Many internet marketers have the standard engineer mindset: if you provide a good enough product, people will go nuts for it and come after you to hand you their money and trust.

Wrong.

Bad products can profit millions (think Pet Rock!) and good products can bankrupt you. It’s all about how you get the word out, especially early on in the process.

PPC advertising and link building are CRUCIAL for bloggers.

Do your research on how to bring traffic to any blog or website before you consider trying to profit from any niche, even if you really know your stuff.

Connor McArthur
Home Money Blog – Internet Marketing Tips for the Average Joe

Great post!

The main two keys to making money with blogs in my opinion…

1) Focus – You need to focus on one blog at a time (perhaps per day if you have multiple blogs). This is critical, as you have to post to your blog frequently in order for the search engines to recognize them. You also need to focus on the purpose of your blog…marketing, advertising, what are you going to use it for?

2) Stick with it – Don’t ever give up on your blog…heck, most of them are free to build anyhow. As the article that Lynn linked to says, it takes 12 months to build success in a blog.

Joseph Ratliff
Author of The Profitable Business Edge

You can visit mine at http://profitablebusinessedge.blogspot.com

I was curious if there was an ‘SEO issue’ with using text link brokers… will have to read up on that on some of the more popular SEO forums & sites.

But if you can get even one or two customers per site, you still come out on top.

I prefer to sell my links on my own and have slowly built up my own clientel (spelling?) who buy from me over and over.

But you could “outsource” your link sales too. It depends on what suits you best.

Hmm, did that make any sense? Oh well…

I was looking into text links as a source of revenue earlier this year (you’ll remember) and am still considering all of my options. Would you say it’s better to use a broker, or sell your ad space yourself – directly to the advertisers?

Say you have a blog that scores a PR5 or 6 but only gets 50 visitors a day, after 3 months. The amount you make with adsense may only be $10 a month from that blog because traffic is so low, but you can sell text links for $200-$300 a year each easily and have 20 links which take up about the same space in your sidebar as an adsense tower ad.

Now do the math, and keep blogging away!

You’ve turned a penny ante $120 per year piece of screen realestate into a significant $4000-$6000 a year income, and you get paid up front. + there’s still room inside your posts for aff links and adsense.

Now do that with another blog, and another and next year when traffic grows you can charge a lot more for renewing the links, or sell CPM ads…

Oops, did I say all that out loud?

The majority were earning their big bucks by offering text links and advertising, according to the article. A “cost per thousand impressions’ model was mentioned several times. I think the profit potential there is much higher than with Adsense (once you achieve certain traffic levels).

Now blogging is not just a news or dialy… it’s a business.

BTW, did the news say how they made the money? From Adsense? Or other advertising mediums?

One challenge for me is to drive the TRAFFIC to the blog, second challenge is to WRITE the QUALITY contents the people are looking for.

I’m learning your 7 tips, and applying to my blog soon.

Hi readers out there, setup your blog now !

Regards,
Calvin Chin