ALL ABOUT BLOGGER

Web address	www.blogger.com
Commercial?	Yes
Type of site	Blog host
Registration	Optional, Free
Available in	See below
Written in	Python[1]
Owner	Google
Launched	August 23, 1999[2]
Alexa rank	93 (March 2015)[3]
Current status	Active

 

Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. Up until May 1, 2010, Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via custom URLs.Unlike WordPress, Blogger allows its users to use their own domain free of charge, while Wordpress charges around $11 to use a custom domain. Blogger cannot be installed on a web server. One has to use DNS facilities to redirect a custom URL to a blogspot domain.

History

On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features (for which Pyra had charged) to become free. In October 2004, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google. In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs. On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed "Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and had some new features, including interface language in French, Italian, German and Spanish.In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google-operated servers. Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007.On February 24, 2015, Blogger announced it will no longer allow its users in late March to post sexually explicit content, unless the nudity on offer "substantial public benefit," for example in "artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts.On February 28, 2015, accounting for severe backlash from long-term bloggers, Blogger reversed its decision on banning sexual content, going back to the previous policy that allowed explicit images and videos if the blog was marked as "adult".

Redesign

Peter Peshy Shindika(Tanzanian) in as part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Google Account were migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the service is now more reliable because of the quality of the servers. Along with the migration to Google servers, several new features were introduced, including label organization, a drag-and-drop template editing interface, reading permissions (to create private blogs) and new Web feed options. Furthermore, blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files.In a version of the service called Blogger in Draft,new features are tested before being released to all users. New features are discussed in the service's official blog.

Screenshot of blog post compose window of Blogger, April 2012

In September 2009, Google introduced new features into Blogger as part of its tenth anniversary celebration. The features included a new interface for post editing, improved image handling, Raw HTML Conversion, and other Google Docs-based implementations, including:

• Adding location to posts via geotagging.
• Post time-stamping at publication, not at original creation.
• Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. The size is saved in a per-user, per-blog preference.
• Link editing in compose mode.
• Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both Windows and Mac OS.
• New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating what is seen in the published view.
• Placeholder image for tags so that embeds are movable in compose mode.
• New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo" and "redo" buttons. Also added was the full justification button, a strike-through button, and an expanded color palette.

In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor.^[15]

Available languages

Blogger is available in these languages: Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Oriya, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu Vietnamese. Nepali, Farashi.Bemba,Tonga,Tumbuka and cewa.

Country-specific blogger addresses

Starting in February 2013, Blogger began integrating user blogs with multiple country-specific URLs. For example, exampleuserblogname.blogspot.com would be automatically redirected to exampleuserblogname.blogspot.ca in Canada, exampleuserblogname.blogspot.co.uk in the United Kingdom. Blogger explained that by doing this they could manage the blog content more locally so if there was any objectionable material that violated a particular country's laws they could remove and block access to that blog for that country through the assigned ccTLD while retaining access through other ccTLD addresses and the default Blogspot.com URL. However it should be noted that if a blog using a country-specific URL was removed it is still technically possible to still access the blog through Google's No Country Redirect override by entering the URL using the regular Blogspot.com address and adding /ncr after the .com.^[16]

Available designs

Blogger allows its users to choose from various templates and then customize them. Users may also choose to create their own templates using CSS. The new design template, known as "Dynamic View", was introduced on 31 August 2011^[17] with Dynamic Views being introduced on 27 September 2011. It is built with AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3. The time for loading is 40 percent shorter than traditional templates, and allows user to present blog in seven different ways: classic, flipcard, magazine, mosaic, sidebar, snapshot, and timeslide. Readers still have the option to choose preferable views when the blog owner has set a default view. Some of the widgets (e.g., Labels, Profile, Link List, Subscription Links, Followers and Blog Archive etc.) are available for Dynamic Views; other templates are chosen by the blogger.

In April 2013, Blogger updated its HTML template editor that has some improvements to make it easy for the users to edit the blog's source code. The editor was updated with syntax highlight, number line and jump-to-widget button for ease of editing the code.

For over half a year dynamic views users were suffering from a bug causing custom CSS and page navigation often not to load properly. This happened because a JavaScript routine rendered the page before it was loaded. A blogger user fixed the template and published the fix.

