Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Make Money Blogging - What You Need To Know

There are quite a few things you need to know if you want to make money blogging. It is not as easy as register an account with blogger and adsense, and then sit and watch the money coming in. There are more to it. Here are some of the knowledge you need to equip yourself with:

1) How to blog well
Blogging has got more and more challenging. Normal content is not going to get attention anymore. Technorati is tracking over 58 million blogs, readers have choices which blog to read. So, you really need to put up cornerstone content to be able to attract readers.

2) Basic of HTML
If you are not an IT person, try to learn at least the basic of HTML. This will give you some power to modify your theme and the visual effects of your writing. I would suggest you to lookup W3Schools, who taught me most of my HTML knowledge.

3) Promote your blog
Here comes the challenge. Most bloggers face the problem of not getting enough traffic to their blog. If you want to make money blogging, you need to learn how to attract traffic to your blog. Traffic is the most expensive commodity on the internet, and big Google is built totally upon traffic. Joel Comm has a good book about driving traffic to your blog, it is called "Adsense Traffic Secret", currently selling for $7 only. You can also check my "7 Ways Of Driving Traffic" in my Ultimate Blogging E-Training Course. It is free though.

4) Basic of SEO
Although SEO is not as important for blogs as for websites, you need to learn and apply as much SEO knowledge as possible to your blog to reap the benefits of free traffic from search engines. If you manage to get to the front page of search results, you are likely to see an explosion in your income. One and I guess, the only SEO book that still matters, is Aaron Wall's SEO Book. If you do a search on Google for the word "SEO Book", you will see Aaron's book showing up on the first 3 pages. Imagine if your site shows up in the first 3 pages of the search result!

It is priced at $97, a bit high in price, but if you have a blog setup or some revenue door already opened, you can easily earn back the $97 investment with the higher amount of traffic you will get. It is here:



In short, making money blogging is not hard. You just need to learn how to make $1 a day first, then gradually increase it to $2, then $3... That's how you can make $500 a month blogging.

In Ultimate Blogging Master Blueprint, I will show you how to make $500 the first month blogging, step by step. That's why it is called a blueprint.

3 comments:

Kian Ann said...

I am interested in your course, but I have one question. Would you be training us to create one blog that makes that $500, or create multiple blogs that make like $10 each?

GameGeek said...

Again, in Ultimate Blogging Master Blueprint, my method is to focus on building a blog to make $500 before you start another blog.

This way works well for me.

GameGeek said...

Hi Kian Ann,

A blog can earn more than $500 a month if monetized properly. It also depends on the topic and nature of the blog.

Of course, building more blogs can speed up the income, but there are more work too.

I would suggest focus on one blog first.