Ways to make a decent earnings from blogging

Profiting from blogging is the main reason that stacks of people get into blogging and a useful extra income for a lot of other bloggers. There are a load of ways to earn an income, although not all are available to everyone about the world.

Unfortunately, for residents of South Africa, and perhaps other countries, being paid via PayPal is not an option and this will rule out lots of the available opportunities, but even then there remain several ways to profit from your blogging.

For me, turning a blog into a profit involves 3 steps:

1. Implement the website
I prefer to install WordPress and a set of useful, preferred, pluggins. You may have other options you prefer. But the first step it to set up the site and get it looking right. Without a good looking web site, you are never going to make much of a profit. Advertisers will not want to know as traffic will leave straight away.

2. Prepare your site
All too numerous bloggers expect to make an income without this step, which is crucial. They come asking why they are not earning a huge income having only merely implemented the weblog.

Yet, step 2 - preparing the website - is the most important step to get right!

The first part of preparing your website is to write posts, and a lot of them! If you write 5 posts a week for 3 months, then you will have stacks of material on your website that will attract search engine visitors. This is also content that they might read and be interested in.

At the same time, you should be writing articles and posting them to article directories and submitting them as guest posts to other websites. This will start to gather you some regular traffic and to increase the Google Page Rank of your site, by increasing the number of links pointing into your site.

3. Start to earn several cash.
Although you might start to earn some money as soon as your site is published, the best profits merely come when you have put the time and effort in to prepare your site in step 2.

But once you have several regular readers, a decent page rank and loads of content to attract the search engines and readers, then you might start to sign up for schemes that will make you money for example:
* Google Adsense - earn cash merely by traffic clicking on links that are shown on your website.
* Sponsored Posting - in return for writing around whatever an advertiser wants you to write around and linking to them, you get paid! Showing the importance of step 2, typical fees on one system I use would be $2 for a Page Rank 1 website but $9 for a website with a rank of 3.
* Affiliate Schemes - find a merchant that sells a product related to your blog, talk about it, link to is and hopefully your readers will buy some, earning you a commission! If you have an international audience, then digital products for example Click Bank products might be best.
* Sell Your Own Product - probably set it up in Click Lender or only sell via PayPal, but you might even merely sell an Ebook of your best posts.

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Written by Keith Lunt of How To Start My Blog. If you want to know about starting blogging, pop over!

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