Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Leveraging Your Blog To Make Money On The Internet

By Roman Deluna


It is essential that one makes the most of any online opportunities and blogging is no different. There are a lot of different options when it comes to using a blog to earn an online income. First option is to promote other people's products as an affiliate? Another more difficult option is to develop your own products to sell on your blog. Last but not least you can choose to use your blog for advertising your business or someone else's. These are three of the most popular ways to leverage your site to make money online.

One of the simpler approaches is to promote affiliate offers on your blog. It is among the easiest, least expensive, and quickest way to get started. The problem with this method is that you need to join a network that provides affiliate products that you can promote, find a product that will convert easily, and figure out how to incorporate it into your blog. The basic premise for this type of monetization is that the merchant will pay you a commission for any sales you make from your website.

The key to affiliate marketing is finding a product you want to promote and getting an affiliate link to promote it. You may use this link in any of your promotions so they can track where the traffic came from and pay you the appropriate commission. Often the company will make various resources available such as such as banners, classified ad posts, or email swipes you can use to help you promote their product. All you need to do is brand them with your affiliate code and add them to you blog or website.

The next option you may want to use is to include AdSense ads from Google. This requires setting up an account with Google and is probably the most common type of pay-per-click advertising people with websites use. It entails making advertising space available on your site by pasting an ad code provided to you and deciding where you want the ads to show. Every time someone clicks on one of the ad links you get paid. The best part of this type of advertising is that Google keep track of everything for you.

In most cases it involves the visitor completing a simple form to ask for further information or request some form of contact. In both of these cases the companies will provide you some form of code to add to your website and they take care of tracking the clicks and paying you. Keep in mind what I said at the beginning if you are not experienced and you are just starting your blog this will not be a viable option for you. Reason being these companies are looking for established sites with significant consistent traffic to get exposure to their ads.

The downside of this is that you will need to approach these companies and solicit their business. This is not something you take on if you have a new site that is not yet established. They prefer seasoned sites that are popular and have a significant amount of visitors on a daily basis. Most will not select this option as it could involve a lot of effort in finding companies to advertise with you and most do not handle rejection well.

The last option which is the one I currently use is to promote your own opportunity or products if you have some. This is without a doubt the most straightforward approach for a beginner as all it requires is blogging in whatever your niche happens to be. There are some tailor made opportunities out there for just this type of option. You can get a blog set up for you with all the monetization already in place which makes this a very practical approach.

Notwithstanding which way you choose to go; there's a probability you can make money online with a simple blog that you monetize using one of these strategies. You will need to reign in your expectations somewhat as blogging is not a get rich quick proposition. It will take you time to become proficient at blogging consistently and it will take even more time to get noticed on the World Wide Web. I do not say this to discourage you as you will eventually start seeing results maybe after the 3 month period of blogging pretty much daily. Cherish all your little successes along that way and use them to motivate you to continue and you will eventually be successful.




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