Many beginners come online, with the intent on making money. We sincerely commend them. With hard work, dedication, devotion, and some guidance, such a dream can be realized. Hence, the purpose of this blog, “Learn How To Make Money By Blogging”, is going to show you how you can do just so.
Choosing A Niche Essential For Blogging.
In order for you to start making money by blogging, begins with the selection of your niche. What is a niche? A niche allows you to market to a specific segment of a smaller audience. They have a specific wants and needs that are different from the broader market.
You have to give careful consideration in choosing a niche. You should not just choose a niche, for the sake of choosing a niche, such an attitude, will make it difficult to make money with your blogs. As stated, it should require some careful thought, but you don’t want to over think it. In view of what that has been said, you have to select something that is of interest to you, you enjoy doing, are passionate about or willing to learn about, and is profitable.
When you select a niche based on the above criteria, this will always keep you motivated, to provide high quality blog for your niche audience.
Here is another reason why a niche is important. Because you are dealing with just a small portion of a larger market, this gives you the opportunity to know, and understand your audience. Also, better able to engage them, and thus build trust and good relationship. Furthermore, because your market is specific and specialized, as compared to a broader or larger market, the level of competition is less.
Further, a niche market is easier to market to, and many niche customers will become repeat buyers. Also choosing the right niche lays the foundation for making money with blogging.
Again, for your success to become a reality, you must choose a niche, which is a small portion that is carved from the whole. For example, sports is a broad market (the whole). Hence, you want to focus on a small portion of the whole which in this case is sports. A small section of sports can be basketball. And we can even narrow it further, to basketball for men, basketball for boys, basketball drills or shooting three pointers etc.
So you want to carve a niche from your broad market and focus your attention to knowing, understanding, building relationship and trust.
Right Name For Blog Essential For Making Money.
Now that you have chosen a niche, it is time to select a name for your blog. Just as it was said that choosing a niche must be given careful consideration, the same can be said of choosing a name for your blog.
Take your own name, or the name of your child as example. Much thought went into your parent choosing a name for you. It was a well-thought-out process. In fact in some cultures, given names are steep in meaning. Names might also indicate what the name bearer is going to turn out to be. Hence, names were carefully chosen and given.
Similarly, because choosing the proper blog name is essential for your success, and can be a contributing factor for making money by blogging., we have provided a simple guideline, for you to follow, which will help you to select a suitable name for your blog:
- Consider your target audience, when choosing a name
- Name should be concise and short- easy to remember and identify with
- Easy to spell and say
- Not only must it be relevant to your niche, but liked by your audience
- It must reflect on what the blog is about
Should you encounter difficulty coming up with a blog name, there are many blog name generators available online, these might be of help to you.
You Need Web Hosting.
If you need to promote your business, by way of a website, then you definitely need web hosting. Every website is hosted on a server. You need web hosting, to store your website files and make them accessible to your visitors globally.
There are many web hosting companies, and their pricing packages vary from company to company. There are some that offer free hosting, but it comes with a cost. Because many impose daily or monthly limits on the amount of traffic your website can use, and site storage.
Also, because it is free, there are other concerns that must be taken into consideration. You have to think in terms of reliability, performance and availability. If your website is always unavailable, because of down time, or it is slow, you could easily lose visitors and sales.
And this is something that must be avoided at all cost. Hence, reliability is extremely important, and you can only expect real reliability with a paid hosting plan.
So choose a hosting plan that is affordable and cheap, this can also have some limitation, but you can always upgrade, as you become more successful and your business grows.
Some web hosting packaging come with a free domain name, you can take advantage of this, which will allow you, to register your domain name free of charge.
Here are some recommended hosting companies:
As a beginner, it is best to select word press as your content management system.
Choosing A WordPress Theme.
What is WordPress theme? It is a collection of variety of files, working together, to make the design of your website. An aesthetically pleasing word press theme can aid in driving traffic to your blog or website.
There are many word press themes that are available that you can choose from. As we stated choose the one that is affordable, but also you want to choose a theme that suits your personality style, and that is also in harmony with the niche of your blog.
A good place to start is Wealthy Affiliate. They have excellent classes and training as it relates to your building, designing and customizing your website with WordPress themes.
