{"id":8886,"date":"2016-07-28T06:24:53","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T04:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/?p=8886"},"modified":"2016-07-28T06:24:53","modified_gmt":"2016-07-28T04:24:53","slug":"why-you-must-have-a-long-term-plan-for-blogging-and-profits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/why-you-must-have-a-long-term-plan-for-blogging-and-profits\/","title":{"rendered":"Why You Must Have A Long Term Plan For Blogging And Profits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Why<\/a><\/p>\n

Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal
\nis not far beyond the reach of someone with average
\nintelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic
\ngrasp of blogging technology. However, very few
\npeople manage to reap the profits they want from their
\nblog. Most people who attempt to make money with
\ntheir blogs do not succeed for two reasons. Often,
\nbloggers have unrealistic expectations of how fast their
\nreadership will grow and how much money they will
\nmake, and when these expectations are not met the
\ndisappointment can crush the desire to continue
\nblogging. The other trap that many bloggers fall into
\nhas to do with lack of planning. If you want to turn a
\nprofit as a blogger, the key to success is to make a
\nrealistic plan and stick with it.<\/p>\n

To succeed at blogging for profit, the main thing that
\nyou will need is a large readership. The higher your
\ntraffic, the more advertisers will agree to pay you.
\nHowever, cultivating the regular visitors that you will
\nneed in order to make a profit isnt easy. As more and
\nmore blogs appear each day, having a great idea or a
\nwonderful writing style is no longer enough to get
\nattention. You need to be able to market your blog
\neffectively.<\/p>\n

Too many bloggers spend all of their time writing posts
\nand almost no time marketing their project. To be
\ncertain, updating as often as you can is a great way to
\nkeep your blog high on blogrolls and high in blog
\nsearch engines like technorati, and once your readers
\nknow that you update frequently they will return to your
\nsite on a regular basis. However, it does not matter how
\noften you update if nobody is reading your page, so dont
\nskimp on the time that you spend drawing visitors to
\nyour site. To make your dreams of blogging for profit a
\nreality, try decreasing your number of posts and using
\nsome of that time to draw new visitors by setting up
\nlink exchanges with other bloggers, making contacts in
\nthe blog community, and following other established
\nmodes of winning traffic.<\/p>\n

Of course, even if you are a marketing genius or have a
\nreally great idea for a blog, success is not going to
\nhappen overnight. Building the kind of readership that
\nblogging for profit requires takes time, and in all
\nlikelihood it will be at least several months before you
\nare able to turn much of a profit. Try to stay committed
\nto your blogging project during this initial rough period.
\nTo stay motivated, set goals for how often you will
\nupdate and how many readers you want to attract, and
\nthen reward yourself for sticking with your plan.<\/p>\n

Blogging and Profits<\/p>\n

There are two major types of business models that
\nentrepreneurs use to make money blogging. The first
\nand most common way to turn a blog into a profit
\nmaking machine is to sell advertising to different
\ncompanies and brands who want to reach that blog’s
\nreaders. The second kind of money making blog is one
\nthat helps a single brand improve its image by creating
\npositive associations between the blog and the product
\nin the mind of consumers. Both kinds of blogs can
\nmake a lot of money, especially if the creator has a keen
\nmind for marketing.<\/p>\n

If you are blogging with the goal of selling advertising,
\nthere are two basic ways that you can go about
\nrecruiting sponsors who want to put ads on your site;
\nyou can let someone else do all of the legwork, or you
\ncan do the work yourself and keep all of the revenue.
\nWithin the first group, many people make money
\nblogging by selling space through Google’s AdSense
\nprogram. The advantages of this program are numerous,
\nas it requires very little effort on the part of the blogger
\nor webmaster to begin raking in profits. However, most
\npeople discover that they make less money through this
\nmethod than they had hoped that their blog would earn.<\/p>\n

Selling advertising directly to companies who want to
\nput banner ads or sponsored links on your blog can take
\nquite a bit of time, but it is often fairly lucrative. If you
\nhave a lot of contacts in industries that are related to the
\ntopic of your blog, you may want to try to go this route.
\nPeople who have a strong background in sales and are
\nexperienced at pitching proposals can make quite a bit
\nof money by renting blog space to interested companies.
\nThe most serious problem with this model is that you
\noften have to build quite a sizable readership before you
\ncan attract advertisers, which can mean that you have to
\ndo several months of work before you start to make
\nmoney blogging.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many people dream of blogging for profit, and this goal is not far beyond the reach of someone with average intelligence, a willingness to work hard, and a basic grasp of blogging technology. However, very few people manage to reap the profits they want from their blog. Most people who attempt to make money with… Read More »Why You Must Have A Long Term Plan For Blogging And Profits<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22,519,1008,23,17,24,1037],"tags":[234,214,133,330,28,304,729,5,6,60,50,1353,565,1917,204,61],"class_list":["post-8886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-business","category-google","category-marketing","category-pinterest-com","category-profits","category-social-media","tag-a","tag-and","tag-blogging","tag-few","tag-for","tag-have","tag-long","tag-make","tag-money","tag-must","tag-people","tag-plan","tag-profits","tag-term","tag-why","tag-you"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestprofitsonline.com\/myblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}