Make Money Blogging

For the blogger who provides great content but has little SEO skill (or interest), making money through blogging can be tough. Oftentimes, even if you build a large readership, you’re not going to get people clicking all over the place on ads and offers. Sometimes you’ll make a bit in donations (I survived most of 2008 on the kindness of my readers), but that’s usually only in very dire circumstances.

However, some large blogging communities will pay per page-view. That means your content and your readership count as money in the bank. Today.com for example gives you $2 for every 1,000 page views. No, it’s not a huge amount, but hey – if you’re already blogging for free now, it’s better than nothing!

How do you make money?

Traffic. If you are already an established pleasure blogger (one who blogs for fun, not profit), you drag your readership from your current location to your new one. Say you get 500 readers a day at yoursite.com. You write a post at a place like Today.com, then link back to it from yoursite.com.

Check out my latest article on purple widgets over at mynewdigs.today.com!

Your loyal readers click over, read your article, and you’re on your way. If your readers leave comments and get a good discussion going, then you make the Today.com front page, which gets you even more readers. It won’t take long for those hits to add up.

It’s a form of validation for all the hard work you put into your blog. A little “thank you” of sorts, for providing so many people with a daily helping of something they want and enjoy.

But I want to be a millionaire!

Jolly for you. Buy a lottery ticket. The rest of us will continue to provide quality content for public consumption. And in the end, we will be rewarded.