Make Money Blogging

Do you want to earn passive income through blogging? Well, you've come up to the right place. There are thousands of bloggers find that blogging is a profitable medium for making money online and you should check it yourself too just in case it fits your lifestyle. Some people blog and make money online just for fun, and some get to the point where they are able to make a full time living through their own blogging empire. That depends on how you want your site to be.

How to make money blogging?

In this part, I'd like to share some of the ways that I'd know of on how to make money online for beginners. Complete transparency on what I do is what I am aiming for in order to help you reach your goal for passive income. This is just to give an idea on how ten of thousands of bloggers make money online. Remember that each and every blog have their own ways of creating a steady stream of income.

First, I need to lower your expectations and get straight to the point. There is no easy way on making money blogging. Not everyone who tries to make money blogging made a fortune out of it, but some does it successfully due to proper coaching, luck, and hard work. But thankfully, it is still possible to make money online.

One of the best thing about making money online is that it is pretty much automated. The only thing you need to do is prepare a good blog with great content, and that is the basic thing that you really need to do.

Let me show you some of my top money making methods that works for me.

Google Adsense

Have you heard of Google Adsense? Google Adsense is a program made by google where it is a platform for blog owners, to earn income from advertisements that comes from big or small companies, individuals that are promoting their businesses by placing ad placements on your blog.  You earn a certain amount of money when visitors on your site clicks the ads. I have been experimenting google adsense by creating different blogs with difference niche just to which blog has more visitors and are more popular among readers and as well as which keyword pays you more.

Here are some of my Google Adsense site that I have been updating:

• Finance Blog : Learn about finance and forex stuff.
• Marketing Blog : Learn in depth about marketing related articles.
• Technology Blog : Get the latest information about technology, gadgets and current updates.

Affiliate Products

Affiliate products is also one smart way to monetize your website. The beauty of affiliate marketing is that you only have to advertise other people's product without having to break your brain and have to write a product from the start. Which I think is a win-win situation between you and the product's owner. In the end, everyone is happy. :)

Here are some of the affiliate links for the product that I think might be useful for you in case you are interested in making money online. I only recommend you the products because I have tried them myself and it works for me.

Web Hosting

• Bluehost.com : 99% of my websites are hosted on Bluehost. Easy to use, 1-click automatic WordPress installation and excellent customer service. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND using Bluehost for your first site.

See also: How affiliate marketing works.

Blogging All-In-One For Dummies

A complete update to the ultimate reference guide on blogging basics!

The increase in the number of blogs is seemingly endless and continues to grow at a phenomenal rate, thanks in part to the rise of smartphones, tablets, and blogging applications. With this kind of popularity, how can a blogger stand out from the rest of the masses? This all-in-one guide is packed with detailed information and advice that helps you create and solidify your place in the blogosphere. You’ll learn how to get started, use blogging tools, collaborate with other bloggers, become a part of mobile blogging, and much more.

• Covers getting started, working with blogging software, other tools, blog marketing, microblogging (including Twitter), making money with your blog, and corporate and niche blogging
• Helps new bloggers become active and productive members of the blogging community
• Provides vital information for both hobby bloggers and those who want to build a career around blogging

Blogging All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition cuts through the clutter and offers you a fun and friendly reference guide to starting and maintaining a successful blog.

What will your blog do for you?

BUILD A BUSINESS

Blogging can be a fantastic platform for you to build your own business around it. It's a kind of a business that offers flexible time and the one that you can do anywhere in the world, with the whole world as your potential customers. What would be more interesting than that? You tell me. :)

START A MOVEMENT

I've seen a lot of the social movements that are powered by blogs around the world. From occupying the Wall Street, to political movements, and as well as some other cool stuff going on in this world, blogging has the potential to move other people - depends on what you write - . Start your own movement with your own cause!

LAND A DREAM JOB

Think of blogging as a platform for you to build you own dream job. Make yourself an expert in whatever you love doing and show it to the world, and better be it, show it to your future investor or employer. Show the world that you are the right person for the job and has the passion for it.


MAKE WORLDWIDE FRIENDS

What is more better than to have lots of friends in a scale of around the world's worth? Priceless. If you think of it, each and everyone of your blog readers is your potential customer, investor, business partner and your friend. They might get some idea from you and they might as well provide you with some idea. It's a win win situation.


