Make money online isn't as easy as it sounds and as many portray it to be. It requires hard work, consistency, determination and fire in belly to achieve the goals. With this post, I look forward to share all the major strategies you can take to make money online in Urdu language for all the people in Pakistan and India.
#1 Building Audience/Readership
The first strategy I would recommend is to create your own readership and audience may that be for your blog posts or your YouTube videos. This can be done by starting a blog or creating a YouTube channel and earn through it.
Once you have your following and people that trust you, you can create your own product or promote affiliate product to your readership. You can also earn via AdSense or BuySellAds which are famous advertising platforms.
Once you've created a handsome readership or viewers in the case of YouTube channel, you would experience third party companies reaching out to you for sponsored post and more opportunity. Notice how big giants focus on creating user base without a monetization plan pre set.
Take an example of Twitter. Since the launch of the platform, the company didn't make any profit even though it has such a huge user base.
Focus first on creating readership and audience and you'll see opportunities coming up.
Below are some helpful videos that would help you out :)
How You Earn?
With blogging, you can earn with advertisments, affiliate marketing, creating your own product and more. I've talked about it in detail in the following post that would help you out.
Freelancing is another way to make money online. Freelancing is where you lend your skills online. There are various platforms online like Freelancer.com, Fiverr and more. These platforms have various categories like graphics designing, programming, content writing (blogging), voice over and more.
You can explore the categories and see what work you can do amongst them. Next, make up your mind and learn how to succeed on each of these platforms as all of them have their own tactics to get to the top.
How You Earn?
With Freelancing, you earn when people on those platforms would give you work. They would find your gig and offer you a task. Once you do that in a specific time predefined in your gig depending upon the work, you would complete it. Then, once your order is complete, the platform would pay you the money that it previously have on hold from the person willing the services.
You can then retrieve the payment via various payout options like Cheque, wire transfer, PayPal, Payoneer and more depending upon individual platform you work upon.
#3 Paid to Platforms
Then there are various platforms that paid to do specific work. Like get paid to review websites, or get paid to fill surveys and more.
I've talked about that in detail in the video featured above. There are various payment options available with these platforms though I would not personally recommend these for long run.
These websites don't pay much and its not worth your time to invest it. Instead, build your own online empire like starting a blog or creating a YouTube channel.
To Conclude
There are quite many details that I discussed in the video featured at the top of the post. Do let me know if you have any questions in the comment section where I would love to reply in Urdu/Hindi for all of you.
Bluehost's affiliate program is among the most famous affiliate program to earn with, online.
Affiliate marketing is a crazy source to generate amazing amount of revenue from your blogs. The real online business are the ones who either have their own products, promote third party products (affiliate marketing) or offer services to their clients.
Bluehost has been my first ever web hosting that I counted on Alhumdulilah! Very soon, as I trusted their service thoroughly, I become their affiliate and decided to recommend it to everyone around me.
This post goes out for all the brothers and sisters who look forward to jump into affiliate marketing and can't figure out what to promote and earning a decent amount while doing so.
To setup a self hosted website, you need a web hosting. So web hosting is one of the most common affiliate products that people promote online and making a living.
The following post is structured in the form of a FAQ which helps understands the topic better InshaAllah.
What is Affiliate Marketing?
Affiliate marketing is when you promote third party products and when you make a sale, you earn a commission out of those sales.
For example, Bluehost offers 65$ to start with, on every sale a person makes for them. That is a one time payment that they make to you, in a response to a life long customer that you gave to them.
How Do They Track The Sales You Make?
When you become their affiliate, they would give you a dedicated affiliate link, that is unique to you. When you share that with your readers on your blog or anywhere online, and when someones clicks that link, they're redirected to Bluehost's website.
Now if the visitor buy Bluehost's hosting, you would get an email that you just made a sale!
That is a great moment! <3 So all of your sales are linked to your affiliate link and you get to see all the statistics and sources that brought you sale in your Bluehost Affiliate Dashboard.
How to Become Bluehost's Affiliate?
You can simply head over to the following link and signup for their affiliate program.
You'd see the following form that you have to fill up. After that you hit 'Sign Up' button and that's all. Your application then goes into approval mode. They'd get back to you via email once your application is approved.
