How To Monetize Your Blog: A Newbie's Guide

The abundance of information spread over the internet was not always helpful. Often, too much information is thus even make confused.

Which is true?

Which one is to be trusted?

Which one to follow?

As a result, not everyone can find from where to begin to earn an income from your blog.

This practical article specifically I have written to them that really was new, still a novice or "newbie", in the world make money from blogging. Still new, meaning that it has never jumped at all in the world ofblogging for money and has never gotten money from blogging activities.

If you belong to the group, please read and it doesn't hurt to bookmark this page.

And for those of you who've not including the Group I mean, no need to read this article. I'm sure you've been in the right way to make money from your blog.

So, let's get started!

6 step PROVEN MONETIZATION BLOG

1. DETERMINE YOUR NICHE/NICHE

The first step before you even create a blog is this: determine your niche or your blog niche. If you have to write for a long span of time(e.g., 6 months), about what topics You want to write?

Sport?

Entertainment?

Health?

Politics?

Technology?

Why love topics blog which you will create the is important if you want to make money from your blog?

First, because if you love what you write on your blog, then most likely You will be able to last longer in the world make money from blogging. You will not be easy to despair and quit, even though your bloghas not been making money.

Second, because if you love what you write on your blog, then your blog readers will be able to see your spirit in Your articles. It will be hard to convince the reader of your blog if you are not sure with what you wrote in your blog.

In addition, it seems to me, the approach to niche blogging (blog with one specific topic, not a blog with a wide range of topics) until nowproven to be still better than general blogging to make money from your blog. Instead of writing anything that are happening around you, it would be better if we write in focused one topic that we really are interested in.

How do I determine the niche/niche of your blog?

Here are 3 simple steps to determine your niche/niche to blog:

1. STARTING FROM the GENERAL TOPIC

You don't have to start from scratch. There are many ways to determine the niche of your blog. One of them is to observe, mimic and make use of the site or the portal already established as a patron or a model. Take the example of Kompas.com.

In the Kompas.com page, you will find various categories based on general topics such as sports, entertainment, business and finance, technology, Female, automotive and others. By utilizing these general categories, you can choose, where the topics that most interest you personally?

Select one and then wrote on a piece of paper.

To simplify this tutorial, take for example suppose you choose the topic "sports". Write the topic on a piece of paper.

2. NARROW YOUR TOPIC

After the first step determines the general topic is complete (in this example is "sports"), the next step is to ask this question: what sportsyou like most?

Basketball?

Football?

Boxing?

Sumo?

Let's say you choose "soccer."

Ask the next question: which Football?

League Of United Kingdom?

Italy's League?

League Or Indonesia?

If you for example choose "League United Kingdom", the topic could still be narrowed again by selecting "major league United Kingdom" (or the name of its official Premier League) and not the otherleagues, such as the "National League".

In other words, once you find general topics that interest you, the next step you have to do is narrow the general topic. It seems to me, the more narrow and focused topic that you select will be the better. Once again, select one and then wrote on a piece of paper.

For this example, let's say you choose the topic "major league United Kingdom".

3. RESEARCH the TOPIC

Once you narrow down the topics that interest you, a very importantnext step is to research the topic you have chosen. Research topics is intended to obtain information about the level of competition topics, especially those that appear as a search result of search engines (especially Google), much to the lack of search results and the key wordsrelated to the topic you select.

By knowing the level of the competition, the number of the volume of search results in search engines and keywords related to the topic you choose, then the opportunity to master the share of niche/niche of your blog will be even greater. Although not entirely can describe the topic you choose, you can make use of free Keyword tools Planner from Google Adwords for the purposes of Your research topic.

In addition to knowing the level of competition and opportunity, the topic is also important research was done to see the potential monetisation for your blog. Do not let happen, you choose a topic that can not or too hard on monetization.

How do I know if the topics we select have the potential monetization?

There are a lot of ways.

The simplest way for beginners I recommend is by typing the keyword topics you select in the search engine Google, and check if there are ads that appear on Google's search page (ad position is usually at the very top and very bottom of the search page, with different colors). The more ads that appear, the better. More and more ads, meaning more and more people are searching for Your topic keywordsand the greater the potential visitors of the blog that you can get.

Conversely, if the ad does not appear at all in the search page, it means the keywords you choose are not much sought after people (or it could be not easy monetization), so Your opportunities to make money with those topics is also relatively small.

Another way is to look at Google Trends. Just type in your topic of choice and see if Your topic keywords have good trends (increasing orstable) or quite badly (down). If the topic of your choice shows a good trend, it means that your choice is just right. If it turns out that the topic of your choice has a bad trend, don't be afraid to look for other topics or at least revise the topic you choose.

DO IT NOW:

Type and research your topic of choice in Google Keyword Planner and Google Trends before proceeding to the next step.

Recommendation:

10 reasons why more lucrative Niche Blogging

An article I wrote about the reasons why most blogs in the Technorati Top 100 Blogs list choose the approach to niche blogging and whyniche blogging is more profitable than general blogging.

2. build BLOG

Once you are ready with niche niche/what would you tekuni, now it's time to start building your blog. If you really still just want to make your blog first, it doesn't hurt to make a blog not-for-pay (free), such as Blogger.com or WordPress.com.

Among the many blog platforms, both of these platforms are arguably the most popular and easy to use. Seems to me, if you are new to learn to create a blog to make money from blogging, using Blogger is a choice that makes more sense than using WordPress.com.

Why?

Because of the WordPress.com (a not-for-pay aka free) can't were doctored for the purposes of making money from blogs. Instead, Bloggers have a monetization features ready-made for use (including Google Adsense).

