An Experiment to Prove You Cannot Make a Living From Blogging

Can you make a living from blogging?

Well, this is a question that seemingly gets asked thousands of times per day. It is probably asked by new bloggers and "pro" bloggers. A new blog has sprung up and it is claiming to detail every aspect of a blog lifestyle whilst proving the theory right or wrong that blogging can make a living. I have been looking into this site and there seems to be many of the "old school" tactics hanging around and some new ones.

What is an old school, seo tactic?

These would include link building, site submission, blog submission, leaving comments on other blogs, meta tags and generally well constructed content.

What are the new school tactics?

The author has created a google gadget which can either be added to iGoogle or added to another blog / website. Interestingly enough though is that offline marketing will be used and results printed in the blog.

What really makes this site stand out from the rest?

The concept of "The web revenue experiment" has been brought about by having two angles of approach. It has the experimental website www.ghead.co.uk where all of the tactics are put to the test. It also has separate pages for different affiliate schemes, donations and ad blocks. The website is created using a custom built .net application, this is the brains of the experiment. It creates on the fly, fully optimised landing packs for each page created expanding its content exponentially whilst enhancing the users experience.

The other half of the concept is a blog located at http://blog.ghead.co.uk this is where tactics are discussed, suggested and explained. Here you will also see results of each of the experiments. You will also learn how the custom application works and you can suggest an idea you have been thinking of.

The experiment is due to run for exactly one year building its self up and reporting results along the way.

Some Easy Ways to Make Money From Blogging

This post is really useful for the bloggers who are willing to make money from their blogs. If you don't have a blog, create a new blog today on any of blogging engine whichever suits you. Let's discuss some money making ideas that any blogger can use on his blog to earn some cash:


Paid blogging - there are lots of websites available on the internet that pays you for what you are doing right now i.e. for blogging. These networks will ask you to write content on your website for advertiser's products and services they have. Some of famous advertising network are
Payperpost
ReviewMe
Linkworth
SponsoredReviews
Smorty
Text link advertising - text link adverting is one of the best way to make high amount of money from a website. In this kind of scheme, you have to place the advertiser's link in your website sidebar, header and footer. Advertisers always look for top blogs in their niche and pay to those bloggers to place their ads on their blogs. Some of text link advertising companies are:
Textlinkads
TNX
Direct Link ads
Linkadage
Textlinkbrokers
Banner ads - there are many advertisers available today in the market that will pay you for showing their banners on your website/blogs. Matched.co.uk is one such site which pays you for placing their advertiser's banner on your blog.
PPC program - there are many pay per click (ppc) programs available in the market today which shows ads according to your content. To start making money with any of these programs, you will need to create an account with them and submit your blog/website there. Some of famous ppc programs are
Google adsense
Yahoo Publisher Network
Bidvertiser
Adbrite
Chitika
Product selling - and in case you have a blog related to products or are willing to sell products, then you can use Amazon.com. Amazon will pay you for every sale that will be referred to it via your website.
Private ads - you can get lots of private ads if you are able to bring in lots of organic traffic on your website. When you have that, many people will be willing to pay you for placing their ads on your website.

I hope these tips will help you in earning lots of money from your blog. I have so far achieved great success with some of the resources mentioned in today article.