How To Blog For Profit: The Ultimate Guide To Blogging For Money

Are you wondering how to make money blogging? Several years ago I realized bloggers were making money. In some cases, they were making great money! Many of them seemed like regular people, just like me. How exactly were they doing it? And could I make money blogging too? This post contains affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to you, if you click through an affiliate link and make a purchase, I may make a commission. As people visit and seek your advice, you will make money through your various income streams. The most successful bloggers use their blog as a hub, or online home base, then build up many income streams from there.

Using your blog as a hub is important, to control your message and to have a place where you can always be found. These income streams include advertising, affiliate marketing, selling digital or physical products or offering services. Bloggers make money directly on their blogs and indirectly through related opportunities. Trickles of income from multiple streams add up to a large river of income. A few bloggers make millions of dollars a year.

Others, like me, make a healthy full-time income. Some make less, and some make no money at all. Solid numbers about blogging incomes are hard to come by. Information from small surveys and anecdotal evidence can also be found online, but much of it is outdated or taken from tiny sample sizes. Some bloggers publish income reports, although more and more have stopped doing so.

When reading income reports, be aware of two things:. It takes a lot of hours per week to build and maintain a quality blog. Usually, it takes months of blogging before seeing income from it. I tell new bloggers to allow at least months to make a decent part-time income and years to make a consistent full-time income.

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There are always exceptions of course, but after being active in the blogging world for almost 14 years, these are reasonable averages. The idea that you can start a blog today and make a full-time income within a few months is, for most, not realistic. There is simply too much too learn and too much to build your site, your content library, your social media presence, your trustworthiness, relationships with readers, etc. I squeezed blogging into the cracks of life for many years and it now brings in steady income.

If you have some time, it is well worth the effort. Companies want to get their product in front of potential customers. They may be interested in advertising on your blog if your readers are their ideal customers. Here are ways to incorporate advertising into your blog:.

Advertising is easy to start, making it a popular income stream for many bloggers. Also, it runs the risk of frustrating your readers ever been on a site only to be assaulted by the ads? You link to that product or service using your unique affiliate link. When, someone clicks through that link and makes a purchase or completes a desired action set by the company , you earn a commission. There are thousands of affiliate programs to join.

Some I participate in:. Affiliate marketing is one of my favorite and most profitable income streams. You can highlight products or services you use and love without having to do the work of creating or maintaining that product yourself.

I talk about affiliate marketing in much more depth in Affiliate Marketing: The Ultimate Free Guide. Many bloggers create and sell their own digital products. Neha Pick single niche. Here are few detailed tutorials to help you: Hii Harsh, Its a dream come true to read this amazing post. Professionally I am a English language teacher and soft skills trainer.

Personnelly people seek me for advice in relationships. I aspire to be a blogger Looking for your guidance to choose a niche between personnel development or relationships. Which path will lead me to success in blogging. Waiting for ur response. Please accept my hearty congratulations for a wonderful presentation, which is very much useful for the dummies as well as professionals of blogging.

I am very new to blogging and as part of searchng, I found your article and felt very much useful. I am now eager to start a new blog even. I like your approach i.

Thanks for sharing such kind of informational article. I think blogger does not rank better then website plz guide me. I am a software engineer and i want o start my career in this field for sharing knowledge or technical skills. Can you suggest me a list of atleast site to sign up for affiliate I m. Or any adfiliate network of texh niche where I can find all site to monetize my blog. Hello harsh, I am newbie and just as you said I am blogging through blogspot but now I feel that I should migrate to wordpress but I have got one confusion here, should I start with wordpress.

I would also include that I am from non technical background, so what would you suggest? Shyam I would suggest you to start by reading this article: Hey Harsh, I have been a regular visitor to your blog since September, and I really love your blog. I have bookmarked it and I visit your blog everyday but the yearning to visit your blog never stops. I am not been dramatic. Just one quick question Harsh, I wanna blog professionally and I wanted to have my own domain from the very start.

Since you mentioned in the beginning of this article that one should start blogging in blogspot for atleast a month, I am confused now. Should i start blogging in blosgspot or wordpress. And if I blog there can i move my contents from those platforms to my own self hosted domain once i get one? I have a doubt shoudl we use both seo by yoast and google xml sitemaps together? I had heard about the errors in seo yoast too. Can you pls guide on this.

