Case Study: How to Start a Blog For Free and
Make Money
Do you want to make money blogging? Then start a blog
right now. Starting a blog is no brainer, with the help of popular and free
blog platforms; you can create a blog in less than 5 minutes. But can you
start a free blog and make money from it?
Yes you can!
Who did this? I did. 5 years ago I started a blog on a
free blogspot platform. I not just made money, I made a money making business
out of it. I didn’t invest a single cent. Read my case study,
What Was The Motivation For My First Blog?
I wanted to start an online
business with websites and products to sell. When I started to explore
different territories, I came across the word “Blog.” I was so curious to know
what it actually does. I setup a few dummy blogs but I did not know what a blog
is.
First I thought it’s a place like a
forum where visitors can write. Then I found that it’s a very special type of
website. In a blog there are pages that called “posts” or articles. When you
post these articles, they appear on the home page. That’s the basic idea of a
blog.
So back then I was in the direct
selling market. I was taking leadership and sales trainings. I wanted to share
my expertise somewhere. I found a blog can be a good place to share them. I
started to write articles on leadership, MLM, home business and many other
related topics. That was on my first free blog: blog-success.blogspot.com.
I started writing. First I wrote
200 word posts. Then slowly I increased the count. I spent day and night
writing. Some days I would write up to 5 articles for my blog. I wrote close to
100 articles on that blog in less than 1 year time.
After writing 20 posts I received
my first comment. It was a very special feeling for me. After that I saw the
number of visitors to my blog is slowly increasing.
How Did I Bring Traffic To My Blog?
Here is a secret: it’s nothing but
relation with people. When I started my blog, none of my local friends had
internet and they are not interested in the topic of my blog. So I cannot ask
them to read my blog. Then I went to facebook but again I don’t have any friends.
So I had to go through groups in facebook to find people who are interested in
my topic.
I made friends, started networking
and shared my blog articles with them. I used other sites like Digg (a huge
bookmarking site back then), MyBlogLog (Another oldie) and few others to find
readers. I wrote articles on other blogs and article sites to gain new
visitors.
How Did I Make Money From My First Blog?
I added google adsense on my blog.
When people click to the ads, I would receive a few cents in my account. But
the thing is you need at least $100 for payment. This sucked because it took me
like 6 months to earn $10 online. I saw a different opportunity to make money
blogging. I saw a website called LinkWorth. I signed up and applied for my
blog. Soon enough I got my first paid review offer.
The task was to write a 200 word
review about a product. I got $3.5 for doing this. Now afterwards I started
looking for websites similar to LinkWorth. I found a very good website called
PayPerPost. I found many others sites similar to this.
PayPerPost (PPP) had a lot of
offers for bloggers. I registered my blog and soon started taking offers. I
started to complete $5 reviews. $5 for a 200 word post is a great deal
comparing to adsense. For the newbie’s, let me explain what a paid review is:
A paid review is when a company
pays you money to write about them. In this case PayPerPost is acting as a
broker. I get money for writing them while they get exposure and buzz created
for them.
I started to see green but there
was a big problem.
So Here I Am, Making Real Hard Cash Without
Spending A Cent.
I Continued Blogging
The first payment was a green-light
for my blogging journey. Now it is proved that you can make money blogging with
a free blog platform and it really works.
I signed up for many more paid
review sites. Some of them were SponsoredReviews, Smorty, ReviewMe, LoudLaunch,
BuyBlogReviews, SocialSpark and a few more. I was taking lots of paid reviews
for my blog. I was also making $10, $15 and even $25 per paid review. Each
month my blog income increased.
I looked for other monetization
methods. One website was Matched.co.uk. This website paid me £10-15 every month
for a banner ad in my website. There were many other sites that paid me for
thousand impressions.
Some webmasters contacted me and
purchased text link ads and banner ads in my blog. I went from making $50/month
to $100, $200 and even $400 a month from blogging.
Investing In Your Blog Is Important
In order to make more money from
your blog, you need to invest in it. When I saw that I am getting serious in my
blog, I bought web hosting and a professional Dot Com domain for my blog. When
I started, I did not have money for these, but if you do have the money, then
start a blog with your own web hosting and domain name. I recommend you
HostGator for web hosting (use this coupon for 25% off: BLOGKORI25) and GoDaddy
for domain name.
Adding a domain name to my blog
gave me more premium quality reviews. I started taking $20-$25 paid reviews.
Now How Do I Start A Blog And Make Money Blogging?
It is not 2008 anymore. Blogging
scene has changed a lot since then. But here I would like to give you a few
tips and pointers for blogging success:
#1 Start a Blog for Free
Using Blogger
100% recommended if you are a
newbie, want to make money from blog but don’t have any money to spend online.
This helped me make a fortune and it will help you too. Go to blogger.com. Sign up for an
account and start blogging.
Welcome to the advanced bloggers area. If you are serious in blogging and
want other people to take your blog seriously, then go/upgrade to this route.
You will need a domain name and a web hosting to blog in wordpress. Take a look
at this video to learn how to setup your blog.Website : www.blogkori.com
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