What Website Can I Make Money Off of by Blogging?
I was just wondering if there were any websites where I can blog for money; instead of posting ads by Google or other than doing surveys & such & if so, how much would I get paid?
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Depending upon your xpertise you can work for many blogs which allow paid writing:
Search google for:
Adsense revenue sharing blog
Paid writing blog
Blog with guest writer
You’d get paid by ads.
You could apply to a magazine as a blogger. Other than that your best bet is Vlogging on youtube, and getting a partnership.
Google Adsense
Adsense is the easiest to set up and will make you money without having to sell anything. Adsense will pay you for impressions of their ads on your site. Basically, every time an Adsense ad loads for one of your viewers, you make a small amount. You will make more money if the ad is actually clicked and if items are actually purchased, but there isn’t too much you can do about getting people to do that on your site. It is like the Field of Dreams, “If you build it, they will come” the more hits your site gets, the more it will happen. A lot of blogs make really good money on Adsense alone, but they are getting tons of hits (which I will teach you how to do) so don’t be discouraged if your earnings sit at $0.45 for a while. To set up adsense, just go to http://www.google.com/adsense and fill out the required forms. Once it is all set up, you can make ads that can be placed anywhere on your page.
ClickBank
ClickBank is where a lot of people are making tons of money right now. It allows you to create an account, find products related to your niche and promote them. Some of the ads pay as much as 75% commission per sale. For beginners, all you have to do is find a product you like and click promote. Clickbank will create a customized link with your affiliate id in it so it can track when someone buys a product from your link. A lot of products have their own affiliate section, where you can log in and find premade banner ads, twitter responses, and emails to help you sell the product. You can choose to use those or write your own, either way, you’ll be making a lot of money!
Commission Junction
Commission Junction works pretty much the same way Clickbank does, it just offers different items. Clickbank has more digital items and Commission Junction has more tangible items. Commission Junction has a lot of recognizable brand names like GoDaddy, Carbonite, 1-800-Contacts, but generally offers lower commission percentages. It can even out though, because the brand names have more recognition and are perceived as more trustworthy because of their recognition. So someone may be more likely to click your godaddy ad than your Auto Traffic Tycoon ad. So I like to mix it up and promote from both sites.
Amazon
While it is a little, different, it is worth mentioning that amazon also pays commission for referring people who buy products. They even allow a way to set up a store where you own the website, but when someone clicks buy, it takes them to Amazon to handle the shipping and credit cards and everything. You make 4%-15% of the sale price, using a performance based sliding scale. The more you sell, the bigger your commission. This can be useful if there is a particular item that is relevant to your blog. For example if you wrote a running blog, you could create an ad like this Garmin Forerunner 305 GPS Receiver With Heart Rate Monitor. The reader could then go to Amazon and purchase that item and you would get credit for the sale. This method is not as commonly used in blogging, it is more often used when creating niche stores (which I will explain in another post.)