How To Make Money From Blogging

• Blogging is writing an article on any topic that will generate interest from people in order to drive awareness of products and services.
• Get a niche to blog on, like Tech, Sports, Beauty Tip, Travel, Food, etc.
• Get a domain name for your blog
• Promote your blog for traffic
• Apply for Google Adsense
• Accept Sponsored Post

There are different ways to make legit and steady money online these days especially in this era of constant improvement in technology. One out of the many ways to make money on the internet is Blogging, when you are blogging in Nigeria, the first thing that would cross your mind is to remember some famous blogger like Linda Ikeji who was able to afford a house on Banana Island through blogging.

What is Blogging?

Blogging is also another aspect of Digital Marketing under content marketing, basically means writing an article on any topic that will generate interests from many people as possible in order to drive awareness to product and services. people write an article to enlighten the general public either by answering a question or solving a problem through their profession or hobby with research online for information.

If you can be that source of information in any way, then you'll get a lot of traffic which leads to money in your pocket.

How do you set up a blog running to make money?

• Firstly, you need a niche to blog on, for example, you derived joy in teaching people around you how to operate Mobile Phones or anything related to tech, you can take Technology as your niche, you love football and you analyze it to your friend every day and they love you for it you can take Sport as your niche, Fashion tips, Travel, Food, Beauty Tip, Relationship, etc. Just make sure you have a passion for it meaning you won't get tired of doing it repeatedly.
• Secondly, what you need is a domain name, there is a lot of platforms that give free blogging platform like Blogspot, WordPress, etc but you can't make money with it. A domain name is not free you need to purchase it for a particular period of time one year or more. If you are going for a Sports niche, an example of a domain name you can use is "www.sportsgist.com'.
• Then you proceed to host your blog.
• Get SEO knowledge or pay for professionals to rank your blog/articles on Google's first page to get more traffic.

Getting people to visit your blog frequently (Traffic) is not a day's job. You need to focus on writing quality, interesting, educative, inspiring and engaging content that will make your visitors come back to your blog. Then share your blog post on forums like Nairaland and social media like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin Pinterest, etc.

You can create a page on social media to add your friends, family, customers, prospects on it and start engaging and interact with them and keep them coming back for more.

Get your visitor's email by offering them freebies like ebooks in return. whenever you publish a post, you can send it to them to bring them back to your blog for traffic.

Another thing you can't shy away from is to promote your blog with paid advertisements like Facebook Ads, Twitter Ads, Google Ads if you want enough traffic. An example of paid Ads is shown below

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Once you've gotten enough traffic to your blog, you can then monetize it by linking Google Adsense to it. The more traffic your blog gets, the more money you make when people click on ads hosted on it like the image below.

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Also if people find your blog interesting and they see you have a lot of traffic, people can approach you to run an advert on your blog like a sponsored post.

It takes time, effort and dedication and willingness to write quality content. Contents can also be in the form of videos, infographics, webinars, podcasts, etc.

The best thing about blogging is you can do it from the comfort of anywhere and become your own boss.

If you need assistance in setting up your blog, just contact us at Enat DigitalBiz we are always available to help you out.

Do you have other ways on how to make money through blogging? feel free to share your additional view by leaving a comment below.

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