Build A Better Blog Day 26
Today I'm asking a question; do you blog for love or money? You may be blogging for both but I doubt it. It's a very valid question and should be answered logically.
The logical progression for bloggers is to start introducing ads somewhere in there blog in hopes of earning some much needed income. If you ask most bloggers they would be happy with enough income to pay for their hosting costs. Personally I think you should be in one of two camps. One, you should build your blog template and content to drive advertising dollars, or you should just forget it.
You can look at it this way, when you dabble you never really succeed. Sure you may capture a few clicks that equate into a few pennys, but without a real plan you will be wasting your time. Looking at several of the major blogs who make money from ads, the site is all about the ads. If you are prepared to do that go for it. You have your work cut out for you. But if you are patient you can evetually make some decent money. It takes constant change to find the right advertising structure, be it banners, links, graphics, or widgets. There's plenty of opportunity but it takes a lot of work.
If you're into blogging for love, you can still earn something to offset the cost. As you build your blog, your readership and people get to know you, it's easy to make money from things like consulting, writing copy, building blog sites or creating educational materials and selling them. Or you may simply decide this is a great hobby which has a small cost each month.
One word of caution. Don't pay for these get rich quick e-book, or services, swearing they can get you at the top of the search engines or charge you to put their clients ads on your blog. With a little effort and research on your part you can find all the information you need to make money with your blog. You don't need to pay someone else to get it. If you are serious about becoming a Pro Blogger, then I suggest you start reading the ProBlogger. Add it to your RSS reader right now.
Tell us why you do, or don't, incorporate ads into your blog?
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Its for the love of it.
ReplyDeleteAs to why I dont have any ads on my site I can only claim stupididty. I'll have to sign up for an AdSense account and figure out where the ads get plugged in and how.
I actually threw a few adverts up on my blog using Adsense. Found that I just wasn't willing to make the commitment to cover the blog in adverts so wasn't making any decent money. I've slowly being stripping them out as I get around to it.
ReplyDeleteI did do surprisingly well once I'd forced my most active users to use my blog as their homepage - they're all regular google users so searching through my google searchbar actually worked out pretty well!