The opportunities to build a business online and making money are huge and growing every day. According to John Chow, if you’re making more than $100 a month from your blog you’re ahead of 98% of the 120 million+ blogs out there!
If one of your goals for 2009 is to make 4-figures every month, then this brief post can help guide the way. In this post I’m going to explain how I make 4-figures income and what you need EXACTLY to put cash in your bank every month.
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Where I Find Money
There are two main sources of income from this blog – one is Google Adsense and Infolinks. The other is through affiliate programs. These in turn come from two main sources. First, are from affiliate links placed within blog posts such as reviews. Second, I already said in my recent article about a service like usfreeads.com where you can add your ad link.
In general, the gold rule if you want grow your affiliate income is, you need to promote your affiliate product in many sites as possible. However, I also reccomend you to create your own product online, ebook, guide, tutorial, etc, and put some affiliate link within them.
Getting Traffic & Subscribers
If you deliver great results in a search where there is low competition, you will notice that you get a fairly stable traffic despite you are not blogging each day. Also, search engine traffic can last for month or even years. This is because is more simple to you getting the first position and searchers will remember you, re-visit you and, occasionally, write about and link to you. Social media helps readers to connect with each other and can be a great source of income stream but you need of constant work to be active with it.
What To Do With Your Traffic
Once you built your site traffic, there are different way you can use it:
1. Make Money – You can start check through Google analytics which are your highly trafficked pages. For over a year my web page “themes wordpress choose which newspapermagazine themplates is perfect for you” was the more visited page. I don’t make a cent from it but I’m using it as platform to promoting WordPress themes which give me some sales every month. Once you built many of similar pages you’ll might develop a strong residual income from your blog.
2. Increase RSS Subscribers - RSS Feed offers a simple way for your readers to receive timely, semantically-rich news content directly from the browser. Make sure to create a visible Rss button. Remember, the more people that read your blog the more likely you are to achieve the goals you have for that blog.
3. Email-list – Some people may say that email newsletters are a thing of the past in my view, your list is your customers base or the group of potential customers. Once you’ve your email list you can launch your product into the email sequence in order to sell something. The best way is to promote something of unique that worth to purchase and can be useful for your readers.
Conclusion
Search engine, rss subscribers, email -list, in brief, you need of traffic to make money online. Remember, if you don’t have traffic to your site, it’s similar to opening a wal-Mart store in the middle of the desert! No one will find you.
