10 Step Plan to a Profitable Blog
Chris Garrett has shared some tips on producing a profitable blog with some useful common sense approaches.
1. Select a list of profitable niches and choose a niche with the most potential
2. Find all the products and services your blog can sell through affiliate channels
3. Discover the high-paying adsense phrases and focus your content around them
4. Build a template that emphasises your adsense and affiliate products
5. Build loyal RSS and email subscriptions
6. Build authority and trust through regular useful content. Post at least one new article every day, more if you can manage it
7. Generate traffic through good post titles, email subject lines and linkbait
8. Monitor your metrics, see which content brings in the most traffic and clicks and produce more of it
9. When you hit on a good conversion rate, pay for advertising
10. Diversify, start more blogs. Find an overlapping niche, rinse and repeat
However what i really enjoyed was Chris highlighting what are my own thoughts on why i am blogging, not to be rich or to blog full time but enough money “to pay for your time and buy you some toys, help pay off loans or assist with the mortage.
For bloggers just starting out or bloggers looking around wondering why the money isn’t coming i can’t help but recommend Chris’s 10 Step Plan to a Profitable Blog
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June 14th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
Greg — Thanks for the post.
I guess that’s one way to do it. But I’m put content a little higher in the list. Content is the cornerstone of any blog, and you can’t get there without passion, personality and an ability to write well.
Secondly, don’t forget about community. It’s critical to “get off your own blog island,” to paraphrase Mack Collier, and participate in the conversation happening elsewhere.