How Can You Earn From Your Blog?
The main reason why anyone develops a blog is to earn through it. Though earning something from a blog is not an easy task, it takes years to really derive something from a blog. But then there are ways which can help you to earn from your blog.
Read on this blog post of mine to understand how can you earn or make money from your blog?
You all know that from last few months I was sharing a blog daily with you all, but unfortunately since last Saturday night I was suffering from viral fever, which then affected my wife and my little angel as well. Thus it forced me to take an unwanted leave or break from my blogging schedule. Maintaining a blogging schedule is really crucial in blogging, but then there is something’s which are more important than anything else in life.
The health of yours and yours dear ones fall into the same.
Anyways, it is the love of some of my friends, Shwetabh Mathur, Dipali, Shetall, Vinay, Ruchi, which helped me to recover quickly from the viral fever, which actually makes the person too weak. After so many days I decided to start writing is just because of the love which they all showered on us.
So coming back to our original discussion, I shared two blogs on how to make money from blogging and second one on the same title, in which I discussed about different ways through which you can earn from your blog. When I was sick, I was reading some of my old blogs and I realized that there are few things which are actually other than all these things and which I did not discussed on these two blogs and hence the idea of writing this third blog post came into my mind.
Undoubtedly it is true that blogging provide you name, fame, and a huge opportunity to earn as well from your blog. Though in reality if you ask bloggers, around 90% of them will respond that they did not get any success in earning from their blogs.
But then there are bloggers who do share their monthly income and which really sounds quite interesting for others. So are they giving a wrong figure?
No, it is actually true that there are bloggers who use to run blogs which are returning them decent amount, while there are bloggers who are giving so much efforts, but still unable to earn anything from their blog.
What are they missing?
In my opinion this is something which majority of bloggers are lacking behind and this is something which compels them not to earn something good from their blog.
When you are blogging, the approach should be professional, people should understand that you are a serious blogger, not doing blogging for time pass, or casually.
Professional blogging generally considered as a blog with unique domain name, self hosted and having a professional looking design. But honestly if you ask me I won’t say that those are the only things which can make you a professional or serious blogger. Those are really important but then you also need an attitude, which should reflect in the posts which you make on your blog, which will tell everyone if you are a serious blogger or not.
Let me give you an example.
You read my blogs on SEO tips, self improvement tips and blogging tips too.
Do you consider me as a serious blogger?
Give response to this in the form of comments, but please do share your response genuinely. I won’t fear in facing criticism too and will be happy to hear them, as they will help me to enhance my abilities.
So the point which I wanted to make over here is that your readers should understand from your blogs that you are an expert in a particular field, and thus your blog will be considered as a successful blog, and those successful blogs can only be able to earn something.
If you people consider me as an expert in SEO or Blogging, then it is not because I am an expert in those fields, but it is because you people like the blogs which I share on those topics, and hence you do consider so (if you do by any chance). On the other hand if you reach to my blog and don’t like them, you will consider me as a low level blogger and would not give value to my blogs. In that case how can I assume that I will be able to acquire something from my blog, which is not even liked by the readers?
Only when people will consider your blogs as brilliant, then only they will give you some offers.
When I said above line, let me clear it that when you have established yourself as a serious and brilliant blogger, people will start throwing offers on you. It can be anything, like please review our products, please review our services on your blog, or anything of the similar nature.
Though being an experience guy I can say that we should not grab all the offers which come to our way. Do understand the actual nature of offer, do analyze if it is more harmful than useful for your website. Being a blog on mobile phones, you cannot publish a blog post on reviewing a company which produces shoes.
Obviously those who want to grab information’s about mobile phone will never like the idea of getting information about shoes on your blog.
Similarly if you receive an offer in which person is putting conditions like you need to place three links of our blah-blah pages, I would suggest you to simply reject it. You should accept the offers in which you have given the freedom to genuinely review something. If you cannot have the opportunity to share what you feel about something, then the purpose of blogging is dead.
You should ideally reject those offers.
While getting such offers, many newbie’s remain confused about the pricing factor. Well, honestly companies want to take benefits of yours confusion. Don’t allow them to take benefits of your efforts and time.
