Are you looking for a way to make money at home without getting involved in pyramid schemes, selling products that don’t work, or trying to buy real estate with no money down? Believe it or not, there is actually a great and completely legitimate way to make money online that is also fun. All you need to do is have a passion for something, and the drive to write about it.
Do you have a passion for art, poetry, music, or even just a great and unique sense of humor? If so, why not start a blog about it? If there is something that fuels your passion and that gets your creative juices flowing, a blog can be a great way to express yourself and to earn money while you do it. Believe it or not, if you can get a large number of followers, there are actually quite a few ways to make money using nothing more than your creative writing talents.
How to Earn Money From Your Blog
1: Write Reviews.
When you have a successful blog, you can create money using a number of strategies. You can form a partnership with companies in your area of interest and write reviews for different products, services or restaurants, linking your readers to the company and the product in question, collecting a certain percentage of every sale.
2. Add Advertising.
Another idea is simply to allow companies to advertise on your site. You can sell ad space to one or more companies and actually make money for every person that goes from your blog to that site or generate a percentage of all sales that come directly from your site links.
Note that you will need to have a certain number of visitors ("traffic") to your site each day to attract advertisers. Check your site visitors by going to a site such as Google Analytics or Adobe Omniture, or look for a free site visitor counter that will display your daily ‘views’ on the back-end of your site. Some blog sites even display daily viewership automatically. Advertisers will ask you what your daily/ weekly/ monthly traffic is before they will put an ad on your site.
3. Become an Affiliate.
You will also find that you can use a blog to sell a product or service of your own. If you want to sell product reviews, market your own writing skill or even sell crafts, you will find that blogging can be a great way to do so. You can also become an affiliate for a company that fits within the topic of interest on your blog, and mention their product in some of your posts. Commissions on affiliate sales can actually be surprisingly large, offering you a great way to make money if you have a lot of readers.
4. Post Often and Well.
The key with writing a blog, even to make money, is to keep the content coming on a daily or weekly basis, and to keep it interesting. Your readers will come back often if you always have something new to say, and you don’t want your blog to become outdated. Provide information that will engage and entertain your readers, and keep them intrigued. This will ensure that you always have plenty of visitors to help you generate money with ads, affiliate links or other strategies. And if you get enough followers, you may even be able to get someone to sponsor your blog in exchange for ad space on their site.
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