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More and more people these days think they can make money blogging. This is a common misconception. Blogging is not something you can make money from (comparing it to other things). To make money blogging you must have visitors and readers. To get visitors and readers you must have promotion. To have promotion you must have money to pay for it. So this is where it all ends up. Blogging, just like any other business need money to start up. You can’t make money without spending money. If you invest $0 in a business you will get $0. With blogging this is a bit, but just a bit different - if you invest $0 you will probably get $100 after a year. You can’t live a whole year with $100.

This perception about bloggers that make loads of money is not completely true. Look at people like John Chow and Shoemoney. Because of people like them most people think that you can make a living from blogging. But the truth is JC and Shoe had some other sites before they started blogging. And most of their income is not from their blogging, it’s from the other sites. So if you see John Chow making $20,000 per month by blogging, you think that you can do it too. But the question is do you have $1,500 to pay for 3-4 paid reviews that will get your name out there? Do ya? And if you do, are yo willing to spend them on that? Do you have $80 to pay each month for private hosting (presuming that your blog will be famous and will have a large number of visitors)? People make money blogging by becoming a billboard, an interactive one. You create an image for yourself and for your blog, you make a statement, you become popular and only then advertisers will pile up to have their ads shown on your site and to promote their products. But becoming popular requires 2 things: 1) Lots of money or 2) A great idea - something that the world has never seen - and little money. However you try to do this you will still need money.

From my personal point of view. Blogging is the last thing to do if you wanna make money online. I own a real life shop, some affiliate marketing sites and this blog. Affiliate marketing earned me in 5 days what this blog earned me in a month (although the affilaite marketing sites needed advertising, while on the blog I didn’t spend anything).

So knowing this, If you had $5,000 would you invest it in a blog or in a real life business?

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Before I get started with this article you must know that Affiliate Marketing needs promotion. Any kind of promotion you can provide.

Blogging is not normally an activity for earning profits, or so it may seem. Many bloggers post blogs to inform other people of any news or information about anything under the sun. Blogs would be a pathway to personal expression or a means of teaching others. Whatever the use, all blogs have a tremendous business potential.

For affiliate marketing to be productive, it must have good exposure and a lot of visitors. This can be achieved by combining it with blogging.

Blogging is a great way to attract web viewers especially if the blogs have interesting and quality content. In a business sense, blogging can be a tool for advertising and in this case, affiliate marketing. If you are able to come up with a good and popular blog, chances are that when you put ads for affiliate marketing on your blog there will be many readers who will click on the ads. The more readers who will click on the ads, the better the chances of landing sales which would ultimately bring you profit through affiliate marketing.

There are other methods for advertising, but blogging is more advantageous. For one, blogs are free and can be easily made unlike hosting and creating a website of your own. Another perk is that search engines usually prioritize indexing blogs with good content over websites. Blogs can also serve as tools to bring web traffic to websites. This can be done by putting links to partner sites or to your own sites if you have one. Web features such as RSS Feeds allow readers to be notified upon addition of new blog content allowing affiliate marketing ads to be visible and reachable to more people as well as attract new ones.

Be aware that the internet is flooded with all kinds of blogs created by millions of bloggers. There are simple text blogs, photo blogs, and video blogs which contain their own specific content. In blogging, you should focus on one specific topic in order for you to specialize or be an expert in that specific niche. Creating blogs in your own unique way can bring you popularity and avid readership and from there, making money blogging is really just a matter of focus.

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You blog every day. More and more people do it. There are loads of blogs on the internet and this will become a world wide phenomenon. You may think that blogging is something new but it has been around for quite a while (except back then people didn’t know how to call it).

