Blogging

Blogging is one of the well known and trusted method to earn money from Internet. It requires quite amount of hard work and patience. You have to write useful articles (like this) every day helping to the visitors so that it gains traffic and popularity. Once you blog reaches that level of growth definitely it makes you decent income. Either you could create a free blog from blogger.com or start with your own hosting from WordPress.org like me. But, I would prefer free blog (blogger.com) because it is free and easy to learn.

Using your blog, you could earn money from Advertisements (using Adsense, Kontera or private Ads) and even selling affiliate products. But its 100% trusted method!

These 3 methods (Adsense, kontera or private ads) are the most trusted earning methods which never fail provided you are following the right steps. Don’t hesitate to invest time to understand these methods first before giving a start!

This article explains you on how to make your online business income from home using a long term online business model (with blogs). As discussed earlier, long term model gives you the results/income only after long period (period depends on few factors). The requirement here is that you have to spend considerable amount of quality time (even working from home) in the right direction.

So if you are ready to spend good time (at least an hour a day) then you could start go for this model. Simply saying, you have to start a website/blog of your own, write content & publish periodically, do the website promotion, monetize your blog & make money!

Again this is not any new invention or something; it’s all about grinding the say old stories. BUT, keep in mind that you have to take better decisions at each point of time to achieve greater results from this type of online business. I want to explain the funda in short and simpler form so that you will be crystal clear at the end of this post.

Choose a Topic

So you are going to create a blog, the first step is to choose a topic. To be simple, you could select the topic that you are more interested or that you have good knowledge. Because you have to write quality content on that topic CONTINUOUSLY so you should have enough knowledge (reproducing the content from other sites may not work here dude!). Or else select a topic, parallely learns and writes that brings your writings to good shape after few months.

Create a blog (Blogger or wordpress?).

The question, everyone will ask before starting a blog, which platform to select? Either Blogger.com or wordpress.com. My recommendation, simply go for Blogger.com & if your blog grows then move to wordpress.org with a self hosting (your own website) in the future.

One important factor, select a good domain name to your blog (should be a brand name of yours or a keyword related to your topic). I thought of explaining the steps to start a blog in blogger in detail.

Keep on publishing Quality Unique Content

So you have to create a brand new blog of yours from blogger.com. Your next steps are producing content. Start writing articles related to your topic. You could write any kind of article like “how to”, “tips”, “tutorials”, “courses” related to your topic BUT write USEFUL & ORIGINAL content.

Have a goal, I will write 1 article per day and stick to that. Keep on publishing articles on your blog, important DON’T EXPECT ANY IMMEDIATE RESULTS. Because it takes time to build a site with good information. KEEP “WRITING” AS A “HABIT” IN YOUR DAY-TO-DAY ACTIVITIES!

Blog Promotion in Right Steps

How to promote a blog? The answer to this question is huge and cannot be covered in few words. But there are few important factors to consider in promoting your Blog.

You should have 3 aims,

1)     Search Engine Promotion. Publishing useful original articles in your blog drives visitors from search engines. One important thing, you have to gain back links (links pointing to your articles from other sites). You will automatically gain back links, if you have good articles or gain yourself by publishing articles on article submission sites (like ezinearticles.com, hubpages.com etc) & social bookmarking on digg.com, mixx.com, stumbleupon.com etc. Learn Google SEO.

2)     Direct Promotion. Direct promotion in the sense gaining loyal readers to your blog. Use social media tools like twitter.com, facebook.com and build your network of readers. Have E-mail, RSS subscription options in your blog and ask the visitors to join. Learn to create social media presence.

3)     Forum posting. It a discussion centers of huge number of users where the senior member and the new member of the particular forum posting sites exchange their knowledge. You have to search a forum site related to your site`s Title and create an account to that forum and edit your forum profile, there you will see the Signature Box. In the signature box, you can put the link of your site and save it for your forum profile. Your link will appear automatically under your forum post or threads when you start posting on different topics in that forum. Reply to the large number of group and increase Back links for your blog or sites. More the back links, the more money you will earn.

Monetize effectively (for money/income)

Making money from your blog is the one of end goal (producing quality content should be first). There are two ways, the first way is “Ad Revenue” using Adsense or other PPC related programs or selling Ad space directly from your blog. The second way is promoting products (affiliate products from clickbank.com, Commission Junction (cj.com), Amazon.com, ebay.com etc) on your blog, products should be related to your blog topic or you could directly sell your own products (eBooks, videos or anything related to your topic…).

The final words that you should keep the below statements in your mind:

Ø  I will be patience & work for the growth of blog.

Ø  I will work consistently on my blog.

Ø  I will produce only useful content in my Blog.

Ø  I don’t expect big results/income in first 6 months to 1 year.

Ø  I will keep all the above statements in my mind.

Ø  Learn how to automatically convert keywords into affiliate links?

If you are not ready to put enough work (at least 1 hour working from home), don’t go for this long term model, simply go for short term online business model. But, this bogging is the most trusted way of earning money from everywhere. It involves lot of work right from setting up a blog to turning it into a profitable machine. It definitely requires a business plan at least the focus plan should be there.