It is been said that for you to make money from your blog or your website as the case may be - it has to be POPULAR - there has to be a whole lot of traffics coming to your blog.
Services such as Entrecard, Blog Catalog, MyBlogLog, Blog Rush and others are known to popularise your blog among fellow bloggers. By subscribing to any of these services you are at least sure of receiving visitors (don't know if targeted or not) to your blog, and most especially with Entrecard.
One question that crossed my mind is - Is subscribing to these services and receiving traffics from fellow bloggers likely to generate more income for you?
One of the popular ways of making money from your blog is by displaying ads and having people click on these ads, whether cash per click or affiliate link or whatever. Another question is - do bloggers click on these ads?
From my point of view (I stand to be corrected), many bloggers are aware of a money earning programme and will like to find out ways of becoming members of that programme instead of clicking ads found on your blog/website.
On a final note - you as a blogger do you click on ads that could generate money for your fellow blogger?
I would also appreciate if you could tell us as a way of comment your experience as per income earning after subscribing to any/all of these traffic generating services.
People now venture into the blogging world basically because they want to earn money from it. Some of the adverts in our national dailies and even adverts here on the internet are full of advertisers misleading people about a new internet program where people can earn instant cash and they call it blogging.
This I call misleading not because it is impossible to make money through blogging but because of associating blogging with instant money making.
From my knowledge and the little experience I have garnered in the blogosphere, you do not set up a blog with the primary aim of making money from it. You set up a blog because you have a passion for something and you believe others out there may benefit from that which you know - thereby you don't even mind if you don't earn a dime from it.
Setting up a blog with the primary aim of making money from it might not turn out to be. Many who have dabbled into this in the past…..have failed. How do you identify this category of people - they fill their blog with ads right from the start with no quality post.
I am not saying you cannot make money from your blog, its very possible, but that should not be your primary objective.
In starting up a blog, identify your interest, that is, your passion - what you always enjoy doing and not really want to get paid for it.
Also you have to create a niche market for yourself, you might carry out an online research on what people are looking for on that subject which you are good on.
Then, write quality content, what will interest people, content that will make people always come back to your blog and leave comments.
Traffic is another major issue - you have to find ways of getting massive traffic to you blog - there are a whole lot of ways of doing things (I’ll write more about this in subsequent post).
When you might have gained people’s/reader’s trust, there and then, the ads may start rolling in, that is when your readers will be willing to patronise what you recommend because they have confidence in you.
Blogging is not just what those adverts say, its more than that but not difficult to attain.
You may wonder why I have decided to write about why you may not make money blogging instead of identifying ways of making money blogging. I have done this just to let you know that it is not a child's play for beginners to earn from their blogs but then it could be when you've mastered the art. Yes art of blogging.
Though there are a lot of blogs out here in the blogosphere telling you how and programs you might join to earn money from your blog. I intend to bring you a massive list of money making techniques in a short while from now.
This is just a way of relaunching NAIRABLOG.
There is no doubt that blogging and making money are synonymous.
Many at times are interested in blogging just because of the money they can make from it.
In my sojourn on the internet, trying to look for ways of making money, I found out that there are a whole lot of money making opportunities on the internet - you just have to be wise enough not to fall for the 'fake' ones but then, there are genuine ones (will talk about them in subsequent posts).
In the course of my search, I discovered blogging and I immediately liked it and started my own blogs like Pokenosing, Software Review and Nairablog (these are functioning ones).
Blog/Weblog can be referred to as a personal online journal, whereby posts are arranged according to the last published post. It may be likened to a personal website but different to a website in that, posts are dynamic, not static as agianst a website and one important feature of a blog is the ability to interact with your readers, i.e. through leaving comments.
Now back to the issue of making money, I will like to say that it is not always the best to start a blog with the sole aim of making money from it - but rather start a blog because you have something to offer which you know people out here (on the web) will be interested in knowing about.
There is something called Niche, this is the area in which you want to specialise, you should try as much as possible to create a Niche for yourself - i.e. an area where you an expert in (it should be something you love and you must be able to write about it).
For you to turn your blog into a money making instrument, you must be able to write good content and must be able to drive traffic to your blog.
With your expertise on the field you are writing about, you will be able to write good contents and then people/readers will take note of your blog and then the traffic will come to your blog.
There is more to writing good contents and driving traffic to your site - this is done through internet marketing............... I will continue on this in my next post.
Until then be good to yourself, be creative and be stylish and have a Happy New year.
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