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The Blog Experiment :: How Bloggers make money? PDF Print E-mail
Written by Abhilash Pillai   
Thursday, 11 September 2008

Yeah, I am gona guide you through a experiment where I will be trying whether I can bring traffic to my site using various techniques. So I hope bloggers who are interested in bringing traffic to their site and earning more money will be interested in this experiment.

Before I start the experiment, I would like to place a screenshot of the current traffic this site is getting and here is it:

Stats for Abhilashpillai.com

 You might be surprised about the traffic surge on 10th , well thats because of a post on the Big Bang Experiment. That's a good tip, ain't it. Thats why its always said that people need to blog about the latest happenings and too in their own words rather than copied content if one wishes to bring in quality traffic.

So before I go into the dept of bringing traffic to this site. Let me tell u a few things - 

1. I am not gonna promote this site spending money, not at all. The only investment I will be making is effort. Not because paid advertisement doesn't help but this is an experiment of how far one can go without any investment other than hosting and domain.

2. Do send in your feedback so that it helps me too in my next steps to get more traffic.

For people who have just started blogging and are confused about how to make money online using a blog, here are few fast tips:

1. PPC Programs - Google Adsense is one of the best publisher programs out there which pays for placing ads on your site. Signup: http://www.adsense.com

2. Affiliate programs - Affiliate programs like CJ and Clickbank also pay for PPL ( Pay Per Lead ) or commission on sales.You can place their ads on your blogs too. www.cj.com or www.clickbank.com

3. Blog Post : Some sites have started paying for making posts in your blog, You need to paste the content they provide to earn money. Example is : www.payu2blog.com

There are various sites for these, will come up with a good list later on some other day. 

How do I start ?

Few important things:

Select a topic you are good at. Because if you are going to select a topic which you do not have any idea about then it would not work so positively. So selection of good topic is must.

If your going by a free blog site like blogger.com, take care you create a good subdomain url.

If you are going for a domain site. Select a good domain and a reliable hosting provider.

Now do some research before you start. Like find out what topics you would like to cover in your blog and the depth you will go into each topic. Example if you have selected Health as your niche for your blog, you have to first decide the topics you will cover in health. 

If you have gone for a wordpress blog ( www.wordpress.com) on a main domain site, make sure you divide the topics into categories before you actually start posting posts.