Today I want to discuss he purpose of Blogging to Success. I am the Founder and C.E.O. You can call me Twine as most who knows of me does. I have been blogging for a while now and has grown to enjoy it but here lately I have been trying to figure out a way to give back and to help people who may want to learn how to blog make money while doing it. When I first started doing this everyone else that I knew of was only interested in Facebook or Twitter but the same friends of mine who spent countless hours everyday on Facebook and Twitter was the same ones having financial problems. Me I decided to help myself in ways that Facebook does but on a very much smaller scale.
However the smaller scale was good enough for me. I trade forex during the early mornings and in the day I tried to figure out a way to help and give back at the same time. So I decided to learn how to design websites and blogs. I started Twine's Unique Web Designs and started giving back and helping others. Now comes Blogging To Success. What I like to call the future Millionaires Club. The purpose of the club is very simple. To help each other become successful in what we trying to achieve as bloggers. Blogs, by their nature, are considered trusted sources of information. They foster a more human relationship and, as evidenced in countless blogs today, some bloggers are perceived as respected experts, whether they are or not, purely on the back of their successful blogs. This final point is the most significant, yet subtle element that distinguishes blogs from normal websites. If people trust the words written on a blog, if people come to like and identify with the person writing the blog, you have all the elements necessary to create a popular community focused on the creative output of just one person. This is why any person with a passion, a hobby, or a skill, and enough motivation to produce content on a particular topic, can build an audience, keep people coming back and ultimately, monetize that traffic, establishing the potential for professional blogging. Much of what I just explained won’t be new to some people, but it lays the groundwork for the rest of this report. If the concept of “blog” is still a bit blurry for you, head online, find some blogs and seek examples of the five points I listed above so you understand the opportunity that exists.
Now that we know what blogging is lets get into the money making parts of it all. One reason why I am blogging anyway. Many of you are wondering how can you make money blogging. Print magazines make money by selling advertising. The larger their circulation, the more influence they exert over people, and the demographics of their readers dictate how much money they make. Blogs are essentially the same. The more traffic (circulation) you have, the type and quality of that traffic (reader demographics) and the influence you have over
your audience, determines your profitability. This is why bloggers are obsessed with building
traffic. It really doesn’t matter how you make money – it might be a contextual ad program like Google AdSense, affiliate marketing or direct ad sales – the more raw readers you have, generally, the more money you can make.
Quality of traffic plays an important part too. If you have a strong influence over your readers, when you ask them to do something, such as recommending they buy a product you promote as an affiliate, more of them will do so. If you break down the process of blog monetization, the following events occur:
1. A person (blogger) creates a web destination point (blog) that people want to visit, possibly on a repeat basis, because of the value it offers. Initially they find the blog by following a link from another blog or website, through a referral from friends or colleagues, or they come across the blog when it appears in the results of a search-engine query.
2. A proportion of that audience is funneled on to other sites that “pay” to buy the traffic. Payment might be in the form of a per-click fee, a monthly rate, an affiliate commission, or profit on a product or service sale. The blogger works to attract attention and then sells that attention to advertisers for a fee or uses the attention to profit from their own product and/or service sales.
The key variable here is “attention”. Attention is traffic, influence and the potential to make money from blogging.
So how does a blogger attract attention?
The first part of creating attention (traffic) to a blog, is the age-old advice you will have read over and over again if you study successful blogging:
“Write good content”
So yes, the foundation of a great blog is good content. Where people go wrong is deciding what good content is, given their goals (usually the error is made when determining exactly what the goals are and what strategies will be used to meet the goals) and assuming that just good content is enough.
The other key ingredient is marketing.
Did I mention that all professional bloggers need to have business skills? Yep, that’s right, marketing – the fine art of attracting attention and THE key component for successful business – is a paramount ingredient for successful blogging.
It’s through marketing that people find your good content.
Lowes Adsense
$1.83 PPC
Target Adsense
$1.25 PPC
Now lets take a look at how the some of the money is made. These two companies are paying to be on your blog page. And above is the noted PPC, price per click. So each time a visitor of your page click on one of these ads this is what you earn. Lets say you have on average 20 members visiting your page three times a day. And each of them clicks on three ads that are paying an average $1.54 PPC. That's $223.20 a day. And easy $4,464.00 a month just five days a week. That is $241,000 a year. However a lot of people does that a month.
So now you are able to see the money that is made and how easy it is. But think about how much Facebook is making each time you log in alone on their site. If we an dedicate the time in the day to help billionaires earn more billions then why can't we help ourselves earn a thousand a month doing what we already like and enjoy doing anyway, which is getting on the internet. If you have a son/daughter who likes to write or even ou just want to earn extra money for them for summer trips start a blog for them and use your Facebook friends and family to support them. Better yet join the Blogging To Success Club. Where we help each other. Even if the blog only gets 5 visitors a day, who returns 3 times a day and clicks on 3 ads paying an average $1.30 per click. That's $58.50 a day that a child can be making even at the age of 10. That's $1,755.00 a month. Very good for a 10 year old.
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