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Can you earn money with a personal blog?

Discussion in 'General Business' started by flam316, Mar 31, 2011.

  1. #1
    The only problems I can think of when trying to earn money with a personal blog is you probably don't want guest posts on a personal blog and SEO won't be optimal because of how general it is. Can you still make money off of one?
     
    flam316, Mar 31, 2011 IP
  2. BizSeo

    BizSeo Greenhorn

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    Absolutely! Write about your passions and then add related affiliate products. Especially if you do a couple product reviews on your personal blog that lead to an affiliate product.

    Nothing is impossible.
     
    BizSeo, Mar 31, 2011 IP
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    mkkm1736 Peon

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    I believe John Chow started as a personal blog and now his name is a brand name. That is where I would like to be someday.....
     
    mkkm1736, Mar 31, 2011 IP
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    MarTh- Well-Known Member

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    If the market needs more content for a topic you can be profitable for sure. But a blog that's been done a 1000x does the market really need that?
     
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    dpkiller Greenhorn

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    Yes you can it's all depends upon your planning, post what you like use affiliate links in posts, use adsense and further more if you expertise in one field then why not to create your own product, it will be more profitable even u can sell one copy each day :)
     
    dpkiller, Mar 31, 2011 IP
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    techlunatic Peon

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    Infact you can make more money from a personal blog than a business blog of chalked out properly . PErsonal blogs seem to be more connected to their audience and have a high level of trust between reader and writer since they share personal thoughts . So if u make a post like "today i purchased my own social bookmarking software here it is (AFFILIATE LINK)" then more people are gona buy than on a tech blog since they trust you
     
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    webexpert2u Greenhorn

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    Why not. There are several ways to earn money through personal blog even if you don't have any guest posts. You can advertise ads from Google Adsense or from other affilates but the amount which you will earn through this process completely depends on how much traffic you are generating towards the blog.
     
    webexpert2u, Mar 31, 2011 IP
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    ApocalypseXL Notable Member

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    For the millionth time yes . If it's not crap it will generate cash .
     
    ApocalypseXL, Apr 1, 2011 IP
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    startbus Peon

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    Sure, start writing about something you are really passionate about or professional at. Attract users, create a community out of the blog, may be a marketplace... Use affiliate programs.
     
    startbus, Apr 1, 2011 IP
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    China_girl Well-Known Member

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    Well by now you must have got lot of ideas and I hope you might have implemented too ;)
    Frankly on your personal blog, you can have guest posts, affiliate links, blogroll links, banners and adsense ads by which you can earn good amount of money every month.
     
    China_girl, Apr 1, 2011 IP
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    With personal blog, first you have to share your knowladge about everything you have skilled, build trust and crediblity. When peoples trust you they can follow your direction on whatever you think it is worth, if you say that "buy this software to build this" than people will buy it from you. Or you can create a page on your blog and sell your skill on it.
     
    knowing25, Apr 1, 2011 IP
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    lifeplayer Notable Member

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    Yes, but your blog gotta be very attractive
     
    lifeplayer, Apr 3, 2011 IP
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    mentos Prominent Member

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    Yes I help many company promote their product by putting ads at the blog.

     
    mentos, Apr 3, 2011 IP
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    Of course you can earn money with your personal blog.
    Write about what are you interested, and get your blog monetized: adsense or clickbank.
     
    imfusa, Apr 3, 2011 IP
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    Any site/blog that has traffic can earn money ...
     
    w3bmaster, Apr 3, 2011 IP
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    You can try making money through adsense.
     
    yachi_5, Apr 4, 2011 IP
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    Of course, you can. Anything on the Internet has the potential to earn. The real question should be how much you can earn from it. Any site or blog that generates considerable amount of traffic has lots of opportunities to earn.
     
    Frankrock, Apr 4, 2011 IP
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    You can make money, but just be prepared to put in a lot of effort for a long while.
     
    Avesel, Apr 4, 2011 IP
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    Just Sell the link you have,...
     
    r_han, Apr 4, 2011 IP
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    There are hundreds of thousands of personal blogs out there, you either need to make it of a high quality (and pretty much most of them aren't) or cater to a specific niche which gives profitable clicks.
     
    Steve Marino, Apr 4, 2011 IP