Make Money Blogging- 5 Money Making Reasons to Start Your Blog Today

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By Dr Kavita Shaikh


Anybody can make money blogging. Despite the fact that it is 100 % doable, people in general tend to be skeptical about the concept of making money from blogging. Maybe a quick mention of a few blogs that generate seven figure incomes / more each month, could serve as a boost for all the doubting Thomases in the blogosphere? Huffington Post, Mashable, Perez Hilton, Problogger, Techcrunch etc are just the tip of the income generating blog-iceberg.


Each blog in the blogosphere is unique in terms of audiences that they cater to and perspectives that they may have about monetizing their blogs. But this post brings the top 5 ways that each of these money magnet blogs use to source their monthly income.


# 1- Make Money from Adsense

What would online entrepreneurs have done without Google Adsense? Google needs no introduction and all of us are fully aware of the vast reach of Google network. Adsense is the paid advertising program by Google that pays website owners and bloggers in return for permitting to host their ads alongside their site content.

Why does it make sense for bloggers to make money with adsense? Well, the reasons are many. But first and foremost is the simplicity of the adsense set up. Not to mention the fact that it is totally free to sign up for an adsense account.

Also, bloggers do not have to worry about offending their visitors because Google provides the option of setting up contextual ads that are relevant to the topic of the blogs being posted. Contextual ads actually encourage visitors to click on the ads, thereby guaranteeing adsense revenue for the blogger.


# 2- Make Money from Amazon


Amazon is the most popular e-commerce site and enjoys a current Alexa ranking of # 10. People all over the globe trust Amazon to buy and sell stuff and trust is indisputably the most crucial part of trade conducted over the internet.


Bloggers can earn money from Amazon.com by signing up for their affiliate program (sign-up is totally free). The best part about being making money from Amazon is that you do not need to be a seller or buyer to get approved as an affiliate. You can make money blogging about the topics that you love, and then choose to display purchase information about related products that are on sale on Amazon.


This helps your readers as well by providing additional information and value by visiting your blog. For example, if your blog topic is make money blogging, you can display books or CDs that offer valuable tips to make money blogging; authored by popular bloggers. Your readers can benefit by this handy information because you have taken the pains to compile all the related info at their mouse clicks.


It is not only easy but fun to make money from Amazon, because you can find products related to practically all topics here. With each sale conducted via your affiliate link, you earn commissions from Amazon.


# 3- Make Money with Affiliate Marketing


Affiliate marketing is another money magnet for bloggers who want to make money blogging. The process is quite simple. Someone somewhere is selling a product which may be of use to many people. The blogger’s job is to present an ideal meeting ground for the product and its targeted consumers.


The product creator gets sales without lifting a finger, consumers get to know about the product on visiting the blog site and the blogger gets to make money with affiliate marketing commissions; cool isn’t it?


# 4- Make Money With Private Ads


Renting out ad space on your blog is hugely profitable, but you will have to wait a bit before you can promote this opportunity to advertisers. No advertiser will be even remotely interested in advertising on your blog unless it commands millions of views per month. But the wait is really worth because once your blog qualifies for hosting private ads; you can easily expect to earn 5 figure incomes each month from this single source alone.


#5- Make Money Selling EBooks


Needless to say, selling eBooks has become the rule rather than the exception for most of the blogs. EBooks are typically priced in the lower range between $ 5 and $ 20 each, which makes it affordable to most of the readers, thus guaranteeing quick sales and a steady income from this source.


Synopsis


It is practically possible make money from blogging; you only need to develop traffic and maintain a steady stream of visitors. The next post will hopefully be targeted at tips to increase blog traffic. Until then, happy blogging folks!


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Do You Think Making Money Blogging is Doable?

  • Yes, I believe in money making power of blogs
  • Yes, but I am not sure if I can monetize my blog
  • Maybe, I am not into blogging
  • No, blogs never make any money
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Dr Kavita Shaikh Hub Author 4 months ago

Yeah persistence and patience are the keys. Many bloggers give up just before they are about to start earning, which is very sad. Wrote this hub to motivate new bloggers to keep blogging!

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labnol Level 1 Commenter 4 months ago

yes, there are lot of ways of earning money online. i have been doing this from last 2 years & i really need to agree that it takes to time to get your 1st payment but later it becomes very easy.

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