Do fix a price for some review, depending on how much time you gave on them and how much effort you put on making that into a blog post. Don’t compromise on that.
Don’t think in this way that I will lose a good opportunity, don’t worry you will get many such opportunities in coming days, but then don’t compromise on the quality of your blog posts, which you maintained and hence you were getting the offers.
Believe me my dear friends, once you will establish yourself as a serious and quality blogger, companies will start approaching you for some freelance work. Honestly blogging is becoming a serious online marketing tool these days, and you should not take it so lightly.
You just need to focus on your main work, i.e. blogging, and develop your blog with sincerity. And soon you will get the reward. But be careful in accepting those exposures.
Once you established yourself as a quality blogger, and your voice will be heard in social media sites, then people will approach you for sharing opinions on social media sites as well.
Believe me social media is the identity builder for us bloggers. We should never ignore them. Who knows one day you too had an offer of getting $1000 for only sharing your opinion about a particular things on your social media profile. Thus twitting an opinion or sharing it on Facebook might give you an opportunity to earn handsome.
So those were some of the ways through which you can earn or make money from your blog, other than those direct methods which I shared on those two blogs earlier. The only thing which you need meanwhile is to do blogging seriously.
If you can’t input honest efforts on blogging, don’t expect a huge output from it then.
Please do share your opinion about this blog post of mine. Also do share your opinion about my question which I asked in this post. I will be waiting for your responses on those.
I had a knowledgeable insight on how to take blogging seriously, Very very informative post sir! This was my first read of how to earn from a blog, I still have previous of your posts on this similar ground to read..Thanks for sharing!
Thanks a lot Najm Nisa, I am really glad that you liked this and other blog posts of mine. Thanks for your comment 🙂
Hi Alok,
Nice to see your post. Glad to hear that you are doing fine :).. Gesundheit my friend.. Virals are really nasty. I remember the last time I was down! Phew!!!
And as for the question whether you are a serious blogger, well there is not an iota of doubt in that.. One of the reasons I enjoy commenting on your posts is the amount of seriousness and the effort they come with. Feels really good to be commenting on such posts 🙂 .
For the points you have shared, they are perfect. I experienced similar ones
1) About a book review which I declined since it was very much away from my domain
2) About sharing from my social indiblogger profile which I again declined cos I really didn’t want myself to be associated with anything but inspire99
Professional approach does make a huge difference. It adds to that credibility and reliability as well which is so amiss in the real world today!
Thanks a lot Vinay for your wish, support and appreciation. 🙂
Thank you for considering me as a serious blogger, it really not only makes me proud, but responsible as well. It is always good to see your comments on my blogs, as you are one of the blogger friend who go through each posts of mine and then share your comment on it.
Good to hear your experience about these things. 🙂
Hello Alok. Great Post 🙂 . According to me Freelancing is the best option to earn money from your blog If you are good at something technical and want to earn while staying back at home and working on projects, freelancing is an option for you.
Yes Minakshi, You said it absolutely right. If you are good at something then you can seriously earn from it, but the thing which matters a lot is you are taking works but unable to deliver it on time because of time constraint is also not good. So what I can suggest people is take freelance works, only if you have the time to complete it on time.
BTW thanks a lot for your visit and comment on my blog.
I really don’t understand the economics behind blogging, i simply write for the passion of writing but your blog post has really made me think again.
Yes you truly are a serious blogger. You have got so much insight into this medium it has helped immensely.
Thank you so much Nozzer for appreciating my blogs and myself as a serious blogger as well. I am really glad that you consider me as a serious blogger, it truly brings a feeling of responsibility.
As far as economics behind blogging is concerned, after all we do write for the passion of writing only, but then there should not be any harm in earning from the same passion too. I am not saying about earning money only, but a blogger can seriously earn many things more than money from blogging. 🙂
Thanks Alok for the useful tips you have shared , If you want an honest opinion ..yes, you certainlyappear to be a serious blogger !
Wow, thanks a lot Alka for considering this. I am really feeling great that many of my blogger friends do consider myself as a serious blogger, and it simply adds some responsibility… Thanks again for liking the post and sharing your honest opinion.
