5 Reasons Why You Can't Succeed With Your Blog

Surely, I’m not in this blogging business for a long time, but in my blogging journey I have come cross many people who can’t succeed in their blogging career.

A lot of people try to start blogging every day, most of them fail, and some succeed. Those who fail try different things with their blogs; most of the cases they don’t know what are they doing and why. As a professional blogging expert, I know why things don’t work for them.

  A couple of years ago, I was a novice in this blogging profession. I did not know how to do all these things. I searched “how to blog” in Google many a times. I read, gathered knowledge, implemented what I learned, got amazing result with my blog, now I earn a great amount of money from my blog as my blogging career becomes more and more successful.

I did not have the intention of making money when I started blogging. I did not even try to be a professional blogger. I just loved blogging, sensed that it attracts me, that’s the only thing needed to be successful in this business. Yes, you can also do it! If you follow my footsteps

 You will find a right and a wrong way of doing everything; most of the cases beginners choose a wrong way to start their blogging career. Eventually that makes a devastating end of their blogs. Here is a list of some common mistakes that can prevent you from becoming a successful blogger.

   1)  Having a focus on money making rather than passion, ruins your     blogging career at the very beginning

  People love to join in those things where they find a community, where people share their passions; they would love to meet new people with new ideas on a same interest.

When you blog for your passion it reflects that you love it, you want to share your innovative ideas with others, you invite others to join you, it’s so genuine. People love this kind of attitude, rather than a fake attitude having an intention of only making money.

  Those who blog for making money, don’t care for others. They would simply give some traditional information that everyone knows. If they don’t care for their audience, why would audience come to their blog again and again? There is no reason at all!

The magic formula is very simple…..Love blogging, love your audience….they will love you!!!

   2)    If you are too much worried about “keywords”…..You are just wasting your time!

At the start of blogging career people become too much worried about their rankings. They want to come on the top of Google’s first page. So, they emphasize heavily on keywords. Of course, targeted keywords can bring traffic to your blog, but do you really know which keyword will work and which won’t work?  Take my words, the words that you have chosen as your targeted keywords, might not be ones that would work for you.

A lot of people said me that they work on specific keywords, but are not getting desired traffic. I ask them, do you even know if these words would work for or not?

  Without knowing much, they waste their time that does not result at all. I would simply tell you to right informative, great posts that will serve your audience’s interests, don’t think about keywords. If you are writing with passion, believe me, keywords will come generally, you don’t need to worry at all.

3)    “No” to invest enough time to your blog will make your dreams fade too fast!

  I know people don’t have the same economic situation, but everyone wants to have some extra money in their pocket. But are we really ready for that? When you start blogging, you need to invest enough time and fulfill the basic requirement for your blog.

 Your blog calls for quality articles, but you don’t want to invest time to do that. Your audiences want your participation in the blog’s comment section, but you don’t have enough time due to your busy schedule. Your blog requires new innovative features, but you are too lazy to think for that.

 These are some examples how people ruins their blogging career by not giving importance to their blog’s performance and audience. So, don’t take this lightly, its difficult I know, but you just need to invest good amount of time that makes your blog’s performance better.

4)  Considering blogging as a “Get rich quick” plan is the most common mistake prevailing

To start blogging, it does not take time at all. Anyone has the capability to start a blog; you don’t need to be a genius to at all. I can assure you that i am not a genius person still i have succeeded in this business. Lots of people who enter in this business tend to think blogging as a get rich quick scheme.  By setting and running up a blog, they think that it will prove to be a profitable business for them. They consider their blog as a money printing machine where they can print as much money as they want.

But the reality is different, it takes time to be successful, you need to be patient, work hard for couple of months, wait and then you get the real achievement you are looking for.

 Just think like this way, you have opened a guitar shop in a location where there are more than 100 guitar shops available. You are new in this business. Will people come to you from the time when you just open your shop? No, they won’t. You need to wait, show your quality products that you have for them, you need to treat them well, work for them, think for them, provide good service to them, and then people would start coming to your shop again and again. It takes time, my friend; you need to be prepared for this time. Don’t make haste, it can ruin everything!

  5)  Good appearance your blog is needed, But spending too much time on it deviates you    from your goal

I remember those days when i started blogging, I did not have a good appearance for my blog, but still audiences were coming in a great number.

I did not have to do anything except writing quality articles. That was the thing my audiences were looking for. I served them well, they were satisfied. In this way, I created loyal audiences who fetch more and more audiences for my blog. I did not have to spend much time on the blog’s appearance. Why? Just take an example

   You have a guitar shop where people go for buying guitars not to see how your shop look likes. If you serve them with awesome guitars, they will come to your shop again and tell others about your shop. They won’t consider how your shop looks. They just want quality guitars that serve them well. I am not saying that good appearance is not needed; of course, you can improve your appearance. But don’t spend too much time on it. Don’t make it your priority, your priority is to serve your audience and fulfill their demands.

