The Business of Blogging

BloggingIs Your MLM Blog Attracting Leads?. Read more ... » has been around for a long time. Many have tried blogging before only to abandon their efforts because they didn’t have the passion to stick with it. Others have gone on to create a substantial income and have gained lifestyle freedom because of blogging.

Not many bloggers have broken down into bite size pieces what it is that they do that makes them money. Today I am going to break down the blogging business model and show you how it really should be done.

The Business of Blogging

Building a successful blogTips For Building A Successful Blog . Read more ... » is as simple as producing great content on a consistent basis, driving traffic to that content, making your content good enough that people will want to keep coming back, then building a community around your blog3 Simple Strategies To Generate More Leads To Your Blog!. Read more ... » and monetizing it.

Basically blogging can be broken down into three key components:

1. Driving traffic

2. Creating community

3. Generating income

Ultimately your ability to make moneyMake Money Online: Are You Pinterested?. Read more ... » with a blogIs Your MLM Blog Attracting Leads?. Read more ... » will depend on these three steps. Each step is just as important as the other.

This image is a good start:

The Blogging Business Model

Here is a break down:

1. Driving Traffic

Before you can start driving traffic to your blogGenerate Endless Traffic To Your Blog Doing These 5 Things. Read more ... », your blog needs to be worthy of traffic. This means it must be user friendly, attractive, and full of useful information.

You can drive traffic to your blog multiple ways. Here are the major four:

1. Social media
2. Guest posting
3. Referral Traffic
4. Search Engines

The simplest way to drive traffic to your blog is through social media. You can start by sharing your blog posts on the social networks you are most active on. With FacebookNew Facebook Timeline. Read more ... » now being the #1 site on the Internet, it would make sense to share your content there. Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn are good too. Next, be sure you display one or two social profiles on your blog, so your readers can follow you. Most importantly, actively engage with your readers via social media. The intention is to build a presence.

Guest posting is when you publish a blog post of your own on another person’s blog. Guest posting exposes you to the exact readership you want for your blog – people who are reading blogs similar to your own. To quickly grow your blog, you should find blogs that promote guest posting and guest post at least once a week.

Referral traffic is traffic coming from other websites. You can easily get referral traffic by commenting on other people’s blogs within your own niche, participating in forums, writing articles for sites, encouraging readers to share your content, linking to it, and more.

Search engines are the ultimate traffic source. To start generating search engine traffic you need to optimize your blog posts to rank for keywords.

2. Creating Community

Community is undoubtedly the most important component of a highly successful blog. WhyMotivation In Network Marketing: Why Your Greatest WHY Matters. Read more ... »? When you have a community of people who know, like, and trust you, you can sell them anything. You can share valuable products that you use yourself. Your community will happily purchase them from you and thank you for it. When they get value from the products you sell, your community will trust you even more. They will come to respect you.

How do you build community? You build community by building an email list and encouraging readers to return regularly to your blog. If you want to build a community fast, build a list of loyal readers who actively engage with your content.

3. Generating An Income

Driving traffic is pretty basic. It requires hard work, patience, a lot of time, and often money. Building a community is far more difficult because people are always skeptical at first, so their trust needs to be earned. Generating an income is really the easy part.  Once you have your reader’s trust, you can sell them anything. It’s as simple as creating an information product, having a sales page written, and putting it online.

There are other ways you can monetize your blog. You can monetize your blog via sponsored ads, Adsense, AmazonYour Wish Is Your Command: 'The Secret' on Steroids?. Read more ... », affiliate products, the list goes on. But if you really get it right, if you really build a community…

…you have one obvious choice, and that’s to create your own product. Monetizing via advertising and affiliate links is for beginners. Only use those means of monetization when you struggle to gain trust.

While affiliate marketingCan the Veteran Marketer ROCK the Empower Network?. Read more ... » works and is an essential piece of the online marketing puzzle, creating your own product provides you with far more control and leverage. Plus, your income will be limitless.

Be blessed!

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