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After logging in you can close it and return to this page. Skip to primary navigation Skip to content Skip to primary sidebar Blogging Share: Authored By Harsh Agrawal. Fountainhead of ShoutMeLoud Award winning blog , speaker at various international forums. Live while you can! Hi Harsh, Please accept my hearty congratulations for a wonderful presentation, which is very much useful for the dummies as well as professionals of blogging.

Hello I like your approach i. Hi harsh, you are doing great… As I have a blog on topic ike, SEO, social media, hosting, domain, ontrtnet marketing, WordPress etc Can you suggest me a list of atleast site to sign up for affiliate I m. I really love the blog and I am still here discovering valuable contents. Also what do you think can cause old comments to keep repeating everyday on a blog. That's the problem I am going through right now on my blog as I stuck with over previous comments in moderation and they keep come in.

Hey Christian, I replied to your other comment. All those comments are spam comments, I went to your website and checked, it's been done by an automated tool because you approved them initially. You've got dozens of spam comments approved on your post - look at the names of the people who posted it's stuff like "Mexico vacations" and "online learning" etc.

By approving the initial comments you opened your site up to be bombarded by the spammers. Mark all current comments as spam and all in the queue then install a spam plugin to deal with it such as Askimet or CleanTalk which I use here on NicheHacks. A email can disappear, forget where you put it, etc. Can you take this post and put it in a PDF or part of it and then do a subchapter when folks want it they can read or down load it.

OR make an ebook out of it! But this post isn't going to disappear as it's fixed so bookmark it. Best as a blog post. This must have taken an unbelievable amount of time to put together and organize properly. Hey Paul, not as long as you might thin. Hello Stuart I got your email about this guide and I coudlnt wait to read this. All your messages are plenty of good information, I will plan to review each point of my blog in front of your guide.

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Now a day people love to post blogs and updating through out. Social media can be overwhelming. I always recommend to choose one or two platforms and do those really well, Even for a seemingly simple blog, site architecture, content categorization, and menu structure can be elusive. That's often because there are different ways to bucket content, depending upon what point of view you're looking from.

This is an excellent resource. I will definitely take all of your tips into careful consideration once I start to network my new blog. This will help me a lot with connecting to bloggers in my niche Really detailed post, it really helped me get started. A lot of talk on WP in this post, but I felt you are missing some step by step guide to wordpress, after I set the blog live. Something usefull I found: Hey Mike, thanks for your comment. That's a really niche post. Will look into adding it. Thanks for the headsup. I am throughly impressed with the resources and information provided here!

As an IM newbie. I want to learn more about this industry. And I'am so thankful that I found your blog. Great collection of blog articles and it is very detailed. I'm not yet finished reading it all. Other articles were awesome!

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People like Rand and Neil Patel are on my top list whenever I need cool ideas, research and case studies to look at. Glad to see KissMetrics and Moz posts link. You did a great job. Was looking at the links for 2 hours, to be hones too many good food for me to swallow at a time!

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This is truly a well laid out post. Building a great blog gives a good start but Driving traffic to a blog matters the most and a little tricky. Just like to add a quick tip that might help your readers who are interested to start a blog - Try to engage in blog communities like Bizsugar that will help to take off the blog. Thanks for sharing this awesome post Stuart and I happy to have found your blog.

Great read and great to connect with you! In the past few years, blogging and content creation has changed quite significantly. There used to be a few good rules and best practices that most bloggers could follow and succeed. But things are not that simple anymore. Despite my tendency to dream beyond the scope of the realistic and attainable, I do understand why those guidelines are important in setting effective goals. A key reason that they feel this way is that they haven't spent enough time thinking about what we want from life, and haven't set themselves formal goals.

Eventually, thanks for sharing your best experience in brief with us. How have I only just come across this great site!? I'm fully determined to make the year of my blog! Thanks for a great post, I'll be reading more in future. Just the information I was looking for. I just started my blog and I will be following your advice. I've been reading your articles for a couple of months and I find the information invaluable.

I'm still trying to learn and there's plenty more here for me to read. As a newbie, I mean a real newbie, I so appreciate your information. How To Start A Backyard Chickens Niche - NicheHacks: March 8, Niche Hack Report: Beekeeping - Show Me The Honey! NicheHacks June 22, February 3, at February 3, at 9: February 3, at 5: February 8, at February 9, at 1: February 5, at February 5, at 3: February 3, at 6: February 4, at 9: February 4, at 5: February 4, at 6: February 4, at February 5, at 9: February 5, at 2: