admin answers:

I have posted the same answer to another question as well. As your question is more or less the same, I’m giving the same answer to your question. Hope you excuse me for that:

Before answering to your question, I want to put a fact: majority bloggers earn nothing, a small number earn something equivalent to a cup of coffee a day, rest make either modest or big money.

So when you ask “Can someone make a living out of blogging?” then the true answer is, even if very difficult, it’s possible. One can earn a living, and one can earn big money too. But why one limit the scenario to blogging, most professions and careers present the same picture, more or less.

Now let I give a preview of the earning potential of a blog:

If your idea is to earn by showing ads from ad programs like Adsense, Kontera, Adbrite etc. Then your earnings will depend on the number of clicks you manage to get on your displayed ads. On an average, if your blog content is good, means if the content shows good context ads, and if you have 300 blog visitors then you will have 2-6 clicks on your ads. Studies show ads on websites have a click ratio of around 2 percent. Thus for every 100 visitors one can expect to get 2 clicks on ads. Or in other words, out of 100 visitors to a blog, only 2 visitors click on an ad. This translates into, 1 or 1.2 dollars a day for a 300 visitor a day blog.

If your idea is to earn revenue by selling products through affiliate links; or sell your own products/services, then again, the earnings will depend on your blog traffic. And the chances of a visitor going for a buy, is again around 2 percent.

Hope I managed to have my say, coherently. Thnx

admin answers:

Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based marketing practice in which a business rewards one or more affiliate for each visitor or customer brought about by the affiliate’s marketing efforts.

Affiliate marketing is also the name of the industry where a number of different types of companies and individuals are performing this form of Internet marketing, including affiliate marketing, affiliate management companies, and in-house affiliate managers, specialized third party vendors, and various types of affiliates/publishers who promote the products and services of their partners.

Affiliate marketing overlaps with other Internet marketing methods to some degree, because affiliates often use regular advertising methods. Those methods include organic search engine optimization, paid search engine marketing, e-mail marketing, and in some sense display advertising. On the other hand, affiliates sometimes use less orthodox techniques, such as publishing reviews of products or services offered by a partner.
Affiliate marketing—using one website to drive traffic to another—is a form of online marketing, which is frequently overlooked by advertisers. While search engines, e-mail, and website syndication capture much of the attention of online retailers, affiliate marketing carries a much lower profile. Still, affiliates continue to play a significant role in e-retailers’ marketing strategies.

admin answers:

You can earn money online quite easily, although making any decent amount is much harder unless you know what you are doing. You do have to be careful though as there are many scams – never pay to join a site.

For more info on how to avoid the scams check out this link: http://www.squidoo.com/avoid-the-scams

There are a couple of ways to make money, but with things like blogging it is all about advertising. The first is that sites are getting money from advertising and they pay a percentage of that to you. The other is you making your own site and displaying ads (like google ads) and getting money that way.

If you like writing perhaps you might enjoy writing reviews for money. You can write about any product/service and make money from it.

Info on two review sites: http://www.squidoo.com/ciaosite and http://www.squidoo.com/dooyoosite

From blogging, there are a number of sites. A great site that I use is Squidoo. They display ads on your page and then pay you when people visit your page. It is a great way to get started in blogging and an easy way to start making money. Squidoo allows you to write about pretty much anything so you could put all of your articles on to Squidoo and get paid. Using the site is simple, you can add text boxes, images and more and the editor is similar to using a Word Processor so you don’t need to know any coding languages or anything.

To join: http://www.squidoo.com/lensmaster/referral/sn0zb0z#.TgzZgTkzBrI

admin answers:

I know a lot of people who work from home. So I have to disagree

with some of the posters saying that they are scams and to watch

out for them. I’m not saying that their aren’t any out there, but

everyone that I know who works from are have never been scammed.

I gues,s..,. You just need to look,.