EXPLORE YOUR CREATIVITY

Have you ever wonder where does your creativity lies? I guess this is the time for you to explore your won creativity. See what you are capable of doing and who might know that you might become the next Steve Job or becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg?

LAUNCH A WRITING CAREER

You can think of blogging as a platform for you to launch or start your own writing career. One good and viable idea that you can use and offer to your readers is to offer writing services for them. Let me give you one example, one reader has his own blog, and he have one product that he would like to sell as an affiliate. But he or she doesn't have any time to write an article, so he or she decides to hire a writer to do it for them. Hence, this is where your writing skills is needed.

If you are thinking of starting your own blog, I have been following Corbet Barr and taking his courses to help me reach my goal of starting a blog that matters. Who is he? He is the founder of Insanefuly Useful Media and writer for Start Your Own Blog That Matters. He has been dedicating his life teaching people how to attract thriving online audiences. He is also an advisor to some of the top 20 bloggers in the world.

Sell Your Stuff On Ebay

eBay Inc. is an American multinational internet consumer-to-consumer corporation, headquartered in San Jose, California. Wikipedia

Founder: Pierre Omidyar

Founded: September 3, 1995, Campbell, California, United States

Headquarters: San Jose, CA, United States of America

CEO: John Donahoe

Awards: National Medal of Technology and Innovation

eBay is a place where people from all over the world buy and sell real products for real people.

There is no joke when it comes to selling products in ebay. This is because eBay is a very trusted platform for buying and selling products online and has a lot of great features to protect the buyers and sellers if something happen to your purchase or sale does not go well through a program called Buyer Protection. This might be one of the reasons why people from all over the world choose ebay as their main platform for buying and selling apart from their massive traffic generation. 

We just have take advantage of the traffic generation that ebay has and convert them into sales!

The only hard part that requires some research from us is to find a product that really sells and a lot of people have interest in them. And don't forget the part where you need to do a little bit of "advertisement" so that people can reach your product. This is where your review skills are required.

Making Money Rules on Ebay

BUY LOW, SELL HIGH! 

There is no secret on how you can make money in ebay. 

1. Find a product.

2. Get a cheap and competitive price from a supplier.

3. Post it in eBay and wait for the sales to come in!

Become A Favourite Seller

There is no better way to generate sales from ebay than to become their favourite seller. Offer them great services and products is a part of them. Take really fast actions when they have questions on the product you are selling and if they have bought it from you, make sure the product reach their homes.

Tips on How To Find A Hot Product

This part requires a little bit of your time. But I guess it is a time well invested to find a hot product. You can try to find any product that you can think of that is in your home on ebay and see how many people are buying it, check their pricing etc. If you see that there are a lot of demands on the product, then maybe you can start resourcing for suppliers and try to sell it for yourself. This way, you can take smaller risk if you found out that the item is hard to get a sale from.

You can always take a sneak peek at the Best Sellers page. This is where the hot stuff is! If you find one that you are interested, repeat the part where you find a good supplier that gives competitive price and sell it yourself!

I hope this article gives you an idea on how to sell on ebay. This article is not perfected yet but I will improve it from time to time.

Till next time. :)

Checkout my ebay store here.

How To Increase Your Blog Traffic

Blog traffic plays a vital role toward's benchmarking a site's health. High traffic to your site also makes your blog become alive and attractive to the readers as more readers engage and reads your content and makes comments as well as to share their thoughts and experience. But very often do we hear that most bloggers are very concerned about ways on generating a large amount of traffic to their site. Why do you have to worry that now? I don't think that you have to worry about that at the early stage of preparing or perfecting your blog.

Don't Worry Too Much!

To my honest opinion, I advice other bloggers as not to worry too much about generating high traffic at your site if your blog is less than a year and doesn't have a lot of posts in it that is useful for others. However, the most important now that you should think of is creating a great content for your blog. Plain simple. Creating a unique content itself may increase your blog exposure on google's searches as long as your blog contains the right keyword.

Google +

Why do I keep on saying that you don't have to worry about generating high traffic where everyone knows that it plays an important role? Kinda sounds like an oxymoron isn't it? Well, google has their own way to help their bloggers. Thanks to Google, you can automatically share your blog post publicly and be able to share it to the world, especially people who regularly use google plus as their daily social media hangout. This increases your blog traffic depending on how attractive and useful your post is about.