• 1983: First site managed by an individual, Brian E. Redman. He posted summaries of interesting postings and threads taking place elsewhere on the net. It was called mod.ber.
• 1986: Brad Templeton creates a newsgroup called rec.humor.funny which he claims to be the world’s oldest still existing blog.
• 1992: Dawn of Internet Time begins keeping a list of all new sites as they come online.
• 1993: NCSA’s oldest archived What’s New list of sites.
• 1993: Netscape begins running it’s What’s New list of sites.
• 1994: Justin Hall launches Justin’s Home Page which would become Links from the Underground.
• 1997: Dave Winer launches Scripting News. His company, Userland, will release all website and blog content software.
• 1997: Slashdot launches their news for nerds.
• 1997: Jorn Barger comes up with the term web log.
• 1998: Cameron Barrett publishes the first list of blog sites on Camworld.
• 1999: Peter Merholz coins the term blog after announcing he was going to pronounce web blogs as “wee-blog”. This was then shortened to blog.
• 1999: Brigitte Eaton starts the first portal devoted to blogs with about 50 listings.
• 1999: Metafilter’s earliest archives.
• 1999: Pitas launches the first free build your own blog web tool.
• 1999: Pyra releases Blogger which becomes the most popular web based blogging tool to date, and popularizes blogging with mainstream internet users.
• 2000 > present: The phenomenon spread worldwide starting with american blogs related to politics and technology. Even iraqi bloggers gained wide readership when the Iraq war started. Blogs cover various topics from war, global warming and terrorism to how to’s, cooking, making money online and many many more.

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Happy New Month!!!!

Domprofesor.com has been in the biz for 1 month and the outcome is very pleasing. This experiment was created to prove if you can or cannot make money blogging. Well of course you can, you can make money from almost anything but you first have to invest. The special thing about this experiment it that nothing was invested in it (just time). No money required. The only thing you have to pay for to get something like this is hosting (i already had paid hosting), tho you can use a free hosting service that let’s you use PHP.

The Grand Total for this month was:

$377

• Paid Reviews - $70
• Private Ad Space - $20
• Affiliate Commissions - $180
• Adbrite - $32
• Text Link Ads -$75

Traffic stats for Domprofesor.com for this month are:

• 22,000+ pageviews
• 14,000+ unique visits

Blog expenses for this months: $0 (although i must mention that the contest will cost me $240)

The bottom line is you can make money blogging. How much money you make depends on you. If you want to find out more about making money online, keep reading Domprofesor.com

P.S.: For all the people who asked why don’t i use Adsens, a new post (and a poll) will be online in a few days - keep reading.

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We are talking here about your site’s content. If you ask me which one would i choose i would say both. But that is almost impossible. You can’t have them both the same time (well you can if you are god). A compromise is also to be desired. You can have quality, quantity or both combined 50/50. When you don’t have either one of these then it’s bad.

Quality posts give you loyal readers. However their number is not sure. This is because quality is not perceived the same way by all people. So even if your posts are considered to be good even great by the readers of your nich, you will get as far as your promotion gets you. And quality posts are something you don’t come across all day. Because a quality post is a hard thing to do. This is not because of your writing stile or such artistic considerations. A quality post is something that either gives information or presents things from an original point of view. A quality post is something that is unique and fulfills people’s demands. That is what a quality post is (quality for everybody not just for a small group of people). So writing a quality post each time is like discovering a new extraterestrial civilization each day. As i said in the beginning, quality is for site that want loyal readers, subscribers.

Quantity. Most people think that quality is the one to follow. But let me tell you about quantity… When it comes to quantity, search engine traffic comes to my mind. Lots of posts mean lost of keywords (and key phrases). This way most of your visitors will come from search engines. This is great for sites that want one-time visits. And this is also great for sites that use Adsense or other keyword oriented advertising. This way you can post all kinds of crappy articles (taken from free article sites) and no one is going to care. This is because readers are going to come from search engines, they are going to read (maybe) your post and then they are going to leave(in this time maybe they will click on some ads). Visitors that come form search engines are interested in only a few things at that moment(the keyword they used to find your site) so there is little chance they are going to stay or even subscribe. Quantity is also easy to optimize for search engine. As we all know, keywords in the title of the post are most important. But posts that are written for readers not for search engines will not always contain keywords in the title. For example this Quality vs Quantity post is about marketing and getting traffic, however none of those words is not in the title. While when you use quantity you can always include your desired keyword in the title of your article taken from a free article service. To sum up, quantity is good for search engine traffic and for sites that use contextual advertising.

50/50. This part will get you both loyal readers and search engine traffic, but none of them in great numbers. However if you want to use contextual advertising and to get subscribers the same time this is the one for you.

The methods above will bring you traffic (all of them). It’s good to have any one of them implemented on your site (having neither quality, nor quantity will not get you anywhere). But it’s you who must choose carefully which one to use - based on your goals.

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