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Make sure that you have a valid website/blog URL that you have to put in the form. This shows them that you've a serious online presence.
Meanwhile your application is under approval, you have to fill up Tax Form, which is required to withdraw your earnings.
How to Withdraw Bluehost Affiliate Earnings?
You can withdraw your affiliate earnings via:
Paypla
WireTransfer (For higher incomes)
How Much Does Bluehost Offer Per Sale?
By default, Bluehost offers 65$ per sale that you make for them. Though, there are odd cases. They often offer more amount per sign up like 100-125$ per sign up to limited amount of blogs that they feel would be able to bring back more sales initially.
Also, once you start making 5-10 sales per month, they would increase your per sale bounty to over 150-200$ +. You can request that to their customer support and they happy do that :)
Though they need to see the sales stats that you made for them since few last months.
What it Takes to Make 3500$ per Month With Bluehost?
Step #1 Increase per Sale Bounty (Optional/Request)
You can request their customer support to increase you initial bounty to 100$ per sale. (A simple request)
Step #2 Plan to make 35 sales per month. 35 sales = 3500$ per month. (With 100$ per sale).
To make 35 sales, you have the following options:
Use Your Blog
#1 Place Banners
You can use different banners on your blog as shown below. I'll share my personal banners in the following screen shots that I use and also there are tons of free banners in Bluehost's affiliate section that you can use.
You can go to Dashboard >> Banner Or Widgets and find out various banner designs you of various dimensions that you feel would be suitable for your blog.
#2 Write Bluehost Reviews
You can write high quality Bluehost reviews on your blog and use your affiliate links with in the post. The more visitors would read your blog, the more sign up would you get. Generally on average you need 100-150 readers to your blog post (that talks about Bluehost) to make a sale.
Now you can do that maths. Though these numbers are not a surety. If you're into a relevant niche where people would like to sign up for the new web hosting, you'd be surprised to see how many sales you can make easily. InshaAllah. #3 Write Instant Reviews On Sales
Bluehost often sends the affiliates emails on various holiday occasions for massive discounts that you can offer to your readers. On moments like Christmas, Black Friday, 4th June etc Bluehost sales are amazing!
Even like more than 60-70% off. :)
SO by making the most out of these sales, you can get a huge spike on your affiliate sales by writing a quick blog post on these moments by offering your readers massive discounts :) #4 Use Google AdWord Ads To Drive to Your Landing Page
I've seen so many people making the most out of Adwords ads to drive traffic to their blogs, that are actually meant to convert that traffic into the sales.
Though this can take quite some iterations to find out the best ad banner that you could use that would convert into your sales.
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Be Aware
You can easily loose quite some money on this one, as Google Adwords is pretty expensive and you can easily loose quite some on that if you don't have the most converting banners.
Conclusion
Hope these insights helped you out. Even if you aim to make 1000$ with Bluehost, I would recommend you to first set a goal. When you'd have a clear goal in mind, you can work upon it and create more blog posts, more video content to market.
A Handy Tip
Never go out of the way to promote any affiliate product you promote. Only soft market it. It's in fact not marketing. It's like helping others. When you take that approach, your blog posts would show the tone you'd take.
Just go out to help your readers with setting up WordPress, offer them services etc, and you'll see sales coming by InshaAllah.
Woho! Finally we were able to get our PayPal verified via Payoneer debit card in Un supported country i.e Pakistan.
PayPal is an industry standard for online money transactions. Due to the un availability of the great service in Pakistan, it was such a hindrance for us to accept payments from clients and various advertisers.
It was so hard to reject those tempting offers, just due to the non availability of a reputable online transaction service that could act as a bridge to accept payments.
The only thing that kept me pulling back from verifying PayPal via Payoneer debit card was the legitimacy of the process. I doubted if it worked.
And trust me, its smooth as silk.
What is PayPal?
PayPal lets you accept or transfer payments online world wide. As its an industry standard, most of the advertisers are comfortable with the service and gives it priority over other services.
Is Your Country supported?
Here is the list where by you can check if your country is supported in PayPal system.
Whats the problem with 'PayPay Verification Process' anyway?
The thing is, PayPal isn't avail able in the entire world. They have a set of countries that are unsupported. Once you try making an account at PayPal.com, you would notice that a bunch of countries aren't listed there.
