Blogging can be a bridge between creative writers with readers, despite running a successful blog can take time and effort. The required process is not instant and the hardest part of being a blogger is to maintain the consistency to perform routinely posts. If maintained, a blog can be very successful, especially when it contains content that is informative, innovative and always updated.
It is undeniable that there are indeed many ways to earn money from the internet. Blogging is one of them.
Do you want to know how to make money from a blog?
Or already know how but still wondering where to start?
Or may have tried but have not produced results?
If YES, then this post is a post that is appropriate to be read while accompanied by a glass of warm coffee. This topic is already much discussed, but here I want to try to explain more in the hope of more easily understood by the novice blogger.
Are you ready become a successful blogger? Please be continued ...
What can make money from a blog?
Making money from blogs or blog monetization is already common among bloggers. Many bloggers proven success of the blog. I think you already know it and that's the reason why you read this post. Buddy wanted to be able to follow the trail of bloggers who had already been successful.Is it possible?
Nothing is impossible. Everyone can be successful on the blog. No matter who you are, whether a student, unemployed, young, old, girl, boy. As long as it can access the Internet and can write the success of the blog is only a matter willing or unwilling.Things that need to be prepared before making money from blogs
Before you decide to start making money from blogs, there are some important things you should prepare in advance. Without preparing the following things, what would you do in the future will not be optimal.1. Niche
The best blogs are always focused on one niche. Why?By focusing on one niche, we can make the blog as the main source of information for the general public who are interested in the niche.
If we focus on the many niche it is difficult to get a loyal audience. There are two ways to determine what niche you should select:
- Customize with passion, interests, and talents
- Customize with industrial businesses / business
- Learn about the topic until you become an expert, or
- Recruit author. But this author must be an expert in your chosen niche
2. Determine the domain, hosting, platform, template
Domain name that you choose should be brandable. Not too long and pronounced delicious. Here are some examples of domain name selection:- housecoffee.com
- cofeecup.com
- cofeemaniac.com
- villagecoffee.com
- coffeeholic.com
Apparently, the subdomain is considered by search engines as a separate domain from the main domain. Therefore it is better to use a subdirectory so that the primary domain authority carried over to the blog. There are several studies that support this claim:
- Subdomains vs. Subfolders - By Moz.com
- Decline in traffic due to the transfer of subfolders to subdomain - By Iwantmyname.com
In this stage not much time. Always choose the best.
3. Choose the method of monetization
Have chosen niche, you certainly will figure out how to earn money from the niche. Here are some options.- Sell products - for air-niche blog for example coffee powder / coffee beans or coffee grinder machine
- Promoting affiliate products
- sell service
- Publisher ad
4. Doing keyword research
The process of keyword research is done primarily to determine the topics derived from your main niche. Suppose for coffee niche blog:- Review coffee product
- Information and product reviews
- Area coffee (café), which provides coffee
- Equipment / machinery related to coffee
- Guides related coffee
5. Discover the prospective audience
Before you start blogging, make sure you already know who your audience. This stage is very important so that you understand what the common problems you can solve.If you skip this step, you might even try to solve problems that are not there because it was too much solution. Other benefits are:
- Knowing what you want them to understand
- Knowing what their speaking style online
- To establish relationships and build reputation
- As the target of our campaign later
- Site forums - use Google with the keyword: [niche] + forum
- Facebook Groups - do search on FB to find your niche related groups
- Google+ Communities - the same as FB
- Twitter, Instagram, etc. - Learn what is commonly used #hashtags
6. Find out who the other bloggers in the same niche
In other words, find out who the influencers in this niche There are several reasons why we have to find them.The first, which is to learn what blogs as the most successful in the niche. Your task is to create a blog that far exceeds them.
Second, to understand what topics are often discussed and what often they recommend.
Third, to establish a relationship with them. This is the most important. If you are not on good terms with other bloggers, very difficult to be successful.
Finally, the content that you create must impress them.
In other words: the best content.
They are the ones who mastered his niche, is more difficult to make than the audience in awe influencers. But this must be done. To find influencers, perform the following steps:
- Search on google with the keyword: "[niche] + blog"
- Use Followerwonk to find their Twitter account (look the picture below for the organization)
7. Create content planning
Successful blog owners do not create content at random but through the process. The purpose of planning is to have content on your blog content is neatly arranged and optimized. So that any content on your blog is worth, not just write and write-publish-publish.The first thing you should do is make the system so that you can always have an idea for a blog content. How something like this:
- Open community that you found earlier every day. Blog content is something that can solve the problems that arise there.
