any kind soul like to give some ideas on hpw to earn decent living from blogging:blush:

There's no one post that's going to teach you all of that because there is no one way to earn a living blogging.

Not to mention all the different methods you would need to learn (SEO, monetization, viral marketing, SEM) to get your blog popular enough first.

Perhaps you should be asking "how do I run a successful blog" first. Then worry about monetizing it.

I would if I could, though personally I am only expecting small change. Good luck to you though.

You could check out these guys though: Self Made Minds
Also read up on john chow and yaro staraks blog. They have some good stuff there.

I agree with George. Make your blog popular then stuff it with advertisements

Google would be the obvious choice but I suggest your join a few large programs such as CJ and Shareasale and insert your affiliate links for products related to your posts/articles.

However, don't forget that you must first make your blog popular, keep those readers coming in for some more, and then you start making money.

Another how to question... well, I would seriously suggest that you ensure that content is king...and the readers and views will come. That's really how simple it is. Take Johnchow for e.g. a lot of his blog posts are full of grammatical errors..but people still go because he has content. Even though he does look like an ugly mofo hehe.

You could write posts about products and leave your affiliate link in them. You could blog for advertisers. In other words you could review an advertisers site or product and they will then pay you to include their links in the post.

You could use things like payperpost, reviewme, etc.

I think earning from blogging is hard work.

like most of the guys said, if your blog's popular, you can start monetizing it,

I tried this one blog to profit.

Think first on a niche which you have good knowledge on so you can provide more useful and relevant info -then blog about it. The key is getting targeted traffic to your site. You need to duild a decent amount of traffic and work on link building to raise your PR. After this, monetizing it will be easier

I write posts about products and services for advertisers and pay me well. My blogs has PR3 and PR2 respectively

you should give good content too....I hate freebie seekers but if you keep writing good stuff they normally come round and become your buyers.

google aslo loves fresh good conent, that will keep them and google craving for more.

build trust first then monetize yes.

I agree with the above mentioned opinions. But one can start using google adsense on the blogs and make money at a slower rate.

you can also try out TNX (link in my signature below)

it gives you an opportunity to sell textlinks even on pages with PageRank 0

Originally Posted by giggsgiggs

any kind soul like to give some ideas on hpw to earn decent living from blogging:blush:

#1 key is to provide usefull information that people want to read and come back and read more. plus tell there friends about. this will build up traffic which will in turn give you more flexibility as to how you can monetize your site because you have a larger audience.

The first basic step you have to do is choose a topic that you love and good in. After that get a cheap domain name and hosting, install a free wordpress and start writing content for it on the selected topic.

This is what I had done to start my blog which is bringing some money to me each month right now.

If you want more guides, you can PM me.