Well first of all….Happy come back…..Hope your precious is well too….
Second of all, (A little too honest here) I actually did not know that blogs are considered as a source of income up until last week when a serious blogger whom I became friends with shared with me! With this read of yours I now have started to have believe that one makes a substantial source of income out of this…..WOW! well….it’s a lot of information to fathom and I am still trying to understand – How is all this possible ? (That’s how naive I am you see )…You must be think what an ameture…but honestly I just want to say thanks for detailing this. Not that I am looking forward to make a career out of this…but I am glad now I understand it better 🙂 Thank you so much for revealing the open secret 🙂
Thanks a lot Vidhya Rao for your wish for my daughter, she along with my wife is still struggling from viral fever, but yes hopefully they will recover soon.
Thanks for your visit and comment over here. I must appreciate your honest opinion about it, truly you should not make a career from blogging, but yes while doing blogging if you are getting some good opportunities, which can bring name, fame and even some money to you, then I don’t think that there is some harm in it.
Thanks you once again for your visit here, stay tunes to my blog and I am quite hopeful that I can be able to provide you some more similar types of blog very soon.
Hope you are fine now, Alok. Season-change is the culprit…
Yes, taking care of our health is most important.
For me, you are a serious Blogger who shares many helpful ideas & knowledge.
Kudos! Keep it up 🙂
Yes Anita, I am doing well, but the health of my wife and daughter is a bit of concern for me at the moment. You said it right that it all started because of the season change only. Hope they will be fine soon.
Thank you so much for sharing your opinion about this blog post and me being a serious blogger or not… I am really glad that some of my very closed blogger friends do consider me as a serious blogger and gives value to my blog posts. It seriously is a great feeling and I am really thankful to you 🙂
I think so, reaching the point “EARN FROM SHARING OPINION” would be very very difficult but cool as well 🙂
Yes Manu you are absolutely right, it really gives a very pleasant feelings. But honestly the niche on which you are working is something which can easily bring this feeling to you and that too very soon, if you seriously start blogging on a very positive note…
These days everyone is crazy about gadgets, and technology, and wanted to hear the opinion of serious people. Thank you for your visit over here and sharing your comment with us 🙂
Yay ! you r back & like Tehelka 😀 😀 welcome back Alokji!
Viral its devastating as everyone in d house catch hold of this bug & though I love Parle G & Tea, still.
Reg your credibility as a serious blogger I would say you have expertise in this field & u r like a Pro. Your blog has helped me to change my blog looks in many ways, its so easy to follow.
this post has also clear many of my doubts reg these “Earning Potential of Blogs”, I for the first time understood how it works, many many thanks for your blog.
I used to see blogs with advertisements like Yours, Vinay 😀 😀 used to think How ? Now I know everything.I got to work on my pending domain name first.
Thanks to you! Keep inspiring us.
Good Wishes!
Thank you so so much Ruchi, I am though not Tehelka, but you associated me with a brand name, it seriously giving me a great feeling.
🙂 honestly I too tried team and Parle G as suggested by you. It really works. 🙂
Thank you so much for considering me as a serious blogger. I am really delighted to hear this. I am glad that my blog is being able to resolve some doubts of yours and it is actually the purpose of why I do blogging. I wanted to help others from whatever I do know, I know that I am not an expert, there are so many more knowledgeable people out here in this world than me, but I simply share whatever I know and hope others can get benefit of the same. 🙂
Respected Shri Alokji
This is extremely nice article. It is so good that I will request you to add some more information, create an Ebook and distribute among the bloggers.
Thank you so much Sampat Kumari jee, I will definitely do the same. Though did you checked one of my eBook on guest blogging?
Thanks Alok for sharing such a helpful information. Your post helps to know that there are several procedure by which a blogger can able to earn money from blog. Your article seems to be a great tutorial for those who want to come to the blogging profession.
Thanks a lot Swapnadip, I am really delighted that you thought in this way, it gives the satisfaction when someone tells you that whatever you are doing is quite useful for others. Your comment really means a lot to me. Thank you once again for your visit and sharing your opinion with us.