In the meantime blogging has become a profession. You hear more and more often that people are "bloggers" and earn their living this way.
But if you do some research on the internet, you read at least as often that only a few people can really earn their money with blogging and it is more or less a nice pastime.
What's the right thing to do? Can you make a living with blogging or not?
Career as a blogger?
If you go deeper into the subject matter, you will quickly realize that you can earn your money with blogging - independently and with staying power. Although this is much more common in America, there are also some bloggers here in Germany, even successful ones, who earn their money by writing texts on their own website to write.
So if you are very disciplined and really get into your subject, you can definitely earn money by blogging. The important thing is that you know how to monetize your blog so that it generates income.
So how can you earn money by blogging?
Bloggers often earn their money by recommending products and linking them to an affiliate program. One of the largest and most popular affiliate programs is Amazon. This is one of the reasons why Amazon has grown to such a giant in a very short time. With the help of the Amazon affiliate program, bloggers can link to all products that Amazon offers. Participation is free for the blogger. If someone reads the product recommendation on his website and buys the product via the link provided, the blogger gets his share of the sale.
It is also good that the customer is not disadvantaged by this recommendation and does not have to pay extra for the additional information provided. As in a Shop in the pedestrian zone, the consultation is also free of charge here.
Meanwhile there are countless affiliate programs and companies that offer a pool of affiliate programs. So-called affiliate networks bring together a large number of different merchants and ensure that merchants are provided with the necessary software to get affiliates for their website.
This is also a win-win situation. Because the dealer only pays for a sale that has actually taken place. So the advertising is very targeted.
Earn money with clicks
Not only on YouTube YouTuber, which play an ad before the actual start of their video, earn a lot of money. You can also integrate Google Adsense ads on your own website and earn a few cents or even euros with every click. The earnings depend on the ads that are displayed. So some keywords earn more money than others and accordingly the website operator gets more money.
Everything depends on one thing: Traffic
The earnings of a blogger depend on how many visitors he gets on his website. Because not every visitor who informs himself and maybe clicks on the offered link becomes a customer. Many people who surf the Internet only inform themselves and perhaps buy at a later date. For this reason you have to have a lot of traffic on your website to earn enough money to make a living from blogging.
It should be said, however, that this is not impossible. On the contrary. If you show discipline and consider your website as your business, on which you work eight hours a day, you can make a profit after a relatively short time.
On the one hand, it costs hardly any money to run your own website, as only a few euros per month are required for the domain and hosting. On the other hand, well-founded and detailed articles make sure that you rank well in the search engines. Thus one gets free traffic on the own website from Google.
Of course there is more that can be done. For example, you can link to your articles in social media like Facebook and Twitter or create videos that also link back to your own website.
There are no limits to the imagination when generating traffic. Some local companies also distribute flyers with offers or free content to get visitors to their own website.
The supreme discipline: online courses and eBooks
As soon as you have an established website and you no longer want to write product recommendations only, you can also develop your own digital products. This is of course the supreme discipline - but worthwhile!
Writing an eBook on one's own topic is feasible and the website operator positions himself as an expert for his topic. Because authors enjoy a high reputation. Everyone, which already once tried to write a book, knows, why. To hold out alone with the production, costs some discipline.
Online courses are also becoming increasingly popular. Website operators sell a course on the topic of their website. Those who provide their users with recipes on a daily basis could, for example, develop their own cooking course. If you are an expert in psychology, you could write a book on life counselling.
There is an online course or eBook for each topic that can be created. These so-called digital products can then be distributed in self-publishing via Amazon or iTunes, for example.
Sponsors and link sales
There are of course many more possibilities to earn money with your own website. You can also offer local or simply to the theme of the website matching companies an advertising space for a monthly or annual amount and thus generate income. Also a backlink to your website, maybe in combination with a product review, many companies like to buy or provide the product.
Conclusion
It is possible to make money with your own website if you really consider it your business. Because only then you will have the necessary discipline to really work on the project in the long run. In this way you will see the first revenues after a short time. But it will take a few months until you can really live from what your website generates. But this is similar with a shop in the pedestrian zone. Experts calculate here with 3-5 years, before a business becomes really profitable.
In the internet you have the big advantage that you do not have to make high investments. On the contrary, you can start small at first and only at a later point in time, for example, you can focus on professional web design sit.
