06.11.08
Blogging For Money: Clearly Define Your Topic
I have several blogs, one personal, one for work, and another for a hobby.
I’ve learned that it is very important to clearly define the “category” your blog might be about. This is easier for work or hobby related blogs.
First: what do I mean by this and why is it important?
People who are buying links on blogs often want to buy links from sites “topically” related. These buyers hold the belief that search engines give more value to links from topically related sites than off-topic content. These people also believe that links from relevant sites will drive more traffic, and this logic makes sense.
Now that I’ve explained why defining your “topic” is important, let’s talk about how you do it:
- Give your blog a title or mission statement (visibly placed) that states the topics you intend to cover
- Create categories for archiving that are sub-topics of your parent topic
- Tag each posting with accurate descriptions of the theme
- Try to write titles for your posts that have relevant keywords. It’s tough to do this all the time, but this is a good guideline.
- Get links from related bloggers, or comment on related blogs (many comments will have links back to your blog)
When we sell links on your blog (see blogrollplease.com if you want to make money on your blog), we can sell them for more if you have clearly defined the thematic category of your blog.
06.04.08
Bloggers Signing Up For Link Sales
So we launched blogrollplease.com and we’ve had a number of bloggers sign up.
We have about $30,000 of media spend from buyers lined up for bloggers who want to sell links.
The question I most commonly get is: “how much can I make on my blog?”. Every blog is different, and Paul, our analyst, can give a good estimate for each site, but what we are seeing is that the average blogger should be making about $200 - $500 / month.
If you are an “A List” blogger with tens of thousands of visitors every month, you might be able to put Google AdSense on your site and make a few thousand. But if you’re not drawing thousands of people to your site every day, we can sell your text ads for more than you will get from Google.
So what can you do to increase the value of your blog on our network?
The more links you get from other sites, the more value your blog will have. You can get links by tagging our blog, or asking your friends for links.
Anyway, if you are blogging and not making any money off of it, have us give you a free estimate. More than likely, we’ll be sending you checks for hundreds of dollars next month.
05.21.08
How Much Can a Blog Make Me Per Month?
Let’s just jump right to it.
You’re wondering how much you can make from your blog every month.
The answer is: at least $240 per month within six months if you take the right steps.
If you have a blog that you love, and you are writing fairly often (every few days), this is completely do-able.
I suppose if you want to just manufacture blogs about whatever is on your mind, you could make $240 x 5 per month, but I think the content would suffer and most readers will be able to see through a thinly veiled cloak of intent.
But if you can take the time to just keep writing, well then…I don’t see why you wouldn’t be able to generate $240 x (number of blogs you can write in a month).
So what’s the secret?
I’m going to write about that tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Making Money With Your Blog
Hello.
This is my first post about a topic I’ve been following for quite awhile: how to make money with your blog.
Most bloggers don’t try to make money with their blog, but the potential is there. They just need to take advantage of it.
I also am part of a group that just launched our service to help bloggers make money. You can read about our service or sign up BlogRoll Please!.
This blog will give tips on the techniques that will help maximize the value of your blog so you can make decent money.
Revenue Potential
Not everyone can blog full-time, but most bloggers out there do not know their options for making money. I am going to give these tips. And I’m not going to just push the service I am part of. I believe in transparency - so there it is. I am excited about the service I am a part of and want to make all of you bloggers as much as I can.
But there are other services out there as well. And I will do my best to educate you on all of them so you can earn the money the market is willing to pay you.
