10 notes to earn money online by blogging - Part 1

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Explore the many ways to make money online by blogging with or without a blog, get paid to write reviews of products and services, and earn extra cash by writing articles, content and blogging for Google AdSense blog networks.

1. An overview on paid blogging
There are 3 main flavours of paid blogging - your own blog on your own domain and webhost, using a blog on a free blog service such as Blogger and creating a blog on a blog network. The work is the same. You get paid to write or blog about a product, service or anything required by a customer.

The amount paid varies greatly from US$1 to US$200 or more for about 50 to 200 words depending on advertiser requirement. The more popular or higher traffic your blog has, the greater your reach and therefore the higher you are paid. Terms vary in that you may be asked to write a single post from time to time or you may be contracted to blog a minimum of 1 post a day for a few weeks for a specified sum.

2. Blog requirements
Usually, there are certain requirements that your blog will have to meet before being accepted for assignments. Requirements vary with each paid-to-blog network. Generally though, paid-to-blog networks do not accept new blogs with little content and no readership base, so you will need to spend the first few weeks or months writing posts regularly to build up a sizeable amount of content.

You could buy articles or use free articles from various sources of course, but ultimately you will have to write your own unique content to keep readers coming back. It’s a lot of hard work.

Other requirements could be that your blog has to be several months old, be indexed by Google, be of a certain pagerank or have a certain amount of traffic. Blog content and writing standard also affect approval. If you do not own a blog, you may be asked to provide some writing samples for evaluation.

3. Using a free blog on a blogging service
Creating a free blog on Blogger, Live Journal, Wordpress and other free blogging services is how most bloggers will start off. These sites are fine for personal blogs but if you have plans to monetize your blog and use it as a means to provide some form of viable revenue, it is best to register your own domain and host your own blog on a web host.

This is because you will have complete control over how you want to monetize your blog and have your own entity and identity eg. yourblog.com instead of yourblog.blogspot.com. Also, some paid-to-blog networks do not accept blogs created on a free blogging service.

4. Creating a blog on a blog network
If you do not own a blog, you can still earn from blogging. Some blog networks require you to create a blog hosted on their network with their revenue earned directly from advertisers, syndication or other means. Sites: Blogchex, Gather, DigitalJournal.

Other blog networks engage you as their freelance professional blogger where you have to commit to making regular posts. In such cases, the content you create could belong to the blog network and you will not be able to use your content anywhere else. These have very high journalistic standards and are difficult to get accepted. Sites: 451press, Blog Republic, Weblogsinc.

5. Posting on Google AdSense blog networks

Other blog networks who use Google’s AdSense programme to generate revenue are less restrictive in terms of topics to write about and tend to be less demanding when it comes to content quality and the reuse of content at other sites.

Bloggers are paid by Google AdSense from the number of clicks received on ads embedded in their posts. Therefore you must first sign up for Google’s AdSense programme before joining these blog networks. You also get paid for referrals. Payouts may seem too little to bother with but if you are active in many networks, the amounts add up. Sites: WriteNiche, WritingUp, Hubpages, Squidoo, Xoomba.

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Comments

6 Responses to “10 notes to earn money online by blogging - Part 1”

10 notes to earn money online by blogging - Part 2 - Some Useless Info - A Useful Make Money Online Resource on February 18th, 2007 8:47 pm

[…] Read Part 1 here. […]
Eliena Andrews on February 23rd, 2007 10:14 pm

Nice information my fren, i have also some info included on my blog…
Rugjeff on March 14th, 2007 11:10 am

There is a whole lot more to making money from blogging. You do cover some great opportunities, but opportunities that do take time. Thanks for the links to some money making sites.
10 notes to earn money online by blogging - Part 2 : Make Money Online with Some Useless Info on May 30th, 2007 7:22 pm

[…] This is a continuation from Part 1 […]
aziz on January 16th, 2008 12:50 am

hi i want to make online money without hosting or domain how can i make online money?
emigre on January 16th, 2008 12:35 pm

aziz:

If you blog, start your own blog free at Blogger.com and then sign up for some affiliate products at clickbank.com or cj.com to put on your blog.

If you don’t want to blog, you can sign up for get paid to click here:

http://subvertandprofit.com/user/signup?referrer=emigre

There are other ways listed on my site such as selling photos and others. Also check out :

http://moreblogmoney.com/how-blogs-make-money-online/24/

Hope this helps.