Making Money With Blogs

Making Money With Blogs

Researched & Written by Karen Barnes

How do you make money by using blogs?

Many network marketers have found ways to use their blogs to earn residual and multiple streams of incomes. They are doing this by stepping “outside the box” and using one of the most on-the-rise trends in marketing.

They have found ways of using their blogs for advertising, selling of products, reviews, how-to’s, and much more. In this Tidbits, I will cover several of the ways that marketers have turned this trend into a revenue venue. Combining the information that they, and you too, already have at your fingertips can drive these marketers into realms of the undiscovered territories on the Internet.

First, these top marketers start with their pay-per-click search engines. They research the keywords and phrases that other marketers are using to drive traffic to their Websites. They also use the same technique to find out what people are searching for. With these techniques, you can create a very tightly woven niche market for the creation of a blog.

Secondly, use your Google Adsense in a more power-driven area than you have in the past. By inserting your Google Adsense ads onto your blogs in strategic places, you can increase your Adsense income. However, when using something like Adsense, don’t overlook other advertising revenues you may have at hand. These include your own classified sites that you have set up with an autoresponder service, paid-to-click advertising, banner ads, and others. I will go into this further in another Tidbits.

Having your Adsense ads match the content of your blog will enable you to create click throughs from visitors to sites that are related to the content of your blog. This can also work with the other sites like Adsense.

Third, don’t forget your affiliate programs! Do they have products that are customer-worthy? Use a blog to give product reviews of any of the products that you have personally used, have sold to others, and received testimonials on. Write articles on how best to use these products with specific tasks or problems that these products will solve. Don’t let my short list slow you down. You have a technique that is working for you already with affiliate programs. Add it to your blog.

While this may seem obvious, it’s important that the products listed in your affiliate programs should be related to the content of your blog. Providing a source from which to purchase will create a sense of “ease” for your customers. For instance, if your blog is talking about a particular brand of tea, having a subtle advertisement or banner on your blog leading to a green tea product will be beneficial to you and your visitor and result in more sales revenue.

If you don’t have an affiliate program that has products, I suggest that you search for targeted affiliate programs that will suit your needs as well as those of your customers.

Make sure to keep each blog topic specific to maintain your niche market. Going off topic could cost you traffic as well as potential customers. Adding content to your blog at least once a week, will also help you maintain a better ranking on search engines and ensure that repeat visitors will have fresh material to read.