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How much money can you make blogging?…It’s the first question that comes to many people’s mind when they hear about the possibilities of making money blogging online. Making money blogging is like the hot new trend. First it was the blogging itself that become popular. Then people discovered that they can make money with blogs, and to be honest, blogging is one of the easiest ways to make money online. That is why now there is a huge interest in blogging, making money with blogging to be specific. So, how much money can you really make blogging?
The truth is that the amount of money you can make blogging on the internet depends on many different factors. There are different ways to make money as a blogger. Some bloggers choose to make money with their blogs by using Google adsense. Adsense is simple and quite profitable, specially if you have a popular blog that gets a fare amount of daily traffic. It might be hard to believe, but there are bloggers who make $5000 or more a day from the ads displayed on their blogs by adsense. Basically the more traffic your blog gets, the more people will see and click on those ads.
Every time a visitor clicks on one of the ads on your blog, you make money. How much? That depends on things that would require a whole new article or two to explain, such as the topic of your blog, keywords and so on. So, depending on those factors, you could get anywhere from $0.10 to up to $100 per click! yes $100 per click. But of course not everybody who sets up a blog is going to make thousands of dollars using adsense from the first day. It takes a long time of hard work and dedication to learn everything about adsense and blogging and everything in between to get there. But as an average blogger, with a blog pulling in 200 or so unique visitors a day, you could make around $10 a day or so. Although depending on your niche, it could be a lot higher than that.
There are other ways to make money with your blog as well. For example you can use your blog to make money affiliate marketing, creating and selling your own digital product on your blog and etc. But if your just getting into blogging, the best and easiest way to make money from your blog, would be adsense. You might not make thousands of dollars blogging, but you will make enough to keep you motivated towards working harder, so one day you can make thousands of dollars as a blogger. It takes less than two minuets to get your blog setup with adsense, but it takes the life of your blog to create quality content, and drive targeted traffic to it. As long as you can keep up with creating quality and useful content for your readers, and promote your blog to drive traffic to it, you can make money with your blog.
Adsense is by far one of the easiest ways to make money online. All you need is a website/blog and traffic, and your on your way to make some money online. You wont make much, but it will be enough to give you the confidence and motivation you need to keep going. But, if you are serious and want to make real money with Adsense, then you need to prepare. The subject of your content and the Keywords used in it, play a big role in your Adsense earnings. To increase your Adsense earnings you need to choose the right keywords that payout big. Here is a simple 6 steps process to help you pick the most profitable Adsense keywords.
Find keywords with high CPC value
The first step is to research and find some keywords for your niche that have a high CPC value. Use the Google Adwords keyword tool or another tool that will give you niche specific lists of keywords to find such keywords. Save those keywords where it can be reached latter. Copy and paste those keywords into Google’s Traffic Estimator (you will need an Adwords account). This fantastic free tool will give you the estimated clicks per day and the average cost per click (CPC) for each keyword. Again save this information for later reference.
Estimating your maximum earnings
To get an estimate of your maximum earnings per click, Multiply the average CPC by 30%. The higher the average CPC, the more likely the CPC for the 2nd – 8th positions are high as well. Of course you would want to start with the higher average CPC, because if the CPC starts to drop off significantly after the 3rd position, your chance of getting high click earnings as an Adsense publisher will be diminished.
Estimating the 1st – 8th position CPC values
You will need to estimate the 1st – 8th position CPC values. You can do this by using tools like Adword Accelerator which will estimate the CPCs for each position and lets you see how much the CPCs drop off after the first position. Of course you can use any other tool that odes the same thing. This information helps your analysis for picking the most profitable keywords. If the CPC values stay close to the each other and to the value of the first position, then you will more than likely have a profitable keyword.
Determining which Adsense ads occupy which positions
Now you have to determine which Adsense ads occupy which positions. A simple and reliable way to do this is by searching on Google for your keyword, and looking to see which Adsense ads are generated in the search results and in which order they are.