Integration

• The Google Toolbar has a feature called "BlogThis!" which allows toolbar users with Blogger accounts to post links directly to their blogs.
• "Blogger for Word" is an add-in for Microsoft Word which allows users to save a Microsoft Word document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline. As of January 2007, Google says "Blogger for Word is not currently compatible with the new version of Blogger", and they state no decision has been made about supporting it with the new Blogger. However, Microsoft Office 2007 adds native support for a variety of blogging systems, including Blogger.
• Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a way of generating revenue from running a blog.
• Blogger also started integration with Amazon Associates in December 2009, as a service to generate revenue. It was not publically announced, but by September 2011 it appeared that all integration options had been removed and that the partnership had ended.
• Windows Live Writer, a standalone app of the Windows Live suite, publishes directly to Blogger.
• Blogger can be optionally integrated with Google+.
• Google+ comments can be integrated with blogger comments.
• The Campaigns tab in Blogger dashboard links to Adwords making it easier to create ads .
• You may create and add HTML site map static page to your blogger BlogSpot blogs using Blogger JSON Feed API which helps both website live visitors as well as Search Engine bots.

Blogger on mobile devices

Blogger has launched mobile applications for users with mobile devices. Users can post and edit blogs, and also share photos and links on Blogger through their mobile devices. Not only advanced mobile devices, such as smartphones, are being considered, since users can also post blogs via traditional cell phones by SMS and MMS.

 

Screenshot of Blogger app on iOS

The major two mobile operating systems that Blogger focuses on are Android and iOS. Blogger allow users to edit blogs anywhere through the app and either publish the blogs or save them as drafts. Quick navigation from posts and drafts is accessible from a list. Users can attach photos by taking a picture with a Blogger app or selecting pictures from their photo galleries. Sharing current locations on posts is also possible by tabbing My Location bar and adding locations. Users can also share photos and links directly to Blogger.

 

Blocking

Blogger has been blocked for various periods of time in the following countries:

• India
• Cuba
• China
• Fiji
• Iran
• Kazakhstan
• Kyrgyzstan
• Myanmar
• Pakistan^[28]
• People's Republic of China
• Russian Federation (some ISPs in 2012 blocking an IP address put into Federal List of Extremist Materials in 2011)^[29]
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Turkey
• Vietnam
• Yemen

Blocking of *.blogspot.com domains by keyword-based Internet filtering systems is also encountered due to the domain containing the substring "gspot".

Limitations

Blogger has the following limitations on content storage and bandwidth, per user account:

• Blog description – 500 characters max; Hyper Text Markup Language markup not supported
• Number of blogs – 100 blogs per account
• Number of labels – 5,000 unique labels per blog (an increase from the original 2,000), 20 unique labels per post
• Number of pictures (hyperlinked from user's Google+ Web Album) = 15 GB of free storage (Shared between Google Drive, Google+ and Gmail). However, if one has signed up for Google+ account, images less than 2048 x 2048 pixels would not be counted to this storage limit. For users not signed up for Google+, 800 x 800 pixels and below images would not be included in this storage space.
• Number of posts – There is no limit on the number of posts one can have in one blog.
• Size of pages – Individual pages (the main page of a blog or archive pages) are limited to 1 MB
• Size of pictures – If posted via Blogger Mobile, limited 300 KB per picture; posted pictures are scaled to 1600px
• Stand-Alone Pages – Limited to 20 standalone pages.
• Team members (those who can write to a blog) – 100 invitations per blog
• Favicon – Any square image less than 100KB

On February 18, 2010, Blogger introduced "auto-pagination", which limited the number of posts that could be displayed on each page, often causing the number of posts on the main page to be less than that specified by the user and leading to a hostile response from some users. Private blogs are limited to only 100 members.

Support

The official support channel is the Blogger Product Forum. This online discussion forum, delivered using Google Groups, serves Blogger users of varying experience, and receives some monitoring from Google staff. "Top contributors" are community-members nominated by the Google staff who enjoy additional privileges including managing discussions and direct access to Google staff. There is likely to be a top contributor or other knowledgeable person reading the forum almost all the time.A number of people, including some top contributors, run personal blogs where they offer advice and post information about common problems. StackExchange's Web Applications forum has a tag for "blogger", which is used for questions about various blogging platforms, including Blogger.

Source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogger_service

USING BLOGGER

How to Start a Blog

Are you thinking of starting a blog to promote your business or profession, or do you just want to share your thoughts on a subject that you love? Blogging is either free or inexpensive, and you can get started in moments by creating a blog on a site like Blogger or WordPress. To develop your concept, launch your website and promote your writing, this article will show you what you need to get started.

