How To Start Making Money With A Blog

How To Start Making Money With A Blog

If there ever was a free – or very close to free – business model on the internet, it’s blogging.

In fact, you can sign up with Google Blogger or a WordPress blog for nothing. It’s quick, too: You can be set up within minutes.

Then all you need to do to start making money is stick some Adsense ads on it. When your visitors click on the links, you make money.

You can also stick affiliate links in your blog. Then you write impartial reviews, and make money when they buy the product through your link.

And the good thing about both of these methods is that you really can make money without spending any. Once you know how to do it right.

What is Adsense?

Adsense is an advertising program run by Google.

When businesses advertise with Google, these adverts can be placed your blog – whether the blog is free or not.

Then, when someone clicks on these ads, Google charges the advertiser for each of those clicks. Hence why it’s also referred to as Pay-Per-Click advertising.

And, because the ad is on your site, Google pays you a small percentage.

Google’s charge for each click can be anywhere from 5 cents to a few dollars. So there’s potential to make a little extra cash, or quite a lot. It all depends on how serious you are.

I regularly make a small extra income from Adsense.

Keep in mind Google owns both Adsense and Blogger. So the two go well together.

All you need to do, to make money with Adsense, is to take the small code the program generates and paste it onto your blog.

Although there are some positions on your blog where you can get more clicks than others, it’s up to you to figure out the best place.

Over the last couple of years I’ve learned, through trial and error, the best places on my sites.

I’ll go into more detail about Adsense in a later post. (For my clients I do this for them – if that’s what they want – so they don’t have to).

Another thing: You can blend the Adsense ads so they look like part of your blog. Something like an advertorial in a newspaper so it looks like an article rather than an advert.

Also – and here’s why it’s important to have some keywords in your articles – Adsense usually places ads on your site which match the topic and content.

For example: If you have a site on languages, Adsense will probably show ads which offer language courses, etc.

You won’t see ads on that site for cars or aeroplanes as they tend to be irrelevant to the topic.

Best,
Rezbi

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