Blogging for Money - Can you Make Money Online?

By now I'm sure you know quite a bit about blogging, unless you've lived under a rock for the past few years. Nearly everybody has a blog these days, most just for fun but many to see if they can make a few dollars online with them. Or, at least get some attention!

Well I'm here to tell you it isn't really easy to make money with a blog, but it certainly can be done. How do you actually make money with a blog - that is the burning question. I did some research myself, and here is what I found. Some may find it unbelievable, others will get a little angry, and still others will say "I can do that!". And they may be right.

There are many bloggers that make some really good money, some well known and others not so much outside of the hard-core internet marketing community. One guy for sure that is very successful at is John Chow, and I found a recent breakdown of his income on one of his old blog posts. It reads like this:

Total Blog Income for December 2007: $25,040.36
- Private Ad Sales: $10,480.00
- Affiliate Commissions: $5,701.48
- ReviewMe: $5,400.00
- Text Link Ads: $2,097.74
- Kontera: $1,000.00
- TTZ Media: $321.14
- Subscription: $40.00
- Grand Total: $25,040.36

Sounds unbelievable, right? Well, if you take into consideration that he gets about 244,164 page views from 130,587 unique visitors, that answers a few of the questions anyway. He has so many links to his site that even without the help of Google he can command top ranking and massive traffic. How does he do it? Well for one thing, he has been at it steadily for nearly four years. And that is every single day that I'm aware of, without a break. Sounds like a lot of work, right? You bet it is! He has some help I hear, but even with a few people helping his site is massive, needs a good bit of maintenance on a regular basis with ad sites, answering posts and emails, checking with affiliates and other resources. And that isn't even mentioning the fact that he comes up with a new topic every day! Most people just couldn't handle the grind, me included.

So how do you possibly get enough traffic to your blog? The usual ways, of course. Start off by having great content, which is the number one reason most people don't get as much traffic as they should. Next do the usual promotion such as getting your link out there in articles, forums, link exchanges with other related sites, and of course using some white hat SEO tactics. I'm not going to go into great detail about traffic here, I have several other articles about that. But the truth is without steady traffic you won't make any money whether you have a blog or a regular website.

The truth is, there are only a small percentage of blogs that are really making a decent amount of money for their owners. If you check the stats above for Johns site, you see he is actually also selling affiliate products on his blog as well. In fact it's the second highest amount of cash earned! Does that tell you anything? Yes, it means selling products still ranks up there as one of the best ways to make money online. Whether you have your own product or sell other products for affiliate resources, it is easier than using adsense or banner ads and driving enough traffic to make money from them.

The bottom line? Find out what you like to do and then give it a shot - you will never make any money online analyzing others stats, talking about it with your friends, or posting your opinions on the latest forum. Get out there and put up a website of one kind or another and start promoting the heck out of something until you start making money. Take a few tips from the pros while you're at it, because anything they can do so can you!

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