If your answer is “Yes” to the question “Would you like to earn money using blogs? You have to know basics of this earn while learn game. You will learn by your mistakes but sometimes it may be shocking for you if you do hard work and establish yourself as a top blogger and thereafter something goew wrong you may be bit disaapointed. Hence, I will recommend you to go through these basics and do some home work and then start blogging.
1. selection of the platform/site: You have to be very careful before joining a site, Hence, make a survey where you can earn good amount of money. Different sites have different money models. There are some sites where you can earn money using the publisher ID of different networks. On some sites you don’t need to have an account with ad networks. Best strategy is to select both type of sites.
Examples of few sites are given below.
Blog.co.in: Here you need to become a publisher of google adsense, adbrite or yahoo publisher network. You get 60% of the impressions displayed on your blogs. This means roughly you share 60% earnings generated through clicks on ads.
Hubpages.com: revenue model is similar to the blog.co.in. On this site you can earn money by becoming publisher of google adsense, Kontera, Amazon and eBay. On hubpages, you also share revenue with traffic attracted to hubpages through your efforts. This site offers better chances of online earnings as it attracts huge traffic&; to your blogs with less efforts. Impressions are shared on 60:40 basis where you earn 60% impressions of google ads and you get commissions of sales from Amazon and eBay.
Squidoo.com: revenue model is different from blog.co.in and hubpages.com. On this site you don’t need publisher account with different ad network. Earnings from google adsense ads are pooled and distributed proportionally among bloggers (called lensmasters) based on the blog (Lens) ranking. This is done to avoid fraud clicks. However, bloggers earns commissions if there are any sales through clicks on ads of Amazon, eBay etc.
There are several other sites where you can earn money in similar way as on these sites.
2. Have Patience: You are needed to have patience to earn money from blogging. It may take 6 -8 months to reach your minimum payout set by different sites and ad network. If you have patience and time and make sincere efforts, you may earn about $100 per month or bimonthly depending on the quality and quantity of your blogs. In my opinion its a nice way to earn online money working from home for educated housewives and retired people in India. You can write on any topic but its better to concentrate on topics which interests you.
3. Precautions: There are several incidences where publishers lose their publisher account either by own faults or due to attacks by others. Particularly, google adsense account is prone for such an attack by an enemy. There are provisions to list your sites in “My Allowed Sites list” or White publishers list. Avoid confronting with others. Never copy contents from other sites and always publish original content. Best strategy is to publish your content on sites where you need a publisher account and where no such account is needed.
4. Regular updating: you should visit your blogs regularly and try to update your blogs. This keeps your blogs always indexed by search engines. Remember traffic is must for earning money.