I see so many blogs that get started and then go no where because the blog owner thinks that all that’s needed is to have a blog and they’ll earn money.
Sorry to burst your bubble but today it takes more than luck to make a blog profitable it takes research and planning to get the targeted traffic that make good money for the blog owner.
Did you hear about the store that opened up in your neighbours basement. No? Well that’s because the guy did all the work to get a business setup in his basement but forgot to tell anyone and eventually gave up waiting for people to start beating down his door for product.
Of course I just made that up but the point is it takes traffic to make money and not just any kind of traffic. It has to be traffic that wants your products. So you not only need traffic but you need to learn how to get targeted traffic if you plan to be a real successful blogger.
How You Can Make Your Blog Profitable
I love blogging and it’s how I make my living while working from home. However I didn’t really start making good money with my blogs until I purchased, read a few times and then applied principals and strategies that make blogging and affiliate marketing work.
The ebook I am referring to is the Super Affiliate Handbook by Rosalind Gardner.
It’s nice to have a blog that makes some money with Google Adsense but that’s just a drop in the bucket compared to what you can accomplish with affiliate marketing so learn how to succeed with affiliate marketing now and start earning.
Keep Distractions OFF Your Blog
Distractions are just that, things that take your attention away from what’s at hand and for a blog that can be the death sentence. Keep your blog clutter free and don’t give your visitor ways to leave your page that won’t earn you money.
Instead you should be providing quality content for your visitor and from within that content link to products and services that will make money and you don’t need banners everywhere to accomplish this.
Find Your Best Customer And Convert Them
I use specific words to draw traffic, targeted traffic, to my blogs directly from search engines, for free.
When I get the right traffic to my blogs it’s easy to make money, as long as I provide the quality content that targeted visitors expect.
Optimize your content and site for free search engine traffic that’s targeted and you will see a world of difference in your bottom-line. It’s all about being relevant to your niche and not drifting off into other topics that dilute your keyword focus.
Don’t Make Dizzy Content
What turns me away quicker than anything is when I have re-read an article to try and make sense of it. This usually happens on blogs where the owners haven’t learned how to spin articles efficiently to keep them relevant and keyworded.
Personally I have to check each and every article I spin to be certain it reads like a human wrote it, otherwise I could lose potential customers and income.
To have the content I need for my sites I use article spinner like The Best Spinner as it helps me create many related articles I can publish around the Internet pointing to my money pages.
I do my best to make sure my visitors get a quality experience don’t leave because their head is spinning from trying to read over spun content. It has to be written for humans but optimized for search engines.
Keep A Strong Affiliate Marketing Focus
When you write quality articles using a specific keyword focus you can easily share affiliate links and product information that will be exactly what you TARGETED VISTORS are looking for. This means your visitor will stay on your page longer and be likely to return.
The more quality and niche focus the more visitors that return and purchase, the bigger your blog will grow as will your bank account.
Making your work from home blog profitable isn’t brain surgery although when I first started my brain did hurt a bit. The key is to work a niche you know about so that you don’t have to outsource all your content. You need deep pockets if you are going to start a work from home business of blogging in a profitable niche you know nothing about, just because there is money in the niche.
I started my work at home online business in the make money niche which of course I knew nothing about other than that’s where the money is. Well the money wasn’t there for me until I took a step back and learned what I should be doing.
Next I started a home gardening blog, because I know something about gardening and I love gardening, so I wouldn’t be scraping for content after the first month or two.
Anyone Can Create A Quality Blog Post

I could have created a profitable blog on my first try, but I didn’t. Not because I didn’t want to but because I didn’t know how to yet and thought it had to be easy as so many others were blogging and I assumed they were making money.
I only did a few things wrong but the biggest mistake I made was to chose the wrong market and even when I failed I continued spinning my wheels instead of seeking answers to why I wasn’t making money yet.
Think about this, as it’s something I see pretty much daily.
You have an idea for a good article so you sit down and write a quality article and pop in your links and then you wait. The thing is it’s an article that may have seemed interesting to you but wasn’t to your readers.
That’s not really a quality article if it’s not in the right niche. Ask your visitor and they will tell you but otherwise they just leave the site and you’re left wondering where the income is. For a quality article to work it needs to be in the right place to been seen by the right target market.
Put Only Relevant Things On Your Blog
I visit a lot of blogs in the course a day and I don’t like wasting my time as time is money, especially for a work from home part time marketer. I like to learn new things so that I have more to write about but that’s not the only reason I visit so many blogs. I also need lots of backlinks to help my sites ranking and get more target traffic so I do a fair bit of value added blog commenting.
So while I’m visiting all these sites, relevant to my own niches of course, I see a ton of things on blogs that shouldn’t be there. It’s not just poor quality content that turns me away. I also get turned away by a blog that’s not focused on keeping me on their site.
What I Look For In Blogs I Comment On
I find or locate the blogs I comment on using Google to search out keyword phrases I use on my own sites and wish to rank better for. I put the quality blogs in my blog feed reader so I can return when there are new blog posts I can comment on.
I invest a lot of my time getting backlinks and commenting but I don’t like to waste my time so I look for specific things that will help me grow my work from home business.
- blog must be relevant to my own
I don’t want to be leaving comments on non relevant sites as I see it as a complete waste of time when there are relevant blogs to comment on.
- blog must be optimized for search engine traffic
I like to see a blog where the owner has taken the time to optimize their blog for search engine traffic. One thing I look at here is the filename structure. If I am seeing P123 instead of a keyworded filename I know they aren’t going to get me the attention they could.
- content must be quality and not over spun crap
Poorly spun articles is a huge problem today, in my humble opinion anyways. If I land on a page and start to read it and find it doesn’t make sense because of poor quality writing or over spinning I leave. If the blogger can’t be bothered to create quality articles I can read I won’t stay or comment.
Give me quality content in my niche and I can give you back a quality value added comment that will benefit both myself, the blog owner and their visitors.
So, really making money through a work from home blogging business is easy if you are willing to learn how to before you continue. Don’t clutter your blog with too many ways for your visitor to leave or be distracted.
Write content that’s focused on your niche and don’t stray off topic and be sure to optimize your blog for search engine traffic. Use The Best Spinner to spin articles but proofread every article before publishing. Be sure you link to relevant things as well so your readers are redirected to a place they didn’t want to be.
It’s all about focusing on the niche at hand and providing a quality experience for your targeted visitors.
Learn about affiliate marketing from the one who knows, Rosalind Gardner. Checkout her excellent ebooks, Super Affiliate Handbook.