How do people make money from blogging?
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I was listening to Radio 4 the other day and it had profiles of various mothers who made a living about blogging about their lives. I'm not planning on starting but I wondered how they made a living.
Some became well known enough to sell books but the others seemed to make money just through the blogs. Do they sell advertising? Surley you'd need a lot of followers to get an advertiser to give you any reasonable amount of money?
Some became well known enough to sell books but the others seemed to make money just through the blogs. Do they sell advertising? Surley you'd need a lot of followers to get an advertiser to give you any reasonable amount of money?
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Edited by ShadownINja on Tuesday 31st August 16:05
If the website is moneytised with Google Adsense then you get relevant adverts being delivered to the blog automatically from Google. Depending on the nature of the blog and traffic, it is possible to make a lot of money from this. But to make real money you need to do a lot of hard work.
Jackleman said:
If the website is moneytised with Google Adsense then you get relevant adverts being delivered to the blog automatically from Google. Depending on the nature of the blog and traffic, it is possible to make a lot of money from this. But to make real money you need to do a lot of hard work.
No point in my 'Lazy Man Blog' then....Bear in mind that blogs can be about any specific topic, not necessarily a personal diary or place for musings.
I've dabbled a bit in the past with monetized blogs, with varying degrees of success. I created one that was based on a popular US TV show before it came out in the UK that did nothing more than link all the youtube clips of said show in sequence, but I had lots of PPC pay per click ads through to Amazon, ebay, Play.com etc where the visitor could buy related merchandise.
I've also created some "specialist interest" blogs based on what is known as long tail searches - this is where a user types in a phrase into google, rather than just a word or two. These again where short video clips and picture galleries, that then linked to a monthly subscription site. That monthly subscription costs theperve visitor anything up to £30-£50 per month, and the person who referred them can earn 50% commission for the lifetime of the subscriber... I bought my TVR with the proceeds of that one after a couple of weeks.
However, although anyone can create a blog, it takes a lot more skill to get the traffic, and yet more knowledge to effectively monetize it.
I've dabbled a bit in the past with monetized blogs, with varying degrees of success. I created one that was based on a popular US TV show before it came out in the UK that did nothing more than link all the youtube clips of said show in sequence, but I had lots of PPC pay per click ads through to Amazon, ebay, Play.com etc where the visitor could buy related merchandise.
I've also created some "specialist interest" blogs based on what is known as long tail searches - this is where a user types in a phrase into google, rather than just a word or two. These again where short video clips and picture galleries, that then linked to a monthly subscription site. That monthly subscription costs the
However, although anyone can create a blog, it takes a lot more skill to get the traffic, and yet more knowledge to effectively monetize it.
andy_s said:
Jackleman said:
If the website is moneytised with Google Adsense then you get relevant adverts being delivered to the blog automatically from Google. Depending on the nature of the blog and traffic, it is possible to make a lot of money from this. But to make real money you need to do a lot of hard work.
No point in my 'Lazy Man Blog' then....Or just do as 95%+ of Internet Marketeers do, and and sell an ebook telling other people how to make a fortune by selling ebooks to people who want to make a fortune from internet marketing.
Steve in Stoke said:
andy_s said:
Jackleman said:
If the website is moneytised with Google Adsense then you get relevant adverts being delivered to the blog automatically from Google. Depending on the nature of the blog and traffic, it is possible to make a lot of money from this. But to make real money you need to do a lot of hard work.
No point in my 'Lazy Man Blog' then....Or just do as 95%+ of Internet Marketeers do, and and sell an ebook telling other people how to make a fortune by selling ebooks to people who want to make a fortune from internet marketing.
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