5 tips to make sure you make money blogging

Having a good base for money blogging is really important if you are new to money blogging and you already have chosen a blog platform then you’ll need to know your priorities and next steps for the blog to grow.

Here are 5 ways to make sure you make money blogging!

Adspace/Template

You can’t sell what you don’t have, make sure your template has a space just for advertisers which is designed really well, this is to attract advertisers and ensure a good CTR on those banner/text ads that you’ll be selling.

Make sure you have an Advertise page with all the info on it so it is easier for potential advertisers to buy ads from you and if there are some terms or anything make sure you have pointed them out clearly on the advertising page.

Promotion

Think of your blog as your main and the only site you own, advertise it everywhere, use it as your signature like:

Name
blogname.com

That not only gets you more respect but it establishes your identity and you become well known within your circle by it, but to get back on point, constant promotion is crucial for your blog, never let your guard down and depend on just the readers to generate enough traffic, you need to keep promoting your blog every chance you get to make sure your advertisers stay interested as well as your blog gets stronger and you develop a better sales pitch.

Targeted Blogging

If you have researched the advertiser’s market and you now know what they are looking for then go to your blog and start some intense niche article blogging, get some heavy targeted traffic using either smm or other methods and generate the hype the advertisers are looking for, its not just about traffic but conversions as well, if the traffic you send converts well the advertisers will definitely be back for more!

Think 5 steps ahead

I won’t exaggerate, thinking 5 steps ahead is all you need, if you know a certain ad on your site is going to expire go search for more the best way to do that is make “Want to sell : AD/s” threads on forums, thats how i make most of my sales, the only 2 forums where i have seen good sales are Sitepoint (paid listing) and Digitalpoint, take your pick and make sure your blog doesn’t go ad-less.

Not just in manners of ads, but content wise as well if you know you are running out of things to blog or your personal life is getting busy or you don’t have enough time in the coming days then just hire another blogger to keep on adding more posts on your blog, every day that your blog doesn’t have content loses you a valuable reader!

NO Love Links!

If you are linking to fellow blogs to get some interaction going no-follow the links, your link love is only for the advertisers, if you openly give out link love to just any site out there you won’t get that much authority in the long term and most advertisers won’t want to advertise at your blog, think about it like this - “All links at your blog are no-followed but if someone wants a do-follow link they have to pay a certain amount for a sponsored review” that way you make your blog exclusively for advertisers!

Blogging and Article Marketing

Many bloggers simply overlook article marketing as a way to promote their sites. If you want to make money blogging, this is a good way to get you moving in the right direction.
Every blogger who wants to make money online needs to write a few good articles on their niche and submit them to the top article directories. This will not only help you with your traffic numbers, it could prove to be a good way to get quality links pointing to your blog, and lots of them, if you write an informative article. Many webmasters only use content that comes from such article directories which must be used with your biography or resource box included, giving you all those free links.

If you’re a regular reader of Blueverse.com you will already know what this can do for the SEO of your blog.

Bloggers must look at writing an article to be submitted at an article directory as a way to build many links at once and not just as a way to get a few visitors to your web site. These are the best kind of links to have, they come from many different websites and will help to push your blog to the front page of Google for your targeted keywords.

Just make sure you get the most out of your resource or biography box by linking your website to the anchor text of the keywords you are wanting to rank high for.

I’ll bet you’ve already thought of a quality informational article you could write up in just a few minutes that would keep giving you links for many months to come, so what are you waiting for? Get out there and start submitting your articles to article directories, you will find that the bloggers who currently make money online, and lots of it, are all expert authors at the top article directories.

Basic Blogging - Choosing a CMS

Choosing the right cms for your blog is crucial because it sets the tone of how you work and the level of flexibility available on that cms, be very careful while choosing a cms if you aren’t sure just go with the most popular one because that way even if you don’t get how it works theres a huge support community ready to help you out!

Here are the top blogging platforms available!

• Wordpress
  WordPress is a state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. What a mouthful. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time.
• Movabletype
  It’s easier than ever to publish and share information with Movable Type. With more than 50 new features, MT4 makes it simple to start a blog, manage entire websites and build an engaged community of readers and customers.
• b2evolution
  A blog script featuring multiple blogs, categories/sub-categories, skins, search function, multiple languages, search engines friendly URLs
• Nucleas
  A powerful blog script featuring multiple blogs, multiple authors, drafts and future posts, bookmarklets.
• Mambo or Joomla

   

  

  These are two of the most powerful Open Source Content Management Systems on the planet. It is used all over the world for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Joomla! is easy to install, simple to manage, and reliable.

But if you don’t want to host the blog yourself you can always choose a free blog hosting service such as:

• Wordpress
  Wordpress with its famous blogging platform also offers free hosted blogs that you can use to blog with tons of plugins and themes available you can’t go wrong with this!
• MSN Live Spaces
  Live spaces is a great free blog hosting service offered by msn with tons of great profile features and a powerful blogging platform.
• Blogger
  Blogger is a free blog hosting service provided by google with some great profile features and a powerful and safe blogging platform.
• Vox
  Blogging is fun again. With powerful privacy controls and hundreds of beautiful designs, Vox is a great place to build your online neighborhood. Add seamless integration with popular web services like Flickr and YouTube, and we think you’ll agree that…
• Blogates

  Blogates is a free, web-based tool that helps you publish to the web instantly — whenever the urge strikes. Blogates is an upcoming hosted service providing powerful tools for creating full-featured weblogs. Built in response to the needs of webloggers, online diarists and writers.

• Aeonity
  Aeonity Blog is a Free Blog Hosting Community where you may publish information instantly on your website and customize your blog to fit your personality. It basically works like an online journal, diary, weblog, or notepad and requires little or no technical background to update and maintain.