For those who haven' t tried google + go try it now! In my personal opinion. they are way better than facebook in terms of integrating your gmail and other google products. Very useful for bloggers like us who depends on pretty much everything that google has to offer for their users.

Advertise Yourself on Social Media Platforms

Social media platforms is a force that we should always acknowledge and to be reckoned with. There is no doubt that people are using social media platforms like facebook and twitter daily. If you are not using them to your advantage and I cannot say anymore. The best thing to do is for you to create a brand awareness about your blog and become a niche master of whatever topic you chose to blog about. Create a facebook fan page and twitter account and encourage your blog reader to follow you so that every time you have created a new post and wanted to share with the readers, you can post it as to inform them about the existence of your new post.

Bluehost Web Hosting Review : The Best Web Hosting Provider

Founded in 1996, Bluehost is a web hosting company owned by Endurance International Group. It is one of the 20 largest web hosts, collectively hosting well over 1.9+ million domains with its sister companies, HostMonster and FastDomain.

Bluehost is a very trusted webhosting company period. Up to date, they have successfully brought in 20,000 new customers a month and are currently powering millions of sites thanks to their great service offers and great affiliate programs which drives their brand popularity further and further!

Testimonials:

"I couldn't be happier with my account at Bluehost. The service is awesome and the price is just right!" - Steve T. 

Here are some of the features that you get if you decide to use Bluehost as your webhosting provider:

1. Unlimited Domain Hosting
2. Unlimited GB Hosting
3. Unlimited GB File Transfer
4. Unlimited Email Accounts
5. FREE DOMAIN
6. FREE Site Builder with templates
7. Secure shell, FTP, SSL, etc for safer site.(protection from hackers)
8. CGI, Ruby, Perl, PHP, MySQL
9. $100 Google Advertising Voucher
10. 24/7 Live Online Support. Their customer service are very friendly and patient. They will you with almost anything related to your website.

The also have FREE 1 Click Free Install Scripts provided by simplescripts. What this means is that you can install a website like wordpress, e-shopping online cart services with just one click installation. Creating your own website has never been easier!


The best thing about BLUEHOST is that they offer

• No Hidden Fees
• Free Instant Setup of your blog.
• Anytime Money Back Guarantee. (if you feel that they are not worth it)

You can try them through this link. Sign up NOW! 

Why you should comment on other blog?

As a blogger, there is so much things to do when updating the content of your blog. Trying to find ideas for a new blog post, finding affiliate products that fits your niche, writing, rewriting articles, CSS, HTML editing, etc.

But there is probably one most important thing to do as a blogger that we always forgot to do which is commenting on other people's blog.

And people asked me thousands of time - Why should we comment on other blogs? Let me share with you one secret that everyone seems to know about! :P Free Natural TRAFFIC!

Well how exactly can we get traffic from commenting on other peoples blog? Easy actually. When you leave a comment, there is a section where you have to enter your information such as website, email, etc. The owner of the website sees this and they might also be interested in visiting your website if your comment impresses them. This is call back linking and it is one of the ways you can get free traffic to your site. 

You can also insert an anchor text leading back to your site. I will show you later on how to place anchor text in your comments.

BEAR IN MIND
Don't ever spam on others blog post ya. You should always leave a good comment that is useful or having a connection with the topic or the post. This is to make sure that you have given a good impression to the readers that reads your comment. Impress them and they will surely be tempted to visit your site. And after that, you can always link your site by placing a link on the comment.

One easy way you can embed your links in the comment is by using anchor text.

Let me show you one example:

Let's say you already commented on a website and on the comment action it will show

Amirul commented this:

Hi thanks for sharing this info. This post helped me a lot in my research for.....

Please visit my blog for more info on this topic.

HTML:
<a href="url">Link text</a>

Example:
Please visit my <a href="financeconfident.blogspot.com">Blog</a>

This way, you can get free traffics when people are reading the comments. But remember to impress them with useful comments. This is to attract readers to your site. Trust me and you will reap the benefits later.

Which is why it is very important if you can be the first to comment on a blog post as it will stay there for as long as the blog stays and you can always get  free traffic to your site. Interesting right?

Hope this information helps you in any way.

Please comment or contact me if you have any questions or need any help. I will try my best to help you. Let me know what is your site and I'll give it a visit too.

