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What You Can Do Before You Can Make Money From Blogs

Posted on 13. Jul, 2009 by Isaac Yassar in Uncategorized

Hi there!

Some people are interested with the idea of blogging to generate income online, and of course there is nothing wrong with it. However, being able of earning money from blogging takes time, seriously. From my own experience, I needed three to four months to build my blog before being able of generating money in a decent amount out of it. However, the actual meaning of this “decent” is probably different for each person, therefore the required time may be different for you.

Why is the waiting? Simple, because getting the reputations that are needed in monetizing your blog takes time. The reputations I mean here are Google Pagerank, Traffic, Link Popularity, Alexa ranking, etc. For example, pagerank is updated once in three to four months. No matter what you do, your blog will not rep up until the next update. That’s why you should be patient in the waiting.

These reputations will build your bargaining position in monetizing later on. Without strong bargaining position, you cannot make money well my friend. If you are not patient enough, you have to do something to help you wait. So, here a few things you can do before you can monetize your blog:

1. Enjoy building your blog

This is the basic rule dude. If you don’t enjoy your blogging activity, you won’t stand the waiting. If you can’t wait until your blog rep up, you can never obtain the bargaining position you need to generate money. It is that simple.

If you enjoy your activity, you will still do it even though it brings no money to you. It is not always about the money after all. All bloggers with 6-figures income per year (on USD) love and enjoy what they do. Blogging gives them pleasure and satisfaction, besides money.

If you have all money in the world, what would you do? Blogging?

2. Monitoring your blog

When you start blogging, your blog is like your pet. You can grow it one step at a time, and satisfactory watch it every time it grows bigger. You can change how it looks and interact with other people. You can say that your blog is like an online Tamagotchi. The difference is that if you serious, it can bring you serious money.

There are a lot of things you can monitor on your blog, like traffic (visitors), link popularity, comments, search engine positions, etc. They represent the reputation of your blog, and also function as growth indicators. We will discuss this matter in another articles, since I don’t want make this post long and tiring for you to read.

It is fun to watch your blog grows, trust me.

3. Learning from other blogs

Another thing you can do before you can monetize your blog is improving your knowledge. You see, to be successful in blogging, you have to learn some knowledge as a support. And reading posts from other blogs is a decent way to enrich your knowledge, expanding your horizon. It will make your mind open to new ideas while at the same time, trying to interact with them. It is helpful in building your way of thinking in a positive manner, making you a wiser and more knowledgeable blogger.

This learning here doesn’t have to be from posts reading. You can learn from other things as well, for example: sidebars. If you find a good gadget on the sidebar of a blog somewhere out there, why don’t you put one on your blog? Then you learn how to add it to your blog, thus you are growing.

OK fellas, those are few things to help you cope with the waiting. The point is you have to be patient because the process of being able to earn money takes time. You can create a blog today, but you cannot expect to be able to make money from it tomorrow, right? It takes time and you need to do what you need  do to help you deal with the waiting.

What did you do before you can make money from your blog? Feel free express your thoughts about it on the comment section people

Tags: Monetizing