How Do You Make Money By Blogging: My 2 Year Results Are In!

Anyone can start a WordPress blog website but how many of those people can actually make money from their blog?

How do you make money by blogging?  Even some bloggers don’t know the answer to this question.

Some may think that blogging is easy but there’s a lot to it than just writing some words on a post.

When done right, blogging can be a very lucrative way to make money online and my two year results will prove that to you.

I had tried blogging a few years ago, but I wasn’t so successful back then because I didn’t arm myself with the knowledge and education I needed to blog properly.

In this post I will tell you how I make my money and what you need in a blog before you even make any money.

I will also show you what I used to get to where I am today so now let’s check out the following sections:

• What Your Blog Needs Before Making Money
• How Do You Make Money Blogging?
• My Secret Weapon To Earning A 4 Digit Online income

 

 

If You Haven’t Made Any Money With Blogging,
See My Secret Weapon To My Success:

 

 

WHAT YOUR BLOG NEEDS BEFORE MAKING MONEY

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If you’re blogging to make money, then you can’t actually think about that part as your first thing to-do on your list.

You will need have to think about whether your blog is within a niche.  Some people create their blogs on just about everything but if you create a niche specific site, you will better help the people within it.

You will also rank better for it too if you have a niche specific site and become more an authority blog in that niche.

The next thing you’ll need is traffic, meaning visitors.  It may be obvious but again, some thing about money before even having any visitors on their site.

This is the part that will stump a lot of people and will make people really give up on the blogging idea as it will take some time before your blog will get any traffic, especially if you’re waiting for that powerful SEO organic traffic that’s also free.

 

 

In order to get traffic, you’ll need to know SEO strategies as well as being able to write the content with intent and purpose.

You’ll need to know the words that people in your niche uses to search for things on the internet.  You’ll need to what people in your niche would be searching for.

If you can know that and provide those answers to the things they are searching for, then you will surely get traffic eventually when search engines start to rank you higher and higher.

Google likes lengthy content and you can provide that with high quality information in that content, then Google will likely rank you on first page.

Depending on what you’re writing about and the keywords you’re using, it could take a few months before anything happens to your blog and this is perfectly normal.

People who are in this stage try to use other methods to get traffic like using social media, paid promotions, etc.

However, if you just concentrate on the content and making sure you’ve SEO’d your stuff, then the traffic will certainly come.

 

 

How Do You Make Money Blogging?

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Once you have traffic on your blog website, you’ll be able to make money and the ways that I’ve been using on my blog here, Work Anywhere Now, is affiliate marketing and display ads.

Affiliate marketing is very popular with bloggers because it means they don’t have to create their own products or service to make money, they can just promote what’s already available online.

You will have to sign up to the affiliate programs of the companies and brands you want to promote and get affiliate links to their products.

With these affiliate links, you’ll be able to put as text links or image links on your blog pages, and if your visitors clicks on them and buys what you recommended, then you’ll make a commission!

Blogs are perfect for this business model because you’ll be able to write a lot about your niche and how you can help your audience with their pains and questions.

Being able to provide your readers with the best information with what they are searching for is what will make your affiliate marketing business a success.

If you can offer information that answers what your readers are searching for, BAM!, you’ll make money because they will start to trust you as you’re giving them valuable information.

When you build trust, your visitors will be more inclined to click on your links and purchase what you recommend to them.

This is how I earn most of my monthly income, the rest is made up of display ads you see on my site.

You’ll start off with something like Google Adsense but don’t try to apply too early because you won’t get approved if your blog is too new, apply when you have 30 – 50 posts.

You will earn a little with Google Adsense which is still always exciting to earn your first dollar online but when your blog reaches 25,000 sessions (not users or page views), you can use an ad network like Mediavine which is way more lucrative.

When I switched, I was earning 3 times more than when I was with Google Adsense!  Big difference!

Just my display ads alone is a small 4 figure income.

Of course, as you progress in your business, you can add other things to make money like your own product but just sticking with affiliate marketing alone can make you a 6 figure income a year so I’m not creating any product any time soon as I’m continuing my journey to get to that 6 figure goal!

As promised, below is my 2 year results, you can see the money doesn’t come til much later when traffic gets higher and higher:

 

You don’t see traffic in the above chart but the red line is my work effort, how many posts I write a month, and the blue line is my income.

In this graph below, you’ll see that the blue line in this graph represents my traffic (users per month) so you can see that traffic must come first before money, the red line is the same as above:

 

 

When you are in a very competitive niche like I am, it’s important to know that you must be blogging a lot to do well and to get that traffic.

If you’re in a less competitive niche, you can totally make money earlier and probably get easier first page rankings.

I’ve seen it done where people can make a 4 digit income in 12 months or less even but this is after they have learned how to do this affiliate marketing business really well which brings me to the next section.