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| By: Sha - at February 4, 2013 |
How Long Does It Take to Make Money From a Blog?
Make Money as an Online Blogger
Blogging is a great way of making money online
by sharing your opinions on all sorts of topics with a
global audience. If you are an expert on many
subjects, then you can write on a variety of topics and earn money from doing so. However, a website is the best option when it comes to making money from
your writing skills. Blogging is usually constant writing written on a
specific subject or on a variety of topics. It is more effective if you focus on
only one niche market, and write a great deal about it in order to get returning
visitors to read more of your blog posts.
Making money from blogging will not happen overnight
and it is by no means a get
rich quick scheme. A lot of people start blogging with the hope of earning
some quick cash, but when they do not experience financial gains right away they
quickly abandon their blogging project. The truth is, it takes time to
really get any money coming in from blogging. Give yourself at least one
year of consistent effort with your blogging project before expecting to make
any money from your efforts. Once a blog gets popular and you start to
gain notoriety on the web with your blog, there is a potential here to
capitalize from your writing efforts. This article will discuss the ways to monetize your blog and
approximately how long it can take to
make money online from blogging.
What is a Blog
A blog is simply a small version of a web log and is just a niche-centered
website that is constantly updated with new meaningful content. Anybody can build or create a blog
and these days it seems like people from all walks of life are discovering
blogging. Blogs are typically opinionated statements about a particular subject
matter written by one or multiple contributing authors. You
can practically write on any subject ranging from personal finance, online
business, fashion, freelance writing, Internet advertising, and pretty much any
topic you can think of can be used to
make money online by writing.
You do
not need to be a professional or skilled writer to create a blog, but it is
helpful to be an accomplished writer in order for people to want to read what
you have to say. Anyone may be able to blog, but only a few people do it
very well. It can be an advantage for you if you have good English and grammar skills
so that readers will take your blog seriously. Quality content will make
your blog stand out and allow it to get indexed highly in search engines.
Be prepared to be Patient
You should be well aware of the fact that it takes quite some time before you
can expect to earn money from your blog. You need to give it plenty of
attention and fill your blog with interesting articles and posts. You will need to be patient as it
might take months or up to a year or so before you can generate decent traffic
to your blog. The key to generating enough visitors for a profitable blog is to write quality articles that visitors will find informative and interesting.
Choose a Niche Market for Your Blog
 It
is very important that you select a topic for your blog that you are
knowledgeable in and that you can write informative
and entertaining articles for people to read. You can search for potential topics on the Internet
using tools like Google trends to help you decide what niche you will use for
your blog.
Choose a Specific Topic
You can pick a few subjects to write on but it is more beneficial if your blog
is only concerned with one central topic. If you blog on a particular area
of interest then it will be easy to develop an audience who will come back to
your blog repeatedly, helping you establish a consistent audience. The
more specific your blog is the more likely you will develop a loyal audience
that is sure to share your content with others. Search engines such as
Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and MSN like specific blogs that are packed with quality
and highly relevant information. Your blog will be indexed highly by these
search engines which means it will rank higher than competitors who have pages
about the same topic. Getting highly indexed by search engines means that
there will be a higher likelihood of people finding your blog on the Internet,
thus
giving you more traffic. And of course, more traffic equals more money for
you.
Choose a Blogging Platform and Hosting Service Provider
The first option for creating a blog is to use one of the good blogging software providers. There are many companies
who can provide you with free blogging software that will help you create your own blog. The good thing
is you do not need to have any technical knowledge on how to setup a blog if you
use this kind of software. Some blogging companies do have some
limitations when it comes to running ads
on your blog when you use a free service. The second option is paying for a blog
or domain name, and choosing a web hosting company that typically charges a fee
for their services. The second option is strongly recommended so that you can run
online ads and
affiliate programs
without any difficulty.
Make Your Blog Specific
 It
is a lot easier to earn money from advertising placed on a blog that is content
specific
than it is from a very general blog. Choosing a specific topic allows the
audience to be much more targeted so that the advertisements on the blog will be
a better fit for the audience. By getting the right people to see the
right advertisements, you will get a higher
CTR (Click Through Rate) which will generate a
nice income stream for you. Advertising companies such as AdSense, display advertisements that are specifically tailored to the specific topic
of your blog.
Promote Your Blog
There
are many ways to promote your blog
like link building, article directories, blogging (by doing guest posts on other
blogs, or comments on other blogs), and link
exchanges. The more often you write good quality blog posts and update
your blog, the better chance your content will be seen by an audience of
hundreds of thousands around the world.
Every time you create a new post on your blog, you should consider promoting
it so that it can appear higher up in search results. If you promote your
blog well, then you are sure to roll in a nice steady stream of continuous
traffic that can provide you a nice passive income.
Income That You Can Potentially Earn Every Month from Blogging
Once
you have taken some time to develop your blog with dynamic interesting content
and promoted it correctly, you can anticipate returns from all of your time, effort, patience, and creativity.
If all of these activities were conducted over the course of a year,
this will give your blog a good presence on the web. Hopefully by this point
you will have good traffic as well as a loyal
audience of hundreds of thousands.
A lot of people or blog owners cannot see blogging as a
long-term writing project and as a result they give up easily. But if you can
keep writing on your blog and keep promoting your blog, then you can start
earning decent income from it after a year or so. I am not telling you cannot
earn money after a few months, but before one year it is unlikely for blog owners to start
seeing substantial income from their blogs.
 Based on my experience with writing for several revenue sharing
writing websites, I have calculated a rough amount of income that can be earned
from a blog at varied times. Here is just a rough assessment on potential
estimated earnings that a blog can make over time:
- 0-6 months - $0-$20/month (most likely)
- 6–12 months - $20-$50/month
- 12–18 months - $50-$200/month
- 18-24 months - $200-$1000/month
- 24 months plus - $1000 plus/month
Please keep in mind the income listed above is just an example. You might
earn less
or more from your blog than the amounts listed above.
Final Note
In order to earn decent income from your blog, you need to run a few reliable
and reputable ad programs, such as affiliate programs or PPC programs. You will need to promote your blog consistently using
various link building techniques. If you haven't started blogging yet, I
urge you to give it a try, even if it's just a part time endeavor.
Overtime you will start discovering the
power of
the web for making a nice passive income from blogging.
Do you have a blog? And if so, for how long now? And how long did
it take you to start earning money from your blog?
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