Part 1 of 4: Coming Up With a Blogging Concept

1. Ask yourself what you love, care about or wish to share with others. If you're going to write about something regularly and keep your blog fresh with new information, then you need to write about something that stokes your passion or that reflects your daily experience. Try some of these ideas to get your creative juices flowing:

• Gaming. Nowadays, most people play games. You can write about games you play and post updates and/or cheats/hints.
• Politics. Sure, everyone has an opinion about politics, but you may have a unique point of view that needs to be heard.
• Food. Who doesn't love good food? Share your recipes, start writing reviews of the local cuisine scene or write about how the food that you ate in China was nothing like the food that Chinese restaurants serve in the United States of America.
• Movies. Reviews of movies, old and new, are always fun for movie buffs. And if you keep it fresh by adding clips and pull from sources that nobody else is using, you could have a hit blog on your hands.
• Cars. Are you a car enthusiast? Post pictures of your favorite new models or reports from car shows.
• Your business. Your blog doesn't have to be a hobby. A blog can be a fantastic tool for connecting with your customers and for providing them with helpful information.

2. Think about how you want to help people. 

While you want to know your broad subject area, you need to focus your blog topics more narrowly, so that it has a clear purpose. Here are some ideas for ways that your blog can connect with your intended audience:

• Teach something. If you're passionate about a particular subject, and you have a lot of experience in that area, then you can offer your knowledge to both people who are new to the subject and others who are as experienced as you are.
• Provide the latest news and trends. Write about the latest developments related to your topic. You want to be someone who's viewed as the ultimate insider so that you can continue to increase your blog's readership.
• Make people laugh. Are you the funniest person you know? No matter what your subject area, you can present your experiences and thoughts in a humorous way that will really resonate with people.
• Inspire others. Have you overcome an obstacle, such as a serious illness or a difficult life experience? Do you want to turn your challenges into something that will inspire others to overcome their problems? If that's the case, then make your blog inspirational.
• Know what not to blog about too. Your workplace, your coworkers, your family members, etc. may take a dim view of anything on your blog if it blows open secrets, shares confidential information, makes fun of people you work or live with, or causes other people trouble. Know the limits––check with your workplace what is and is not permissible by way of personal blogging and ask your mates and family before including them in your posts.

3. Spy on your competition. 

Take a look at other blogs on your topic to see what other people are already doing. Ask yourself what you have to offer that is different from what other people are already doing. Identifying your niche will give your blog an angle that distinguishes it from your competitors.

4. Generate some names for your blog. 

Try brainstorming a list of names and writing them on a piece of paper, or talk to friends and family to get ideas. You can also try freewriting to see what comes out of your mind as you free associate about your topic.

5. Research keywords related to your subject to help people find your blog. 

Go to a site like http://ubersuggest.org/

• Enter items that are relevant to your topic into the appropriate search field. You can search by word or phrase, by website or by subject.
• The tool will generate words or phrases associated with your topic. Pick the words that have a high number of monthly searches but have low to medium levels of competition. Try to include them in your blog name.
• Check these keywords from time to time when you're writing a blog post. If you fit the keywords into your posts in a natural way, then search engines may be more likely to pick up on your blog and show it to people who are conducting searches about your subject. 

6. Decide where to create and host your blog. 

Blogger and WordPress are 2 of the most popular  blog creation sites on the Web.

• Blogger: Google owns Blogger and has set it up for ease of use. Your blog will be extremely easy to set up and maintain, and you'll have Google's traffic management tools at your disposal. You can purchase a custom domain name for US$10 per year or you can get a free BlogSpot domain name such as yourblog.blogspot.com. If you already own another domain name, you can use it for no cost.
• Tumblr.com. This is a very handy, world-wide micro-blogging site. It provides a very friendly user interface and even helps place ads on your blog page to get you money. For more information read this article on how to create a Tumblr account.
• WordPress: With WordPress, getting started will take more time. However, you'll find that WordPress has a wide variety of more sophisticated tools for enhancing and promoting your blog. You can purchase a custom domain name on WordPress for $18 per year or map an existing domain name to WordPress for $13 per year. If you want a free domain, you can use something like yourblog.wordpress.com.^[ It is also important to note that there is a difference between WordPress.com (free) and WordPress.org (self-hosted). The former restricts bloggers from making an income and while the latter does require set up on your own host, it then allows full access to your blog's backend, full suite of features and improved SEO performance. 
• Webs.com: Webs is a website builder that has been around since 2001. Everything about this website builder is customizable with their drop-n-drag feature. What's even better about this builder, is that you do not need any technical skills. Everything you need to know about what you want included in your blog is in front of you with easy to see/read options. Personal sites start free with no trial period. Of course if you want some enhanced features you will need to upgrade for a nominal fee

 1.Navigate to Blogger. 
If you have a Google account, then log in. If you don't have a Google account, click on the red "Sign Up" button in the top right corner and register for a Google account.

2.Click the "New Blog" button.

3. Fill in your blog name and your desired blog address.

• You can choose a template from the options on the screen, or you can choose a template later if you want to see more options.
• Click the orange "Create Blog!" button.

