Ways to Make Money Blogging
The internet is full of opportunities to both make and save money from home! Whether you are getting a good deal on a product that you were wanting to buy or you are a stay at home mom wanting supplemental income from a work at home job, the internet can save and make your family loads of cash. For example, let’s say you are looking for auto insurance for your family’s two cars. You don’t want to buy a cheap plan even if it means you’ll pay cheap auto insurance rates for your 2009 Mustang and old Ford jalopy, but you still don’t have enough money for a good plan.
If you walk into a physical insurance office located down the corner from your house or in your town or city’s main business district (some insurance offices in rural areas are located on rural roads) then you will not have many options. Usually the office will be run by one company or it will be run through a broker who will not necessarily give you a good rate or have very many plans available for you to pick from. With all insurance you will have to get a credit report first, but a lot of physical offices do not have plans for people with bad credit.
However, there are still ways you can make money online and use the money to buy insurance even with bad credit:
* Become a paid SEO blogger
Blogging isn’t easy but it’s not too complicated either, and a lot of companies will pay pretty good money for people to write articles for them and get them published online. They do this primarily because the articles have backlinks to the company’s site, which helps the company show up high on search engine results and gives them targeted traffic. And since so many people use search engines today for almost all of their business research needs but ignore the ads on the top (I bet even more so lately since Google recently has been putting so many ads at the top that over half the page space is ads on small screens and mobile devices). This means that it is really valuable for companies to show up high on Google’s organic results because more people will click on those than will click on the Adwords ads that are shaded a different color.
* Start your own blogging company
The real way to make money in almost any field is to build connections and start your own company. This is especially true in the search engine optimization (SEO) world where companies will pay a premium for good SEO work. If you hire other people who are good writers, those writers benefit because they may not have the connections themselves to make money. You benefit because you profit from their work. Even if you only profit $20/hour/worker, if you hire 20 employees then you make $400/hour, and that’s excluding work you do on your own with your own two hands.
* Get paid to write PR articles
You can get paid to post articles for public relations purposes. These articles will be read by actual humans and, while still containing links to your product, will not be there for the primary purpose of bumping you up on Google. Instead, the articles will be read by actual people who will be interested in them and you will make money this way.
* Build an Adsense website/blog
Google Adsense provides an easy way for marketing people who want to make money online. What you need to do is first create a niche site. These sites should be geared toward something that is commonly advertised online, such as health, fitness, and financial services products like Forex. Then, you need to write articles that should be at least 500 words for these websites and write lots of them.
Make sure the article is good for ads:
In order to make money off Google Adsense, your site needs to produce ads that are relevant to things people search for. There are complex professional ways that you can figure out what keywords work, but the basic ways involve using the Google Adsense keyword tool and also using common sense. For example, consider two articles: One about “making money blogging” and one about “monetizing your blog.” The one about monetization will draw professional bloggers because they use the word “monetize” while the one about making money will draw people who do not yet blog but are looking to get into blogging.
How to write the articles:
The articles should use keywords for terms for which people have bought a lot of ads and one term should be in the title. That term should also be used in the first paragraph, especially the first 200 words, one or two times (it’s okay to break up the term as long as the words are close to each other). The keywords need to be for terms for which there are ads, so make sure to do a Google search and see that there are at least 10 or so ads for the term you’re using a lot in your article.
Those are some great ways you can use the internet to make money blogging and writing. It’s not rocket science but it’s not super easy either. You will need to do a lot of writing every day and be creative. If you can do that then you can definitely earn money online!
This is a guest post written by Murray Newlands, the CEO and Founder of Influence People.
