Who said you can’t make money with a blog? I heard this question often after Google cleaned up its index a couple of years ago and started preventing spam pages from ranking high. Google Adsense ad revenue among small enterpreneur web publishers, many who were using gimmicks, site builders and machine driven content to create thousand page plus sites on the fly, suddenly became aware that there really was something to “content being king.”
Content, specifically unique hand-written content, is what Google wants and the world is better for it. Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN all love blog content. Because, by and large, most (but not all) blog content is pretty much hand written. Google’s “duplication detection” factors can quickly tell when a site is not serving unique content. But if content is King, then blogs must be the castle’s that hold the Kings.
That said, how does this all tie into my title, “Blogging for Money” you might ask. First, I’m going to assume you know what a blog is, okay. By now, if you don’t know what a blog is, you’ve must have been living under a rock the past 4 or 5 years. There are now millions of blogs on every subject you can image or think of. Although blogs started out as simply being online journals, they have become far more than that over the past 2 to 3 years. And a growing number of budding web entrepreneurs are finding that one can make good money from a blog.
If you’ve got hundreds of pages and a lot of traffic on a blog you can make money running Adsense ads. But one thing is for sure, if your content is good, like most blog content is, people will stop to read your content and not stop to read your ads. If you content sucks and not what the visitor was expecting you will find that ad clickthrough rates will skyrocket.
Another way to make money blogging is to run affiliate program ads on your website. My site, DCDomainNames.com, is a domain name blog that makes money 3 ways: (1) Selling domain names, (2) Adsense revenue (in the content) and (3) Running affiliate ads (see the bottom of every page).
This new site of mine is just one fine example of how a blog can be converted or re-invented into a moneymaking website. On my next post I will share more about finding products to market on your blog.
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