Unfortunately, for residents of South Africa, and perhaps other countries, being paid via PayPal is not an option and this will rule out plenty of the available opportunities, but even then there remain a few ways to profit from your blogging.
For me, turning a site into a profit involves 3 steps:
1. Implement the weblog
I prefer to install WordPress and a set of useful, preferred, pluggins. You may have other options you prefer. But the first step it to set up the weblog and get it looking right. Without a good looking web site, you are never going to make much of a profit. Advertisers will not want to know as visitors will leave straight away.
2. Prepare your website
All too many bloggers expect to make an income without this step, which is important. They come asking why they are not earning a huge income having just merely implemented the blog.
Yet, step 2 – preparing the weblog – is the most vital step to get right!
The first part of starting a blog is to write posts, and loads of them! If you write 5 posts a week for 3 months, then you will have ample of material on your web site that will attract search engine visitors. This is also content that they could read and be interested in.
At the same time, you should be writing articles and posting them to article sites and submitting them as guest posts to other blogs. This will start to gather you a few regular visitors and to increase the Google Page Rank of your site, by increasing the number of links pointing into your site.
3. Start to earn a few money.
Even if you could start to earn some money as soon as you starting a blog, the best profits only come when you have put the time and effort in to prepare your web site in step 2.
But once you have some regular readers, a decent page rank and masses of content to attract the search engines and readers, then you can start to sign up for schemes that will make you money as for instance:
* Google Adsense – earn money merely by visitors clicking on links that are shown on your website.
* Sponsored Posting – in return for writing about whatever an advertiser wants you to write around and linking to them, you get paid! Showing the importance of step 2, typical fees on one system I use would be $2 for a Page Rank 1 website but $9 for a blog with a rank of 3.
* Affiliate Schemes – find a merchant that sells a product related to your weblog, talk round it, link to is and hopefully your readers will buy a few, earning you a commission! If you have an international audience, then digital products such as Click Lender products might be best.
* Sell Your Own Product – probably set it up in Click Lender or only sell via PayPal, but you can even only sell an Ebook of your best posts.
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