Blogging For Profit: (BFP 102)

Blogging For Profit: (BFP 102)
Do you want to make money blogging? If you do – you’re not alone. More and more bloggers are finding that blogging is a profitable venture. Be it in few extra dollars or making enough money to stop you from getting a part time job or getting it point where they are able to make a full time living from their blogging – there are tens of thousands of bloggers who make money blogging.
what about you?

In this page I want to share some information for beginners on how to make money blogging. For a very quick and broad visual intro – check out this Making Money Blog Mind Map which visualizes just SOME of the ways bloggers make money blogging.
#1 – keep in mind that every blog is unique on how it can make money. Some of the following streams of income will work on someblogs a lot better than others – the key fact is to experiment with as many as possible and see what works best for you.
The following are streams of income.
1. Continuity Programs. This is another newer category for me but one that continues to grow. A continuity program is a site where you earn a recurring income from people who subscribe to a service you offer. For me this includes two sites – ProBlogger.com and ThirdTribe Marketing.

Both programs are membership sites and generate monthly income from the thousands of members that they have as a part of them.
2. Private Ad Sales/Sponsorships Private ad sales directly to advertisers have fallen in the last year. This is partly due to a change in the economy as it is. Note that this area does vary a little from month to month depending upon the campaigns you’re asked to run – we’ve had a couple of months where it actually ranked #2 in the last year. This includes ad sales of the 125 x125 ads as well as a campaign or two at Digital Photography School .
3. Chitika Chitka continues to be a great performer for bloggers. They traditionally have worked best on product related blogs although their Premium ad units now convert well on a larger range of blogs. They do continue to perform well when you use them over and over again.
4. Amazon Associates. Amazon’s affiliate program has been one of the big movers. used to make a few odd dollars from it – how ever in recent times it has become a significant earner.
5. ProBlogger Job Boards The job boards here at ProBlogger continue to grow each month in the number of advertisements that are being bought. This enabled you to invest most of the money that they’d earned a while back into getting a new back end for the boards and to redesign them. These job boards now bring in over $1000 amonth in revenue which is pretty nice considering that they are so low maintenance to run. They also offer a service to readers and add value to the overall blog . The only problem that you can face with the job boards is that there are so many bloggers looking for work that the demand for jobs far exceeds the supply. On the good side of things is that advertisers are reporting getting amazing quality of applications.

Your blog and social media.

online blog could be packed with brilliant and useful ideas but it will have no effect if it has an follower.
Two easy and more importantly FREE ways you can promote your blog online.
Automatically publish your blog posts to social media.
Let your social media followers know you have a new blog post by publishing a brief notice and the url on the major social networks like, Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. You can post manually to your social networks or you can install some WordPressplugins or Facebook applications that update your networks automatically.
This third party service like Twitterfeed. Twitterfeed uses your blog’s RSS feed to identify new blog posts and then publishes a notice to your networks. You can set it up once for Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and then forget it! It does all the work for you!
The second is Pinging
Pinging, in blog terms, is a push mechanic that notifies servers when content has been updated. These servers then publish a list of blogs that have new content. WordPress has a built in Ping feature that will automatically ping services when you publish or edit a blog post.
There are two big issues with the built in ping feature – #1 the default list of ping services is insufficient (a typical WordPress install just has a couple services set up) and #2 we don’t want to ping the services when we edit a post. If we send a ping every time we edit a post (especially if we do it multiple times) we run the risk of being blocked as a spammer. No Good!
I recommend that you install http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mpo/ This plugin prevents WordPress from pinging services when you EDIT a post. It only pings when a new post is published. This will help prevent your blog from being blocked by the various pinging services. Be sure to update your pinglist. Just a quick note – Sometime people worry because their tweets or Facebook posts do not happen instantly. There is usually a small delay between when you publish the post and when the notification appears on the social networks – this is completely normal.
Don’t wait around hoping visitors will find your website and blog – take action and start actively promoting your blogging brilliantly!