4. Select the "Start blogging" link.

5. Enter your title and your text. When you're done, click "Publish."

Part 3 of 4: Launching a Blog on WordPress

1. Point your browser to WordPress at http://wordpress.com/. Click on the "Get Started" link

2. Fill out the online form. In the last field, type the proposed web address for your blog.

• The host will do a quick lookup to see if the name appears on their system already. If your desired name is taken, WordPress will display a series of available alternatives. You can choose 1 of those options or try a different domain name until you find something that works.
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Create Blog."

3. Wait for your confirmation email. 

When it arrives, click the link and then sign into WordPress with your username and password. 

4. Choose a Theme for your blog. 

Your Theme determines the layout and appearance of your blog. You can either search for themes after clicking on the "Find a Theme" button or you can browse Themes based on criteria like what's trending or what's most popular.

5.  Click on the Theme you want and fill in the fields on the General Settings screen. If you want to, you can upload a photo of yourself by clicking the "Choose File" button in the gray "Blog Picture/Icon" box.

6. Decide whether you want your blog to be private or public. 

 Do you want any Internet visitor to be able to read your blog, or do you just want your friends and family to be able to read it? Pick the appropriate setting by clicking on the "Reading" link beneath the "Settings" tab.

7. Write your first post. 

Click the "New Post" tab and enter your title and the body of your blog. You can also add photos, videos or links by using the appropriate buttons. When you're done, click "Publish Post."

Part 4 of 4: Promoting Your Blog

1. Use social media to connect people to your blog. 

You can promote your blog on your personal social media accounts or on your business accounts.

• Most blog hosting sites will automatically publish a link to your newest blog post on Facebook or Twitter. Look for sharing settings or buttons when you publish your post. For instance, WordPress lets you control sharing by going to your Dashboard and clicking "Sharing" under the "Settings" tab. Blogger has social media buttons on the bottom of your post for sharing.
• Add buttons to your posts. Your readers can click these ready-made buttons to share your blog on their Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or other accounts.

2. Write something about yourself. 

Add an "About Me" page on WordPress or click "Layout" and then "Edit" under "About Me" on Blogger. Promote your expertise related to your topic as well as including any personal information or background information that you want to share.

3. List your blog to draw traffic.  

You can add a Blogger site to Blogger's listings You can also list your blog with directories like Technorati or Blogdex.

4. Interact with other bloggers. 

If another blogger "Likes" your site, then go to his or her site and either "Like" a post or follow the blog. Also, comment regularly on other people's blogs. People will get to know you from your comments and will come to appreciate your expertise.

5. Add your blog address to your email signature. You can also add the address to your business cards.

6. Produce stellar content. 

If your blog is full of grammatical errors or looks unattractive, you aren't going to draw regular visitors. You also need to make sure that you publish regularly so that your content is up-to-date and fresh for your readers.

Guide : How to explore your blog

• Have a strategy for your blog and know whether to write evergreen content (that will remain relevant forever) or news-based content that has higher short-term appeal but quickly becomes irrelevant^[4].
• Some sites allow you to make money off your blog by using an Amazon Associates ID or by placing Google AdSense advertisements. If people click on your links, then you could make some residual income from your blog.
• Many people like to read blogs from their mobile devices. Make sure that your blog site has a mobile version that is optimized for smartphone or tablet viewing.
• Before you set up your blog, take some time to make sure you aren't duplicating a blog name that already exists. Also, check your domain name to make sure that it's unique enough not to get mixed up with other sites.
• One should be very particular about the content that needed to be posted on the blog. Search on the wikipedia, reddit and wikihow for the latest topics and a proper analysis of keywords.
• If you want to maintain a blog for your business, but you aren't confident about your writing skills, hire a professional writer to write your posts for you.
• Get into a routine of blogging. Make it part of your day. Soon, you will notice things during your day and think, "Hey, I'll blog about this." You can also add reminders to your calendar program so that you are prompted to blog on a regular basis.
• If your blog is informational, always be checking your facts. People won't want to return to your site if they realize you don't have your facts straight!
• Make sure you have some rules about what to do and not to do on your blog so people don't go crazy and say inappropriate and bad things.
• If you dont want people to know about everything of you, then dont post it.
• Don't post something boring like " I had a salad for lunch!"
• Type about something you are interested in. Video games, religion, birth control, TV shows, etc.
• When you have a follower, ask them to spread the word.