That's the deal.
Why to Verify PayPal Account?
If you go ahead and apply for PayPal account with any other countries name, you would notice that you would be able to make an account. Though this account would be 'unverified'.
UN-verified PayPal accounts hinder you in few of these ways:
1- Though you can accept payments online (From your sponsors etc by giving away your PayPal ID, i.e your PayPal email address), though you would not be able to withdraw your money from your account.
That is you would never be able to see your hard earned money in your hand. Though you can always use your amounts online.
You can buy a domain online with your unverified PayPal account or order a mac book.
2- Unverified Paypal accounts are restricted to 500$ amount of transactions per month. So you cant make payments more than 500$ online in a month. Once the month ends, you can again use 500$ more anywhere online.
So to pull aside 500$ limit and to be able to withdraw your hard earned money in real life, you need to verify the account.
Hope that clears up the entire cloud of confusions.
What is Payoneer Debit Card?
Payoneer is a great service that provides a debit card service (MasterCard) that is accepted world wide and is also one of the most popular debit card services around.
We would use this debit card to verify our PayPal account.
So How to Get Verified PayPal Account?
There are few simple steps that are involved in the process. These are all the steps that i followed and indeed they worked gracefully.
Step 1: Apply for PayPal Account (Will explain in a bit) Step 2: Apply for Payoneer Debit card Step 3: Get Payoneer Approval & Receive debit card Step 4: Apply for Us Payment Service Step 5: Enter US Bank Details In PayPal (All is explained later in the post) Step 6: Make Your First Widrawal Step 7:Verify PayPal Step 8: Enjoy and Pray for me :)
Step #1 Apply for PayPal Account
Go to PayPal.com and create an account. Enter your name and all the necessary fields. For Address, search for sample address of US. You can easily get that by search Google. There are tons of address that you can enter in the fields below.
Note that we're creating this PayPal account via US (United States). You can use another verified country, though this is how it works perfectly.
Now when asked for Phone number, do the same and search for sample US telephone numbers. Once done, simply hit 'Agree and Create Account' button.
Now you would be taken to the PayPal main menu/dashboard. You would notice that in the status bar it mentions that the account is 'Unverified'.
Once you would complete the entire process, this would turn up to 'verified'.
Step #2 Apply for Payoneer Debit Card
Go to Get Payoneer Debit Card and signup. Fill in all the details. Once done, you would then be asked to verify your Payoneer account. They do that before shipping you the card its self for your verification.
You would get an email for verification that would lay down the details of how you can verify your account. Most likely they would ask you to upload your ID Card (scanned, or a picture front/back), or a drivers license, passport etc. Any of these would work.
I simply took pictures of the National ID card with my mobile and uploaded the pictures and it worked. (they would tell you the place to upload the document. So there is nothing much to worry)
Step #4 Get Approval
In 3-4 days you would get the email that your Payoneer account has been verified and that they would ship your card to your home (the address that you would give while making the payoneer account).
So do give the right information while filling up the Payoneer form. Specially the card holder name. Make sure that it is same as on your National ID card.
Step #5 Apply for US Payment Service
Us payment Service is a service by Payoneer where by they allow their card holders to get a portion of their US Bank Account.
Basically, to get the PayPal account and get it verified, you require a US bank account. As you dont have that obviously, you would get that via Payoneer US Payment Service.
It is actually like a virtual account. Though you don't have the account in reality, Payoneer allocates you (Payoneer Card Holder) a portion of their bank account in US. ( Payoneer have an account in 'First Century Bank' in US.)
So once, you're approved as a card holder in Step#4, you would get an email to apply for US Payment Service if you're interested in receiving money from Companies like PayPal, Amazon etc.
You would simply have to fill in a question are that would require you to answer some simple questions.
Once done, you would submit that form and wait for another 3-4 days. You would than again get an email that your US Payment Service is approved. Your US Bank account details would be emailed to you. ( virtual bank account details).
These details include 'Bank Account#, and 'Securty code'. So by now, you would have your own virtual bank account (via Payoneer US Payment Service) that you would enter into PayPal bank account verification system to get verified.
So your Payoneer card would represent your First Century Bank account. Every transaction that would be made in your virtual account would be seen in your Payoneer account.
Step #6 Make Your First Widrawl.
