What Is Blogging And How Do People Make Money Online

Blogging is a simple medium on the internet, which can be used to share your thoughts, opinions, expertise, pictures, videos – almost anything – with everyone around the world.

Blogging is like having your own magazine and anyone can create one. You can create a blog on any topic of your liking. You can create blogs just as a pastime or hobby or even to make an income.

One of the main advantages of blogs is that they are very easy to create and you need not have any real technical knowledge or website designing skills. No matter whether you are a student, a housewife or a businessman, you can create a blog of your own.

Blogs are also an effective medium for the celebrities and renowned personalities to interact with their followers. The visitors can drop in their comments and the blog owners can reply to those comments. Blogs are not only handy for personal usage. They are used by many companies as well to reach out to their employees and clients.

Making an Income

But blogging is not only a means of social networking and reaching out to your followers. There are many blog owners who consistently rake in 5 digit and even 6 digit income via blogging. All that you require is a computer with internet connection and you are ready to earn.

Some Of The Ways To Earn Money From Blogging

1) Selling your own service or product
Let’s say you were an electrician by trade. You could start a blog sharing your advice and also allow people to contact you for your services. Or what if you were a retired electrician? You could create a product called something like, “101 best ever electric DIY tips” and sell it via your blog.

These are some of the fastest growing products and services that sell on the web:

Products:-

  • Books
  • Gifts
  • Gadgets
  • Software
  • Collectables
  • Advice type information

Services:-

  • Web design, hosting, marketing, building
  • Financial
  • Legal
  • Writing
  • Proof –reading
  • Administrative
  • Consultancy

Does you service or product fit into any of the above?

2) Google Adsense
It is one of the most popular ways to earn money on the internet. Here, you host the ads of other web merchants on your blog. When any user clicks on the ad, you get a portion of the revenue generated. But here, you have to test where to place the adverts. The best place is normally just under the title of the post and before the blog post text starts. But you have to test it. Change the adverts to a different place on your blog and see what difference it makes to your income. One thing I will add – don’t expect to become rich via AdSense. You have to have a huge amount of daily traffic visiting your blog before you start seeing even only $100 a month.

3) Adding affiliate banners and links
Affiliate marketing is basically, where you introduce the buyer to someone else’s service or product, and for the introduction and ultimate sale you receive a commission percentage. Look at almost any blog and you will see banner type adds for products. If you were to click on one of the banners and buy the product, the owner of the blog would receive a commission for that sale. Commissions can be as high as 75%, so if you were to display the right banner ad, you could make a lot of money.

Some of the bigger affiliate marketing companies where you can search for products to promote includes:

Click Bank: http://www.clickbank.com
Pay Dot Com: http://www.paydotcom.com
Commission Junction: http://cj.com/publishers/

4) Amazon is the largest affiliate company around
You can sell Amazon products on your blog. The niche of your blog will determine whether you can make money via Amazon. Again I’m personally in the wrong niches to make any serious money. You have to sell a lot of books at $10 when you are only getting 5% or 10% to make anything serious. But if you are in any physical good niches like TVs, gadgets etc then you can make a good income by selling Amazon products.

5) Writing product reviews
This is another form of making an income via affiliate marketing. Write a review via a blog post of a product or service you have used and benefited from. I recommend you actually use the product or service and benefit from it before you write your review. That way your review will come across as more personal and believable.

6) Selling links
If you have a high traffic to your blog and have obtained a high page rank (PR), you can earn money by selling links i.e. someone puts their link or banner on your site for a monthly fee. If your blog has a high PR, its space can be sold to other bloggers / web merchants. The money that you earn depends on the PR of your blog. Higher the PR, more money you can get.
On my sites, I use all methods listed above except Amazon.

What brings me the most income?

My own products and services, by far.

Then recommending and selling affiliated products and affiliated banners/links.

Then selling links and banner space

Then Google Adsense.

These are some of the ways of earning money by blogging. Which method you adopt will depend on your blog’s popularity, niche and the efforts that you are willing to put behind it.

What’s been your best way of making an income via blogging?

About Author :
This is a guest post from Andrew Rondeau at www.webuildyourblog.com where he covers all the aspects of starting your own blog and making a blog income.

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About Lee Ka Hoong

Lee is a part time blogger and he writes about blogging tips, make money online, search engine optimisation, affiliate marketing, traffic building and etc. He shares his adventure and experience on how to make money online with a blog. He also shares online tools and resources for designer at Theme Blogger.

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Comments

  1. Teen Blogger says:

    Nice post.

    Affiliate marketing can bring in a lot of money. Of course you need a lot of targeted traffic, but that traffic needs to convert to sales. I think make money online blogs always do pretty shitty with adsense as nobady from the make money online niche clicks adsense ads, becuase they know what it is.
    .-= Teen Blogger´s last blog ..Teenbloggerkid.com Open For Guest Bloggers =-.

  2. Dana from Online Knowledge says:

    I use Review, selling text link, and google adsense for now. And i get biggest earning form review.
    .-= Dana @ Online Knowledge´s last blog ..Atahualpa 3.4.4 Configuration Part 2 =-.

  3. titan says:

    yup. i sell my new ebook and it got hit. I hope i can earn more from that. But i hope all people can learn something from my ebook.
    .-= titan´s last blog ..Edisi Siasat: Buat Duit dengan HyProBulkSMS =-.

  4. EarningStep says:

    vote to google adsense…lol

  5. Greg Ellison says:

    I like Google Adsense and Paid posts. It was a good read. Thanks for sharing. Greg Ellison
    .-= Greg Ellison´s last blog ..Do you need to buy a exit sign? =-.

  6. Jayce says:

    Online advertising -> direct advertising sometimes -> Advertorial -> affiliate sales…
    So far so good. :)
    .-= Jayce´s last blog ..Easy YouTube Video Downloader =-.

  7. work at home says:

    @Lee, I think you target this article to new make money online finder, I also recommend people who want to make money online to start blog. Because blogging is the perfect way for making money online.
    .-= work at home´s last blog ..Top posts on work at home opportunties =-.

  8. izzat aziz says:

    the best way to make money is doing what you enjoy the most, and most people enjoy blog so that why making money with it is a dream of everyone. I believe more years to come more ways for blogger to make money.

  9. Andrew from webuildyourblog.com says:

    Hey Lee,

    Thanks for adding my post! Really appreciate it.

    Andrew
    .-= Andrew @ webuildyourblog.com´s last blog ..Free Contest Giveaways including Premium WordPress Themes =-.

  10. Diabetis says:

    BLogging is an online journal.

    To make money from your blog you must have hundreds of good post and lots of back links to your site. The moment that you are getting a lot of traffic then that is the time to monetize it.
    .-= Diabetis´s last blog ..My Mother is Confined in the Hospital =-.

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