Source : http://www.wikihow.com

	In advance Using blog that peoples made can be monetized if get high rank and flooded by a large number visitor of course if the blog owner take a impresive strategy to explore and maintenance their blog with great choosing of niche depend on trending topic and introduce to the world  until get high traffic.Many ways to earn money that has high rank and many visitor such as affiliate, onlline store, advetising publisher and pay per click or pay per download. Each methode has different strong and weak depend on the condition of blog and the owner. Let's hear opinion of blog master about monetized web and blog
	Building a successful blog involves a lot of different things like choosing the niche, posting that get interest of people’s attention, improve traffic and subscribers, and converting that traffic. In order to make money with your blog you’ll need to have a plan, simply getting traffic is not enough. In the top result of their hard work blog gain high rank, the founder of blog  fell to develope their creation to another level. They can't let the blog that have been made did not get a caring and is very impposible blog author always post article every day waste the time and energy. last chooice writer is improve the blog to earn money with monetized it. What’s your favorite way to monetize a blog, and why? And here are the answers from each blogger on the panel. Yaro Starak of Entrepreneurs Journey When I first started blogging my favourite way to make money was recursive affiliate income. This means selling other people’s subscription products, since I could sign someone up for a program or service and get paid month after month as they continued to pay their bill. Today, however, I prefer to sell my own products because you always sell more of something you created yourself, plus there is wonderful sense of fulfilment when you sell something you created. It’s the dream of an artist or writer to make a living from their own craft, which is what I get to do today as a blogger, and recommend all other professional bloggers focus on too. Jon Morrow of Boost Blog Traffic According to our research, the bloggers who reach six figures in revenue the fastest begin with some type of coaching or consulting service. Unlike creating courses or writing an e-book, there’s no preparation. You can decide to start selling coaching services and have your first client by this evening. The average transaction size is also much larger. Even a beginning blogger can usually get $99 an hour for a telephone coaching and sometimes a great deal more. Lastly, it’s a great learning experience. After talking on the phone with a few dozen clients, you’ll have a much better idea of what products and services your audience needs, so you’ll know what to do next (instead of guessing). Special Offer for ProfitBlitz Readers: Save 60% on premium WordPress hosting from SiteGround Adam Connell of Blogging Wizard There are two monetization tactics that I’m very fond of for different reasons: Affiliate marketing – It’s easy to do and in most niches it can be very profitable. It’s also scalable along with your traffic. On the downside this can be fairly unpredictable. Products/services – Selling products or services can work really well, if you set things up just right it’s relatively straight forward to scale (products more so than services) and you can then leave things to run almost on auto pilot if you have a smart sales funnel setup. Never completely leave things to run unattended, you should always look to monitor and optimize your sales funnel. Times change and so do buyer habits. Besides, there is always a way to squeeze better conversion rates out of your funnel in most cases. However you choose to monetize a blog, look to diversify your income and minimize risk wherever possible. Daniel Scocco of Daily Blog Tips AdSense, and that is because it’s the easiest and least time consuming monetization method. You just need to set it and forget it. On top of that AdSense also tends to have the best CPM and fill rates on the market, so it works pretty well. Obviously AdSense might not be the most profitable method, but given we are talking about blogs it would still be my choice. If we were talking about websites in general, then I would say that selling one own’s products and services is the best method. Neil Patel of NeilPatel.com Ebooks. If you can create premium content for your readers, they will be highly likely to buy it. Plus you’ll make more money than if you just shoved ads on your blog. Ryan Biddulph of Blogging from Paradise I don’t have a favorite way to monetize my blog per se but I do love writing eBooks. I feel eBooks are the ultimate authority builders, trust builders, and branding tools for building an income generating blog. Now I just got into the eBook game 2 months ago, and I’ve already released my 2nd eBook recently. So I’m new to the game but it’s definitely my favorite product/service to create. In truth though my favorite way to monetize my blog is to create inspired, in-depth content. I relish publishing helpful, long, inspired blog posts to help my audience over at Blogging from Paradise because hey; your content IS the most important blog monetizing tool, or strategy. The channels vary, but you proving that you know your stuff, through the free content you share, is what puts money in your pocket. So make creating free, inspired content, your favorite thing to do, and over deliver, and you’ll monetize your blog intelligently through any channel. Ramsay Taplin of Blog Tyrant It’s all about the funnel! First I figure out what product I can create or affiliate I can promote and then I go about finding traffic. Your blog is just a means to get traffic – I think people really miss that point. You don’t just post blindly – you post so you can tap into new traffic sources and constantly grow your reach. There’s no point in having 10,000 visitors every day if they are interested in your end-product. My favorite thing (because it’s long-term safe) is to grow a mailing list around a tightly targeted niche by buying traffic through ad placements on relevant sites, or guest posting on relevant topics. My aim is to make my guest posts on authoritative sites rank on Google for at least 5 years so I get a constant stream of