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6 Great Ways to Monetize Your Blog

Interested in monetizing your blog? If the answer is yes, I can surely help you. Now, it’s a fact that blogging has turned out to be a profitable business now a days. You will find plenty of people earning great amount of money only from blogging platform, some of them have become millionaire by this profession .Want to be one of them? – There are many ways, let’s have a look onto some of the ways.

How to Make Money Blogging

This post describes some valuable information for beginners who want to succeed in monetizing their blog. At first – We need to decide what we are trying to achieve. A great number of people are trying to make money from their blogs, but most of them fail at the end. To be honest, a few of them succeed. Please don’t be hurt, but it’s the reality. Definitely you can make money from blogging – but you need to be patient and work hard – it won’t happen overnight

Here I present some of the great ways that will help you generate money from blogging. Before you proceed, you must keep in mind that every blog is different, for this reason the income option varies. For a better result you must experiment with different money making options available for you.

This is the list of some of the great ways to make money from your blog

1.  Google AdSense

Simply the best, easiest way to make money from your blog. Your blog certainly has some place where you can place some ads . It makes you as a publisher. Google looks for this publishers and provides them with ads. When visitors will see the ads, they might click. This click generates incomes for your blog. The more visitors you have, the more success you achieve with Google AdSense. And remember you are doing business with Google, the boss that rules the web.

2. Affiliate Programs

Affiliate programs are another great way to have some money from your blog. In affiliate programs you have to promote products to your audience, and if the sell is made, you will earn a commission from each successful selll. Many bloggers prefer affiliate programs because it is quite easy to earn money from affiliate programs than click ads. In affiliate program you have to promote different types of product such as word press themes, e-books, online coaching programs etc.

3. E-Book Sales

AdSense and Affiliate programs are pretty good earning source but if you want to boost your earning from the blog, selling e-books might be the correct option for you. T Selling e-books online is a great way though the quality of boos will determine how much sell you are going to have. The selling price of each book may not be so high, but when it will add up to more sells made, the profit will be huge. Just think like this way, you set $10 as the price for each e-book. Selling 5 e-books daily will add up $1500 in a month.       

5. Private Ad Sales

Private ad sales are popular way that new bloggers can try with their blogs. Private ad sales are contractual. Selling specific space of the blog for a certain time you earn a big amount of money. Sponsors will contact with you if they find out that your blog has a good number of visitors. You don’t need to wait for ad clicks. Sponsors will pay you for showing their ads on your blog. That is a quite easy one, as many popular blogs are running many private ads on their blogs, I will surely recommend you to experiment this

6. Chitika

Chitika is recently performing very well in product related blogs. Chitika is a good competitor of Google on pay per click program. It has some special features that distinguish Chitika from others. Certainly, Google adsense is the best PPC program out there but chitika is not bad. If you can experiment both  on your blog, it will work pretty well  for you.

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Start a Profitable Niche Blog- A Step by Step Guide for Beginners!

Want to set up a blog that generates money? Don't know how to do all these stuffs?

Require help doing all these things? I recommend you to bookmark this blog as you will need to come here again and again! It's is pretty easy to be successful if you move ahead with a proven formula. The plan is pretty simple. Write about something that you love about!

Yeah, that’s the secret formula of all bloggers who succeeded in this profession. They were passionate about something, liked that very much and wrote unique contents about that topic.Just think like this way, in your life you have performed well on those things that you really care about and willing to do again and again.

This is the first and foremost need for starting a profitable niche blog. I will cover other necessary things on topic selection later on this post. Here I present 6 important steps that you must go through for starting a blog. Ready? Let, set go!!!

Step:1 Choose a Website Hosting

Without hosting, you can’t operate your web business properly. You need to acquire a domain name and hosting account to publish your blog. I would like to suggest “Bluehost” for webhosting. It will come up with a free domain (the name you choose for you blog….such as www.yourname.com)Alternatively you can do another thing, getting a webhost or domain name will cost you some money, but it is more preferable because of being a paid service.

There are many blogging platforms who will give you domain and hosting for absolutely free. They won’t charge you anything. Google and Wordpress are two giant free blogging platforms for new bloggers who don’t want to spend any money.When you select any free blogging software, your domain will carry specific words of that software.

Such as, if you select Google’s blogging platform, your domain name will carry www.yourname.blogspot.com, the wordpress free blogs will carry www. yourname.wordpress.com.The choice is yours, what you will do, but most of the bloggers prefer buying webhosting and a unique domain name for their blogs.

