HomeThere could be many reasons why a blogger think of blogging for
money. Maybe for the purpose of compensating hosting and domain
registrar cost, passive income, or blogging as a full time job.
When it comes to the topic, "make money blogging", it doesn't
matter what is your purpose. Just apply the methods or programs
that make money with your blog.
I found many posts on the web talking about the ways to make
money with blogging. Among them the following two articles are
worth to read.
- How to Make Money with Your Blog: This post gives you clear overview of how to monetize from your blog.
- How To Make Money With Your Blog Site: More detailed information of how to's and methods
- placing Google Adsense
- placing affiliate program links
- placing advertisements
- placing Paypal Tip Jar for donation
To make a long story short, the ways of making money with blogging can be understood with two streams.
- pay-per-click scheme
- pay-per-performance scheme
Pay-per-performance means that you'll not earn any commissions
just by click. You can get commission only when your reader
purchase something from the web site that you provided by means
of a link. Most of affiliate programs, for example amazon
associate program (by the way affiliate program and associate
program are the same term), are in this scheme.
While pay-per-click scheme seems easier to perform than
pay-per-performance, the latter has sound reason you may have to
consider:that is, the amount of commission is much higher than
that of the former.Most of case joining an affiliate program is
free, so no risk and no catch is involved. But certainly you
have to put more effort than you do with Google Adsense. You can
regard 'more effort' as a cost of 'free' and 'more
commission'.
The bottom line is always to consider running Google Adsense on
your blog and if you are looking more income, consider joining
some affiliate programs and placing affiliate link on your blog.
If you want know more about affiliate program (how it works, how
to optimize, etc), you may want to pay a visit Affiliate
Business Web Site. Though that web site is not aimed to
bloggers, you can find lots of information about how to
implement affiliate program.
When you choose an affiliate program, the most important thing
you have to keep in mind is that that affiliate program must be
related to your blog topic. For example, when you're talking
about "car", an affiliate program about "how to make an e-book"
does not make sense and won't generate any click through.
As a final word, it can not be overemphasized the importance of
your blog content and traffic. Why I suddenly raise these two
subject while I'm talking about how to make money blogging?
Because...
- it is or must be the content that finally lead your readers click the links .
- the more traffic, the more chance you get clicks.
About the author: Ryen Kim is an MBA, specialized in marketing research and analysis. His current focus is blogging and home based affiliate business as a work-at-home scheme. He is a founder of Blog Sites and running Hom Based Affiliate Business web site.
