Make Money Online Through Blogging; Step By Step Guide

Blogging is one of the most popular ways of making money online. Many bloggers are earning thousands of dollars per months. These are blogger who have built a successful and profitable blog. You too can start making money online through blogging when you build your own successful blog.

May be you having been Blogging for a while and you think it is the right time for you to prove that you have build a successful and profitable blog.

Below are the exact steps to take to monetize and start making money from your blog.
Before I proceed further, I will suggest you read this article on ultimate bloggers’ Guide; if you are a newbie.

How to make money through blogging

To make money online through blogging;
1. Build your blog traffics first.
Your blog traffics are your blog visitors. The first and most important step towards making money online through blogging is to build huge blog traffics. No Blog traffic = No money. On the other hand, more blog visitors = more $$$. This is just a simple arithmetic but please note that it doesn’t always follow.
Therefore, you must strive to build your blog traffic first. There is no hard-and-fast rule to building your blog traffic. There are a number of strategies you can apply to build your blog traffic.
Here are some strategies and tactics you can apply to build and boost your blog traffic:
• Make Your Blog’s Content search engine-Friendly. Only those blog contents that appear among the top 10 pages are likely to be click on by online users. So, if online users must visit your blog, it has to appear among the top 10 pages index by search engine and the only way to achieve this, is to make blog search engine friendly. I have written a guide on search engine optimization (SEO) of which you can apply on your blog to rank high on organic search result and earn your blog more visitors.
• Target Your Content for an Audience Sharing. Write blog content that people will be ready to share.
• Use Twitter, Facebook and Google+ to Share your blog Posts.
• Add Graphics, Photos and Illustrations. People are attracted to photos and there will still longer on your blog if there are photos to watch or illustration
• Install blog Analytics and Pay Attention to the Results
• Conduct Keyword Research While Writing Your Posts. You can use Keywordtool.io , Google Adword tool, Bing research keyword tool to research for keywords for better SEO.
• Posts frequently.
• Participate in Social Sharing Communities like Reddit + StumbleUpon.
• Build user friendly blog with simple navigations.
• Interact with other Bloggers.
• Enable Subscriptions via Feed + Email and track them!
• Use Your Email Connections (and Signature) to Promote Your Blog.

2. Survey Your Readers
The content of your blog that your blog visitors read most will help in revealing the type of visitors that you receive on your blog. You need to know your blog readers because that will help you determine the best way to monetize your blog. You can use Google analytics tool or statcounter to gather information on this. You can also know your blog readers through comments and questions on your blog.

3. Use Google adsense program to make money

Once you’ve build a considerably blog traffics and survey your readers. You’re good to go! It’s time to make money. There are tons of ways to make money from blogging. The key to monetizing a blog is to run as many advertising products as you can get away with while still providing a good user experience.

When your blog starts to receiving considerable number of visitors, apply for Google Adsence program. Google will absorb you as one of their Adsense publisher. If you are ready, you can apply now for Google Adsence program. When you are accepted into Google Adsence program, you will begin to show Google Ads on blog.

Placement of those Ads on your blog will require section targeting for maximum click. Google section targeting is often unused resource for many blogger. This is no doubt due to the fact that most blog owners don’t even know what section targeting is. If you want to make money online with Google Adsense , then section targeting is something you need to understand. Most of the time, your blog content isn’t highly targeted to the keywords you are after. This is especially true for a blog because the post ramble from one topic to the next. Google tries its best to figure out what the general theme of a blog is and serve the most appropriate ads. However, you can help it out by section target your content. Section targeting will allow you to recommend key section of your article for adsense to emphasize. In other words, instead of having Google spidering your entire page to select ads space, you tell Google which parts of your content to target and which part to ignore.

To use section targeting
The following HTML tags triggers Google Adsense section targeting
This is the section of text I want Google to use when selecting ads for my blog. All the keywords and keyphrases should go in here and I will stay highly focused on my theme which is make money through blogging step by step PDF, make money online through blogging, make money from blog, blogging for online money making etc . Google will now use the section of text I designated for the targeting of Adsense ads and ignore the rest of the article. This how most blog do section targeting.

However, I find it easier to use tag on section of my sites that I want Google to ignore so that I can keep my Adsense ads on target to theme of my blog. The weight=ignore tag allows me to ramble about anything I want and still keep the Google ads targeted to the main theme of my blog.

One good thing about Google adsense program was that in 2014, Google Adsense payment started being by direct bank deposit. If you are a Nigerians, you can return to this site after you been accepted into Google Adsense program to read ‘how to Setup Google Adsense Payment in Nigeria for Direct Bank Deposit’

4. Use Affiliate Marketing to make money through your blog
Making money through affiliate marketing program is similar to Google Adsense program
I have written extensively on Affiliate marketing. It is here, Ultimate money-making Affiliate marketing model. This model gives you everything you need to make money on affiliating money. You too can also make it on affiliate marketing, just follow all steps you read from the above affiliate making model. Remember, a number of websites nay claim to offer affiliate program for blogger, ensure you check their record before joining their affiliate program otherwise you may end up working for them and at the end receive no payment.

5. Make money from your blog by selling your own product
Your product can be package in form of eBook, video, DVD, manual and seminars. Manual and seminars are now converted to digital form for easy transfer on the internet. The key things about your product(s) should be; attractive title, well-researched, truthful, useful, concise and appropriate price tag. Selling an eBook is a good place to start from.

6. Make money from your blog by accepting direct advert
Providing advert space on your blog for companies or businesses who wish to advertise on your blog can be an effective way to make money from your blog. The company’s banner or text link can be place on you blog advert space after the company must have pay for the advert space. You advertising rate should be competitively ok while providing the company with your huge blog visitors’ statistics, this will nerve them to advertise on your blog.

7. Make money from AdNation ads for blog publishers in Nigeria.
You can make money from AdNation ads. If you want become adNation ads publisher; visit promo Nigeria website. Try to check the record of any advertising network before joining them as a publisher. AdNation Advertising network is specifically made for Nigeria as an alternative to Google.

8. Make money from your blog using Ads by Dynamo for publishers in Africa
AdDynamo is other alternative to Google Adsense program which any Africa publisher can join. Visit AdDynamo website to join the advertising network. This advertising has be bought by twitter.

9. Make money from Yahoo media-net Ads for publishers

Yahoo media-net Ad is also similar to Google Ads program but they would require you to build huge blog traffic before applying to join them.

To make money from your blog, try a combination of the above ways. Combining 2 or 3 of the methods above will help you earn multiple stream of income from your blog. What works for me may not work for you that is why you must know your blog visitors?

Now, get back to work; apply those steps above to make money online while blogging.

Remember, blogging should be fun and interesting. Don’t blog for money, offer value.