they won't like the new comers in this market.when you get
links from other directories,bloggers,web sites,then search engine
starts to take you quite seriously.As you grow in linkings with
reputable sites then search engines would start to give you a good
amount of increasing traffic.
I won't go deep into SEO because there are many books that can tell you about SEO (i.e.
SEOBook)
It is always good to have knowledge about anything,as you grow you will
start learning from your mistakes.One key to remember is that you need
not to go deep in any topic,you just need to know how can you benefit
yourself from that particular topic.
Search engines like Google
always try to make a perfect system where any searcher can find exactly
what they are looking for.though they cannot make it entirely perfect
but they won't stop trying. Don’t try to trick them because eventually
they will figure it out and will punish you for that.You just need to
make a great and relevant content
some tips that can be useful are given below.
1. Title Tags
Title tags are the most important part of your website that
search engines like google use to determine the what your site is
about.They get an idea of your content using Title tags.A title tag is
what that shows up in the top side of your browser.So it is necessary to
use relevant tags to your site.Tags that contain good keywords will
make your site rank higher.For example, if your site is about cricket,
then you must use some relevant tag that contains keywords including
cricket in it.You can title it as "best cricket moments ever".
2. Keyword search
First of all you should decide what are you going to write
about in the article. Next step is that you need to know what keywords
people search the most in the search engines. And according to that you
must place those keywords in your blog or website. If you are master in
keyword researches then you can get higher ranks in search engines.
3. Anchor Text
You would have seen text, for example, "best engine to search" on clicking which they take you to some website.
best search engine
is an Anchor link because it takes you to a website google.com, in
simple words Anchor text is a text that people use to link,like I have
used many anchor texts on my blog.Search engines like Google always pay a
great importance on what other people say about them through Anchor
text. You can use Anchor texts to link your website or blog on other
pages,blog comments,article submissions and in forums. This is how
Anchor texts play an important role in SEO. But it only make your site
rank higher in search engines but you also get a lot of visitors from
the places where you have used Anchor texts.
For getting google adsense approval there are many qualifications needed.Click here to know what these qualifications are
Warnings for the beginners
Learn what you can
One of the things are that you can
learn a lot,but don't go in huge details.You just need to understand how
you can make use of that topic. You must not stop
when you make a mistake. you must work hard and smart to learn from your
mistakes and
figure out what the better course of action would be for the next time.
You are going to do things wrong, but you just have to keep going and
keep learning.
Learning how to use Google search is very important.If you learnt how to use google search engine then you can resolve every problem that come across.
Don't waste your time
Like I said above be SMART,don't just waste
all of your time on just promotion.Checking your stats every hour,
reading 500 blogs in your RSS, playing on
facebook,
Twitter,
google+,
or
Youtube
all day will really waste a lot of time. Focus on what provides
results and stay disciplined to stick with that. Social media is an
important part of building traffic, but you have to keep it in control.
You can not depend completely on social media, Though social media is
going to be the most perfect place to promote your products,blogs or
websites.
Have fun
Write what you enjoy the most so you won't
get tired about that and your content will be more unique and it will be
having some different things that other bloggers might not use in their
blogs because you are the master in that topic.So choose the topic that
you want to work on and enjoy.
Blogging advice bullets:
1. You have to be patient, because this is not a get rich quick system.Keep up the work until and unless you don't find success.
2.
You have to be aware about the things that are going around you,things
that worked for you 10 minutes before might not work again.
3.
If you are enjoying then you are passionate that is very most important
thing in order to work smartly on your blog otherwise you will not get
success.
Unseen advantages of blogging
1. You will make very good relationships with people you may never meet.
2. You will learn a lot of cool technical stuff and non technical stuff ,most learning will be on your blog's subject..
Did you like this article?
Well
if you didn't like this article,its your thing and I would just say
that do more google and you will find out the answers to your remaining
questions.But the people who liked this article,I am very glad to
them,those wanting to show their appreciation, I just say linking to the article from their blog is the best compensation I could receive or they can also share my link to their social media accounts.Thanks for reading!
Happy Blogging!