Blogging as a Million $ opportunity

Blogging as a million $ opportunity

What is blogging and How to Profit from it?

Blogging is an interactive form of publishing content on the web. It comes from the term "web log." The act of blogging dates back to the late 1990s, and has become a dominant way of self-publishing in the 2000s. According to an estimate there are more than 300million blogs on the World Wide Web at the beginning of the year 2015.

Blogging started in late 90s as a hobby. People used to share their thoughts, special talent or expertise in various fields with people through blogs. Now blogging has evolved as a full time profession. It is giving employment to the people in various ways.

Blogging has various stakeholders such as hosting service providers, content writers, web developers & graphic designers. The good thing about blogging is that it is providing opportunity all the stakeholders. In fact blogging is a complete ecosystem and blogger is at the core of that.

Due to the penetration of Internet to the rural areas blogging is becoming as a source of income. It can be a full time profession as well. To start blogging very small initial investment is required so those who are still in college or in some sort of job are also earning through it.

How to make money from blogging?

For the beginners the best way to start earning is serving advertisements on their blogs. Bloggers get paid when people visit the blog and click on the advertisements. Many publishers pay for visits only though the payments are very low.

AdSense and other methods.

Google’s Ad serving programme which is called AdSense is considered as the most reliable among all the Pay per Click Programmes. As it pays highest Pay per Clicks. Though to start earnings from AdSense your blog must have quite a good number of visitors to it. Other alternatives to Adsense are Chitika, …etc.

If your blog has a larger number of visitors then affiliate marketing is a better option to earn money. In affiliate marketing you have to directly subscribe the concerned affiliate programme. As it is risk free compare to AdSense earning programme.

Successful Bloggers

There are people who are earning in Millions like Huffintonpost.com is such a blog who is earning in millions. In countries like India which has a huge population and Internet penetration is increasing people are adopting blogging as a sfae source of income. For example the blog shoutmeloud.com , whose owner is an engineer and he is earning more than 10000$ a month.