Sign into your PayPal account and withdraw around 4-5$ into your bank account. (your virtual First Century bank account). PayPal would ask you to enter your bank account details. This is where you would enter the details sent by Payoneer in the email.
PayPal would then validate your bank account (takes 2-3 seconds) and would transfer the amounts. You would then able to see these '2 transaction' into your Payoneer transaction list with in 1-2 days. these both transaction would be less than a $. (e.g 0.03 and 0.15).
These would just be made to test if you have the control over your bank account. You would then have to login to your PayPal account again and hit 'verify bank account' link on the right side bar.
Then simply enter these 2 amounts that you checked in your Payoneer transaction list. Thats all. It would verify your bank account and thats all! Wolaa!
You now have your very own PayPal verified account.
Step #7 Withdraw all the money that you want
Now simply transfer your PayPal amounts into your bank account (that is your Payoneer card) and use it anywhere in the world MasterCard supported ATMs.
In Pakistan, Standard Chartered bank accepts MasterCard.
NOTE: Never enter your Payoneer Card into ATM if it has no amount loaded in it. ATMs would most probably eat up your card. Make sure you load it before using it for withdrawal at ATMs.
Disclaimer: Please note that this way of approving your PayPal account is not very recommended as it involves quite a bit of risk. Your account might get terminated.
Please remember that the use of false information is a violation of the PayPal User Agreement. Violation of the agreement can lead to limitation and/or account closure for all parties involved.
Did you ever imagined an opportunity where a website would pay you to upload files on their system?
Pay to upload sites have been really in now days and is indeed an easy way to make few bugs online. Its one of those ways to make money online that doesn't need any effort on your part. Each time you upload your files to their servers and someone downloads them, you get paid a certain amount.
This scheme of making money online can be much helpful for those students who tend to have lots of project files, solved assignments etc that others would search. Also this system of making money online is pretty encouraging for teachers and tutors.
They can surely make use of their massive notes collection and upload them to their profiles on these following site. Many students would surely search for them and download.
Who knows it might turn into a passive income for you? Also spreading knowledge is more of a virtue so its a win win situation.
Below are top 5 sites that are work like charm and have a neat Pay To Upload system.
Bonus AskHassam Episode
#1 ShareCash
They are relatively new in the market though due to their high payouts, they have become one of the best ones out there who pay for uploading files.
You basically upload the file and wait for the files and earn money every time they get downloaded.
Below is how it goes:
Visitor lands on download page and clicks "Download" button. Then, the visitor is showed a survey (which can take between 30secs to a couple of minutes). Once it's filled, visitor gets access to the file.
Normally, the earnings are from 0 to 10$.
#2 Depositfiles.com
Depositfiles pay 25$ per 1000 downloads of of the files that you upload. The files can be video, audio, text files etc. From Depsitfiles FAQs:
You can upload any file types like EXE, MP3, MPEG, AVI, RAR, ZIP, JPG, etc. Music files, video files, mp3, applications, games, ringtones, office files (e.g. in Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc) projects, models, architectural drawings, conference recordings, price-lists, regular agreements, laboratory data, server configuration files, advertising booklets and so on. The size of a file you can upload is the maximum in the Internet now up to 2GB!
Uploading.com pay their partners anywhere between 1-100$ for every 1000 downloads of their files. The income per file depends upon the file popularity and file size.
From Uploading.com:
* We pay up to $20 per 1000 unique downloads * We pay for downloads from many countries * Daily payments by request! * Minimum payment is just $30! * We pay via Epese, Epassporte, Wire Transfer, Webmoney and PayPal
Crocko.com is another amazing file upload site that pays generously to its users with the rate of approx 1$ per 500 downloads.
The files that are downloaded for more than 60 days are deleted from the servers. Though you can get a premium account for that which would allow you to have 200GB for those dead files to stay on the servers.
For the active files that are downloaded pretty often, there is no limit to storage space, means you can upload as many files as you wish.
Shareapic.net would pay you to upload pictures to their server. For every 1000 picture views you get paid 0.22$. So its a good deal though it wont make you a living obviously but its another opportunity for to get paid. There are couple of picture sharing platforms like Pictu, Instagram where you might already be signed up. So why not to join a site that would pay you to upload pictures, that you already do?
