How to make money through blogging!

Blogging has been on the scene for a while now and is essentially nothing but showing your lifestyle to people. It could be by expressing yourself and sharing information with the world and has now become a good source of income for lovers of writing. Nowadays Bloggers are earning 200 dollars to 2000 dollars easily in a month but it takes effort to reach there so without further ado let's get ourselves rich!

Steps on how to create an attractive blog?

Step 1:Choose your niche!

Find something that you enjoy writing about so that both you and the reader enjoy your content as running after everything trending will wear you down in the long run. It could be about sports, dating, career, website tools, etc. but make sure there is not too much competition as you need to stand out to be relevant and unique.

You can also get into Event Blogging which is a blog which is made to target a single day or week or month for receiving a huge amount of traffic Example: Happy New Year (Target: one day or week) Indian Premier League (Target: Almost 50 Days) In the short period, you can make huge income.

Step 2: Chose the blogging platform based on your niche topic.

There are plenty to choose from like-

1. Hash node which is dedicated towards tech-based blogging

2. Word press is the king of free blogging sites and is a free platform where you can build your own website for blogging.

3. LinkedIn isn't the most popular but works best for business owners and professionals who want to reach a pre-existing audience.

4. Medium provides a huge platform with an already built audience of approx 60mn visiting/reading it every year and is used for a diverse range of topics.

Step 3:Write consistently.

If you are a starter then it will take a lot of time and effort for the growth of your blog so make sure to post 1–2 or more each week but make sure to keep up the quality as that's the first thing that will attract the reader to spend time on your blog post. Do some keyword research and incorporate those as well for better results By doing so, you’ll build an audience, improve your SEO and gain more visibility.

Step 5:Promotion, share, tweet, and post on all socials.

Well, this is self-explanatory as we have all seen how our good old joe(google) makes those relevant, more relevant. Social shares help a lot in rankings so share your posts on social media platforms. Having google plus can be a good deal.

Step 6: Make money.

1. Sell backlinks: Once your blog starts getting a considerable amount of traffic you can sell backlinks to other websites.

2. AdSense: It pays you money after the threshold of 100 dollars(at least 2 months of serious blogging) post approval of your blog by google AdSense.

3. Subscriptions: After gaining a loyal reader base you can charge a regular fee for your articles or some of your premium articles.

4. Affiliate marketing: It is when you include a link in your content to a product or service for sale on another website.

   You might have seen your fav YouTubers or podcasters asking you to check out a product by clicking on the link down below. When someone goes to the site using that link and buys something, you earn a commission on the sale.

5. Sell products: Sell things(digital or physical)to make money from your blog. Eg: ebooks, graphic tees, customized electronic items etc

6. Sell sponsored blog posts: Make your site more appealing to advertisers and then you can approach companies to negotiate a sponsorship deal.

7. Write reviews, and get paid: It could be about books, upcoming plug-ins or software, digital devices etc. Check out Payperpost, and Hubpages.

8. Donations: Well that does help sometimes

Now the key to the blogging world is having genuine interest, curiosity, innovative style to grab the attention of your reader and the skill to make deals happen when asking for sponsored deals. These skills need honing so understand that it will take time hence don't start hoping for thousands of views from your 1st post and don't be disheartened if that doesn't happen. Remember at the core of it is your love for writing and the bliss of it should be the goal in itself. Buckle up and.....