is it possible to pull off a 4 figure income with just a wordpress blog than owning a proper website? i just cant figure this!
Of course. But its easier said than done. Some may never reach that level no matter how hard they work. If your confused how to monetize your blog you should read this http://www.dollarsblog.com/how-blogs-make-money/
but what people (i mean visitors) find in blogs that is not available in other websites? Are they too after niche content?
Visitors are after nothing. Your thinking like a total newbie, that you have to have some gimmick or brand or type of website to get traffic. You don't. People come to a website by mistake or recommendation. If they like it, they stay or return later or even pass a backlink your way, if not they move on. I shouldn't even have to tell you this since you already run websites.
Possible... yes... likely... no I would say that your chances are better though than winning the lottery. Lots of people make their living online, but most do it through income from multiple websites, not just one.
I think one of the mistakes a lot of people make is expecting to make the money right away. they set up a site and expect the money to come pouring in and when it doesn't they drop that and move on to something else. They keep this up never really sticking with one project long enough to actually make any money.
Yes, it's possible. However, IF you try to monetize a wordpress site, you're looking at doing it with ads. I think adding to the mix a membership sites and other monetizing tools is a much better way to go. In the end, a WP site is great to get started and build traffic. Then you've got to create your own products, services and provide as many solutions as you can to the reader base. Success, Sam
Blogs do well with search engines and in the current calculations set that make up Google rankings. Blogs are great ways to gain search engine rank and due to their rich content, you can attract readers with contextual reviews and market your programs via very targeted traffic that will read your posts with the right SEO.
it is all about your traffic. If you have good traffic to your blog, anything is possible. check out john chow ! altho' most of his earnings are not from adsnese anymore.
Let me add a few more thoughts. Its virtually impossible to make 1000 dollars or higher in the future someday from a single blog that is STARTED TODAY. Reason = internet too saturated. Thousands of blogs are being made every day. When blogs first came out you could probably make that money pretty easily cause less competition. And even if your doing everything together on your blog Sponsored posts, link selling, and adsense, affiliate ads it still would be extremely hard to reach the 1000/month level on a single blog. I got a bunch of high traffic established blogs that I monetized very well and no individual blog has come real close to the 1000 dollar level .
I've taken single blogs to that level in just a few months. I only really focus on about a half dozen blogs at the moment, and I earn quite well for the time I put in - so yes, you can absolutely do it. You just may find it easier if you have the ability to create an authority-style blog as opposed to ones stuffed with crap content only for search engines (not that no one can do that; I'm sure enough do). The reason is that you'll spend much less time marketing each one in the long run - once word of mouth and repeat visitors take over, it can be much easier to take the blog to a decent earning level. And saturation really has nothing to do with it on a large-scale. You overcome that by knowing how to choose a niche, going with a niche that you have some authority in (gives you an edge over all the others starting every day), and by knowing how to promote yourself effectively early in the game.
I agree with Jenn. Repeat visitors is the key along with good content and creating an authority site. Read "The Authority Black Book" by Jack Humphrey to learn how to blog and use Web 2.0 correctly. There really are people earning 5 and 6 figure incomes from their blogs.
I disagree. Creating authority sites is overrated. Most trying to do it fail because there isn't enough room on the net for too many really popular blogs. You can write great articles and spend time on social networking sites till your blue in the face, in the end not many will care or notice you. I used to do that and then I figured out it was a waste of time putting in too much effort for a "real audinece". Your better off writing for search engines instead. If you notice most of the top bloggers started years ago when it was easier to make a name for yourself. My advice, just write for search engines and stop trying to make a name for yourself, its easier and less stressful anyways.
Well, like I've said, I've done it personally on more than one occasion. I've also worked with multiple major content networks, so I know that authority sites are the ones that tend to stick it out in the long run (both in SEs and financially - and again, with less marketing effort in the long haul). You're free to disagree. But there's a reason the search engines are generally populated with longer-lived, higher-quality sites for the better keywords / phrases, and why those SEO spam sites come and go (including their owners). Most won't ever make it either way. That's just the reality of it. But just because you can't make it with an authority site doesn't mean it's harder. If it were "easier" to make more money with crap sites, all of the reputable businesses out there wouldn't spend half as much time and money building equally reputable websites and blogs. Those who find building an authority site to be extremely difficult very likely don't have the credentials in the niche to be trying to build an authority site within it in the first place. If you do, there's not that much "stress" involve - you write what you intimately know. And keep in mind... the OP is asking about setting up a blog, not a big collection of SE spam blogs (how most succeeding with that method seem to suggest doing it).
Yeah but you missed the final point I made in that post. Most of those sites are old and established years ago when blogs were in their infancy. The internet is saturated with blogs now for the last few years. Try bringing an authority site from a brand new site built TODAY, it aint gonna happen, unless you spend $$$$ or slave away day and night for the next 3 years on just one site and even then you might not have much luck. I also never suggested spam blogs, just that your goal be mainly for search engine traffic and not for name recognition and repeat visits.
Then you missed my first point.... that I've done what the OP is asking in a period of just a few months. It can definitely be done. (And as for the content networks, the individual sites are all rated, indexed, etc. separately, and some aren't old in the slightest.) I've never had to "slave" away on my blogs to get them to earn enough to be worth it. Build trust with readers, and income opportunities are much easier to find.