How to Make Money by Blogging

Raise Your Hand If You Would Like to Make Money with Your Blog. You Are About to Discover How You Can Make Your Blog into A Money Magnet So Fast That It Will Take Your Breath Away. If You Are Tired of Struggling and Not Getting Results from Your Marketing Efforts Read On.

Making money blogging isn’t easy but it’s not rocket science. However, it does require you to master some basic skills. You must be able to use the basic WordPress functions including the technical side. Things like how to properly use your dashboard, plugins, and widgets. You must also know how to create an opt-in form on your blog in order to capture your visitor's name and email address. This requires you to learn how to edit your theme and control your sidebar on your blog. These are just the basics. Luckily there are many free resources available on the web to help you learn these basic skills. Just do a Google search and roll up your sleeves and master the basics.

Once you have these basic skills under your belt, here are the keys to start making money with your blog:

FINDING A NICHE AND A MICRO-NICHE.

This is where most get it wrong, and therefore get frustrated and wonder why they are not making money. There must be a market for what you are trying to sell. Just having a vague idea of what you think might sell is not the way to success. So, don’t just find something you think might sell and throw up a Blog and start promoting it without doing research into that market. This requires doing keyword research and also finding out how much competition there is for that keyword in your niche. If there is too much competition, you will be spinning your wheels and you will not make money with your blog. The Traffic Magnet newsletter gives you a complete overview of finding a profitable Niche and micro-niche along with specific tools and resources. Sign up FREE below.

If you have had a blog for a while now and you haven’t been successful, you may have to start over from scratch. That’s the hardest reality you face. There may be too much competition, bad choices of keywords, poor choices of products or not creating quality content. So why keep on butting your head against the wall on a dead-end Niche? Cut your loses and go back to the drawing board. Research, research, research!!! Time spent on the front end will save you massive frustration and heartache. To shortcut the learning curve, go ahead and sign up for Making Money Fast Home Study Course. Just fill out the form at the top right-hand corner of this site. Earning money blogging will require the right Niche, right keywords and the right product. Once you have these rights, you cannot fail. Trust me. There are 1000′ of Niches out there that will make you money but you must do due diligence in your research.

MONETIZE YOUR BLOG

This is the fun part. I covered this in a previous post on this blog. But there are many other ways to make money with your blog. They include affiliate marketing, selling advertising space on your blog, using PLR products, creating your own products, selling your e-book, CPA marketing, selling software, creating an e-commerce store, banners and the list is endless.

GETTING TRAFFIC TO YOUR BLOG

This is where most everyone struggles. This is especially true if there is high competition in your niche or market, and if your keywords are not properly targeted. Here are just a few tips for getting traffic to your blog: Social Bookmarking, getting backlinks with a high page rank, getting indexed by all of the major search engines like Google, MSN, Yahoo and Bing.

The key to getting more traffic is to make sure your blog is fully optimized for the search engines. This is called SEO (Search Engine Optimization). All of the search engines have free tutorials and you should take the time to go through all of these.

One of the best ways to get traffic is through the use of a good squeeze page. It is possible to create a squeeze page on your blog. I have a step by step guide in my home study course and also some great tips on this in the Traffic Magnet Newsletter.

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By using this practical cognitive technique, human beings have learned about life and survived on their own even in new and unfamiliar situations. A primitive example of this knowledge transference is the lesson most of us learned at a very young age about fire. We were told not to touch it because it was hot. Fire hurts! Most of us heeded that advice. Furthermore, if we happened to get burned inadvertently, the accident did something very important for us. It reinforced our knowledge that fire is hot and it will burn and hurt if we touch it. Since we don’t enjoy pain, we created a mental map about fire and avoided touching it. Now, as adults, we make decisions about fire based on our past orientation.

The “Mental Map Matrix,” illustrates how we use mental maps. While the human decision-making process includes an incalculable number of variables, this simple model shows how we continue to create new mental maps and reinforce old ones. It starts when something happens to us or we experience a new event (box 1). The first thing we do is instantaneously scan our memory for any similar experiences (box 2). Generally, at a subconscious level, we ask, “Have I had an experience like this?” (box 3). In most cases, especially as we get older and have more life experiences behind us, we’ll identify some experience that resembles the current situation. If we do, we then try to remember the outcome: “Was it successful for me?” (box 4). This is an internal value judgment. We make this judgment based on our psychology and personality at that moment in our life. Most likely we judge “success” by whether the outcome got us what we needed. If we judge the previous outcome to have been successful, we’ll duplicate the behavior (box 5) to match our mental map and will expect a similar outcome. The aftermath of the experience reinforces our mental map (box 6) as the “right” reaction to that experience.

Best Blogging Tips for getting more benefit

If you are not blogging you should seriously consider setting up your own blog. Google and other search engines love blogs. You can make money blogging very fast if you know the insider secrets. But before I get into to sharing a few tips about how to make money blogging, consider the following statistics.

The fact is that blogging grew 68% in 2008. 346 million people read blogs and approximately 184 million people have their blog. 58% are over the age of 35, 42% are between the ages of 18-34, which means that these people are the ones who have expendable income and regularly shop online.

Also, you need to consider setting up accounts on social media sites such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter and using these accounts to point to your blog and set your blog up to point to your social media sites. WHY? Look at these statistics: 300 million are using Facebook and 50% of those are active users. Currently, Facebook reports daily growth of over 600,000 with women over 55 being the fastest growing segment. Most users are 35 years old or over (doubled in 2008). 70% of users are outside of the US and 65 million access Facebook via mobile phone!

TIP #1

The lesson here is the first tip: Go where the people are with money to spend and are already accustomed to buying online.

TIP #2

Target the largest segment, i.e. women over 55 and all of those over 35. If you really want to make money blogging, zero in on these segments.

TIP #3

Use a self-hosted WordPress Blog or better yet set up an account with WordPress Direct. Having a blog set up on your own hosting account allows you to use many tools, themes and plug-ins which will greatly improve traffic and give you much more flexibility. Here are a few bonus tips for making money blogging using WordPress:

1.  Consider changing your theme to the Flexibility Theme http://www.flexibilitytheme.com. You can download this amazing theme free at this site. They also have a paid theme called Flex squeeze which allows you to create your own squeeze pages or landing pages on the fly using WordPress.

2.  I highly recommend that you install the following plug-ins to your blog: Quick Meta Keywords, Broken Link Checker, Head Meta Description, All-In-One-SEO Pack, Landing Sites, Tweet suite. There are many more that I recommend in my Home Study Course. These are the bare minimum. For a step by step installation of your blog sign up for my Home Study course. (self-plug. Had to)

3.  Consider paying the monthly fee for a WordPress Direct Blog. It comes fully optimized for SEO and has tons of other features such as auto posting content and video’s just to name a couple.

4.  Once you set up your blog go to http://www.google.com/webmaster and sign up for the free webmaster tools.

5.  Sign up for a feed burner account for your RSS feeds.

6.  Go to http://www.freetrafficsystem.com and sign up for their free account.

7.  Go to http://www.bidvertiser.com and sign up for an account so you can get paid for advertising on your site.

TIP #4

Focus on Your Keywords and tags. Here are a few tools that are free:  http://google.com/sktool/# this helps you find keywords that you probably have overlooked using regular keyword tools. http://www.keywordindex.com.

TIP #5 

Add click bank affiliate products inside your blog posts such as this example ABOVE of my product. To do this you will need to install a html editor wordpress plugin to your blog.