Here is a recipe to make money online for free with Google and only Google (to start) developing your blog. In fact, you do not need to invest a penny to be able to generate income through the Internet.
But beware, there is no magic formula (despite urban legends on the Web) to get to earn substantial amounts: it will take you to the trick, motivation and discipline in large doses and continuously . This article is designed to help you but to tell you frankly, because nothing will be easy.
You will find here the full manual to get started in the adventure of online money generation through writing a blog Blogspot / Blogger and use of AdSense traffic monetization platform. All that being kindly made available by Google. Let's see how to put it to good use.
1. Set up your free blog on Blogspot / Blogger
Before anything else, go create your blog on Blogger, a free service from Google blog (no domain name or web hosting to pay). It will only take a few moments before you can publish content.
This gives you the ability to customize the layout of your blog, follow his statistics and many other parameters ... including the "gains" which is the part of Blogger specifically dedicated to earning money through its Blogger blog.
But beware, there is no magic formula (despite urban legends on the Web) to get to earn substantial amounts: it will take you to the trick, motivation and discipline in large doses and continuously . This article is designed to help you but to tell you frankly, because nothing will be easy.
You will find here the full manual to get started in the adventure of online money generation through writing a blog Blogspot / Blogger and use of AdSense traffic monetization platform. All that being kindly made available by Google. Let's see how to put it to good use.
1. Set up your free blog on Blogspot / Blogger
Before anything else, go create your blog on Blogger, a free service from Google blog (no domain name or web hosting to pay). It will only take a few moments before you can publish content.
This gives you the ability to customize the layout of your blog, follow his statistics and many other parameters ... including the "gains" which is the part of Blogger specifically dedicated to earning money through its Blogger blog.
You will also notice that you have the ability to create multiple blogs (always free) if ever the frenzy of blogging is you! If you want to discuss themes without any real links between them, it will thus be better for you to configure and maintain separate blogs.
This will benefit your audience who will find better marks as well as other aspects such as the ranking in search engines, because in both cases, it will be important to keep a consistent and coherent content for a single blog . After that, nothing prevents you to create links that form a bridge between your various blogs where the context warrants.
2. Register for free to AdSense
Now that your blog is ready, you have to register on the advertising platform of Google AdSense, so you can recover to place advertisements on your blog.
Once completed the registration process and your application validated by the team of AdSense, you'll now be able to place advertisements on your pages. You will find that you have at your disposal a fairly wide range of advertising formats (300 * 250, 728 * 90, text, images, mixed, etc.).
To start, the important thing will be to see which of these formats will adapt and integrate best with your layout, the broadcast system AdSense ads are designed to maximize revenue from Google (and yours) you do not have too much to do to you basic optimizing your advertising space.
The 2 existing compensation models through AdSense are:
CPC (cost per click) the average amount paid by advertisers for each click made on an ad.
Page RPM (revenue per thousand impressions): income earned for 1000 page views. RPM = (x CTR x pageviews CPC) / 1000
3. Set your editorial
We often talk about "define its niche" to build its editorial line. You have to take this approach in the sense that it is important to know what to talk about ... the broad sense, not necessarily focus on a niche in the sense "small volume" of the term.
If you want to earn income from the operation of your blog, you should be able to attract a large enough population to be able to capitalize on it. So you will need to find a theme or just be easily exploited to a place, a popular theme when you feel able to bring something new ... despite the apparent saturation of content.
Of course, your editorial should not just be guided by what you think is fashionable or popular. It must reflect a sincere interest on your part. Do you go regularly invest hours into your blog and this can be for several years. Much talk about a topic you are interested or passionate about, is not it?
Also, if you have a real expertise in the field in question, as well as an ability to speak will be a real pleasure to write for your blog without attaching a monetary purpose only. Indeed, nothing prevents you to address highly specialized subjects for a secular audience as long as you are able to popularize your words to make you understand and interesting this population.
It will be more rewarding and motivating for you to arrive to engage users to a topic you have mastered the multifaceted ... and you are able to go on and on.
4. Place your ads
That's it, your blog is ready to be launched. You can now insert AdSense codes broadcast advertisements. But where to place these blocks?
