ProBlogger: Secrets for Blogging Your Way to a Six-Figure Income
Chris Garrett
Language: English
Pages: 240
ISBN: 0470616342
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
A complete how-to from two of the world’s top bloggers
Thousands of aspiring bloggers launch new blogs every day, hoping to boost their income. Without solid advice from experts, most will fail. This bestselling guide, now fully revised with new and updated tips and tricks from two of the world’s most successful bloggers, provides the step-by-step information bloggers need to turn their hobby into an income source or a fulltime career.
- Earning a solid income from blogging is possible, but tricky; this book details proven techniques and gives aspiring bloggers the tools to succeed
- Even novices will learn to choose a blog topic, analyze the market, set up a blog, promote it, and earn revenue
- Offers solid, step-by-step instruction on how bloggers make money, why niches matter, how to use essential blogging tools and take advantage of social media and content aggregators, what a successful blog post should include, how to optimize advertising, and much more
Written by two fulltime professional bloggers, the updated edition of ProBlogger tells you exactly how to launch and maintain a blog that makes money.
the elements of the topic they are interested in. Ease of use—We’ve already talked in this book a number of times about how people don’t stay long on websites and that blog readers have short attention spans. Granular posts help with this. They are shorter and punchy and go directly to the point. SEO—Pages with single topics make it easy for search engines to work out what your post is about. This helps them to rank you accurately for the topic you’re writing about. Also, search engines like
topics you think would work as membership sites already have free content available. To make your blog succeed, you must have some sort of premium/exclusive content and/or real expertise on your topic. Indirect Income-Earning Strategies Rather than work to make money from advertising and other direct means, another profitable blogging route is to make money indirectly. Indirect monetization tactics rely on you demonstrating your experience, expertise, and personality through your blog. This
one of the articles I had written got lumped into some other articles mentioned on the Huffington Post (www.huffingtonpost.com/). So it crashed the server and my hosting company shut it down completely. I had to work for three days to get it back online and convince the buyer that it was just a fluke.” Most of the money from the sale went toward Shane’s personal income, because he chose not to go back to his job but to keep pursuing his passions instead. He now blogs at http://shaneketterman.com
following sections, I’ll give you an example from my experience that hopefully gives you a few ideas about how you could apply these approaches to your blog and with your readers. Setting Up Reader Homework Assigning homework for readers has been a long-term engagement strategy on my photography blog, and I’ve been quite amazed by the results. Firstly, here’s how I usually do it: Each of my assignments is based on a tips post I’ve written on the blog. At the end of each tip I point to an
subscribers, a mention in the press). This kind of update seems to build morale/momentum among readers. Quick Links—Here I share the weekly assignment, any discussion-oriented posts/polls, any competition announcements, and occasionally a “featured post” that I want to push traffic to. Tips, Tutorials, and Techniques—This includes new blog posts of a more general nature. Recommended Resource—Most often this is an affiliate promotion (a great product), but occasionally this section functions as