jaylister: if u change the template and your layout appears to have only favicon widget. watin cus am?

bizmogul: @ OP thanks for creating this thread.

I would love to drop my 2 cents on this topic.

There are several ways to make money from your blog; as a matter of fact you can make money almost immediately.

The first thing you need to do is have a well laid down plan before jumping into blogging.

For me, I have found out that problem solving blogs can easily make you money in your first week.

How? For example, I created a bought over a blog in the health niche; weight loss to be precise. This blog came with a product on " how to lose 10kg in 10 days", all I did was to set up an optin form on the blog, drove traffic to it with Facebook advertising and I made 2 sales the next day. The products valued at N2,000 each. Now Imagine if I can make 100 sales every month? I could also sell physical products to my visitors if I wish. It's sweet when you are doing other stuffs and getting alert from your bank

Now the first thing you need to do is to pick a profitable niche. Think health, wealth and relationship. This categories are very general and you would want to narrow it down to a specific sub category. Like in the health, you can do weight loss, in relationship you can do " how to make a distance relationship work" etc. In wealth, you can do " how to make money on the internet" or " how to make money online".

Please do ensure that your blog is solving a problem, I repeat!

After you have chosen your niche, you can create your blog using either the blogger platform or wordpress platform. I prefer doing wordpress, I once had a blog on blogger that was taken down, I wouldn't want this happening to you.

After creating your blog, you need quality contents because that's the attraction. Focus on giving great information for free and you will get loyalists. You can also hire people on freelance sites to create contents for you; it's allowed!

You can monetize your blog from the first day by creating a product or purchasing a PLR ( Private Label Right) to a product just like I did. Make sure you create side bar banners for this product on your site.

Integrate a subscriber form on your website so visitors can enter their email address to be contacted whenever you make a post. You can bait them in by giving them something free. This step is very important, once you have people in your funnel, it is easier to sell to them. They will trust you because you give them free quality info. Please and please don't start pushing products to them rapidly, try to engage them first with FREE tips.

After all these are set up, you need traffic! Because if nobody sees your website, nobody buys anything from you. Facebook paid advertising has been serving me very well. If you run your advert well, you can get as little as $0.02 per click. You can start on a budget of $10 a day for 30 days. If you can get up to 1000 leads, then great! It means you have 1000 people that you can send your links to.

Always look at the brighter and higher side of things, most times it's not just about selling one product to your visitors, you can upsell and sell even more products to them.

This is my own strategy and it really works well for me. I have my personal blog on internet marketing; see link in my signature... victoragina.com

I have monetized the blog with several other businesses, most times am just relaxing somewhere and I get an alert... So, so sweet!

I hope this helps.

Cheers

bolaji73: you guys are really doing a great job here but I must confess that you aren't helping beginners like me.most of the terminologies are strange.I really appreciate the explanation you gave favicon since am aren't new to nairaland so,I could grab.
for easy understanding for beginners, I would appreciate if you sight examples from nairaland to explain some of the clickboard,menu, contents etc.thanks. ##following eagerly ##

segzy14: just created my blog few minutes ago through what i read this morning.
title:construction and real estate
add: homeownerssecrets..com

Cheers
Samuel

prowitin: Nice one bro. Love that name. Welcome onboard

segzy14:

thanks.
trying to load pics in the favicon.

Cheers
Samuel

prowitin: Cool.let me know if u hv issues with it.

segzy14:

seriously, having issues with it.

prowitin: How?

segzy14:

pics could not upload

prowitin: How big is the pic? If it is not 16by16 it will not upload. U will hv to go to iconj dot come and resize it there. Den save and return back to upload it.

prowitin: How big is the pic? If it is not 16by16 it will not upload. U will hv to go to iconj dot come and resize it there. Den save and return back to upload it.

segzy14:

did it and got a blurred pics

segzy14:

working on it

born2lead01: Thanks so much bros for that, I'm not a doctor I just overheard two ladies discussing about the V part (while i was researching into a niche) and I thought I should create a blog related to that. I tried several variations such as care,health,info etc but not available on blogger but was eventually able to see the doctor one.


I just stumbled on the article and I think I found your own template on it. Thanks I will read it fully and let you know when I'm ready to install it.


A big GBOSA for you on the ideas you just dropped,I will surely come up with posts on them in good time.

Thanks so much again,following your thread bumper to bumper!

crestime:
@born2lead01, good niche there! Now, how do you intend monetizing your blog? Do you have products reports or ebooks to sell? If not, I'll be sorry to tell you that you're wasting your time. Firstly, don't think of approaching ad networks like adsense because they'd be hesitant considering your choice of topic (it's not allowed in their TOS). Your idea is good but if you want to generate good income from your blog, you should start preparing your mini-reports and products to sell to your visitors right NOW. Hope this helps.

born2lead01:

You never knew I was silently following you; I already started adding advert using the Amazon affiliate marketing tool thanks to your thread! still waiting for the "right time" to comment on your thread.

prowitin: Send the image to prowitin@gmail.com let me do it for u and send it back.

segzy14:

mail sent.

Cheers
Samuel