Newbie here with questions re: Blogging

haylz_2

Hi everyone,

I am new to this website, been lurking here for the past couple of days reading about making money from writing a blog. So my question is this. Basically, as an English graduate I am thinking of starting up a blog with all my old essays and uni work on it, aimed at English Lit students who are looking for resources for their own essays etc. I might also include a creative writing section with different writing exercises on it for people who are interested in having a go at writing for a hobby, and perhaps an area where people can post their short stories, poems etc.

Do you think this could be a good idea for a blog? But the big question is, how on earth do you make money from this? I've read a little about advertising on your blog, so for example, would this mean that I could host an advertisement for say, Amazon, on my blog (as it's book-related) and then I would make money each time someone visits my blog and clicks the link to Amazon?

I'm sorry if I've got that totally wrong but that's just what I thought from what I've been reading on these forums about blogging, so apologies as I am very confused about it all at the mo!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated guys,

Thanks, H

deq123

You would only make money from Amazon/Ebay if someone clicked through from your site and then bought something, if you have adsense on your site then you get paid when someone clicks on one of the ads.

haylz wrote: »

Hi everyone,

I am new to this website, been lurking here for the past couple of days reading about making money from writing a blog. So my question is this. Basically, as an English graduate I am thinking of starting up a blog with all my old essays and uni work on it, aimed at English Lit students who are looking for resources for their own essays etc. I might also include a creative writing section with different writing exercises on it for people who are interested in having a go at writing for a hobby, and perhaps an area where people can post their short stories, poems etc.

Do you think this could be a good idea for a blog? But the big question is, how on earth do you make money from this? I've read a little about advertising on your blog, so for example, would this mean that I could host an advertisement for say, Amazon, on my blog (as it's book-related) and then I would make money each time someone visits my blog and clicks the link to Amazon?

I'm sorry if I've got that totally wrong but that's just what I thought from what I've been reading on these forums about blogging, so apologies as I am very confused about it all at the mo!

Any advice would be greatly appreciated guys,

Thanks, H

Petlamb

TBH from what I've heard, adsense rarely makes you much. My blogs are with Paid On Results, and Affiliate Future. POR more so, largely cause one of them is a little NSFW, and google don't like rude words... Oh well! But yes, I've had some very good months out of POR, though you need to work on your traffic to see money.

deq123

I have never tried POR will take a look, thanks

Vampiric_Addiction wrote: »

TBH from what I've heard, adsense rarely makes you much. My blogs are with Paid On Results, and Affiliate Future. POR more so, largely cause one of them is a little NSFW, and google don't like rude words... Oh well! But yes, I've had some very good months out of POR, though you need to work on your traffic to see money.

rao_2

Adsense can be profitable, though it depends on your market and the relevancy as to how profitable. Either way its worth using a mixture of both wherever possible. Ads that pay on action within your content and ads that pay otherwise in your layout. Also not all ads in Adsense even require a click to earn just most.

To get the most out of Affiliate Marketing (Amazon/eBay etc.) you'd be best to write about the products and listings on them. The one advantage affiliate ads have over contextual ads (Adsense etc. that rotate based on the context of the page/site), is that you can pre-sell a bit more. So you could find books on Amazon that you've found useful to you and make a review and put a link at the bottom of the review to buy the book. If you did your review well enough then people might decide that it'd be a useful book to them too. Amazon also makes it possible to set up your own bookstore:
http://astore.amazon.co.uk/

Ignacious

blogging is an excellent way to make money if you are dedicated, its what I have been doing for the last few days and I like it!

me4sunny

try free reports on how to make money with blogging on following, respected in the blogger community, sites:

onlineprofits dot com (they have a free report to download)
problogger dot net/31dbbb-workbook
entrepreneurs-journey com com/1016/the-roadmap/
blogmastermind dot com/
copybloggerdot com/increase-web-traffic

PennyPincher_L

well problogger is a place where there are job postings

Sparhawke

Hubpages is the best I find, you can put up two text links to products on amazon or whatever and get adsense too, you would need to register for adsense of course and then put in your code in settings.

Once you get more and more reading everyday that is when the money starts rolling in but to start with it will be pennies.

I have had it up to £60 for one day yet only got 20 views...it seems to be a bit hit and miss but when you get a following you will of course get more views every day

There are loads of guides on how to "make money with hubpages"

Just PM me for a few good pages to start out with

(I dont tend to write much on it as I have other projects at the moment but I will eventually get back to it lol)

Sparhawke

Thanks for your PM Pink, I have sent you a reply

haylz_2

Wow thanks for your all replies and advice guys, really appreciate you taking the time to help me with all this. I've just registered my first two blogs with Wordpress so just need to get writing now! Though that shouldn't be too hard as writing is something I've always enjoyed and I have way too much time on my hands at the mo to do it as I'm between jobs. Will be nice to have something constructive to do with my time rather than just the housework!