Wednesday
Making Money With Free Blogs - Putting It All Together
| Over the last three days I've suggested that their are three main ways to make money with free blogs - the third being a combination of the first two, which is the method I favour. If you missed these three posts you can read them here: Making Money With Free Blogs - The Truth - Part 1 Making Money With Free Blogs - The Truth - Part 2 Making Money With Free Blogs - The Truth - Part 3 I favour the combination method because this widens your scope. It's really the old cliche about not putting all of your eggs in one basket. If you go just for writing sponsored posts you may do exceedingly well, but what happens if they should dry up for a short period, or you can't find the right opportunities offered suitable for your blog? The simple answer is that your income dips. And it's the same with say relying on one affiliate program or with one set of advertising content. Things can go wrong, through no fault of your own, and again income can disappear. As an example of this I'll mention my fall out with Commission Junction. Well I didn't fall out, but for some reason they closed my account owing me about $56. I never found out why because they didn't respond to my emails after this happened. The feeling is that they must have thought I was doing something fraudulent to get clicks - which I wasn't. The reason doesn't really matter now, I've moved on, but it illustrates how if I had been relying on just CJ for my money I would have been down to a big fat zero. (In fairness I would add that many people are very happy with CJ). I would suggest that you build a portfolio of advertising, affiliate programs and sponsored posts. I love the expression: 'streams of income' but this is what you can establish with blogging. Some of the streams may be only small ripples but when they join together they can gush quite nicely. It's good to test out different things to see what actually works on your particular blog. If they don't work ditch them. Always play to strengths not weaknesses - another cliche: you can't flog a dead horse! Whatever course you follow the two things that you will need to help you on your way are: (1) a decent PageRank and (2) lots of Traffic. To read more about PageRank I suggest you read Tom's The Quest For The Golden Google PageRank and for Traffic my post from March 07 Money Making With Free Blogs. The reason for lots of Traffic is as I wrote previously: blogging is generally a numbers game. As for PageRank it's as I said yesterday. PR has a value in that it can determine how much you are paid for writing sponsored posts and also for running ads or links on your blog. The higher the PageRank the more you are likely to earn. I'll carry on another time talking about individual affiliate programs etc., that I have experienced, and how I have got on with them. Good luck, Mike. If not a PPP member get $7.50 for reviewing any of my posts. Click button below for info. Subscribe to Mike's Money Making Mission Subscribe to Mike's Money Making Mission by Email Labels: Free Blogs, make money |