So yeah guys hope these few sites would surely make your dead files on hard drive a way to make money online. Also buddies, pardon for not posting frequently, my exams are on the way. And my scheduled has been uprooted . Much more amazing stuff on the way. Many more interviews. So stay tight and safe.
Looking forward to the fact that we don't have many make money online tutorials in Pakistan, specially in Urdu language, I decided to make this video tutorial for all the brothers and sisters living in Pakistan.
In this particular AskHassam episode, I go through 14 ways how we can make money online in Pakistan.
I hope this helps you out. Do leave out your question in the comments section of the video if you have any InshaAllah.
One of the most common question that I get is how to apply for Google AdSense and how to get it approved. This particular blog post goes through the process of apply for Google AdSense and once we're done, you'd see how easy it is to apply.
The real effort lies in whether your application would get approved or not. One of the most common mistakes I see is that brothers and sisters haven't gone through AdSense's TOS (Terms of Service) and generally don't do their research about what they need to do before hand.
For this particular reason, I have linked below this very blog post for you all, so that you can first well equip your self, so that your Google AdSense's application gets approved on your first try. InshaAllah.
All of you out there might agree to this fact that making something or creating something is really easy, or rather just a process in through which your mental innovation and creation comes into existence.
But after the creation, to maintain that very particular thing becomes a really tough job and sometimes a headache. But if you don't maintain it, it would definitely come to an end which i guess nobody would want to folks!
Now, there is only one thing that can be done in order to avoid such a situation, and that is either maintain that thing regularly, or try to remove every small sort of the cause and reason of destruction of that thing. The second option looks a bit feasible and easy.
If I focus on the Internet community and the area which involves the online earning, same situation is present here too. Now the first thing that comes to my mind every time i think about the online earning topic, is the Google AdSense.
One of the most popular source of earnings online for many bloggers and web masters.
But a large number of publishers get banned from Google due to very minute mistakes at their end. By this they then suffer a lot as their source of earning is almost gone.
Keeping these little yet very important mistakes in my mind, my today's post highlights some of them so that you guys out there can avoid them and continue earning great deals at google AdSense.
Once you're done reading the AdSense common mistakes, then you can go ahead and apply for Google AdSense. Hope these two AdSense episodes will help InshaAllah.
Google AdSense Application Process - 2016
Blunders to avoid!
So guys here are some of the blunders which should be implemented upon practically in order to save yourself from getting banned by the google AdSense.
1) AdSense Code
Many of the Bloggers and webmasters often try to implement custom CSS to the AdSense ads, which is not allowed explicitly. The only design changes that can be implemented to the AdSense ads is via the AdSense Dashboard/Control panel.
2) Confidential Information
Never disclose your confidential information like CTR, CPM and income derived via individual ad units or any other type of confidential information in any case or under any circumstances.
However, you can disclose the total income you earn per ad as it may not cause any problem but greater than this would certainly be violation of rules and regulations that would ultimately cause you a loss.
3) Own Clicks - The Biggest Blunder
This is the most common blunder and should be avoided no matter what happens. You should never try to increase the number of clicks on your ads by unfair means such as asking your friends and family to do so in order to increase your income.
Google is pretty much smart and fast on detecting these type of fraud clicks and you do get detected pretty easily at their end. So avoid this kind of activity as trying to increase your income through such means would ultimately result in you account getting closed.
4) AdSense Ad and Link Limit
Always take care of the limit that is given to you by them and try to stay within the designated limit as trying to exceed limit for the sake of your income increment would not only make your ads visible but would result in the closure for your account. SO, in any case always try to stay within the gives limit. The limit they give is units and 3 ad links or 2 AdSense search boxes on any web page.
5) Text and Tools
Never try to add text or links that are powered by google search engines or ads that resemble the AdSense context and AdSense style as it can be greatly at you loss. Although google does allow you with some of the search engines like yahoo etc but still the main condition prevails of not being similar to the AdSense ad.
6) Launching Page
It is very important that AdSense ads should open on the same page and there shouldn't be anymore pages opening at every click on the ad. If this is the case then surely you may be using a base target tag to open all links in a new window or frame by default. So, its better to correct it as they don't want opening of pages at every new click. This could too become a source of closure of your account.
