How to Make Money Blogging
Luckily, there are many ways to make money blogging. Some of the options are easier than others. And, with some, you will probably only make a little extra pocket change while, with others, you can actually generate a full time income.
Here are two excellent, and pretty easy, ways you can make money blogging.
Promote Affiliate Products
If you already have a blog, and are looking for ways to monetize it, this is a great option for you. With this technique, all you have to do is keep doing what you have already been doing, while making one simple change.
The change you will make is adding links to affiliate products to your site. Now, if one of your visitors clicks on the link and ends up buying the product you are promoting, you will make a commission. Some affiliates make as much as 50% to 75% of the sales price of every product bought through their affiliate links.
Becoming an affiliate is fast and easy. Sign up at a website like ClickBank or Pay.com, find products that are somehow related to the topic of your blog, and start promoting those products (using your affiliate links) on your site.
Get Paid To Post
Wouldn't it be great if you could get paid to write about a product you just used, a movie you just saw, or a new software program you are interested in?
Well, you can.
There are plenty of "Pay per Post" and “Paid to Blog” opportunities out there. All you have to do is sign up at a site like Blogitive or PayPerPost. Once your blog is accepted, you will be paid anywhere from $10 to $20, and sometimes more, to write short posts about their sponsors' goods and services. And, in many cases, these posts only have to be around 100 or 200 words long.
It's a great return for relatively little work.
Keeping a blog can be fun, interesting, and rewarding. And, once you learn how to make money blogging, it can be profitable, too.
Blogging Jobs and How To Get One
Blogging Jobs and How to Get One
What makes blogging jobs so attractive?
With the blogs that you run yourself, there are a lot of details you have to take care of. You have to decide on the platform you will use. Pick out an attractive layout. Promote the blog so it will get plenty of traffic. And, since you probably want to make money with your blog, you also have to find affiliate products to promote, or create a product yourself to sell.
With blogging jobs, you don't have to concern yourself with any of that. It's up to someone else to worry about maintaining the blog, making sure it looks good, and getting enough traffic. All you have to worry about is writing your blog posts, submitting them, and getting paid.
Blogging gigs are a great place to start if you are new to blogging, and aren’t ready to deal with the more technical aspects yet.
But how do you go about getting a blogging job?
Show You Have Experience
People who hire bloggers are just like any employer. You would probably have a better chance of getting the job you are after if you have some experience.
But you don't have to have been running your own blog for years to show you have experience. You also don't need a foot long resume of former blogging gigs. All you need is a sample blog.
What Is a Sample Blog?
When you apply for a blogging job, you will probably be asked if a sample of your work can be viewed anywhere online. And that's what a sample blog is for.
A sample blog isn't like a regular blog you are trying to use to make money. You don't have to worry about promoting affiliate products on it, or driving traffic to it. It simply exists to show what you can do.
If you don't already have a free Blogger account, sign up for one. It will only take you a few minutes.
Create your blog on a topic you know quite a bit about, and could probably write short, 200 to 250 word posts about in your sleep. Remember, you want to put your best foot forward.
Now, make your first post. And, just like that, you have created your sample blog.
Show You Are Dependable
People who are hiring bloggers want to know that they are reliable, and can be depended on to make their blog posts on time.
Try to make a post in your sample blog every day, at least for the first week or two. After that, make two or three posts a week.
This will show that you can be counted on to post in a blog regularly.
For many people, making money writing about things that interest them is a dream come true. And, by creating a sample blog, you will increase your chances of landing a great blogging job by leaps and bounds.
Blogging Jobs
Blogging Jobs: No-Hassle Blogging
There are many ways to make money blogging online. And you don't even have to actually start your own blog to do it. Instead, you can start looking into blogging jobs.
There are many people who would love to make money writing about things that interest them. And, while starting their own blog would be a great way to do that, the hassles that can come with maintaining a weblog makes them hesitate. They don't want to worry about finding a good third party blog host. Or setting up WordPress on their own web host. Or finding affiliate products to promote. Or trying to attract enough traffic to make decent money.
For those who are interested in blogging, but aren't interested in actually maintaining their own blog, blogging jobs are the perfect solution.
What Is a Blogging Job?
There are many companies that have realized the value of having a frequently updated blog. So, they hire someone to create the blog for them, making it look very professional and inviting. After that, they pay someone to actually post content in the blog.
And that someone could be you.
There are also blogging networks. Blogs are their business. They make money from the visitors who come to their sites and click on the ads posted there. And the more good, content rich blogs they have in their network, the more money they make.
With these types of blogging jobs, all you have to do to get paid is write your blog posts and submit them. Someone else takes care of everything else.
How Much Can You Make?
Every blogging job pays contributors differently.
Some jobs share revenue with contributors. This means you get a share of the advertising money made through your blog.
Some pay according to how many blog posts you make. For example, for every 200 or 300 word blog post you make, you might earn $4 or $5.
Still others pay on a weekly or monthly basis. So they might pay you $250 a month as long as you make at least 4 blog posts a week.
Finding Blogging Jobs
There are many sites where new, paid blogging opportunities are posted daily. You just have to know where to look, and check often enough to jump on any attractive offers fast.
One good place to start looking is ProBlogger. You will find dozens of blogging gigs posted on their Job Board.
So, do you want to make money blogging without having to maintain a blog? Then you should definitely consider blogging jobs. Whatever you are interested in, there is someone out their looking to pay someone just like you to blog about it.
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