How Average People Make Real Money Blogging

Copyright (c) 2014 Marc Termine

The average person cannot imagine hauling in tens of thousands of dollars each year (or even more) by maintaining a blog. The great thing about blogging to make money online is that for the most part, blogging is fun. Sure, it’s a lot of work, too, but most people create blogs designed around a topic that’s fun or that they’re passionate about. If you are someone who desires to make money on the Internet from the comfort of your home, don’t be discouraged if you don’t have the faintest idea about blogging. Anyone can do it with just a little knowledge and some effort!

First of all, what is blogging?

Simply put, a blog, or web log, contains posts (articles) written around a specific topic. Many people write about their hobbies or passions. Some of the most popular blogs are those that are about how to make money online, blogging, or even controversial topics such as politics or religion. However, a blog can be about anything that interests a large number of people including sports, cooking, fashion, electronic devices, hunting, family, relationships, you name it. Because other people will (hopefully) visit your blog once it’s up and has a substantial amount of content on it, your blog should be informative, interesting, engaging, conversational, even entertaining – in short, it should leave the reader wanting to come back for more. Reveal your passion in your writing and be yourself, and chances are you will gain many readers who may share your blog with their friends.

Do you have to work hard to making money blogging?

When you consider that working for someone else is never going to make you wealthy, and that you have a boss breathing down your neck, set hours, and a schedule that’s inflexible, blogging isn’t really all that tough. As long as you learn about keywords, how to research them, their importance within your content, and are dedicated to adding new posts regularly, you may find that you have great success with blogging. Most important today is providing the reader with quality content, content that’s original, informative, and that delivers what your readers are looking for. Search engines, particularly Google, don’t want regurgitated content – they want users to have the best possible experience online.

Naturally, it takes more than 30 minutes to write an article and posting it to your blog every day or two to make money with a blog. It’s important that your blog get as much exposure as possible, so you will want to add links to your new posts or any news regarding your blog on social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, even Google+ or Pinterest depending on what your blog is about and where your target audience hangs out. In addition, guest posting on relevant blogs and including a link back to your blog in your author’s bio is a great way to build inbound links while using other sites’ traffic. So, blogging does take work – but you can still experience great success in less than the eight hours a day you would spend behind a desk or in a production line at a typical day job!

How do you make money with a blog? 

There are lots of ways to generate a good income with a blog. Contextual ads such as Google ads provide revenue when a visitor to your blog clicks on the ads. Affiliate products that are related to the topic of your blog can make you money. When you become an affiliate of a product or service, the merchant provides you with special links, banners, and other tools to help you market the product/service. These links contain a special ID that designates you as the affiliate, and therefore credits you with the sale. You can find tons of information online to enlighten you about affiliate marketing.

Once your blog begins attracting a large amount of traffic (which may take months, a year, or even longer), other website owners and bloggers may pay you to advertise on your blog. Many high traffic blog owners charge $150 or even more per month for highly visible ad placement on their sites. If you have four or five spots available for advertising, you can see how this could quickly add up!

While this isn’t common, several extremely popular blogs have been bought by successful companies for millions of dollars. Yes, it is unusual – but it’s not out of the realm of possibility that you could sell your blog for several thousand dollars a few years from now, depending on its popularity and success.

Is blogging a quick way to cash?

In most cases, blogging will not provide someone with a quick or instant income, so it’s important to keep your day job until your blog really takes off. However, considering that it’s fun and you can work on building a lucrative business in your spare time, what’s to lose? Once you have one blog up and running and attracting new readers, you may want to develop another blog or two . . . or three, four, the sky’s the limit! Whether online or off, building a successful and profitable business takes time, patience, and effort.

Can average people just like you make real money blogging? Absolutely.


How Average People Make Real Money Blogging