Blogging Your Way to a Decent Income

Can you make money just writing a blog? Yes you can. How much would be more of an accurate question. If you have a blog already that has some decent readership or a Google Page Rank of 3 or more you are well on your way. What you need to decide before you go any farther is how you want to profit from your blog. Do you want make money from Google Adsense or from paid advertising in the form of paid blog posts. Depending on how you want to earn your money from your blog depends on how you run your blog. Let me explain.

Making money from Google Adsense or any other type of banner or photo advertising on your blog requires visitors and lots of them. The more visitors the more chances they will click on an Adsense ad or buy something from an affiliate's ad. If you plan on going this route then you just need to bring visitors to your blog. I find that it takes about 150+ visitors to the average blog to get one click on an Adsense ad. You need to publicize your blog and Digg.com is one of the best ways to do this. Write an interesting blog post that readers would want to come and read then go to Digg.com and digg it. While at Digg you want to become friends with as many people as possible much in the same way a myspace and send them shouts whenever you submit a new item from your blog. While on the subject of myspace you can also message all your friends there too about your latest post on your blog. If you are a member of any message boards you will want to let your friends know about your blog too. I have found out you don't have to leave links to your blog all over the place, simply because Google indexes blog posts so fast that your blog posts are in the search engines sometimes within minutes. This is particularly true if you use blogger as your blogging platform.