Friday, June 15, 2012

How to make a killing with your blog


Isn't that a catchy title for a blog post? I did it for the SEO, of course, in an effort to suck in the newbies and desperate housewives who still haven't lost hope of getting rich on the internet.

The prime requirement to making money with a blog (or a traditional website for that matter) is deceptively simple because it requires only one ingredient. If you have that one ingredient, the other things you have to do will fall into place. If you have that one essential ingredient, you will make money with your blog or other website. In fact, it would be quite difficult NOT to make money if your blog has that one essential ingredient. In all cases, the amount of money you can make online is directly proportional to the amount of that one ingredient your blog must have.

Holy Mackerel, but this is already starting to sound like a teaser lead-in to a squeeze page. Fear not, nothing is being sold on this blog.

Of course that un-secret essential ingredient is “traffic.”  You could have a pretty boring and sloppy blog and still make a huge amount of money if you have huge amounts of traffic. Of course, that is a stupid statement, because you can’t be boring and sloppy and still have a lot of traffic. Be that as it may, traffic is more important than good grammar when it comes to making money online with a blog.

[Was that a sigh of relief from Adullamite I just heard? Upon leaning good grammar is not required?]

If you google “how to make money online” you will get about 5 billion, 230 million results. That's true - I just googled it. I have never seen that many results returned on a Googled subject. Wow. (that was Googled on images, not sites, though. Still, there are almost 2 BILLION sites returned if you do it that way.)

This tells me that one common way to make money online must be telling other people how to make money online, for a price. Read: “Buy my book which explains my incredibly original and secret system for getting rich on the internet and which includes an additional 57 FREE eBooks with your book order of only $29.99.” So don’t bother Googling like I just did.

Most of these secret systems will tell you how to choose a product to sell and how to buy Google Adwords and how to OPTIMIZE YOUR SEO and how to set your site up in such a way that the book author gets a link and a cut of your money. And more. There is surprisingly little real information about how to get tons and tons of traffic to your website (unless you count the HOW TO OPTIMIZE YOUR SEO part.) Sadly, that is the part you really need to know and work on.

Ask yourself why hundreds of thousands of people would want to visit your blog or other website. Again, the answer is deceptively simple but hard to achieve. Answer: these multitudes of people would visit you because you have something they WANT and LIKE and ENJOY. See? So simple.

All of you, practically, already have blogs. If so, you already have traffic in varying degrees. People blog for many reasons, and making money with their blog is often not that reason. This blog you are reading right now is one such example. I have no affiliate ads in my sidebar and not even any Google ads. This is because this particular blog is just a place for me to hear myself talk, meet interesting people and (often) argue with them. This blog attracts intellectuals. Smart people. Usually liberal people. But very FEW of them. I could fill the sidebars of this blog with adverts and never make a dollar. Probably. This is because, in the world of assessing WHAT PEOPLE WANT, reading the pontifications and ramblings of an imaginary little dog is low on their list of burning desires. But you can do better.

(Continued next time: (what people seem to want”)

14 comments:

  1. I see where I go wrong. People wish to 'enjoy' what they read. I've had that bit wrong all this time.

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    1. You're trying to make money with your blog? You're wronger than you even realize. :)

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    2. Adullamite, some people blog to make money and some people blog to have fun. I've come to the conclusion that YOU blog as some sort of penance. You seem to sweat blood in your posts, not wanting to write - yet grasping blindly for absolution. People do follow you. I follow you. You have traffic of a sort. But it is the kind of traffic that the tightrope walker got: we want to be there when the final breakdown occurs. :)

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    1. All the more reason to do without the money.

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  3. Sir, I am become Billionaire! in just short time of my bloggering. Because I have such success, I wish sharing it with you, I can think of no better way to spend my billionaire bloggering time here upon my huge yacht, than to be sitting with my jewel-encrusted laptop, and telling you my secrets of how you too, can become rich and happy.

    please send, quickly, your bank details to Soubriquet@billionaireblogger dot com, and I will see you will reach enlightenment as to my method forthwith.

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    1. You think I have a bank account? You are deluded, my Nigerian friend.

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  4. I eschew violence, as can be proven by my traffic stats.

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    1. Doesn't have to be violent. Just interesting to a particular niche. For example, I know you would enjoy blogging about celebrities, as you are in awe of them. You could start another blog about Snookie Kardashian. Explain how she and the other Persian New Jersey dimwits got rich with no brains while me and Adullamite sit here with such good ideas.

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  5. Oh geesh! For a moment there I thought Sheila @ wrote:
    It also attracts sperm ...

    blushing,
    xxx

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    1. The British call it Spunk. Apparently you missed Soubriquet's gushing ejaculations on my spunk post last week.

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    2. Sometimes it doesn't pay to just skip over the ones with movies.

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    3. ::Wriggles eyebrows like Groucho Marx in mid-letch::

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    4. You boys are incorrigible but I do love how you make me laugh!

      And for fear of swift reprisal, I think it would be best for me to not comment on Soub's gushing ejaculations ...

      she grins back, saucily
      xxx

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