There is also an increase numbers of people are focusing on making money from blogging. This is an opportunity that is happening across all levels of blogging.

I’m now going to introduce 3 simple ways of making money blogging.

Direct online advertising

You can earn income from your own online advertiser when your blog have the good contents that attract targeted niche of readership. Just add a “Advertise Here” page on your blog and present your advertising packages and options.

Selling your own product

Whether that product be a digital product like e-book or audio and physical product, once you’ve got a targeted readership who trusts you and sees you as an expert in your niche they are more likely to buy something that you offer. It’s also easier to get other similar niche bloggers to promote your product.

Affiliate Marketing

Affiliate marketing can help to earn an income for you once your blog has a targeted and loyal readership. You can start by joining those reputable affiliate network program. The key is to find products that are high quality that you can happily recommend and that have high relevance to your readership.

In next coming blog posts, I’ll try my best to discover more ways for you to earn an income stream from blogging. Keep in reading.

4. Your blog does not reflect you and your business.

Your blog is a mess and your customers cannot seem to find any similarity between your blog and your business.

Your blog should be an extension of your business. Make your customers feel like they are doing business with you in the comfortable ambiance of your office. Your blogs should reflect your business image.

5. You have no idea about other blogs in the same field.

You do not spend time looking at other blogs to see what is being written about and to see the strategies that others are using. You do not know what is happening on the market.

Blogging takes commitments. You have to let your readers know that you are present and that they are able to contact you through your blogs. Give some of your time to your blogs.

6. Your blogs have no appropriate contents posted.

If all you ever have in your blogs are advertising and marketing about your products, expect your customers to get bored, go away and never come back. They have had enough of sales being presented to them.
Spare them the sales talk. Try to write something not about what you are offering. Find other related topics you can talk about.

7. You have not visited your blog site for some time.

One of the sins in blogging is not updating what is written. Expect to lose the traffic you have been getting.

If you are not doing anything about your blog, why have one in the first place?

Professional and small businesses alike have already taken their marketing into blogs to communicate and keep in touch with their target customers and consumers alike.

You may have heard about it already. How people already have their own blog sites and how they work successfully with their niche market. Reports have also shown how their profits have been boosted because of blogging. These and among other things are enough for you to jump up and start blogging right away.

What you may not know about is that there are also many bloggers who have fallen into some of the pitfalls of blogging when they first started their own. And take note, these are the same persons who are so good in running their business.

Now, the question. Why do this competitive and successful people fall short when it comes to blogging?

The answer? Blog pitfalls. Not knowing what are these and how to best avoid them.

What are some of the pitfalls in blogging that you need to be aware of to ensure you do not make the same mistakes that others have fallen into.

1. Writing nonsense instead of writing answers to questions your consumers have.

You have not undergone keyword search or asked your clients what they want to know first. And you may be thinking that blogs are just like diaries online.

With this beliefs, all you write about is you, your life and other related details. You are actually drifting away from your target. And you are contradicting the business building tool capability of your blog.

2. You pretend to be an expert.

In order to build more credibility but in reality, you do not have any idea about the blogging software you are using. You can blame this part on the new technology being used on blogging that you are not an expert on. But that is not reason enough.

You need to research and learn more about how to use your blog features before you even start one. Get to know how to make use of your blogs for visibility and accessibility over the Internet. Have a basic knowledge about trackbacks and permanent link features. They will prove important and necessary.

3. No blog category.

The readers are confused about what topics are you writing about. They do not have any idea what they are getting into. They probably would not even attempt to find yours if they have to guess first what it is you are trying to say.

What is your main message? Your focus? What will be in your blog that your readers can benefit from? Try to answer these questions.

To be continue in Blogging tips on common mistakes -Part 2

So, I would like to write some tips on how to get your own online advertiser for your reference.

Starting with your own blog should be the first method when it comes to getting your own online advertisers. Because your blog readers who are familiar with your blog niches will be more willing to advertise their related product or services on your blog.

1. Create an “Advertise” tab on the blog navigation menu bar

If you have a navigation menu bar, you could include an “Advertise” tab there, making it link to an online advertising packages for your blog. First of all it will allow interested advertisers to find the page where you display your online advertising information. Secondly, it will also let all visitors know that you do accept online advertising.

2. Write a post to welcome your online advertisers

In your blog, you could write a post inviting advertisers. This method works pretty well because it allows you to present and explain your offers. On the post you’ll be able to explain what kind of readers your blog has, how much of traffics it gets, what are the online advertising options available and so on.

4. Send email to your database

Do you have an email subscribers database? Then send the same information that you posted on the blog to these subscribers. You should not include the online advertising price. Because if you don’t include it interested people will email you asking for that, and this will give you their email addresses and an invite for a discussion, where you’ll have better chances of convincing them.

5. Write a message at the bottom of blog posts

If you post often on your blog you could attach a message at the bottom of every post. Something like “Want to showcase your product to our readers? Then check out our online advertising options.” Obviously you should include a link to your “Advertise” page on that message. If you are using WordPress, you’ll just need to edit the single.php file to make this message appear on all your blog posts.

Hope these blogging tips can give you a fast start on getting your own online advertisers.

The Internet has proven to be a very reliable source in finding what was deemed to be a very unsearchable product. The Internet has made the world a smaller place; you can advertise a product from the depths of Istanbul and still find a buyer from the center of California.

Generating traffic with blogging is not an easy task. You have to contend with a great number of sites to generate a good number of traffic flow. But if done successfully this could open up a Pandora’s Box of possibilities. One of the benefits is monetizing your traffic flow.

So, to get to the core of it the more traffic you generate the more likely you are considered as a desirable, desirable, in a sense that a good traffic flowing blog is easily convertible to profit. Basically traffic equals profit. Advertising is the name of the game; with the good advertising scheme you can use your traffic flow to your advantage.

When you have good traffic you have a good number of potential customers, customers that are willing to pour money into your coffers. Other than that these are also traffic that can be redirected to sponsored links that are willing to pay you for a sizeable portion of the traffic that you have generated.

The most popular advertising platform that you can profit with your blog is Google Adsense.

Google AdSense is a free, simple way for website publishers of all sizes to earn money by displaying targeted Google ads on their websites. AdSense also lets you provide Google search to your site users, while earning money by displaying Google ads on the search results pages.

How does it work?

1. Choose the type and placement of ad units to be displayed
   • Specify where you want ads to appear
   • Choose what types of ads can compete for those slots
2. Highest-paying ads display
   • Advertisers bid on your inventory in a real-time auction
   • Always show the highest-paying ad
3. Get paid
   • Google bills advertisers and ad networks
   • Get paid through our reliable payment options