If it were easy, everyone would be able to make money blogging, but the truth is that to make money blogging is not easy. It’s a process that takes time and energy.
But, you CAN make money blogging. I’m doing it and so are plenty of other people. The top 100 bloggers are earningn six digit incomes from blogging and most of them are more than happy to share the secrets with you. Just like I am doing now.
Since I started blogging in 2001, I’ve made a lot of money at it. Suffice to say that I’ve paid for my house, paid for travels to more than 20 countries, and made a lot of mistakes.
Here are the ten best lessons I’ve learned:
1) Domains matter. SEO is not so much a science as a lot of guesswork. One thing I’ve learned is that no matter what anyone says, a domain that contains keywords about your topic makes a difference.
My domain for this site is not good, in fact, it sucks. To shortcut your way to lots of traffic and pagerank, get a domain that sums up your topic. A unique short word might seem like a good idea but a better idea would be a longer domain full of keywords.
Not NewsNotion.com but instead BloggerMoneyPro.com, maybe someday I’ll move this, it would be a smart move.
2. Tons of content and rich keywords. Most of the money I’ve made has been through having keywords that advertisers pay for, so while it might seem like a good idea to write about bums, bums don’t have money so a better keyword to use would be luxury watches or real estate investment. You can write these into your posts if you are creative. A solid word combo like asbestos lawyer is much better than something like beer can.
3. Find a theme that suits your site. If you want to look like a circus or a flower shop, you will not have a great personal injury lawyer blog.
4. Maximize your use of plugins. Plugins add functionality to your site, they make it more user friendly, and sometimes they make your site look like garbage…be careful with this one.
5. To make money blogging you need to find a way to make money blogging. Research whether affiliates, contextual ads, or actual product sales are the best way for you to make money. If you have a craft site, you can probably sell craft supplies but you may not do so well with laptops and Kindles.
6. Add new content as often as possible. The more words and pages you have, the more content you have to sell. Each word is a potential big money maker for your blog. To make money blogging you need to be prolific and creative.
7. Bring traffic. No matter what they say about baseball fields, if you build a blog, they may not come. You need to find your readers and bring them to you. Become active in forums, participate on similar blogs by commenting, guest blog, and if you have to, pay someone to bring you traffic through advertising, links, or reviews.
8. To make money blogging you need more than one person. A blog is about the people who write it and the people who read it. Never forget that when you write something you are making an agreement to the reader “I will write things you will enjoy reading, as long as you read it.” Break that agreement and you will lose readers. Period.
9. Blogging is about people. If people want to read a technical manual about social engineering, they probably won’t go to a blog. People go to blog because they are extensions of people. Don’t be scared to share the person you are with your readers.
10. Tricks and scams are short term ways to make money blogging. If you want to make money blogging consistently and for a long period of time, stay away from any sort of tricks and scams. Part of the reason people come to your blog is because they trust you, when you pull bullshit tricks and scams, you violate that trust. If you want to make money blogging, do it in a way you can feel good about. Maybe all those get rich quick schemers make money blogging about bullshit, but let’s face it, they all deserve to eat dirt.
That’s it. Dig around on NewsNotion for more specific tips, but even if you don’t, if you follow these ten easy lessons, you will make money blogging. I’m sure of it.
All the best,
R.W. Jackson
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I would suggest moving your domain now to one with a better web address. I had a blog a long time ago that I gave up on because the domain name was terrible. Good Luck!
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Very informative + inspiring. When blogging I also find plugins for Firefox to be very useful. I will try to put your tip about rich keywords into practice.
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it’s really interesting & nice post..thanks for sharing..keep bloging…
This is a great post, I really love it and I will plan to take the advice here soon, when I save my money for my new website.
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Well I like the post but why exactly are there two girls in the pic?
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Great tips, thanks for the info
These are two very happy bloggers…these girls started Gofugyourself.com and make tons of money blogging.
I’m completely with you on tricks and scams. This is a symptom of the “fast money” mindset… and you’re right, it never lasts.
As for the girls in the image… yeah, these girls are some of the highest paid bloggers in the world. And in a fairly unlikely niche, to boot.
Thanks for the great post.
Lee
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Good advice, I particularly related to 1). If you don’t have the seed money to really “push” a brand, keywords in your domain name ARE really important. I wish I’d known that earlier!
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You and me both Mogul!
ATB,
RW
Very nice articles! Just digged it. You gave some great advices that I’m certain a lot of blogger will benefit from if they implement them! Nice work!
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Awesome blog you have here, and great content. I’ll be reading more soon
Nicholas
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I had a site that said nothing to my readers when I started and made the hard decision to more it to a domain that said what the site is about and contained my primary keyword. It was a tough thing to do, but it is starting to recover and will be a much better site. I say go for it!
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Very nice article, RW. I somehow regret choosing webmarketerdepot as well. But too late to change I guess. Or maybe I just create another blog with the keyword I want. Erm…
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Great blog, I would like to try out some of these ideas myself
-Mark
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The point about being prolific is interesting; there’s a lot of debate on that issue. Some people feel if you’re too prolific readers get overwhelmed and stop reading. I’m really not sure. Kind of tough to A/B.
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Really a very good post. Its really a very useful post for the newbies. I will try to put your tip about rich keywords into practice. Thanks a bunch for sharing such an informative post with us. Keep blogging.
Informative blog. Useful information for a new bloggers to improve website traffic and search engine ranking.
Informative blog. Useful information for a new bloggers to improve website traffic and search engine ranking.
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hNice information….I’ll wait to try and use them..keep blogging.
This was very informative,it helped me allot thank you
Yeah everything tends to believe that all you have to do is set up a site and then sit back and watch the traffic come in. I know this because I used to be one of those people. I had absolutely no idea what SEO was it took me a while to learn; and I am still learning.
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this lessons cum tips may help me in making money by blogging in future
Some of the tips given in here are quite unique and useful. One can make money blogging if one likes to write. Unlike me I have to hire writers as I don’t like to write.
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really great ideas ! thanks for sharing
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I’m also a happy blogger! Hehe…
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Good content, very helpful for me.
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thanks for the lessons, make me feel more comfortable to moving forward at the right direction… very helpful
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