Step-2: Select a Topic for Your Blog

Choosing a topic may seem very easy to you,but take my word, it isn’t. It requires special consideration. Blogging is a new trend of modern business. The formula of business always remains constant: offer something of value to your customer so that he/she will come again and again to you for that product or service.

     When you choose a topic you should consider the following strategies

1.   Find out your liking,  what you love most and know better. What things you enjoy     most that make you comfortable

2.   Do you have enough knowledge on those topics to convey to others? Can you help others with your knowledge on those topics? Try to figure out

3.    Is there enough demand on those topics? What is the market demand of those topics? If there is enough, you should go ahead with the topic

I have told earlier, this is not an easy process, it needs serious consideration. It involves both you and your audience’s preference. Fortunately, there are many research tools that will tell you about the market demand. You just have to select a topic with great demand so that you can serve a great number of audiences with your product or service. I will discuss about some of these research tools on my other posts.

Step 3: Purchase a Domain and Set up Your Blogging Software

                                                                       

After you have a good idea on the topic that you want to write about, the next important thing you need to do is purchasing a good domain for your blog. You will also have by the web hosting that you have chosen in step -1. Lastly, you have to set up blogging software to operate your blog business. In this part, you will accomplish the following things

1.    Buy a domain (various websites offer, such as ( From www.godaddy.com)

2.    Buy a Web hosting service (From www.bluehost.com)

3.    Set up a blogging software such as Wordpress (www.wordpress.com)

These are technical jobs, you can do it yourself if you want or you can hire technicians .My blog has enough materials that will help you do these staffs by yourself. Once you have completed domain registration and hosting, it is time set up blogging software to operate your blog.I strongly recommend you to use wordpress because of its features, various advantages and ease of operation. It is the most popular content management system at this moment. I have a post regarding setting up a wordpress blog. I recommend you to read that post.

Step-4: Write Great Unique Contents for Your Audience

Want the audience come again and again to your blog? Want them to love your blog?Want them to buy your product and service?But why would they do that?The simple answer that I can give you is “for your awesome, great, unique and helpful content that meets their desire”

You need to identify what people are looking for, what they want, what they consider important for them. After that find out how can you serve them with great contents. Take a deep breath, spent one month for writing great contents for your audience; make them more comfortable with new unique contents.

You have 2 objectives here

1.   Make your blog full with great unique valuable contents. Audience would come again and again for that reason

2.   Provide some kind of bonus services such as publishing a free PDF book on your  niche, inviting them to email newsletter, these options work better

In the first couple of months try to write contents regularly, give  time to write one article every day, that will help you on the long run. After that, you can try the bonus services as well.

Step 5: Increase Your Audience Number

A well written blog article will certainly help your audience but your audience must know that you have something to offer for them. If they don’t know about your blog, how they are going to come? In this part, our motive will be driving more and more traffic so that your blog can have maximum number of audience each day.

This process can be either done by you or others, you can also do it without any cost, you just need to spend some time and energy, that’s it. Otherwise you can involve other people to do these jobs. I recommend you to imply both for a better and long lasting result.

But you must be careful while selecting techniques that work. Don’t waste your valuable time on those techniques that don’t work at all. Observe the techniques that work and give more and more time on those and keep doing that.

Of course don’t forget to use an analytical service provider such as Google analytics to measure the success of the techniques. You can easily understand which techniques work or which don’t. It will determine your long term strategy for driving traffic to your blog

Step 6: Monetize Your Blog

Now a days, the main objective of making a blog is to make money, often it becomes difficult for us .But if we can use right techniques with proper timing, success is pretty easy to achieve. There are different ways in which you can make money from your blog, different money making options for your blog are

1.    Advertising on your blog

2.    Working as an affiliate marketer

3.    Selling your own developed product

4.    Writing guest posts for other blogs

It is very easy to start your blog earning from advertisement. There are different advertising services that want your blog space for showing their ads. In most cases, you will be paid by the number of clicks that your audience make while visiting your blog. The most reliable of these are Google AdSense. I would like to recommend you to read the Google AdSense page to know further.

You can also earn money from affiliate program. They ask you to sell their product through your blog and you will have a commission on each sale you make for them. It has been proven as a successful method of money making over the years.

By the time, you can develop your own product and sell them on your blog.  It is the best money making option for any blog or website. If you look around, the websites are generating profits from selling their own products. But that requires a great number of loyal audience who will comply whatever you say.

When you apply different money making methods, try to go in this order. I think this is the best order of money making methods available for your blog. You can also combine the methods for a better result.

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