Make Money Blogging
Do you want to make money blogging? As a blogger it comes to a point where you want more from your blog than just having your voice heard, you want to earn a little income. More and more bloggers are finding that blogging is a fun way to earn some money. Whether it be to earn a few extra dollars a week to pay for lunch everyday, or making enough money to stop them having to get a part time job to get through college, or whether they’ve got it to a point where they are able to make a full time living from their blogging – No matter, the fact remains that there are tens of thousands of bloggers who make money blogging.
What Bloggers are Earning
Done right, bloggers can easily make a 6 figure living. Here are two example of getting done right. TechCrunch and John Chow are two major players in blogousphere. These blogs have a lot of traffic and have developed an extremely valuable blog.
TechCrunch: Top five ranking blog on Technorati top 100 blogs. What does that ranking get you? A blog who’s value is in the millions. Hard to say exactly what they earn but what they charge advertisers for an ad can be found on their Advertise page. These numbers are astounding.
For 125 x 125 ads on right side of the page they have different rate plans which start from $8000 to $21500 per month per ad. They also use AdSense ads on there blog. Advertisers can also advertise with CPM ads as well. TechCrunch uses Federated Media’s services to advertise CPM ads. There CPM rates for 160×600, 728×90 and 300×250 ads are about $23 per CPM and you have to purchase minimum of 140 CPM which will cost you about $3220. So you can see where these numbers can really add up, but they can offer you exposure that rivals a major television spot.
These figures can blow your mind, but keep in mind that there are many expenses to running a major blog like TechCrunch so it is hard to determine their exact earnings.
John Chow: An Internet mogul with ties to many blogs and tech website all of which earn him money. One of his more popular blogs on blogging receives more then 200,000 visitors per month with Alexa ranking of 27,281. John Chow publishes his monthly earning report on his blog every month to show others exactly how to earn an income blogging just as he has. Here are some numbers from his 2008 earning report.
Total Blog Income for October 2008 – $34,350.93 (currently over $40,000)
Affiliate Commissions: $12,652.52
Private Ad Sales: $10,290.00
Shoemoney Tools: $4000.00
ReviewMe: $4,000.00
Text Link Ads: $2,112.91
Kontera: $1,000.00
RSS Ads: $295.50
Total Income: $34,350.93
Not only knowing what bloggers earn, but also their sources and techniques used to earn income is extremely useful information. Having this information on hand can help you to monetize your blog the right way. There are various ways of generating revenue with your blog: using AdSense, selling ad space with fixed price, writing paid posts, selling links, using affiliate programs and so on. It is important to note that despite having a list of sources and the techniques used by other bloggers, each blog is unique and results may vary. The trick is to use this information to develop and implement techniques that work for you and your blog.
How Blogging are Earning
CPC Ad Networks
There are a few different ad networks that you can use on CPF. The most successful one, by far, has been Google’s Adsense program. Basically, what they do is read the article that I write and find ads that are relevant to it and display them next to the article. The great thing about it is that by having extremely relevant ads, it actually can be quite beneficial to the readers as well. For example, if I write an article reviewing the Apple iPad, but didn’t mention where you could get one, Adsense would likely be displaying ads of places where you could get an iPad.
So as a reader, if I read that article and decided that I did want to get an iPad, the ads would be providing options that the article did not. All things considered, if optimized correctly, Adsense really can work well.
CPM Ad Networks
While Adsense pays on a click basis (CPC), some other ad networks pay by the total # of impressions (CPM). For new bloggers, these networks won’t produce much income, but as your traffic grows, CPM networks seem to work well in conjunction with Adsense. There are a few of networks the big timers use: ContextWeb, AdClickMedia,Adbrite, Adify, BuzzLogic, and Casale Media. Each has their own strengths and weaknesses and may be suitable for one kind of a site and not another.
Affiliate Product Sales
Basically an example of an affiliate sale would be if you sold lawn mowers and I referred a customer to you, if they purchased you would pay me back a % of the sale for referring them, just that simple. There are a million options for this on the internet now. The main programs used by many successful bloggers are Amazon’s Affiliate program, FlexOffers, LinkConnector,Commission Junction, Shareasale, E-Junkie, and LinkShare. There are many others, but these are a few of the more popular ones available. Recently, another has emerged, Viglink, which allows you to automatically turn all our links on your site to affiliate links. Worth checking out.
I cannot speak for you, but I have a very strong policy about honest recommendations. I give my honest opinions about products that I find regardless of how it will affect affiliate sales. If you feel the same way chances are you may not make as much with affiliate products. Good Tip: Seek out affiliate programs with products and services you actually endorse. Helping readers by pointing them to good resources and tools that have helped you will go a long way with your readers and get you paid in the process.
Direct Ad Sales
Selling ad space directly to advertisers is another option you can use to earn money from blogging. Recently, this hasn’t provided as much income as it has in the past. I know that in certain niche markets direct ad sales can work out very well, but on average, just has not produced consistently.
Flow Chart To Earning Six-Figures Blogging
