Its been a while on Nairablog (many factors responsible) and I thought of returning by doing a post on the $6,000 John Chow and XR.com are giving away this Christmas. A lot of money you would say.
John Chow who is holding this contest, we all know is a pro blogger who makes money by telling
people how he makes money and XR.com on the other hand is a new
tiny URL service provider.
Simply put XR.com (which is bankrolling the contest) is what I call a two lettered word for
TinyURL - you get the gist? Its a tiny url service most bloggers/otherwise would be glad they signed up for.
XR.com does the url shortening real good and even gives the privilege of checking the number of
time your link was clicked upon.......and absolutely for free. Why not check it out and
sign up an
account for yourself.
I wish I could win the $6,000, if John Chow would be kind enough to extend his offer to Nigerians - he would be glad how the $5,000 which is supposed to be spent on charity would be spent, as he would be touching little children lives in Nigeria, I would be giving to motherless homes like Little Saints Orphanage and this particluar one in my area Ijamido Motherless Baby home.
Action Aid sponsor a child will also be receiving some amount - you could also donate
On the remaining $1,000; boy this means a HAPPY HOLIDAYS for me and my family.
I hope I win........ OR what do you think?
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.
One of the many things every blogger needs to succeed is CONSISTENCY AND SERIOUSNESS.
I need to survive in the blogosphere, but I have been lacking it - partly due to not having time to write, unseriousness and unfavourable economic condition.
This is to say that I pray to put all the seriousness I can gather into this blog by way of waking it up and turning it into a money making machine which its supposed to be for you and I.
Blogging as a Nigerian is not that easy especially if you don't have the basic necessities of your own (a laptop/good internet connection), coupled with epileptic power and running your blog on a free host such as mine. All this I pray to change asap....... with my consistency and seriousness
I have just discovered another way through which Bloggers can earn money through their blog.
Its called Blogvertise.
Once you own a blog that is at least 20days old with some reasonable post, all you have to do is signup with blogvertise, let them approve your blog and hei! you start receiving opportunities to sort of review products/services in you own lingo.
So, why not find out yourself, its easy and you've absolutely got nothing to loose but gain.
Entrecard otherwise known as your blog business card is fast growing in and around the blogosphere. A blogger who by this time has not heard about Entrecard or is not already subscribed to Entrecard is probably living in planet Mars or somewhere but not earth.
One thing about Entrecard is that it is fast taking over the business of generating traffic to one's blog. It is easy to register and does not requires the approval of ones blog before joining the network.
The goal of every blogger is to get one's content to be read by others - bloggers and non-bloggers alike. It is also necessary for a blog to be popular so that it can generate necessary clicks that turns into earnings.
One question/reservation I have concerning Entrecard is that - does it really generates meaningful traffic i.e. are these trafffic contibuting positively to the growth of that particular blog? Many card droppers on Entrecard visit others blog just to drop their card and earn Entrecard credits without them leaving comments or clicking on necessary ads on that blog.
I think it will also be better if Entrecard has a feature that allows a user to register more than one blog with a particular email address.......(just a suggestion).
But nonetheless, Entrecard is a wonderful revolution on the internet especially to bloggers as it helps to bring enormous traffic to a blog, a blog gets popular, well ranked and some even earn $$ through Entrecard.
Thumbs up to the creators of Entrecard.
One of the latest ways of gaining traffic is particpitating in blog contest.
Now Nathan of TechJaw is giving away a free 300 x 250 adspace on his popular blog for 1 month.
Apart from the fact that you stand a chance of being advertised freely on TechJaw, you can also benefit from his informative blog - TechJaw.
So, why not check it out.
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