Understanding The Benefits Of Blogging
Everyone is looking for the easy way out to make good money, whereas
there are certain pessimists who claim that it is impossible to do so.
However, I’m gonna bang my fists on the table, and challenge these
claims, as I will show you how I’ve managed to earn passive income for
the past few months! The method which I will soon prove effective, and
will be introducing you to is really a totally common concept – Blogging!
Why Blogs?
You must be wondering how can blogging actually earn me (or You)
residual income! Indeed, blogging alone is just a concept on its own.
However, looking at blogs from a renewed perspective, blogging has
become a norm for many, with over a million blogs dominating the
Internet today. With the advancement of technology, almost everyone
has access to the Internet, and more specifically, your blog! This actually
means that it is easy for you to make connections with fellow bloggers
and readers, and there will definitely be a massive audience for your
blog to cater to!
Opening Your Door To Earn Passive Income
Though there may be many various purposes of blogging, be it penning
down your daily thoughts, or providing educational resources online per
se, yet many overlook the possibility of blogging as your door to earning
passive income! The best thing is that managing a blog is simple, fun,
and almost effortless!
And Yes, this is what this whole guide will be all about — teaching you
right from the very basics, every single step from building up your blog,
to reaping in the cash! Believe me, even you can start earning passive
cash today, and you know why?
Because I have done it! And I’m here to prove it to you, and teach you
how!
How Google Adsense Can Provide Residual Income Through Your Blog
In this guide, I will be showing you the tips and tricks in utilizing Google
Adsense to help you earn fast cash through blogging.
I chose to use Google Adsense, because I knew I was actually
leveraging on Google’s reknowned brand and power. Google, being a
professional company, definitely ensures that all the companies that it
advertises for are reputable and established as well, and thus, people
will trust the links and advertisements that Google provides on my blog!
Also, it is proven that amongst all the other ads on a site, Google
Adsense ads have the highest CTRs! It is also interesting to note that
the ads are easily customizable, as you can choose the colors and types
of the ads to accommodate the layout or themes of your blog!
Basically, Google Adsense works by matching ads with specific
keywords in your blog’s content. There will be ads produced on your
blog pages according to where and how you choose to place the ads. As
Adsense operates by a PPC (pay-per-click) mode of payment, you will
earn whenever a visitor of your site clicks on the ads! As such, if you
were to combine well optimized Google Adsense ads with high volumes
of incoming traffic to your blog, this will mean that you will be receiving
monthly residual income!
Setting Up Of Your Blog
Now that I’ve got you excited, do take a look at this website,
aboutTeas.com, that I had previously owned. It looks neat, simple and
engaging right? To tell you the truth, it took me only about 5 days to get
the site all started up and functioning with unique articles.
In my opinion, the hardest part of every successful business is always
the initiation process, as it will require much time, effort, and perhaps
startup costs, to overcome.Yet, if you are willing to put in the hard work,
you will eventually find yourself reaping the seeds that you have sown,
and that managing the blog would be relatively easy after all!
As such, using this model of mine, I’m going to guide you through the
startup process as well, and teach you how to set up an efficient blog
like mine!
Choosing A Suitable Niche
Before setting up your site, you will first need to decide on a suitable
target niche to tap into. To help you with this, there are certain key
factors that you ought to take into consideration.
Target Audience
Ask yourself this: Whom do you plan for your blog to cater to? To help
you with this, You can first decide on a broad niche, such as health,
finance or gaming, before zooming in on a specific target group. In my
case, I chose to target the health niche, before deciding to start an
educational blog about teas. As such, my main specific target audience
are tea appreciators and drinkers.
Level Of Competition
Being in an overcrowded niche could lead to a small and new blog like
yours being phased out overtime. However, having many competitors in
the same niche might not necessarily be a bane for your site. In fact,
you might actually use these competitors to your advantage. Knowing
that there are many different sites and blogs providing information about
teas as well, I decided to build and establish connections with several
webmasters. As a result, I was able to leverage on the success of
several established tea sites, and climbed to the top of Google Search
Page for the keywords “about teas” !
Using Google Adwords Tool
This should be the core factor that determines the niche market that you
are going to venture into. Google Adwords Tool provides you with
knowledge on the volumes of searches and the level of competition for
specific keywords. It is perhaps more favourable to focus on a keywords
that have large volumes of searches, and lower levels of competition.
The results are shown as local monthly and global monthly searches.
Because Google is just one search engine, I usually multiply the
numbers I see by a factor of three to cover the remaining 76,548 search
engines out there.
Do take note to always check the “Exact” box on the bottom left corner
to ensure the accuracy of the search results. You will see that when this
box is checked, the search number is typically much smaller than the
initial default results.
Sign up to Google Keyword Planner (it’s 100% Free)
Don’t have a Google account? Click here.
To start, go here. Click “Go to Keyword Planner.”
If you don’t see the link, try resizing your browser
You should then see this screen