7) Headings
Only label your ads by the headings "sponsored links" or "advertisements" as any other headings or labels other then these are strictly unacceptable by google. There are people who have other labels and headings other then these. If you are one of them then correct it now and try not to become a target as become one can result in your account being closed.
8) Ads By Email
Never try to send your AdSense ads through emails. Though sending ads through emails seems a much easier and an interesting option as HTML formatted emails look good and allow placement of these javascript ads.
But this activity is against the Terms of Service rules. So never try to practise such an exercise and avoid it to every extent as they are watching you.
9) Placing Ads
Placement of ads is a really important and a sensitive issue as advertisers only pay for the content based ads. The rest is of little or no use. Although you may be able to manage some clicks from useless sort of pages such as thank you pages, pop ups etc. But these will eventually result in the dismal of you account. So better avoid such type of activity and provide some useful content based ads.
10) Multiple Accounts
There is no need to create and manage multiple or more than one account to counter the fear that if they'll close one account then you can use others to continue and carry on. This is wrong approach folks, if they find this thing out they will definitely go for closing your other accounts too.
No doubt they are the boss! Instead of approaching for this wrong approach you can keep track of clicks by using channels with real time statistics. They will automatically detect the new site and display relevant ads.
11) Ad Blending
In your AdSense account you are provided with a very large and an exclusive collection of borders and colours which can be used for stylizing purposes and they can surely serve the purpose really well.
But in this styling process take care of one thing that is really important that components of the ad should never be covered as hiding relevant components of the ads is not allowed. Also do not block the visibility of ads by overlapping images, pop ups, tables etc. So take pretty good care of this thing.
12) Content Management
Do take extra care of the content of your ads as google does close accounts if your content isn't appropriate or suitable. Try not to add it on web pages with mp3, video, news groups, and image results. Also take care and exclude any pornographic, hate-related, violent, or illegal content. Acting on these will surely keep you safe.
13) Supported Language
Always take extra care of the language you are using that whether is it supported by the AdSense. If it isnt' then application of the code should be avoided as it is of no use then.
AdSense basically supports Chinese (simplified), Japanese, Danish, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, English, Polish, Finnish, Portuguese, French, Russian, German, Spanish, Hungarian, Swedish, Italian and Turkish. Apart from these its search is also available in Czech, Slovak, and Traditional Chinese. So better use these languages to avoid any sort of problem.
14) Altering Results
While working you should take extra care of one thing that through your ads or work on them, site should not be altered in any case or through any type. Don't in any case frame, minimize, remove, redirect or otherwise inhibit the full and complete display of any advertiser page or search results page after the user clicks on any ad or search results as such an activity can make you cost a lot.
15) Excessive Advertising
Always try to avoid over and extra advertising and keyword addition as a much specific and appropriate content which is well managed will attract more traffic then the one which is over crowded. So better avoid doing such activities as these can cost you double loss.
So guys here were some of the blunders that should be avoided in any case in order to save yourself from getting banned by the google AdSense.
Just try not to get yourself in the spot light and get highlighted for such an activity, and with this try to abide by the rules and regulations at any cost. As by doing this you will definitely remain on the safe side. In the end, positive comments are appreciated.
Making online payments in Pakistan was not the easiest of things in the near past when there was no easy mechanism to make online payments, specially for the students who couldn't mange to make any online payments expect to get debit/credit cards from their parents.
In the AskHassam episode below, I've gone through a very easy way how we can all get a UBL Wiz Debit card with such an a ease that we don't even have to fill out any forms or sign any papers.
The process is quite fast and the card can be used world wide.
I've gone through more details in the episode below InshaAllah.
Hope that helps you all InshaAllah. Do let me know if you guys need any help in the comments section below.
Early blogging days are always hard to pass. I remember even 10 visitors seemed a fancy number.
With a thirst to move forward and build a successful blog, i started out reading blogging tips in order that i could achieve a successful blog in future.
No matter how many hours it took to find an answer to my query, i didn't mind spending it. Sometimes 4 sometimes 10! Today building out a decent base of BloggingeHow, we aim to go further with the support that you guys have always showed.
During this time period, and reading out dozens of blogging tips that proved beneficial for my self, i would like to point them out here, so that you get an idea of what to look for in your blogging career and what aims to achieve during this hard work time.
