Make Great Money Blogging!
Make money blogging!
Okay, really, I just wrote that title to score some clicks – but in the end, that’s really what making money with a blog is all about. To have a successful blog, you can do one of two things. You can be an amazingly funny and witty person, with a lot of interesting stories to tell, and a lot of dumb luck…or you can do it the hard way.
It seems that most any strategy for making money involves an easy, dumb luck method, and one that will only give you satisfaction after you pour your heart and soul into it. Well, in case you were holding your breath for dumb luck, let me be the first to tell you that there are no quick answers here.
Now, I’m a firm believer that anyone who intends to market any good or service needs a blog. Even if you don’t have a revenue plan for it, there’s just something very satisfying about having an open forum where you can say whatever you like about yourself, or your business. It’s like having your own rock band poster in words. On the internet. Like a good rock poster, blogs proclaim who you are at high volume, with arresting text and graphics. Even if no one comes to the gig, at least you’ll feel better for having done something to promote yourself.
And that’s where the money comes in. There are a lot of ways to make money with a good blog. You can do it passively, by advertising yourself, and hoping someone reads your sales pitch, and buys what you’re selling. You can also go aggressively after sales dollars. I can’t offer much advice for the passive route, since that’s all down to being as convincing as possible, but I do have a few tips for the people who want to pick up some spare cash by blogging, and don’t want to rely on their rhetoric alone.
Step 1 – Find a good team of copy writers. This is imperative. To make any real money, you’ll need new content all the time, posted in a million places. Unless you’re on 36 hour days, there’s just going to be too much for you to keep up with, even if you go at it full time. Get a team of copy writers who can handle large volumes.
Step 2 – Find some websites with affiliate programs. Sign up for them, and stick the banner on your shiny new blog. Send the product or business you’re affiliated with to your writing team, and let them generate some copy for you. You’ll be busy elsewhere.
Step3 – Using the copy that you have, post your articles in article directories, with links back to your blog. Do this as often as you can stand. Some suggest using software to do it for you, and that’s an option for the tech savvy.
Step4 – Let your writers keep filling your blog with content full of links and backlinks. This will generate some search engine hits, especially if your writers are SEO writers. You may even want multiple blogs at once, that all link back and forth between one another.
Step5 – Just keep plugging away at it. I never said it would be easy! You can also pick up some revenue from google Ad sense, if you’re ranking well enough. Try out a lot of different things!
