Paycheck Blogging
Paycheck blogging is a term that I coined about a year ago to describe the activity of making a regular, reliable income by writing on blogs.
I have discovered that with a little hard work and dedication just about anyone can make a substantial monthly income by owning their own blogs.
In this article I will discuss a couple of the main features of this method.
First, in order to make money from your blog you are going to have to decide on a monetization method.
I have only discovered a couple of reliable methods that you will be able to count on month in and month out.
The two methods are by selling targeted traffic to an advertiser or by selling a product or service directly on your blog.
Let's look at the first method, which I believe is an ideal for most beginning bloggers, first.
If you belong to the Google AdSense program then you are already familiar with selling targeted traffic to a third-party advertiser.
With AdSense, which is the easiest monetization method for new bloggers, you can earn money each time a visitor clicks on a link on your site.
All you have to do is provide content on your blog that will rank in the search engines and you will draw targeted visitors, some of whom will click through to the advertisers promoting their sites via Google AdWords.
Your main responsibility therefore becomes providing content and promoting that content so it will draw the traffic.
Then it becomes a numbers game.
A certain percentage of your visitors will click your ads, making you money.
You do not have to actually promote specific products on your blog, so you save yourself some time that you would otherwise have to spent looking for quality affiliate offers or creating a product.
If you achieve a click-through rate of 5% which is entirely attainable in many niches, you will only need an average of 20 visitors a day to make some money.
Naturally the more targeted visitors that you draw to your blog the more money you will make.
You can do what bloggers do best, which is to write content about the topic that your blog is focused on.
I have learned, as a blogger, that I am much better at creating interesting content than I am at selling a product directly.
Therefore, for most bloggers I believe that selling traffic through Google AdSense is the best method for monetizing your traffic.
However, another method is to sell a product or service directly yourself.
To do this you will need to find a product and write some copy to promote it.
You might find, as I did, that very few people are going to take their wallet out and buy the product you are promoting.
So will, but not near the percentage that will click on a link.
For that reason, if you are a blogger I would recommend Google AdSense.
The one exception to this rule is if you're main audience is other bloggers.
If you operate a "Make Money Online" blog your readers will probably be AdSense-blind and unlikely to click very often.
In that case, you are probably better off to use monetization method #2.
I have discovered that with a little hard work and dedication just about anyone can make a substantial monthly income by owning their own blogs.
In this article I will discuss a couple of the main features of this method.
First, in order to make money from your blog you are going to have to decide on a monetization method.
I have only discovered a couple of reliable methods that you will be able to count on month in and month out.
The two methods are by selling targeted traffic to an advertiser or by selling a product or service directly on your blog.
Let's look at the first method, which I believe is an ideal for most beginning bloggers, first.
If you belong to the Google AdSense program then you are already familiar with selling targeted traffic to a third-party advertiser.
With AdSense, which is the easiest monetization method for new bloggers, you can earn money each time a visitor clicks on a link on your site.
All you have to do is provide content on your blog that will rank in the search engines and you will draw targeted visitors, some of whom will click through to the advertisers promoting their sites via Google AdWords.
Your main responsibility therefore becomes providing content and promoting that content so it will draw the traffic.
Then it becomes a numbers game.
A certain percentage of your visitors will click your ads, making you money.
You do not have to actually promote specific products on your blog, so you save yourself some time that you would otherwise have to spent looking for quality affiliate offers or creating a product.
If you achieve a click-through rate of 5% which is entirely attainable in many niches, you will only need an average of 20 visitors a day to make some money.
Naturally the more targeted visitors that you draw to your blog the more money you will make.
You can do what bloggers do best, which is to write content about the topic that your blog is focused on.
I have learned, as a blogger, that I am much better at creating interesting content than I am at selling a product directly.
Therefore, for most bloggers I believe that selling traffic through Google AdSense is the best method for monetizing your traffic.
However, another method is to sell a product or service directly yourself.
To do this you will need to find a product and write some copy to promote it.
You might find, as I did, that very few people are going to take their wallet out and buy the product you are promoting.
So will, but not near the percentage that will click on a link.
For that reason, if you are a blogger I would recommend Google AdSense.
The one exception to this rule is if you're main audience is other bloggers.
If you operate a "Make Money Online" blog your readers will probably be AdSense-blind and unlikely to click very often.
In that case, you are probably better off to use monetization method #2.
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