Make Money Blogging

What They Don't Tell You
 
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You're About To Learn What It Really Takes To Create A Blog That Makes Money

Find out want all successful blogs have in common

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Blogging for money has been all the rave. Everyone's told to create a blog and just start writing everyday and you'll gain a huge following and make massive amounts of money. Every television network has aired a success story of how an average Joe or Josephine just started a blog and it took off to the tune of thousands a dollars a month in income. The proof is in the blog's existence. You can easily go online and see the page for your self. Then a reporter or news anchor tells you where to go and set up your very own blog and begin doing what that person did. However, if you investigate the blogging platforms across the internet, you'll discover tens of millions of blogs with billions of pages of content that has tumble weed rolling over the site. It all seemed so straight forward. What went wrong? Is it a cleverly veiled scam? 

In theory, no. It's quite possible to make a substantial income online from blogging. What's not shared or what's overshadowed by the obvious is the engine behind what it takes to earn money blogging. If you go to any forum for online opportunities, you'll read numerous posts of people new to the internet marketing scene wanting to know how they can make money blogging. There is a science to building that income producing blog and if you don't follow it, it's very unlikely you'll make much money. It's like a puzzle and if you leave one piece out, you can't finish the picture. The first problem comes with our ego. We actually think someone cares about our life. When blogging first came on the scene, you could easily get readers. Think about the early days of twitter. People were tweeting about what they had for breakfast and it made the prime time news. 

It was new and exciting territory. Anything that happened on it was absolutely amazing. Now, with reality shows on the hour detailing every situation known to man and with the popularity of facebook, no one gives a diddly about the lowly blog about Skip and his daily adventures to fight tooth decay. Early on, news channels picked up stories from the blogs, now the blogs have to do something noteworthy in order to be showcased by television networks.  So what's one of the missing pieces to blogging for money? It's called Relevance. It's not even how relevant your life is to your reader, but how you relate your blog to your potential visitor. You see, with so many web sites and pages, the competition is overwhelming. With the type of a keyboard, anyone can have access to the world...Literally. So what is it about your blog that makes me want to consider it over all the other millions of blogs?

If you get relevance right, you're well on your way to blogging riches. Another problem with getting started with a blog is the futile attempt to convince a visitor that your blog is relevant. This is what is called having the cart before the horse. The first thing you want to do to make your blogging efforts prosperous is follow your audience. You're not Wal-Mart. You can't be everything to everybody. That's a sure way to failure. Your blog has to have a common theme. You have to find the one topic that speaks volumes to your targeted reader and make that the hill you're willing to die on. This is the first step in building a blog you want seen and drawing money from. You need to find out from day one what your intentions are for your blog.

Are you blogging for fun, to disperse information or for money? Each one has to be handled appropriately. There are some blogging topics that will not make you much money, if any. You have to know what they are and avoid them. There are some blogs that just don't have the potential to build a large following. Knowing this up front can save you time, headache and money down the road.

The common factor in all income producing blogs is they solved a problem that a number of people had. You're passion may just be that; your passion. You may not be able to find a big enough audience that shares your infatuation with something. The widely successful blogs sometimes unknowingly hit on a sore spot that a lot of people had and it went viral. Then the owner of the blog monetized it. Now that more people know a blog can make them money, you have to be more proactive in how you set up your blogging. You have to actively go after your desired readers and subscribers by finding out where they are and what they want bad enough to keep coming back to your information. This is where the next piece of the puzzle comes in. It helps you find relevance. It's finding out where your audience is. Get this wrong and it could mean the difference in setting up your lemonade stand in the middle of the desert or putting it in the desert where travelers take a known road.

Since you can't take your blog to the masses, you have to set up signs to get them to your blog as quickly and easily as possible. Those signs are known as keywords. They're the words that your target audience use in their search for information online. You use those words to create a sign and build a road to your blog. This is the only way to get those ravenous readers to your site and get Google to recognize you from all the other blogs. This is a simplified process to starting a blog that can eventually earn money. There are other steps that you must take get your self noticed by the right eyes. but you have to do this first. Not evaluating relevance and getting proper keywords is the number one reason for so many blogs never getting off the ground. They may have been filled with great content, but the creator fell for the all you have to do is put up a blog and start writing about anything line. This is the biggest lie since the one about the world being flat.

There is a process you must follow to get the maximum mileage from, your blog money wise as well. So blogs don't make money in the way they appear to. If you don't know how and where to position things on your site, you could not make any money. Also, you can't wait for Google to find you. Google tends to give traffic to those who have it already and knows how to get it. You have to know where your audience is and go after them. As they read and react to your content, they'll build a following for you that Google can't help but notice. Do this step wrong and you miss out on Google's free organic search traffic. Do it right and you may have your hosting company getting in touch with you requiring you to purchase more bandwidth because you exceeded their allotment. You could even crash their servers. That's a big stretch, but it happens.

The truth is you can earn money from the internet, specifically from blogging. But you have to know the rules of the game now. The newness has worn off. It's rare that you'll be an internet sensation by chance. But you can make your mark if you follow the instructions. Far too many would be bloggers start out wanting to strike it rich. They've fallen for the glitter of online money. They figure if they can put up a blog just like everybody else, they will hit the jack pot if they keep at it. No, my friend, you have to be deliberate in your actions. You have to know what you're doing. This goes for any type of online venture you take. Blogging for money must be treated like a job. Because it is. Just like any job, there are obligations that must be met before the pay off. It doesn't take a whiz kid, but it does take someone who's willing to take all the steps in order and watch it grow. If you haven't already, go ahead and get the free report on this page. It goes a little more indept about how to go about beginning blogging. It's a short read, but it's filled with solid actionable information.

Here are some ways blogs are monetized:

	Selling your own product
	Selling someone else product through affiliate marketing
	Using Google Adsense
	Selling add space
	Building the blogs rank and selling the blog itself

Each one of these has its own way it must be marketed to be successful. You can do one or all of them. As you can see, you don't have to be all technical and involved with different ways to make money. It's all boiled down to those six steps. However, each of those require a lot of traffic to see the desired money from your blog. And that is where your next biggest effort is. This is where the serious payers and the tire kickers are separated. If you think you can put up a blog and have it producing hundreds of dollars a month, don't even try it. Oh, yeah; you can find a so called internet marketer or guru who'll sell you the dream. But to actually do that is highly, highly unlikely. It is like finding a piece of gold just laying around on the ground. It just doesn't happen too often. 

This is the part that makes people cringe...Getting traffic to your blog. Here are some ways

	SEO Search Engine Optimization... Slow process
	Social Sites
	Solo Ads
	Ads Swaps
	Blog Commenting
	Blog Guest Posting
	Building Backlinks
	Offline Advertising
	PPC Pay Per Click
	PPV Pay Per View
	Banner Advertising
	Email Marketing

Any one of these has the potential to explode your traffic. Some are turtle slow. Some are lightning fast. One can be relatively inexpensive, while another could cost you your first born. Each one needs to be dealt with differently, yet, each one can play a part in how the big income producing blogs got to be that way. Make no mistake about it, you can most definitely make money blogging and a lot of it. But don't leave out the steps. It's simple to do but not necessarily easy. But if you follow the trail blazed before you, it's possible to make your mark to.