Are you interested to start a blog just because you want to have some income online? I’m afraid you’ll fail or you’ll turn into a spammer. Most people who gets interested in blogging from the beginning, what they do is to setup a blog from blogger (blogspot) and sign up for a google adsense account. It’s okay to put some ads here and there and start your income just from the beginning but what about content?
I see lot’s of new blogs everyday with a bunch of adsense here and there but with no regular updates. When they realize that traffic is the key, then they start to spam blogs and forums and even ask for click on those ads. But you should always remember that only fresh articles will attract more readers coming to your blog again and again.
Articles are the root of your blog
Original articles will make others to read, share and come back later. The more often you create a new blog post, the more often they will come. This will also invite search engine robots to come again and you’ll *develop a better page rank.
More ad doesn’t means more income
You should know this fact. Adding more ads will make the pay per click rate for each ad will be decreased. It’s not about the number of ads, it’s all about the positioning, colors and traffic.
Don’t put adsense in empty pages
Adding the ad code in an empty page will show up irrelevant ads. If you create a blog with no content, then you should not promote it. Write at least 10 nice articles before you officially start to promote it.
Traffic alternatives
Search engine traffic takes some time to develop. On the other hand, the more articles you’ll have, the more traffic you’ll get from them. Before depending on that source, try to build some other ways of traffic like Social bookmarking, but don’t ever think of traffic exchange, banner or link exchange sites.
Have patience
Yes I’m making money online but I didn’t receive my first payment just after starting my blog. You have to put regular effort on your blog and don’t expect to get a big money overnight. Have patience and it will come with a great result. As a result I didn’t pay a single cent from my own pocket for my blogs. The domains, hosting, ads, projects, internet cost, PC maintenance, everything I paid with the money which I earned from blogging.
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It’s amazing how many new bloggers think that all they need to do is throw up a blog on a free host, plaster it with Ads and the money will flow.
I think the best advice for new bloggers would be, don’t use ads for the first couple of months, you will seem more professional and people will take you more seriously if they feel you aren’t just doing it for the money. Or lack thereof.
Good post.
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@Geoserv: You have some strong points there. I started my first blog and put adsense from the very beginning but I updated with one article a day.
@Tamal, I suppose if you are writing daily quality content, the ads being present won’t effect how serious people take you. The problem with new most new bloggers is the lack of quality content as they are still learning to blog and the inconsistency of posts.
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@Geoserv: Yes I do believe that, if you provide quality, readers will be happy and they’ll have no problem with the ads.
I am sad. Because I know the value of Article. If better articles can be written, more traffic will automatically come. But my problem is, I’m using Wordpress so I can’t put even a single unit of adsense ad. I can do so in my blogspot. but i’m irregular in blogspot and I don’t like blogspot that much, actually. I can get more traffic from wordpress global tags which blogspot doesn’t have.
Anyway, I can’t buy a domain and a hosting to set up a blog. So I can’t earn even a single dollar :(
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@Aminul Islam Sajib: To earn some money, you have to put some money in it. Blogger is a fantastic platform and I made traffic and money in my first year of blogging. Then I moved to self hosted wordpress. I think you only depend on on WP global tags for traffic, there are more sources to get traffic like social media, SEO and link building.
If you buy a domain, you can run wordpress from a free web host like 000webhost.com -if you really don’t like blogspot!
Is adsense really worth it? Do you get anything much out of it?