However, once you have enough money, I VERY STRONGLY RECOMMEND that you immediately build a blog with domain and hosting your own self-contained (no longer using domains with extension blogspot.com or URwordpress.com).

Blog with a domain and hosting, in addition to more professional, it will also make it easier for You to control and choose model monetization. If you have prepared with enough cash, buy a domain (for $14.99 for a year via GoDaddy) and hosting (with services and prices vary) is an investment that is well worth to do.

Note: due to limitations of space, in this section I will not repeat the explanation detailed step-by-step how to create a blog (both with Blogger or WordPress). You can browse by keyword "how to create a blog with Blogger" or "how to create a blog with WordPress" throughGoogle's search engine. There are many free tutorials (even video) on how to create a blog that you can learn by yourself.

3. WRITE ARTICLES PILAR

What is a pillar article? Simply put, a pillar article is an article, usuallylong and structured, containing valuable information or the main reference is very rewarding, published on the blog. A pillar article is often not tied to time and will always be read by those who need it (the article that you are reading this article is one example of a pillar).

In addition, the article pillar also has an important role to build authority and attract traffic visitors to your blog. If you want to seriously studying the activity of blogging for money, it seems to me, at least you should write at least 5-10 pillar articles on your blog.

What are the kinds of articles you can write pillar?

1. TIPS and TRICKS

This is a pillar article gives tips and tricks to help resolve problems encountered your blog visitors (e.g. how to get traffic, SEO, blog promotion, and others).

2. GUIDE TUTORIAL

This is kind of a pillar article explains step by step how to do something practical guide will be very beneficial for the visitors of your blog (the article that you are reading this is one example of a pillar articleGuide Tutorial).

3. ASK and ANSWER

This is an article that summarizes the pillars of any questions you cananswer to help visitors to your blog.

4. CASE STUDIES

You can also write down the specific case study that You deliberatelydo to help resolve problems encountered your blog readers (for example, a case study of how your blog can get high rankings in Google search engine).

5. REFERENCE SOURCES

This is a type of pillar article where you don't need to write your ownarticle pillar you, but simply summarize articles weighing from various sources (of course with a link-link) about a particular topic and display it on your blog page.

6. INTERVIEW SERIES

This is a type of pillar article where You interviewed several people who have special skills in niche/niche blog you selected and displays the results of the interview on your blog. The series of interviews canbe one of the cornerstones of the kinds of articles with many advantages. Learn about the advantages of making a series of Interviews as apillar article in part the recommendations below.

4. PERFORM OPTIMIZATION SEO and SMO

Building a blog is one thing, but if your blog is then searchable via asearch engine (e.g. Google) is another thing. If your blog is not easilyfound through search engines, then it can be determined the number of visitors will be limited.

Admittedly, the Canal's biggest current blog visitors come from the search results of search engines (like Google or Yahoo). That's why onthis fourth step, search engine optimization (SEO) and social media optimization (SMO) is a MANDATORY two things you must do if you want elections caused money from your blog.

What is SEO?

What is SMO?

Simply put SEO or search engine optimization is a technique of optimization techniques that are guaranteed to maximize position ranking a site or blog in the eyes of the search engines. The higher the position of ranking a blog in the eyes of the search engines, such as Google, then the greater the chances of getting traffic visitors in large numbers.

Meanwhile, in a simple SMO or social media optimization is performed online promotional strategy with a focus of optimizing tools and social media platform (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google +, Pinterest, Instagram).

By performing Optimization SEO and SMO blog now you are ready to get visitors traffic through search engines and social media. Pleasefind out more, ways of doing both SEO optimization, SMO or through the articles that I wrote in part the recommendations below.

5. PROMOTE YOUR BLOG

Whether to get hundreds and even thousands of visitors to the blogwith just enough doing SEO optimization and SMO?

It is not.

Seems to me, only do SEO optimization and SMO alone is not enough. It's only half-way.

In other words, you must promote your blog, ranging from the mostsimple and free (for example by leaving comments on other blogs using the identity of your blog name), to the most complex and paid (for example, by making use of ad networks Google Adwords or Facebook Ads).

Getting good promotion strategy you do, then surely the greater thechance of exposure to your blog in cyberspace and in turn also the more people will visit your blog. The result: increased traffic, your blogearnings will increase.

6. SELECT the MODEL of MONETIZATION

The last step of course you have to do to earn money from your blogis: choose model monetization for your blog. Once your blog has a significant number of visitors and stable (how the numbers can be veryrelative), you can already start to determine what program would you use to make your blog can make money continuously.

There are plenty of monetization models (ranging from "magazine" model that relies on visitor traffic and utilize PPC ads for monetization, up to "expert" model that relies on expertise and use of the service/product as monetization options) and monetization programs that you can choose, ranging from the easiest (such as PPC, whereyou live cut paste the ad code in your blog) until that need special skills (e.g. open a membership site).

"When can I start doing the blog monetization?"

There are various answers to this question.

You can start doing the blog monetization as soon as your blog is completed. Or, you can also choose to start memonetisasi your blog after the number of visitors to your blog and pretty much stable. The choice is yours completely. However, it seems to me, would be so much safer when you first perform the steps above before making Your blog for monetization.

Please refer to the further option monetization models and monetization programs what you can try to your blog through the articles in this part of the recommendation below.

After performing monetization, now you're ready to make money from your blog. While continuing to manage the blog you've got up, evaluation of the results you get and do remedial actions where necessary.

That's 6 steps proven soon that you can do if you want to start making money from your blog.

Nevertheless, the six steps above will only stay be "empty theory" If you just read and don't do anything.

Do act now!

Time goes on.

So act soon.

Do these six steps above correctly and God willing you will begin to enjoy earning money from blogging activities.

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