referrals. For example, I’ll write guest posts about topics I mention in my massive guide on how to start a blog which then introduces people to some affiliate products in a useful and honest way. Pauline Cabrera of TwelveSkip and Start Your Blog Online Affiliate marketing. I love how I can help other people and earn at the same time! Plus they are one of the highest paying ads. I earn commission from reviewing products, creating tutorials, and recommending products I use. I used to dislike this method because I wasn’t sure how to do it properly. I thought it was super complicated…until I watched how the pros do it, and figured how to actually work it. It may seem hard at first but once you learn how it works, it’s a lot fun and you’ll be amazed at how simple it is. Sure, it may take a lot of work, but it’s worth it. TIP: Choose your niche, provide value, find where most of your target audience hangs out, and promote! Keep reading tips from the pros. AND don’t forget to optimize for the search engines. Adrienne Smith of AdrienneSmith.net I don’t concentrate on monetizing my blog because I use it as a tool to connect with others.  My goal is to build up those relationships with them so that down the road they will want  what I offer through the products I promote, my consulting or my own product that I will be releasing soon.  I’m more about the connections. David Risley of Blog Marketing Academy Doing what any other business does, which is provide products or services which solve a problem for your target audience. It is what all businesses do. I am not a fan of the word “monetization” because it suggests that a blog is somehow different. One doesn’t open up a storefront and then “monetize” it. Of course, this speaks right to whether you see what you’re doing as a business or a journal or a media source. But, the way I look at it, a blog is one of the most powerful marketing vehicles there is. And a business is what makes money. So, make a real business and see the blog for what it is… a marketing vehicle. Henneke Duistermaat of Enchanting Marketing When starting out with a new blog, the quickest way to earn a living is become a coach or consultant or offer a service like web design or copywriting. That’s what I did when I started my blog from scratch. I found copywriting clients via guest posting, which also allowed me to build an email list. Once you have a sizeable email list the options for monetizing your blog multiply – sell your own books or ecourses, affiliate marketing or advertising. Ashley Faulkes of Mad Lemmings and Entice Online Marketing The simplest way to monetize a blog is to add relevant affiliate links to products in your niche. But let’s ignore that choice, as I am sure it is a common one. Instead what I would say is this: if you are blogging to earn money alone, then you might be in for some disappointment. It could take years to make a living (ie. you need to be big). So instead, I recommend adding your own products and services to your blog. What kinds? That depends on what you are blogging about and what you are good at. But there is always something you know, that others are willing to pay for, and you need to find out from your audience what that is (ask them in a post, email, survey). But the main point is this – if you honestly want a business out of your blog, plan for it from the beginning. A blog supplements businesses but rarely creates them. Ron Sela of RonSela.com and PageWiz Bloggers usually have varied ways of monetizing their blogs. Two of the most common are by creating products or service lines which they promote. The other is by promoting affiliate products. I favor the option of getting your product to promote, and there are plenty of reasons why this is so. For one, promoting your own product usually increases your net earning potentials. This is because bloggers have a chance of growing their own product and getting profits along the way. They also tend to establish themselves as experts in their niche. Bloggers who promote affiliate products are usually dependent on their marketability. This also means that they are not likely to receive all the long term benefits of their promotional work. Bloggers who promote their own products also enjoy long-term SEO benefits. Promoting products which you can call your own is usually easier. Recognition is also a benefit since producing high quality product puts its creator in the spotlight. Despite these advantages, creating your own line of products is not easy, especially for new bloggers. This is because it requires resources that new bloggers may not be willing to invest. Sue Anne Dunlevie of Successful Blogging I help bloggers succeed online by showing them how to use their blog to earn a living. So, monetization is very important to me! I teach my blogger clients to monetize their blog in several ways, but my favorite is for each blogger to have their own product or service. And the key to selling that product, craft or service? Preselling. Which is simply the buildup of anticipation for what you are going to sell to your readers. This is where many bloggers fall short. They just stick up a sales page or send a sales email and wonder why no one buys. Preselling is crucial. To create that anticipation for the sale, you need to have a clear, focused plan where absolutely everything you write – blog posts, emails, guest posts and social media – all lead eventually to a making an offer. Stuart Walker of Niche Hacks Affiliate marketing all the way for me. Once a piece of content is up it’s there forever and no further work needed on it. So it generates passive income on auto-pilot from there on it. Though I’ve also just added 5 info products which don’t really require any work once online either. These have already generated a few hundred extra dollars a month and took me no longer to create than a blog post. All the payments and stuff is handled through the marketplace I use so it’s passive once up. I’ve also added in some services which require a little work on my part but nothing too much. And just recently added in AfterOffers.com which is a clever new way to make money when people sign up to your list by offering them to join the lists of other bloggers at the same time. At the time of writing I’ve had this on the blog for less than 48hrs and it’s