If it is important for you to quickly generate income with your blog, also keep in mind that it is much more important for you to remember, inform, engage and retain your audience. You can not therefore advertising spammer by placing AdSense ads anywhere on your pages, especially in the middle of your blog posts, you will thus misrepresent your content and possibly frustrate your readers to be so insistent on putting up advertising-for-all.
What you need rather do is integrate this advertising naturally in your interface, it is logically based on the structure and layout of your pages while to clear graphic but to give him the necessary visibility .
This is especially true, especially if you bet on pay per click, you will need to place advertisements in range from the eyes of clients: for example, as separators of the structure of the page advertisements will be easily seen, and will be perceived as a natural cutting element of the site design.
5. Maintain and develop your blog
Your blogging strategy is defined and your ads are in place. Okay. Now you must build your blog with content to bring it to life ... then you will keep it alive and make it grow. Your efforts to make money with your blog will be the result of this process to repeat as much as possible.
You can apply many of the principles already seen in the previous article "10 tips for successful writing a business blog", but we here take the essence and spice new tips:
5.1. Take the time to write interesting content for you and your readers
You will be your first drive, so make sure that your articles will appear relevant and interesting. Also, consider your readers by making sure your content is attractive (shaping, media insertion), understandable (simple language, extension) and value added (informative, unique, innovative).
5.2. Make sure to be well referenced on search engines
This is one of the preferred sources of blogs traffic acquisition will allow you to start building your audience by positioning yourself on issues that concern it. You will find useful resources for your SEO (SEO) in articles in Homebusniess.com .
5.3. If you are an expert in your field, show it!
You will not only feel more comfortable in writing your articles, but also more motivated to write, informative, comprehensive and persuasive with your audience if you know your subject.
5.4. Be regular in your publications
Be regular in your publications and blog readers hate the lack of regularity in the publication of articles. Bear in mind according to a schedule allowing you to maintain a good balance in the rate of publication of your content.
Blogging is not a race but an endurance race!
5.5. Engage the conversation
Stimulate debate with catches of unexpected or innovative position. Finish your articles on a question to your readers.
Multiply the possible points of contact between your blog and your readers by providing them with all the current social sharing tools: newsletter, RSS, social networking page, share buttons, etc.
5.6. Keep the fun in the blog
Yes, you have in mind to make money with your blog. Yes, the first few months can seem daunting. No, you will not leave your job to live your blog (at least not right away).
This is why your business blogger should be combined with the notion of pleasure to write, share, discuss, argue, inform, etc. Your blogger pay, just starting, first go through the satisfaction of a well written article, a heated discussion, created a buzz. This is how you learn and understand that you like in the maintenance of your blog. The money will be a reward that will come with experience.
6. Test your advertisements
We have already seen, there are multiple advertising formats and you have several potential locations on where to place your blog.
Why not try to change a few variables in this equation of time to time? Change the format you use, the formatting of text ads, ad position in your blog interface, etc. Put to the test this source of income to see if you are able to generate more money by changing variables on your AdSense ads. 50% more revenue with the same number of visitors, it would not be so bad, is not it?
Meanwhile, beware the reaction of users who may be resistant to sudden intrusion of advertising to poorly chosen locations. Often intrusive changes are positive in the very short term (in terms of income) as they play with the habits of visitors by having them click where do not want. But on the other hand you may increase their discontent and you may suffer a backlash by putting their loyalty to the test.
If it is important for you to test new tracks with advertisements to you, do not try to do it at the expense of the user experience by deceiving your audience because it will not be profitable for you beyond the very short term.
7. Analyze your traffic
If you want to earn a little more money, try to understand your traffic! Do not post articles only to your own interests if you want to leverage your efforts. Try to understand what are the most popular themes from your audience to fit your publications accordingly.
You have a pretty basic statistics tool integrated with Blogger, but you can install Google Analytics smoothly. The important thing for you is to visualize what interests your readers. You can view and / or build the following reports to understand what they like and think about how to continue to meet this demand through your future articles:
Most popular articles
Most assiduously read articles
Most commented articles
Most Shared Articles
The most popular destination pages (via search engines)
To help you on the complete analysis of the traffic of your blog, you can read the article "Increase your blog traffic with Google Analytics" which comes completely with most of these concepts and how to figure and analyze them.
