How do I Make Money Blogging
So I increased a little bit more activity on digitalpoint to do an experiment. But while I am visiting it more often stupid threads with titles, make big money blogging. Where the guy ask a question how do you make big money blogging. Or someone saying start blogging if you want to make big money blogging. First I will say big is a very subjective word. Second I will show you how I make money blogging.
How Much Money do I make?
I will say it like this I don’t make any where close to how big blogger make from their blog. But I am averaging around 2300 – 2400 USD a month from Balkhis. Now you are wondering how do I make that money from Balkhis. More yet, thinking how do I survive from just that little income. Because that is only 28000 yearly. But you have to understand a good portion or a major portion of my income comes from my web design company, Uzzz Productions which puts me close to six figure marks gross. Now lets get into how do I make money blogging.
Google Adsense
Adsense is something that I don’t incorporate in all of my posts, but I put it in the posts that are popular. Or the ones that are likely to get tons of traffic mostly tutorials. Aside from that, I have adsense in the header banner that makes me a decent amount of money, but it is not the majority. I mostly use the size 336 x 280 and 468 x 60. So use those because they work the best.
Private Ad Sales
Private Ad sales are a good one. I have header banner for sale as well as sidebar buttons. Also paid reviews. Those account for some of my income, but this one is still not the majority. Mostly direct ad sales are a pain to manage, but I use OIO Publisher to do it myself. I don’t believe in giving my money to any of the companies like Text Link Ads or Review me because they take up so much of the commission, you won’t get the money that you deserve. So do it directly with OIO Publisher.
Affiliate Marketing
The biggest Chunk of Balkhis Income comes from Affiliate marketing. How do I do it? Well I use Commission Junction for the most part, and Market Leverage as a secondary earner. Commission Junction have the most offer then you can imagine. So if you use them you are most likely to find offers that you want. I usually use hosting and other different sorts. If I am writing a post, and I think that I can find something that would be a good product. I head over to Commission Junction and run a search. And sometimes I write posts entirely based on the products, and it works very well also. So now if I just embed the CJ link it doesn’t do it. So I use WP-Affiliate Plugin that lets me make urls like balkhis.com/refer/xxxx so that helps me track the urls and see how it works. Now some people say Balkhis why people buy the products from your site and not from mine when I place the affiliate codes. And I will say, I really don’t know. I will probably say read the post How to make sales from your blog and earn profit. That have a little bit of answer. But that should cover that.
My costs of running / Advertisement
How much does it cost me to run Balkhis. Time and hosting fee. I switched to host gator reseller which cost me $25 monthly, and that is about it. I buy ads on a few sites thats it which is not very expensive. Rest is just social media. I am not one of those people who spend a lot of money.
I don’t think I will write this sort of post again unless I add new ways of making money. But if you are interested then head over to my make money online page.
Hey, I am Syed Balkhi, The guy who is behind Balkhis Inc. I entered the industry back in 2002 not knowing a single thing. I barely spoke English at that time. In the past six years, my language barrier has been eliminated. Aside from English, now I also speak html, and php. Along with the languages I have also managed to master a few arts. Art of web-designing started when I first entered. Messing around with photoshop, I learned how to create my first web design. Now I founded a web designing firm Uzzz Productions. After running numerous amount of websites in various niche, I have mastered the art of web-development. Now I am compiling a resource of what I already know, and what I am learning on this blog. This resource is to help me if I ever need a guide to look back to, and it is help my fellow webmasters.
I got it now how actually to make money blogging. But I think the foundation of success in making money is how good you are to bring traffic to your blog. That’s the major problem to blogging for money. Keyword research for seo obviously take time but I know this is a good way to bring blog to top SERP and then will bring many traffics. And then there is another that how to convert this traffic into sales or action. It’s not an easy way,actually.
Blogs that are started solely to make money are never easy. Most if not all fail!! SEO is one of my tricks. I am lucky I guess that I get tons of traffic from Search Engines.
I agree that just starting a blog and expecting it to make money would be doomed to fail unless you have a purpose in mind. Good post and thanks for sharing.
I think it’s great that you’re giving your readers insight into how you monetize your blog. It seems as though you utilize a few different channels in order to run a successful blog. I’m glad that you view MarketLeverage as one of your top moenetization solutions!
Rebecca the treatment ML gives to all of their publishers are just outstanding. That is one of the reasons I always promote ML
Although your income isn’t very high it isn’t very low too. It’s very cool for 10 month blog.
I just wonder, how big is adsense part in this income?
Adsense runs about 10 – 15 sometimes even 25 / day on Balkhis. It really depends because some of my tutorial articles get visited a lot because they are linked from wordpress support section and a lot of other forums.
Wow. didn’t know that you earn thousands per month
I guess AdSense is not everything
I’d really like to use this advice as I’d love to be able to cover my hosting. I just worry that for some things, the traffic levels aren’t enough to hire a developer to create a skin for MediaWiki to integrate the ads in to the site. And that the ads will distract from the content. How much of a monetary commitment would you think you would need and what traffic levels before you could earn back what you spent?
I think a good blog theme can go from any where from 800 – 1500 if you hire Uzzz Productions. A good SEO Friendly theme with ads can get you the money back within a few months.
I have yet to earn some money from my blog, because I haven’t monetized it yet. I heard that OIO Publisher makes it very easy to sell ads. Is it true?
Balkhis, congratulations on your success. I subscribe to all the MMO blogs and have found yours to consistently be the most useful — you provide easy to understand instructions and ideas for a relative newbie like me. Much appreciated. When joining an affiliate program, buying something, etc., I’ll always come here to use your referral link.
you will earn more in future looking at your posting frequency daily and traffic
Thanks for sharing the info
Now, that is serious money Syed. Looks like you’re ready to take on the blogging world globally full-on. No, seriously, that’s a lot of encouragement for bloggers who have just started blogging and are looking to make it big. These are really few of the important tips for making serious money. Thanks for the tips Syed, You’re at it again…
Cheers!!!!
Wow this is a great report. I would love to see how much money you make from each different section. I will be making at least that much money in 12 months time
Wow Syed, I never new that Uzzz brought you in so much money
The real money that can be made from a blog is not in ad sales or stuff like that, but rather through the relationships formed. Take Bryan (SiteFlipU) for example – the blog itself made close to nothing, but he was able to create his own product and promote it on his blog which ended up making him $10,000 is one month, simply through the connections and followers he made on his blog. – That’s where the real power lies
Yes that is what blogs do. Uzzz Productions is growing more locally than online.
$2300/month! I’m jealous!
Keep up the good work, and thanks for sharing that post.
Congratulations on your success Syed and much more in the future.
I think adsense strategically placed can bring nice money. Also doing reviews in blog posts is a much better strategy than just adding banners.
Depends really. Some times direct sales for reviews are harder to make rather than banners ….
Nice to see how you make money. You didn’t mention that besides time, a lot of hard work and dedication goes into a blog.
i uses google adsense.
thanks for the information.
2300 – 2400 USD a month ?
Can you please your % share of revenue at Balkhis ?
wonderful post. Thank you
That’s the major problem to blogging for money. Keyword research for seo obviously take time but I know this is a good way to bring blog to top SERP and then will bring many traffics.