How to start career in Blogging? if you are new to world of Internet you must be curious know how is it possible to make money with blogging
some valid questions comes to your mind .Is it real or fake? Or it is just another fraud in virtual world ?
That’s why I am writing this article for you .I wanted to clear all your questions and doubt regarding blogging. I wanted to ensure you that how blogging can make money for you.
I know you are browsing Google to find some way to make money. Probably you are looking for some data entry job or survey job to earn few buck. But hold on guys
Blogging is a different zone altogether. Blogging neither is a micro job or a data entry job where you earn peanuts. Successful bloggers are earning millions from their website .
So without wasting time let me come to the point .Let me discuss how you can start and earn money with blogging
Steps to start career in Blogging and Make Money
- Decide a Niche or topic to blog about
- Choose a domain name for your blog
- Create your blog
- Start Writing content or articles
- Drive traffic to your Blog
- Monetize your blog
I have covered these steps in a different article- check here
How to Make Money from your Blog
- Affiliate income – Earning money for referring affiliate sales to another company
- Google AdSense – Making money by displaying ads from Google on your site
- Other advertisement-Making money by displaying ads from other advertising company
- Selling you Product & Services – Making money get for selling their own products and services
We will discuss in details all these income opportunities from blogging
Make Money from Affiliate Marketing(Career in Blogging)
Affiliate marketing is one of the most popular and oldest income model .It is in current time one of the most profitable ways to make money blogging
Reason?
because there is no investment ,no overhead, no office infrastructure or customer service responsibilities. Last but not least there is no shipping cost involved .
is not it amazing ?
starting affiliate marketing is very simple. you can start your affiliate marketing venture just by signing up for an affiliate program and getting your unique affiliate link.
There are lot of companies and affiliate network who run there affiliate program to promote their product and services. Amazon Associate Program, Commission Junction, Click Bank, Jvzoo affiliate program are some of the most populate affiliate program
you can select a program of your choice and apply. Even you can join some of them or all the available affiliate program.
once it is approved, you can choose products or services suitable for your blog’s visitors and promote them with banners or or text affiliate link .
you will get certain percentage of commission if a visitor click on your ad and complete a purchase.
with in 30 to 90 days of purchase you will receive your commission through EFT(Electronic Fund Transfer) in your bank account
Sounds Good?
you have just put minimal effort to pass these affiliate promotional offers to your blog audience and earn money. Excellent way of making passive Income.
there are lots of example of successful bloggers who earns in millions from affiliate marketing.
Make Money in blogging from advertising(Career in Blogging)
once you have successfully able to drive substantial organic traffic to your blog, you will see , ad network will approach you .They will be interested to post ad in you blog or to buy advertising or a sponsored post.
This normally happens when your blog mange to get around 100000 unique visitors each month.
you have two options for selling advertising space on your website
- Selling display advertisement directly to companies
- Providing ad space in your site to companies like AdThrive
If you choose first option of selling display ad, you have to upload add manually in to your blog. Again you have to calculate the rate per 1000 view( RPM) and invoicing the advertiser. Challenging part here is to chasing the advertiser to pay your invoice in time.
Second option is more comfortable . Providing ad space to companies like Media vine is direct way of earning money from your website.
What about Google Adsense?
Yes you can still apply for google AdSense for your blog and earn revenue from this .But platform like Adthrive or Mediavine have proved to be better source for making money from your blog.
Google AdSense can approve your blog even with less traffic. But the Website should be well designed with good and unique content.
Only action from your side is to apply to this companies. If your application is approved you have to add some code or plug in to your WordPress Website.
There is no manual work involved from your side. These ad network companies will take care of everything. Only thing you need to insure that you blog is getting at least 30000 monthly visitors .They will check your google Analytics statistics before approval.
Make Money from Blogging with your Product and Service
This is another amazing deal.
is your AdSense is not approved or your Mediavine application rejected?
Don,t worry. Still You can create make money from Blogging
You have to sell your course and online training.
There are lots of online course platform like teachable, Podia, Udemy who helps you to sell your course. These platform have their own system to market your product ,brand and website. You will get course enrollment using their marketing network .Also more people will know about your blog.
You can also create one landing page or sales funnel for your blog for lead generation and sell your product.
For example people who write about blogging and affiliate marketing, develop training course on these and sell them in their blog. There are lot of reputed bloggers around who makes lot of money just by selling their product.
So selling products and and services is another option there to make money from your blog.
Last Word
Career in blogging will never disappoint you if you do it rightly. Blogging can be your money making machine .It is a great way to generate passive income for you while you do your other work.
Blogging can fulfil your dream to leave your 9 to 5 hectic Job. Career in blogging will allow you to live life like a boss.
With blogging you can work from home and earn decent money.
In my next blog I will discuss in details all the important aspect of starting a blog