You can also use the Adword Accelerator tool. It has a feature whereby Adwords ads are dynamically displayed for a given keyword you input into the tool to check. If the Adwords advertiser has used “Adwords for Content” in his advertising, these ads will be the Adsense ads someone else is displaying on their website.
Compare
Compare the ads you found in step 4 to the results of using the keyword check function of your software of choice. If the advertisers you find by doing this closely match those you found in step 4, the chances are that you will more than likely have a profitable keyword. But, if the advertisers are not he same, then the advertiser is possibly not using the “Adwords for Content” mode of advertising in his campaigns. This means that the keyword may not be the basis for the Adsense ads, which means it may not be profitable.
Traffic, Traffic, Traffic
This is the most important step. Without traffic even the most profitable Adsense keywords will not earn you a dime. And not any kind of traffic will do. You need targeted traffic that will click on those ads. There are many ways to drive targeted traffic to your site. The fastest way to drive targeted traffic is by using Adwords. If you decide to use Adwords, then you can simply use the keywords in your Adsense ads that scored well from the above evaluation.
To keep your expenses down, use lower cost per click keywords in your Adwords ads. Be careful with this! you don’t want your Adwords spending to be higher than your Adsense earnings. The difference between the earnings from the click you get on your Adsense word from the cost of the click you pay on your Adwords word will be your profit.
You can also drive traffic with search engine optimization techniques. It takes a while, but it certainly is worth it. When using SEO, make sure the keywords you choose have the highest KEI possible. KEI is the ratio of the number of searches for a keyword to the number of competing sites having the keyword. To get the best results, you need a combination of a high KEI and a high score from the above evaluation.
This simple 6 steps strategy will dramatically increase your adsence earnings, if you follow through. I know it all may sound time consuming and hard to do, but its all well worth it. Google Adsense is one of the best ways to make money online if you know how to use it and make the most out of it.
Make money blogging, It’s one of those phrases we hear quite often these days. But many many people think of google ad sense as the only way to make money from their blogs. And since it takes a long time to drive enough traffic to their blogs to make any decent amount of money from ad sense, most give up the idea of making money by blogging. But the truth is, there are many other ways to make money with your blog.
These days blogs and bloggers are in high demand. There are a lot of advertisers in search of bloggers who can advertise on their blogs. Some of these advertisers are willing to pay quite handsomely for qualified bloggers. One of the few reasons why advertising on blogs is important to those advertisers, is the simple fact that having their website advertised in a blog will bring them more traffic, as the number of blog readers are on the rise, plus having links pointing to their website from other blogs specially authority blogs will also give their website a better search engine ranking.
At the same time there are so many bloggers who are wondering how to make money from their blogs. well, this the perfect opportunity. You can make a decent mount of money. Some advertisers are paying from $6 to up to $100 per post depending on the subject and the quality of your content. But how would you find these advertiser?
Well, the best way to connect with such advertisers is using websites like smorty.com. Smorty, simply connects advertisers with bloggers. Advertisers use smorty to place orders for blogs that they want to add links for their sites. Of course they will only pay for blogs that they like. On the other hand, bloggers who get through the screening process, which is done to ensure only quality blogs enter the program, can search for offers and write about one they like and get paid for doing so. It’s called pay per review blogging. You write about what the advertiser want you to write about, which usually involves a product, website or a service that the advertiser is offering. And if the advertiser likes your content, you get paid for it. Of course after a while you get to know the advertisers and you will know how to write articles they like. It’s simple and effective idea that has connected many advertisers who were looking to get the word out about their website, product, service or what have you with bloggers who wanted to get paid for the efforts.
It’s the perfect way to make some extra money. Think about it, even if you do 4-5 post a year, that would be enough to cover the cost of your blog’s domain and hosting package. Of course that’s if you just do a couple of those pay per review a year. If you want to make more money, you can easily pick up more projects. I am sure there are also other websites like smorty around, that you can use to find advertisers who will pay you to blog for them.
So, if you are a blogger who want to make some money from blogging or perhaps you do make money from your blog but want to increase your earnings, why not take advantage of such a great opportunity. It’s just another one of many great ways to make money online. What are you waiting for? start making money with pay per review blogging!
