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Steve Pavlina Provides Blogging for Money Tips
Steve Pavlina blogs that he is now making $200 a day from his blog. In the same post he also provides detailed advice about how to make money from your blog. Steve makes a lot of good points in his article. We have summarized a few of them here.
Depressingly high failure rate: Steve says "99% of people who try to generate serious income from their blogs will fail."
"You don't need to be a programmer, but you need a decent functional understanding of a variety of web technologies." Good advice. It isn't to hard to get caught up if are new. Blogs are free and full of information. Check the blogroll on the left side of BloggersBlog.com for starters. Steve also recommends reading Problogger and we do as well. Problogger, written by Darren Rowse, has a terrific beginnner's section for novice bloggers. Rowse does a does a great job of explaining blogging concepts in a way that beginners will be able to quickly understand them.
Traffic: "Why is traffic so important? Because for most methods of online income generation, your income is a function of traffic. If you double your traffic, you'll probably double your income (assuming your visitor demographics remain fairly consistent). You can screw almost everything else up, but if you can generate serious traffic, it's really hard to fail." Steve has an article on building traffic here.
Multiple revenue streams: Steve says don't just focus on one revenue source. In other words, don't just use Google AdSense or just Amazon.com but use multiple methods including affiliates, contextual ads, donations, etc.
Blogging Software: Steve recommends Wordpress but not Blogger.
Steve doesn't use comments. We agree.
Steve does lots of testing and optimizing to see which ad vehicles work.
Steve says don't focus on too small of a niche or you won't build enough traffic.
Steve Pavlina also explains his views on post length.
Bloggers have different opinions about the right posting length and frequency. Some bloggers say it's best to write short (250-750 word) entries and post 20x per week or more. I've seen that strategy work for some, but I decided to do pretty much the opposite. I usually aim for about 3-5 posts per week, but my posts are much longer (typically 1000-2000 words, sometimes longer than 5000 words, including the monster you're reading right now). That's because rather than throwing out lots of short tips, I prefer to write more exhaustive, in-depth articles. I find that deeper articles are better at generating links and referrals and building traffic. It's true that fewer people will take the time to read them, but those that do will enjoy some serious take-away value.
Pavlina obviously doesn't object to longer articles since this one was over 7,000 words long. Long authoritative articles might have an advantage in that they can generate more inbound links than brief posts if they are well-written.
In other blogging for money news, J Wynia reports that Wynia.org is now a four figure site.
Filed in Blogging for Money and Blogging Tips.
Posted on May 3, 2006
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How Much Can Bloggers Make Per Month?
The Wall Street Journal has posted a conversation between Alan Meckler, the CEO of Jupitermedia Inc., and Jason Calacanis, the CEO and founder of Weblogs, Inc. The conversation will be of interest to professional bloggers. In the discussion Calacanis is more optimistic about how much bloggers will be able to make than Meckler.
Jason Calacanis writes: OK, I think we've reached entrepreneurial stasis on this one: The majority will not make a living off blogging, some will. Time will tell how big the some market is, hundreds or hundreds of thousands. I'm going with the latter.
Alan Meckler writes: Blogs are really diaries or microcosms of what is happening in millions of ways in daily life -- ranging from special interests to business specialties to whatever. Obviously there is money to be made with blogs, but very, very few will bring in more than a few hundred dollars per year.
As to the amount of money bloggers can make Jason said, "Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense. With three or four ad slots you're gonna do a $3 to $10 RPM (revenue per 1,000 pages viewed) with these automated tools on average. So, if you can do 500,000 pages a month -- which isn't easy -- you can make $1,500 to $5,000 a month. That's today and without a sales person."
Alan Meckler then gave this very cynical response:
Jason, good stuff as usual for one so sharp and original! But look at the number you have in your reply --- 500,000 per month (page views) is virtually unattainable for 99.999% of all bloggers.
My blog only gets about 300,000 per month -- so with your model I might make enough money per month to buy a candy bar. And I have the advantage of getting promotion through the Internet.com home page as well as many links to other bloggers.
Your concepts are good, but once again only for a selected few.
Blogging should eventually make good money for some bloggers. And some bloggers may be happy to have an extra $1,500+ a month in income from a blog that is primarily just a hobby. However, Meckler is right that 500,000 pageviews is very difficult to achieve and not all blogs are going to be able to hit that $3 to $10 RPM Calacanis was talking about. Some bloggers just aren't going to make much more than the cost of that candy bar Meckler mentioned. This won't bother most bloggers but some of the blogging for money bloggers might eventually cease publication of their blog if it isn't making them enough money. Obviously, this conversation excludes other indirect financial benefits of blogging like promoting a book, getting a job or branding oneself as an expert in a field.
Posted on April 19, 2006
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