Once the feature articles identified, try to understand what made them successful: Thematic, format, timing, etc. Reproducing and perfecting their recipe, you will optimize the time spent on your blog by offering items "programmed" for success!
Bonus: Investing (some) to earn more
Having your own domain name, and more customization options anyone? For a few dollars more, you can buy your own domain name in .com, .net or about what you want. This is a great way to give a more professional side to your blog as well as its own identity.
And for a few dollars more, once you have mastered over your blogging strategy, why not use the CMS (CMS = Content Management System, "Content Management System" ) like WordPress or Drupal offering designs and even more custom modules that would give a unique and new features to your blog? You can integrate AdSense ads also.
If you want to stick to a zero dollar investment, keep your blog on Blogger. But if you feel grow wings, having your own domain name and more power over the design of your blog might be a wise investment in the medium / long term. It's your choice!
This will benefit your audience who will find better marks as well as other aspects such as the ranking in search engines, because in both cases, it will be important to keep a consistent and coherent content for a single blog . After that, nothing prevents you to create links that form a bridge between your various blogs where the context warrants.
2. Register for free to AdSense
Now that your blog is ready, you have to register on the advertising platform of Google AdSense, so you can recover to place advertisements on your blog.
Once completed the registration process and your application validated by the team of AdSense, you'll now be able to place advertisements on your pages. You will find that you have at your disposal a fairly wide range of advertising formats (300 * 250, 728 * 90, text, images, mixed, etc.).
To start, the important thing will be to see which of these formats will adapt and integrate best with your layout, the broadcast system AdSense ads are designed to maximize revenue from Google (and yours) you do not have too much to do to you basic optimizing your advertising space.
The 2 existing compensation models through AdSense are:
CPC (cost per click) the average amount paid by advertisers for each click made on an ad.
Page RPM (revenue per thousand impressions): income earned for 1000 page views. RPM = (x CTR x pageviews CPC) / 1000
3. Set your editorial
We often talk about "define its niche" to build its editorial line. You have to take this approach in the sense that it is important to know what to talk about ... the broad sense, not necessarily focus on a niche in the sense "small volume" of the term.
If you want to earn income from the operation of your blog, you should be able to attract a large enough population to be able to capitalize on it. So you will need to find a theme or just be easily exploited to a place, a popular theme when you feel able to bring something new ... despite the apparent saturation of content.
Of course, your editorial should not just be guided by what you think is fashionable or popular. It must reflect a sincere interest on your part. Do you go regularly invest hours into your blog and this can be for several years. Much talk about a topic you are interested or passionate about, is not it?
Also, if you have a real expertise in the field in question, as well as an ability to speak will be a real pleasure to write for your blog without attaching a monetary purpose only. Indeed, nothing prevents you to address highly specialized subjects for a secular audience as long as you are able to popularize your words to make you understand and interesting this population.
It will be more rewarding and motivating for you to arrive to engage users to a topic you have mastered the multifaceted ... and you are able to go on and on.
4. Place your ads
That's it, your blog is ready to be launched. You can now insert AdSense codes broadcast advertisements. But where to place these blocks?
If it is important for you to quickly generate income with your blog, also keep in mind that it is much more important for you to remember, inform, engage and retain your audience. You can not therefore advertising spammer by placing AdSense ads anywhere on your pages, especially in the middle of your blog posts, you will thus misrepresent your content and possibly frustrate your readers to be so insistent on putting up advertising-for-all.
What you need rather do is integrate this advertising naturally in your interface, it is logically based on the structure and layout of your pages while to clear graphic but to give him the necessary visibility .
This is especially true, especially if you bet on pay per click, you will need to place advertisements in range from the eyes of clients: for example, as separators of the structure of the page advertisements will be easily seen, and will be perceived as a natural cutting element of the site design.
5. Maintain and develop your blog
Your blogging strategy is defined and your ads are in place. Okay. Now you must build your blog with content to bring it to life ... then you will keep it alive and make it grow. Your efforts to make money with your blog will be the result of this process to repeat as much as possible.