When it comes to making money online, quality targeted traffic is the most important thing you will need. Whether your trying to make money blogging, selling your own product or making money with affiliate marketing, you need traffic, targeted traffic to be exact. Driving targeted traffic to your site is not easy. It takes time, hard work and dedication. To be successful in driving highly targeted traffic to your site, you have to be able to apply the combine power of different traffic generation methods. If your wondering how to drive targeted traffic to your site/blog, here are two powerful methods (my favorites), Internet marketers have been using for a long time to successfully send targeted traffic to their sites.
Article marketing
Writing articles and distributing them on the internet (article marketing) is a powerful way to drive quality targeted traffic to your site. What makes article marketing great is the fact that you don’t have to spend any money to achieve success with it, and it benefits you in many ways. First and foremost, it establishes you as an authoritative figure. And if you are article marketing as an affiliate marketer, since the page the attached link in the resources box links to is intimately related to the content of the article, half of your job which is selling products, is done! People tend to be more likely to buy after being warmed up to the idea, which in internet marketing is called “pre-selling”. Article marketing is also a great way to build one way backlinks to your site, which can increase your traffic, and your status amongst search engines.
Submitting articles to article directories
I think article marketing is the most effective method for generating traffic. Writing 2 articles a day and submitting to at least 5 major article directories for a month, can be a the simplest yet most effective way to boost your sales and traffic. But there are hundreds of article directories out there, and it would be smart to submit your articles to as many article directories as you can. If you submit your articles to 500 article directories, and if each of those directories brings you 1 visitors a day, that’s 500 visitors a day from only one article you have submitted. Of course this is not fact. You could get less or more visitors from different article directories depending on their status and popularity and the quality of your articles, but you get the point. The more articles you write and distribute, the more traffic you get. Simple as that. Although not any article is going to generate traffic. You need to write useful and informative articles. One well written article is much better than 100 poorly written articles. So, while you do want to have more articles out there, you don’t want to sacrifice the quality for quantity.
Automated article submission
While article marketing is a powerful and totally cost free way to increase both your sales and traffic volume, its a very time consuming task, specially if your planing to submit more than just a couple of articles. Luckily there are article submission softwares that automate the submission process, giving you more time to research and write better quality articles. Article submission softwares can be costly, but they are well worth the price. There are also some free article submission softwars as well. One of the best free article submission softwarse that I use myself sometimes is the AticleSubmissionHelper. It does more than what some very high priced article submitters do.
Participating in forums
Another easy way to establish yourself in the field is by participating actively in forums. Quite obviously because it gives you an unlimited number of backlinks, as well as credibility amongst the community. Genuinely contributing and having intelligent discussion and helping other forums members, will paint an authoritative figure picture of you, which is an important part of any internet marketing campaign. You want to
be recognized. You want to be known as an expert in your niche, so people will trust you, and any product you create. One of the best and most trusted forums related to internet marketing that can also be a great way to establish yourself as an expert is the well-known WarriorForum. WF is also a great forum for learning everything related to internet marketing.
Making the most out of forum signatures
Most forums allow you to have links displayed as your signature. Although many people over look this simple but effective point, make sure you take advantage of this opportunity to create a attractive and attention grabbing signature, that will entice people to click on it. You will be surprised by the amount of traffic you can get from a simple forum signature. You will be specially surprised when you receive traffic from a signature link in a forum post hat you have posted years ago and forgot all about it.
Of course, there are many other ways to drive targeted traffic to your site, such as social bookmarking, social networking, guest writing and etc. But, what I like about article marketing and forums is the long term effects of them. You submit an article once to an article directory, but it will continue to bring traffic to your site for years to come. Same thing with forums. Your contributions and links in forums will be there for a long time for everybody to see, as long as you comply with their terms and policies. When it comes to generating quality traffic, article marketing and forum participation have shown to be some of the most powerful and effective ways to drive targeted traffic to a website or blog.
