How To Make Your Blog Make Money!!

Hmmnn… sounds good doesn’t it? How to make your blog make money…

You see your blog and all your websites are your employees, you can order them around to do whatever you like. Their performance is entirely dependant on you. If you are a lousy boss, your employees will be equally lousy if not ’shitty’ for lack of a better word :p

Let me take my blogs as examples and we will have a look at what this ‘employee’ is doing to make me money.

Systems That Profit

First, you need to click on the link above and it will open up my gambling theme blog in a new window.

I bought this domain back in July last year with the intention of writing racing system reviews. So I did write a few reviews and that is how I attract people to my blog. Every blog needs to have an identity, it is sort of like the employees’ charisma. If your blog has nothing interesting to offer to readers, then this ‘employee’ lacks charisma. No charisma, means that this employee won’t be bringing in any dough for you. You need to sack her right away! And hire an interesting person to work for you.

An interesting employee would be one with many searches on Google. The reason I chose gambling as my niche/theme is because I have some experience with it and also people LOVE to gamble. Find your niche and get it in front of the correct audience and you’ll make money. It is really that simple, it is not rocket science you know!

Advertising Revenue

These ad revenue are from ad agencies.

I make advertising revenue from Google/Bidvertiser ads on my blog. Google Adsense ads are better than Bidvertiser as they change according to the IP of the person viewing the ad. That way the click through rate is higher.

You’ll also notice that there are links on my blog posts that have a pop up box whenyou place your cursor above them, these are in text links. My favourite at the moment not because I am making a lot of money from them but they blend in perfectly with the blog and are non intrusive. Since I added Kontera links to my blog in Dec 07, thats about 3 and a half months - the money I’ve made from Kontera alone is enough to pay for my domain.

Advertising Space

You’ll notice that I have 2 columns on the right of my blog. There are two box like products that I promote, they are my own products but if you don’t have a product simply sell that space for money. Even if it is $10 a month and you sell 3 ad spaces, that is $30 a month for 12 months a year.

Selling Affiliate Products

Before you go out there and create a blog full of affiliate products, you first need to have content for your blog. Then you can incorporate some affiliate products to generate some sales by writing a review about the product.

I used to write reviews about other peoples product but these days I prefer to write a review for my own products… for obvious reasons…

I get a lot of traffic coming to my blog and then I funnel this traffic to my other websites and some of them go on to buy my products or services.

I have also earned some affiliate commissions for other peoples products, either way it works for me.

Mailing List

There is a very famous saying that goes like this ‘ the money is in the list ‘

I have set up once of those irritating pop ups before on my website but back then I could not configure it properly so I left it alone but one of these days I’ll get it up properly. Here’s why.

You may have read about my Valentine Promotion that I ran for 48 hours that resulted in 5 sign ups. If are just starting out and have no list you need to create one. The best way to do it, is to give something away for free in exchange for the persons name and email. Once you have a list of say 100 people, you are on your way to making some money from that list too.

Paid Reviews

This is a very popular way for people to make money from blogging. There are 2 ways that you can earn money from writing reviews. The first is to offer to write a review about a person’s product/website in exchange for money. This can be a personal agreement between the two of you. High traffic websites command a very high price per review, John Chow Dot Com charges $500 for a 400 word review.

The other way to earn money from writing reviews is by joining Pay Per Post sites. They have many opportunities there and many people make a full time income by just writing reviews. I’ve only ever written one, it’s here http://systemsthatprofit.com/2007/10/11/football-results/ . It took me all of 10 mins to write it, they paid me $7.50 for it. Not bad huh…

Basically my first blog has made me quite a lot of money as I only paid $7.15 for it! Great return on investment… Now you try it!

Having a great website/blog with money making systems in place is you first step to making money online but you’ll need to get people to read your blog or view your website. Otherwise your money making systems won’t convert readers into pure CASH!

I’ll cover how to get traffic to your website/blog in my next post.

Send me your questions.