You can apply many of the principles already seen in the previous article "10 tips for successful writing a business blog", but we here take the essence and spice new tips:
5.1. Take the time to write interesting content for you and your readers
You will be your first drive, so make sure that your articles will appear relevant and interesting. Also, consider your readers by making sure your content is attractive (shaping, media insertion), understandable (simple language, extension) and value added (informative, unique, innovative).
5.2. Make sure to be well referenced on search engines
This is one of the preferred sources of blogs traffic acquisition will allow you to start building your audience by positioning yourself on issues that concern it. You will find useful resources for your SEO (SEO) in articles in Homebusniess.com .
5.3. If you are an expert in your field, show it!
You will not only feel more comfortable in writing your articles, but also more motivated to write, informative, comprehensive and persuasive with your audience if you know your subject.
5.4. Be regular in your publications
Be regular in your publications and blog readers hate the lack of regularity in the publication of articles. Bear in mind according to a schedule allowing you to maintain a good balance in the rate of publication of your content.
Blogging is not a race but an endurance race!
5.5. Engage the conversation
Stimulate debate with catches of unexpected or innovative position. Finish your articles on a question to your readers.
Multiply the possible points of contact between your blog and your readers by providing them with all the current social sharing tools: newsletter, RSS, social networking page, share buttons, etc.
5.6. Keep the fun in the blog
Yes, you have in mind to make money with your blog. Yes, the first few months can seem daunting. No, you will not leave your job to live your blog (at least not right away).
This is why your business blogger should be combined with the notion of pleasure to write, share, discuss, argue, inform, etc. Your blogger pay, just starting, first go through the satisfaction of a well written article, a heated discussion, created a buzz. This is how you learn and understand that you like in the maintenance of your blog. The money will be a reward that will come with experience.
6. Test your advertisements
We have already seen, there are multiple advertising formats and you have several potential locations on where to place your blog.
Why not try to change a few variables in this equation of time to time? Change the format you use, the formatting of text ads, ad position in your blog interface, etc. Put to the test this source of income to see if you are able to generate more money by changing variables on your AdSense ads. 50% more revenue with the same number of visitors, it would not be so bad, is not it?
Meanwhile, beware the reaction of users who may be resistant to sudden intrusion of advertising to poorly chosen locations. Often intrusive changes are positive in the very short term (in terms of income) as they play with the habits of visitors by having them click where do not want. But on the other hand you may increase their discontent and you may suffer a backlash by putting their loyalty to the test.
If it is important for you to test new tracks with advertisements to you, do not try to do it at the expense of the user experience by deceiving your audience because it will not be profitable for you beyond the very short term.
7. Analyze your traffic
If you want to earn a little more money, try to understand your traffic! Do not post articles only to your own interests if you want to leverage your efforts. Try to understand what are the most popular themes from your audience to fit your publications accordingly.
You have a pretty basic statistics tool integrated with Blogger, but you can install Google Analytics smoothly. The important thing for you is to visualize what interests your readers. You can view and / or build the following reports to understand what they like and think about how to continue to meet this demand through your future articles:
Most popular articles
Most assiduously read articles
Most commented articles
Most Shared Articles
The most popular destination pages (via search engines)
To help you on the complete analysis of the traffic of your blog, you can read the article "Increase your blog traffic with Google Analytics" which comes completely with most of these concepts and how to figure and analyze them.
Once the feature articles identified, try to understand what made them successful: Thematic, format, timing, etc. Reproducing and perfecting their recipe, you will optimize the time spent on your blog by offering items "programmed" for success!
Bonus: Investing (some) to earn more
Having your own domain name, and more customization options anyone? For a few dollars more, you can buy your own domain name in .com, .net or about what you want. This is a great way to give a more professional side to your blog as well as its own identity.
And for a few dollars more, once you have mastered over your blogging strategy, why not use the CMS (CMS = Content Management System, "Content Management System" ) like WordPress or Drupal offering designs and even more custom modules that would give a unique and new features to your blog? You can integrate AdSense ads also.
If you want to stick to a zero dollar investment, keep your blog on Blogger. But if you feel grow wings, having your own domain name and more power over the design of your blog might be a wise investment in the medium / long term. It's your choice!
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