generated $34 for me. So if it remains steadily earning like this it’s an extra $500 a month in passive income. Matthew Barby of MatthewBarby.com My favourite way to monetize a blog is through online purchases. For example, up-selling a book or some form of relevant product to your blog audience. The reason for this is because you will spend a huge amount of time building trust with your readers. Once you build trust, you’re in a position to add value to their experience. In the example of a book, you can generate revenue from sales but also boost your profile in the process. Not only that but it can be a great inbound marketing tool to acquire new customers with. Kevin Muldoon of KevinMuldoon.com Mmmm. It is hard to choose just one. My three main monetization methods are: 1) Banner advertising, 2) Affiliate marketing (via reviews, guides, links in posts etc), and 3) Direct product selling Selling products directly has the potential to be the most profitable if you have a good product to market. Though, historically, the blogs I have ran have always had most of their income generated through affiliate marketing. So if I have to pick one, I would say that is my favorite, Though I do like the income consistency that banner advertising can bring every month too. Greg Narayan of Dear Blogger Lately I’ve been into AdSense because of their new iPhone app. It’s fun to put ads on random pages then see if they can earn you an extra $100 on the month, and track it all on the go. Erik Emanuelli of NoPassiveIncome From my experience so far, I found out that the sale of banners is the best method to monetize my sites. I use BSA for my main blogs and OIO Publisher plugin for the other ones. It’s not easy to be accepted at BSA, but it’s definitely worth the efforts. Once set up, it works in automatically. The only thing you need to do is confirm the request from the advertiser and you have plenty of control over it. I can also mention that other ways to monetize my sites are sponsored posts and the sale of my ebooks. Kevin Duncan of Be A Better Blogger It’s going to sound frustratingly unhelpful, but my answer is “it depends on when you’re asking me.” I’ll explain. Right now, with Be A Better Blogger barely four months old, selling my services is by far the most lucrative way for me to monetize my blog. Even as I’m waiting for my traffic and mailing list to grow to higher levels, I can go ahead and use my years of experience as a web developer and blogger to earn income as a WordPress developer, content writer, and blogging coach. However, I’m not a fan of the time commitment. Selling your services is the one monetary strategy where you’re incapable of relaxing. Want to take a break and concentrate on blogging? Fine, but you’re not getting paid. Want to take your wife on a cruise vacation? Bon voyage, but you’re not making any money that week. As Be A Better Blogger continues to gain in popularity my attention will shift away from services, and towards affiliate marketing and selling digital products. The former is truly passive; the latter requires a lot of work up front, but only minimal work later. Affiliates will allow me to earn income without the time commitment of creating my own product. It has its cons, but as a passive form of income it’s difficult to beat. Creating my own digital products (eBooks, plugins) will require a considerable time commitment initially, but its income potential (not to mention its ability to build my reputation as an expert) is significant. Of course, ask me a year from now and my answer could be totally different! Rajesh Namase of TechLila Affiliate Marketing is my favourite way to monetize my blogs because it can generate regular stream of income. Also we can consider it as a long term business. Catherine Holt of Blogging Tips 101 My favourite strategy for monetization depends on the blog.  This really comes down to what I feel my readers want and what is appropriate for the niche. For example, my favourite way of monetizing my blog at Blogging Tips 101 is with an affiliate product.  The entire site is based around one large product and it will stay that way.  Yes, I do have some smaller affiliate links such as Hootsuite, but it is not a site where I will be having a lot of advertising and I currently do not have Adsense. My reasoning? Well the site was set up for bloggers, who want to learn how to blog.  It is for those that may already be blogging and want to know how to improve, or it is for those who want to simply get started.  The product that I have on offer is a ‘learn how to blog’ program.  It is an intensive 12 module program that includes an enormous amount of information.  Everything that you could possible need to know about blogging and turning it into a business is included here.  It also has live chat support, website design and set up, hosting, email marketing etc.  Everything is available in the one package. I therefore set up my site around this product, to ensure that my readers are the target market for the product. I do however believe in having trust in any affiliate product that you sell, and I don’t think that bloggers should place affiliate links on their site (just for the money).  That is just my personal opinion on the matter.  I have personally used the program that I am an affiliate for, and therefore I have 100% confidence in the product.  I can answer people’s questions because I have first hand experience of the product’s use. For my site over at Smart Party Planning, my monetizing strategy is different.  I do not feel that this is the kind of niche that is relevant for any large affiliate products, so I have taken a different route, namely my own digital products. On this site I have an Etsy store  where I sell my party printables.  For example, party invitations, cupcake toppers, banners etc.  Believe it or not, beer labels are one of my biggest sellers! The great thing about digital products is that you make them once and then you just keep on selling the file!  I do take custom orders from the shop, but I try to keep this to a minimum because it means I have to create a new file which takes precious time!  I always charge a custom order fee, but it’s still not as financially viable as just selling the existing PDF file. People love the instant download of a printable file, and I find this works really well with my readers.  