- Subscribe to the blog in the same niche. Use Feedly to get updated their blog.
- Open WhattoWrite, follow the steps that they provide to get an overview of the idea of the content.
This creating process includes the preparation of the framework and external reference search. To manufacture the frame content, the tool I use is Evernote.
Follow this step :
- The list Trello, create a new board and create a list like the example image above.
- Open WhattoWrite.org, follow the process to explore the idea of content. Then enter into Trello.
- List in Feedly, open the page "Add content" and enter the domain of your blog that had been noted. Follow all. in case Coffee Review
- List and install Evernote on your computer (and Android / iOS if necessary). Make the content frame here.
8. Learn and apply SEO
I give priority Search Engine Optimizer small because it does not really matter anymore. Nowadays SEO is no longer creepy as ever. But there are still many people who make as if SEO was like an alien.You need to know about SEO for blogs just the basics, especially the concept of how search engines rank websites and what you can do. For those of you who are too obsessed with SEO :
- Results SEO takes time, not instantly. SEO is not the best method to popularize your blog.
- SEO is an ongoing long-term project, do as you go along in conjunction with other, more important stages.
- SEO is the result of your work. If you manage to do another stage in this guide, your ranking can be automatically high.
9. Create quality content
Do not underestimate the quality of the content, the content quality is not as trivial as you think. Earlier I alluded at a glance. Create content that will make the other bloggers in your niche (influencers) fascinated with its contents.Not the audience, but influencers.
Influencers are people who cultivate your niche. To be wowed, you need to create content that exceeds their knowledge. You must create content that bahasannya only the only one in the world.
Why do you create content for influencer ? Because they have an audience. If we managed to create amazing content, they would happily recommend this content to their audience.
This is the concept of quality articles. Here are the characteristics of the best content that will be popular:
- In the form of guidelines or complete guidelines
- The solution of the problem that there is no solution
- The answer of the question that always makes people confused
- Not news, but analysis of a news
- There has never been content bahasannya / contents are the same
10. Active as a human in social media
This is why you as a blogger should be active in social media :- To communicate with the reader
- Relationships with influencers
- Get an idea of the content, as discussed earlier
- Promoting content
- Distribute other people's content
Why share other people's content?
Look ..
Blog readers who following you into social media certainly very loyal to you and wants the best content in the other. But we can not provide a lot of new content in a short time.
Take advantage of social media to share the best content in your topic from other websites. In this way the reader will be kept entertained with new reading and will remain loyal to you.
In my title says "Active as a Human"
Rules gain loyal followers in social media :
- The links that you share has to explain what it is, do it manually. Do not just titles.
- Do not use tools that automatically publish blog posts like Twitterfeed and IFTTT.
- The ratio of 2: 2: 1, 2 content from other websites, the content yours 2, 1 update without links. Reduce your narcissistic level, share other people's content.
- Follow all accounts influencers that you have found earlier.
- The list Buffer and install an extension for Chrome / Firefox. Start updating your social network each time discovering interesting content.
11. Perform promotion / distribution of content
Content distribution is a key factor of success blog. How successful your blog will be determined by how smart and aggressive you are in the promotion.Most bloggers are not currently doing promotion and rely solely on SEO for website development. This is wrong, ranking in Google can not be set directly.
Therefore, if you are relying on SEO without pemasarana means you simply wait for something that is not clear. Unless you practice Black Hat SEO are at great risk.
There are 2 classes of your goals in the promotion :
- Audience - a clear prospective readers interested in the your niche / industry.
- Influencers - people who have their own audience, for example, bloggers or people who often provide knowledge on forums and social media.
The higher the quality of the content more easily the market, because other people will also market your content. To market to the audience, join forums to the community as people who regularly answered questions of its members. Be influencers.
As for marketing to influencers, you must establish a relationship with them. Could be through blog comments, or even better through social media and email. Do not call them just to ask for a promotion. Is who should first give them something for example, put a link to their blogs in your content as backlink.
Done! What is next?
Congratulations, now you already know how to create a successful blog. But once again, there is no "magic wand" that can make you become an overnight success. All that is written in this guide requires dedication.You need a minimum of a few months or even for years. What is clear there is no chance. Successful blog is not as lucky but because the owner effort. You too.
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