Blogging for profit is a great reason to start a blog. If you know how to make money with your blog, then it can be a very good source of income. The question is. What benefits offer your blog to your visitors? and How to create a profitable blog?
What is that most people use the internet for? It’s actually to find information. The vast majority of internet users are seeking information: sports results, latest news, cheapest prices for what they want to buy, how to run their own blogs and websites, how to make money from blogs and websites: It’s all about information.
Blogs are ideal for that. Blogs not only provide content, but they also provide fresh content. They are constantly being updated with new and interesting content. That is why search engines love blogs, and tend to list them higher than web pages. However, the main benefit of a blog to you is not how the search engines view it, but how your visitors see it.
Why Readers Love The Blogs
1. Readers feel catered for rather than just being regarded as potential customers.
2. They have a more ‘human’ feel to them than regular websites.
3. They can contribute by making comments
4. If they want to keep up with your blog they can subscribe using an RSS feed: make sure you provide them with one on your blog. If you don’t know how, your blog host will help you out. It is very easy. Your readers can also easily unsubscribe.
Blogs tend to attract more regular visitors than websites. The vast majority of visitors to websites leave and never return, but blog visitors can return time and time again.
There is a downside to that though: blog readers don’t like to register with opt-in forms, likely because they know they are going to be visiting the blog in any case, so why fill in a form for information?
You just have to make your promotions using your blog, and if you can get it right, then you will find that blogging for profit is easy. It is actually easier to learn how to make money from blogs than from a website.
A regular blog visitor is of significantly higher quality than a website visitor. They comment on your blog, and how you can improve it. They also suggest it to their favorite social bookmarking sites such as Digg, StumbleUpon, and talk about it on their social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
You therefore get a lot of links back to your blog plus a great deal of credibility and traffic.
Attention! You can lose your readership if your blog becomes too commercial, but there are ways to overcome that. Here are some suggestions:
a) Offer affiliate products that might interest your readers.
The best way is to offer them a free product, and when they click to download it offer them an affiliate product as a back-end ‘One Time Offer’ before they download the free eBook or software. You can get loads of free products to offer if you join a Private Label Resale site. You can find many products that you can rebrand as your own, and Clickbank offers the biggest selection of affiliate products online.
b) Offer your own eBook or free report
If your blog covers a specific niche do something similar relating to your niche.
c) Write reviews for products or services.
People love the reviews and searching for online reviews before buy something
Don’t send your visitors to your sales or squeeze page, but to a good content page, at the end of which you offer a product that relates to your article or review.
Give value, answers and solutions to your readers. This way you’ll gain their trust. Trust is important to grow your brand and your online profits.
There are many other ways to make money with your blog. All it takes is a bit of imagination, work and great content.
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