They come to my site, see an idea that they love and then wham….in 5 minutes they can have a party set right in their email inbox! Plus, designing and party creating is a real passion for me, so I get a huge buzz out of not only designing the printables, but also when I see other people getting pleasure from them. I do also use some affiliate products from Amazon, but as these party products are relatively cheap so it’s not a huge money spinner but the time I get my commission.  I generally have the ideas there to help my readers out and to have something available at their finger tips rather than use it as a money generator. Smart Party Planning is also a site that I use Google Adsense for and this works quite well.  Of course Google Adsense is only going to earn you a nice steady income if you have the traffic levels to go with it, but as this site is a couple of years old with a PR2 rating, it does earn a nice steady income. At the end of the day, I don’t think there is a right or a wrong way to monetize a blog.  I think it depends on the niche that you are in, the direction you want to take for your blog and what your readers will benefit from. Steven J. Wilson of High Powered SEO There are so many ways bloggers go about monetizing their blogs. I did a lot of reading and making some decisions on the best way I can monetize my blog. Keeping my focus on growing my blog to the point where I create additional options for myself. The challenge was, how do I accomplish this with a newer blog, all while blogging part-time. I continued with a strong focus on not hindering my growth or using questionable methods that set my blog back by a Google update. I thought about it for a while one day. I realized until my blog grew to a certain point, the best option would be to leverage what I already do on the side. I thought about some common questions I received from a couple small businesses I was helping with their online presence. I realized that there were plenty of small businesses and organizations out there that want more and need more from their online presence. With their focus being on growing their business, this leave them unwilling, unsure or both! I started my blog answering some of the questions they were asking knowing that others will have the same questions. So, I started referring potential clients to post that relate to their need in my pitches. I noticed that this one little step was beneficial in closing contracts. Simply having a blog, something that they can see for themselves makes for much better results. At this point in my blogging journey this is my favorite way to earn extra income from my blog. It has pulled in two long-term contracts without much effort on my part in finding them. This strategy should definitely be considered when exploring ideas on making money from our blogs. Monetizing your blog using a method like Adwords, may only generate pennies for you in the beginning. If we also think about creating a blog and focus on using it as a proof of concept or a proof of principle. The income you can generate early on is far better than methods that are more beneficial to blogs that get tons of traffic. Andrew M. Warner of Shade of Info To be completely honest with you, I haven’t actually monetized my blog as of yet. Mainly because I’m primarily focused on building connections, engaging, etc. But WHEN I do start monetizing my blog (very soon), I’ll be choosing Information Products as my main method. And the reason I’m choosing Information Products is because while Affiliate Marketing is good and offers you certain freedoms (i.e. Not having to create the product, not worrying about delivery to the customer, other behind the scenes issues) I just love creating my own Information Products because (1) you actually own it and (2) you actually control it. And to add to that point, you don’t have to worry about the product owner shutting down the product or have to stress over getting paid on time because since you own the product, you control everything. Mi Muba of Be A Money Blogger Apart from creating your own product and selling it at your blog, rest of the ways have already been massively optimized. That is why there is stiff competition in PPC, CPA, banner ads, product reviews and even affiliate sales. If we look at ten blogs on blogging half of them have an affiliate ad at their side bar with an impression as if it is a banner ad. So this is the level of competition in all ways of monetization where you promote or sell other’s products. The only way where both production and marketing is in your hand is creating your own product. You can enhance the quality of product by putting several add-ons in it. You can update the product as many times as the situation demands You can innovate the product to make it more competitive if a few products of same type arrive in the market You can introduce the follow-up of your product to grab the rest of the market potential You know the features of product better if you have produced it; so the way you can highlight its features no one can do like this. That is why for me the best way to monetize a blog is to create your own product and sell it the way you want. Stacey Corrin of StaceyCorrin.co.uk I use a mixture of affiliate marketing and selling my own services to monetize my blog. Since I have a background in freelance writing and content marketing, it made sense to offer these as services to my readers. It’s a great thing to look into doing if you have a blog, as your posts will stand testament to your ability as a writer. With the affiliate marketing side of my monetization plan, I promote products that I use or have used myself. This I believe adds more authenticity and comes across in my product reviews. Devesh Sharma of WPKube "If I had to choose one, it would be affiliate marketing. Monetizing a blog via affiliate marketing is fairly easy and with right amount of traffic you can generate hundreds of thousands of dollars. I have had a great success with it. The key here is to promote products that you have personally tested and are happy with. You cannot make money, by promoting products that gives you huge commission but doesn’t deliver quality content to customers".
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