How to start a blog and earn money

I have received a lot of questions through my email from you readers (you know who you are) and personally I would like to thank you guys for keep on reading my blog and really believing in what I do. And I hope our journey in making money through online will not be just a dream anymore. I hope you already started your own money making site by now. Don't just read, DO IT! -have to start somewhere anyhow right?-

I guess one of the most hot topics in a blog is how to make money online. Well if you think of it of course it makes sense as we people love money. I mean who doesn't like the idea of working from home and still be able to make money online right? But I hate to say that it is not as easy as all of you would think of. Blogging is not a night's work as it can take years of your patience and hardwork before you can reach the goal of making a steady stream of income through blogging. Unless you have all the secret formula, a good traffic and the knowledge to creating a good blog that people loves.

Making money through online takes up a lot of patience from you. It is not a success that you can built overnight. But it would help you a lot if you don't think of your blog as your money making site at first. You just need to focus more on creating good contents and also spend more time on promoting your blogs after you have a readable blog that everyone can enjoy reading.

Let me show you some of the ways you can make money by blogging.

1. First, you need a blog.

Of course you need to create a blog in order for you to have a place to write your thoughts and share your knowledge to others. First, I'd like you to have a mindset that you need to treat your blog as your business and you are the owner of the business. So as a business owner, you would want to attract buyers or readers to notice your blog so as to attract investors and customer.

You can start a blog for free at blogger.com or wordpress.com. There is always a debate on which blog platform works best but in my personal opinion I love blogger more that wordpress. Due to its simplicity, and they let you place ads on your blog. But it lacks some useful widgets that you can only get on wordpress. But as always, you need to spend a bit on hosting if you want to create a paid wordpress platform before you can start making money online. 

You can also use webhosting services like:

1. Bluehost. 

2. Hostgator.

2. Choose a niche for your blog.

There are thousands of niche that you can choose for to start your own blog. The key important think is that you want to choose a niche that is hot and a lot of people are interested about the topics that you will write. The key important thing is that you need to know a lot about the topic so that you will have a lot of ideas to write about in your blog.

3. Creating a good and rich content.

There is no magic formula to a great blog that have a strong fan base and loyal readers than to a blog that is full with good and rich content. This very important. A lot of bloggers makes mistake by thinking that they can make money online by just slapping advertisements on their blog hoping that the readers will click on them without creating a good content on their website. 

Readers are very important and special to a business owner. This is because they are the potential investor and also customer for your business. Readers are also human so we like to be treated as equal. Our content needs to have a heart and also the readers can feel the connection with the one who writes the articles. Although I'm still very weak in writing which is why I train myself to write, write and write and read as much as possible for other blogs that have a great content so that I can improve in my writings. You just need to find a blog that you feel connected to and try to implement the styles of the bloggers writing for your own blog.

4. Build your own email list. (Email Marketing)

I have made a lot of mistake by not building my own email list of readers from the start of my journey to make money online. Building your own email list is also a very important tool as a blogger and also and internet marketer. Some succesful bloggers quotes that this is where the money actually is. Aweber let's you do the job easily for creating and building your email list. I will make a more detailed blog post about email marketing later on so that you can harnest the potential of email marketing.

5. Search for affiliate products.

Affiliate marketing programs is also one of the ways that you can make money by blogging. This is what you should focus on if you haven't had been approved for google adsense. You just have to register as an affiliate for a certain product and place ads on your website. You can promote them if you like it. Make sure that you are creative enough to promote the products that you are promoting on your website. Give your honest review to the readers so that they can get real benefits from the product instead of wasting money on buying bad  products. This will give a great impact to your blog as your honest review will somehow create a greater trust between you and your readers. If you want to know more what affiliate marketing is, follow on to read it here.

6. Apply for Google Adsense

Applying for google adsense publishing program is also a smart way to earn money online. I personally love this program as it brings a steady income for my blog. It's not much but it is actually enough for me to spend for my cravings for coffee or get me a good meal anywhere I like. If you still don't know what google adsense is? It is actually a program for publishers and blog owners like us to place ads on our websites and if your visitor are interested in those ads and clicks it, you own a portion of the advertisement fees provided by the google between them and the companies who place those ads. Kind of a no brainer to make money online right? But it is not really easy to apply in adsense these days. You can check this article on how to apply google adsense. Best of luck with it.

Do comment what you think about this post and hope this information will help us in reaching our goals.

Till next time. :)