Do You Want to Make Money Online? Stop Wasting Time Blogging

You heard somewhere that you can make money blogging. It’s something magic: someone said that you can work 4-hour a week, from everywhere in the world, and make lots of money…much more than you could do with a full-time job! You dreamed about passive income, and finally you had an easy chance to get it, so you got on the boat: you started your own blog. You worked on it and took information about blogging. To tell the truth you worked fuc**ng hard on it, and you read everything you could read about it.

Make Money Online With A Blog (Beginner’s Guide)

When you type the term “Make Money Online” in Google, you will get a ton of resources promising to show you the real ways to make money online. But most of those resources, will repeat the same mantra, already written somewhere else by someone and they won’t help you to achieve your goal. Here’s a simple guide which I am following from the day one of my blogging career which is helping me to earn money and make a living online. I can guarantee that you will achieve success, if you closely follow all the steps given below in this article.

Blogging (Alone) to Make Money Online is a Waste of Time

Many people think that they can monetize their blog with ads. Yes, you can do it, and you can even have a decent income with that approach…but do you really want that? To live by blogging ads you need to have a HUGE traffic direct to your blog. You can bring that amount of traffic to your blog, but how much work will it require? A lot. Is your hard work worth the prize? I don’t think. Life is one and time is extremely precious. Every second you waste will not come back. You want a passive income to enjoy the most of the time you have. It’s a non-sense to waste an enormous amount of time for few cents. Other people think that they can monetize their blog with ebooks. This a better approach. Much better! You’ll need a smaller traffic to have a decent income. But, again, your way on a decent income is quite long. Ebooks and ads are 2 of the most used ways to monetize blogs online. Both of them will require a lot of work and maybe you’ll never reach the full-time income with them. You are working hard to get a small amount of money. Now let’s consider a different approach.

How to Make Money Online Through Blogging and Writing

Become a Paid Contributor Guest blogging isn’t just about getting exposure – there are plenty of sites that will pay you to contribute an article to their site. While the pay range varies, I typically only keep track of sites that offer a minimum of $50 per post and have found opportunities that go up to $200 a post, $1.25 per word, and $500 per month. I record each opportunity I find in this spreadsheet which includes payment rates, site traffic, blog subscribers, whether the site offers an author bio, and additional details including a link directly to each site’s write for us page. Some sites in the spreadsheet include: SitePoint.com – Submit posts on topics related to business, web design, coding, WordPress, and more for a payment of $100 per post with bonuses based on pageviews. The site has 8,000+ subscribers and requires a 1,500 word minimum word count per post. PxlEyes.com – Submit posts on Photoshop, graphic design, and AutoCAD for a payment of up to $200 per post based on length and quality. UXBooth.com – Submit posts on usability, analytics, and design for a payment of $100 per post. The following are my tips for getting a paid contributor spot on a great blog. If the site wants writing samples first, be sure to send them only your best and ones that specifically fit their audience. If the site wants you to pitch them ideas, be sure to research their blog in advance and find out what topics are the most popular. I like to subscribe to the blog in Google Reader and use the PostRank Chrome Extension to see the posts with the most social engagement and then send them some great headlines running along those lines. If the site wants you to send a post, be sure to format it as specified in the guidelines, verifying that images will look good at the size the blog will scale them to and that you’ve used a similar styling with regards to headers and other emphasized text.