15 SECRETS FOR PROFIT ORIENTED BLOGGING

Two sets of bloggers exist, those who blog as a hobby and those whose existence depends on blogging. For those who make a living from blogging it is imperative that a new and updated a approach should be applied regularly to
stay ahead in the industry.

Listed below are 15 secrets for profit-oriented blogging which when utilized will set into motion powerful results which one least expected.

1. APPROACH TO CONTENT:

The approach is important to whatever skill or trade one finds oneself doing. Most bloggers complain bitterly of low-profit-margin which is inadvertently caused usually by poor content on their blog.

In whatever blogging niche, rich content is very important because whether one likes it or not, to keep one's traffic as a loyal audience the content present on one's blog needs to be rich, informative and valuable.

2. BLOG DESIGN:

Though not of primary importance but it subliminally contributes a quota to keeping one's audience loyal. 

A fresh and captivating design be it background or wherever allures once audience in a special kind of way.

3. GOOGLE ADSENSE:

Bloggers should make sure that they own and operate an Adsense account which is the official advertising network of Google Inc. 

Monetizing one's blog with Adsense aside from synchronizing Google adverts on one's blog also places one's blog at a vantage position on the Google Search Engine.

4. THE ADWORDS CONFUSION:

Many bloggers have confused these two great Google products ADWORDS AND ADSENSE; Adsense pays the blogger to put relevant adverts on their blog(s) while Adwords, on the other hand, works in reverse, the blogger pays Google to official advert their blog for them.

Many bloggers have run into serious debts with Google Adwords just for the simple fact that this great Google product allows bloggers a loan system where they can advertise for a blogger and the blogger pays back later; just because of the fact that Google sees the blog and its Adsense account as collateral.

5. YOUTUBE:

Start a YouTube channel where videos that are put on the blog are linked directly from YouTube. 

Fact is, YouTube videos can be monetized if they don't infringe on some other persons intellectual property ownership.

6. AFFILIATE MARKETING UPDATES:

Regularly search for good-paying new affiliate marketing opportunities, these can be added to one's blog to maximize profit.

7. SOURCE FOR OFFLINE ADVERTS:

After growing traffic to a sizeable amount, it is advisable for bloggers to go out into the real world to meet with business executives or even start with small local businesses for them to put up their adverts on the blog for a monthly fee.

8. OWN A BUSINESS:

Also advisable is the fact that bloggers should own or generate their own unique business away from blogging.

9. BUILDING THAT BUSINESS PLAN:

Vision is important on this one, as a blogger should envisage where they will be career-wise in a long-term; thus the need to grow side by side a business that is way different from blogging maybe offline but that the blog through its steady audience can make a turnover profit for the blogger.

10. BLOGGERS COMMUNITY:

Join a community of online bloggers to share ideas, learn new things and exchange audience base.

11. AUDIENCE SIZE:

It is important that audience size is put into consideration, bloggers should work very hard to increase traffic to their blog as these translate into sales and dictate the profit margin of a blogger.

12. PUBLISH AN EBOOK:

Another way to maximize profit in blogging is to create an ebook of possibly a compilation of past posts, not just past posts but those posts that are highly informative and valuable.

13. KEYWORDS:

Take advantage of the trending keywords or labels that can drive relevant traffic to your blog just for sales, certain other kinds of visitors to a blog are not bothered about content but what the blogger has to sell on their blog.

14. CREATE WORDPRESS THEMES:

Bloggers who own developer skills are now afforded the opportunity to create WordPress themes and sell for big profits.

The themes can be sold on:

www.themeforest.net

www.codecanyon.net

www.mojo-themes.com

Of note is the fact that the above-listed websites take 50% of each sale.

15. EMAIL MARKETING:

Email marketing is also very important in attracting sales leads to one's products and service being displayed on the blog; This form of Traffic generation produces the very best loyal audience.