Make Money Blogging Tips

Since I began my little make money blogging endeavor, I have seen my blog income grow slowly, but surely over the last couple of years. Now I need to point out that by 'blog income' I am referring to money I have received from my advertisements or affiliate sales such as Amazon.

But it is easy to say I have seen my income grow considering I started with absolutely no income from blogging. Therefore, any income I make is an increase, even if it is only $1.00.....

But it is really a little more than that. I started with one blog about 3 years ago. I worked that blog like mad, posting everyday, building a readership, not huge but steady. But I still made no money. I had the blog covered in Amazon products and Adsense ads, affiliate links to everything from horoscopes to mental health programs. You name it, I was selling it. But I still didn't make any money.

Overtime, my readership grew to at least 200 hits a day, almost everyday, and I was getting good comments, even some backlinks. But no money.

In those days I was really concentrating on writing. In fact I was entertaining the idea of turning my blog into a column for a newspaper. I wasn't really thinking about making money from my own advertisement program. It wasn't until I changed my focus, and started to try to make some money from blogging, I mean really tried, that I started to see a change.

So what did I do? Well for one thing I realized that I had too many ads on one blog. Readers were subjected to far too many choices, and for the most part choose none. Secondly, my blog, although I considered it really entertaining writing, didn't focus on any one thing, so the contextual ads that I got were all over the board, and usually not something someone was searching for. The only hits to the ads were the occasional one where I believe the ad title was enough to peak someone's curiousity. But they really weren't looking for what the ad was promoting.

Around the same time, I started reading about people having multiple blogs. You know the theory, I have talked about it here before, if one blog makes you $1 a day, imagine what 100 blogs might do, or 300 blogs....oh my the possiblities are endless. That is if you have 300 hours a day to update 300 blogs....

But, I did start to see the light so to speak. In order to make money from advertisements, blogs need to be focused, hence the niche blog. Niche blogs focus on one or two popular topics, which drives contextual ads that are relevant to the blog topic, and as such, are possibly of interest to the readers. Secondly, focused blogs, about one thing, tend to do better in search engines, in my opinion. Plus, if you hit on a good niche, you get regular readers, many of whom might even link to you.

So I started a few niche blogs, trying to keep them about topics that I was interested in, otherwise, I knew that I would eventually run out of things to write about, which has already happened with a couple of them. Some topics are not exactly endless.

Then I stripped most of the extra ads from my blogs, deciding to focus on a couple of ad providers and Amazon for products. No more affilates for other products that earned a couple of pennies occasionally but never enough to pay out. I also started to focus on some keywords, and making sure they showed up in my posts with some frequency, but not so much as to become a problem to my readers.

Finally, I started to focus on the make money blogging aspect. In some of my niche blogs I really concentrate on what I am writing, what words I use, and what the posts are about instead of the free for all, anything goes discussions of past blogs. That was and still is the hardest part, especially since I love to just write whatever is on my mind, and whatever goes from my brain to my typing fingers, which of course, sometimes isn't very much.....

The money is now starting to come in. Not scads of money, but money. I can say that I am paid to write now, in the sense that I do get the occasional cheque related to my writing efforts. It is growing, the time between cheques is shorter. It doesn't take me as long to reach the magic $100 figure for a cheque payout as it did when I started.

So...focused posts, less ads on a page, paying more attention to keywords, these are some of the techniques that have been working for me as I try to make money blogging.
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