Learn How To Find Interesting Blog Topics.
High -quality blog that is rich in content, can be good source for driving traffic to your website. Since it takes into consideration, the needs and concerns of the target audience, and addresses those needs, by providing detailed and valuable information or relevant solution to their problem.
It is therefore highly recommended that you really get to know your target audience. For example:
- Education level
- Interest and hobbies
- Personality traits
- Income
- Problems and challenges
When you really get to know your audience, this will make it easier for you to write a blog that is relevant and helpful for them. How else can you find relevant and interesting blog topics to write on?
Questions are excellent way to get blog topics. People are always asking questions. They are asking questions, because they want to know, or they are looking for solution to a problem.
Where can you find such questions? Whatever niche you are in, you can find relevant questions at Quora, You can use these questions as blog topics to write quality and useful blogs that will rank in search engines, which will translate into traffic and sales.
Furthermore, queries that people make in Google searches, can be an excellent source, around which you can create a blog post that will rank in search engines. Also, such queries, puts you at an advantage, because it gives you an idea of a potential customers intent, that is where they are in their journey toward a purchase, and you can address that in your blog as well.
Again make it a habit of finding interesting blog topics, around which you can write useful, helpful and relevant blog post. If you need help in writing quality blog post, you can always look for help. By so doing, you learn how to make money by blogging.
On Page SEO Essential For Blogging
As mentioned in the preceding paragraph, it is a must that you write high-quality blogs, if you are going to be successful in your online business.
Equally, important, is that you employ SEO (Search Engine Optimization) as part of your blogging or business strategy. The reason is that you could write the most beautiful, effective and valuable blog, but if your target audience is not able to see your blog or land on your page, then you will be wasting precious time, because there will be no traffic and therefore no money.
To prevent that from happening, you have to do what is referred to on-page SEO. These are things that you do on your blog post, to get it ranked in search engines, and enable visitors to land on your web page.
Hence, once the content is written, it must be optimized so that search engines can understand what it is about and can rank it in relevant searches. You also must optimize your search engine result pages (SERP).
In essence, here are the best SEO practices, that will help you to rank, bringing you traffic and make money by way of your blog. Here are things that you can do on your page:
- Use Keyword in post title
- Keyword in meta title
- Keyword in meta description
- Keyword within first paragraph
- Keyword in image Alt title
- 1 external link
- 1 internal link
Also in your blog article, you have to use keywords naturally and in moderation. Avoid the tendency to stuff your content with keywords, as you will be penalized for this. So doing On-Page-SEO is a must. If you don’t know how to do it, you have to learn how to do it, if you are going to make money by blogging.
Learn How To Monetizing Your Blog.
Here is another fun part of the whole process. Making money with your blog. There are many ways that you can monetize your blog. However, we are going to focus on two important ways that you can do this.
Monetizing your blog in my opinion, begins with cultivating a good relationship with your target audience, by writing quality content that is helpful for them. Once you accomplish these twin tasks, that is write good piece of content and build trust and good relationship, you are now in a position to actually start the monetization of your blog.
The first way you can monetize your blog, is by displaying advertising from various companies. You can join platforms such as Google Adsense, Ezoic, Mediavine, Sharesales and CJ Affiliate. They will provide you with targeted ads that you can use to monetize your blog.
To monetize your blog, you can also join affiliate networks and affiliate marketing programs:
- Clickbank
- J V Zoo
- C J Affiliate
- Sharesales
- Wealthy Affiliate
- Amazon
They will provide you with your unique links which you can promote by way of your blog. You always want to promote product or service that is related to your niche, and do not try to stuff your blog with lots of ads. But rather, you want to use targeted ads and affiliate programs to your advantage, that is use them to monetize your blog.
Conclusion.
In this blog, “Learn How To Make Money By Blogging,” we discussed several key things that you should do, that will enable you to make money by blogging. And some things discussed were:
- Choose a niche
- Choose a name for your blog
- You need web hosting
- Choose a WordPress Theme
- Find interesting blog topics
- Do – On Page SEO
- Monetize your blog
By following and applying these simple steps, we have the utmost confidence that you will be able to make money by blogging.
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Sincerely,
Sten