Here are top 25 blogging tips that i believe are most crucial to a successful blog launch and would earn you a bright future if you stick to them.
Approach
1-Set A Direction: Know Your Path
Once you're sure about what you want to write about (regardless if you would make any money out of it or not, but only because its your passion to do so), now its time to get technical. Carry out a research for that specific topic and find the 'most' suitable "keyword" that you would build your blog upon.
You just don't drop out and start writing upon. Notice how you find content online. You search a specific keyword or phrase and Google shows up its most relevant and high quality results. A minor changes to your keyword search would change the results likewise.
That means, that every site/blog has its own area of focus and it gets traffic through those keywords. So jump out on Google Keyword Tool and search your keywords. Finally come up with a short phrase that has highest traffic per month (that's how keyword tool shows).
Say you wish to write about making money through Internet. The most used and highly searched keyword in this aspect is say "make money online".
So choose this keyword and put it in your blog meta keywords. (i would later talk about it in SEO blogging tips).
Make sure that you find your self a specific niche (blogging topic). Blogging about Technology would consume more efforts and would be hard to rank high then simply writing about Apply products.
Just a random idea. Now days people search more specific queries in search engines and that what you need to take care of while choosing the right topic.
2-Choosing The 'Right' Domain
Once you have sought out the blogging topic for your self, its time to hunt for a relevant domain that is made up of those keywords that you want to target. Its not that easy to find out.
Top domain names would be always booked when you look for them. But hard work always pays off.
Buying a domain like : www.makingmoneyonline.com would be a dream for you. When you visit the domain registrar site (bluehost may be), you can search for domains there.
Now this may be controversial to many, but i believe it totally depends upon you. The most popular blogging platform today are WordPress.org and Blogger.com.
I go through the entire procedure of starting a professional blog on Wordpress on the post linked below.
WordPress.org (self hosted WordPress) is a paid service, where you would have to buy a hosting so that you can put your blogging files up there on the server. You cant start up with it without getting a hosting.
On the other hand, if you still want to go with WordPress but don't want to pay, then WordPress.com (Free WordPress with limited options) is available too. Like wise, Blogger.com is also quite famous (By Google) and is totally free with 100% up time reputation.
This blog is hosted upon Blogger. I just bought the domain and it was good to go. If i have to recommend a blogging platform to any beginner, i would say it depends upon you.
If you don't have financial constraints and most students like me do, then WordPress would be the right choice with a self hosted blog.
The only attraction towards WordPress over Blogger is its great looking professional free templates plus, a great amount of quality plugins that are on your disposal.
There is nothing such plugins thing in Blogger. You have to do tweaks manually. But again its totally free, so what to loose?
Early blogging days are often experimentation and for that, i would recommend Blogger. Later you may consider shifting over to WordPress.
4-Choosing The Right Hosting Company
Blogger is known for its 100% up time. But that's not achieved by any other hosting company, even the top ones.
Currently I utilize bluehost web hosting and it's been over 3 years that I'm totally satisfied with it. I have talked about that in this getting started with blogging page.
So make sure you get the best ones right in the starting. But again, don't be afraid of failures if they come later on as its the part of learning process that we all are into. Just make your decision wisely and then believe in your self.
5-Setting Up a Goal
Setting goal is extremely important for your success in any field that you hop into. That's the only force that makes you work harder to achieve that target. Look how top entrepreneurs and a legendary body builder, 'Arnold', made out their way to the top.
Its like branding 'Yourself' too! Make yourself unique and that would only happen if you stay what 'You Are' and not trying to be like the top probloggers or who ever you admire. Note their best qualities and indeed apply to them to your life style, but in your own way.
People often like the informal way i write my posts and that's what they like about articles here at BloggingeHow. Be confident in what ever you do and people would start following you likewise.
Thank you for all of this :)
7- Enjoy Your Writing Career
Take blogging as a discussion with your readers. Pretend that they all are listening to your right away when you write your content. This way you would enjoy what you write. Also as mentioned before, passion for a particular topic is vital in this regard too.
Design
8- Make Sure You Brand Your Blog
Its all about giving a unique look to your blog so that people know it my its design. Every top website/blog that you know has its own unique look. You could get a free template and then customize it according to your liking. Its called branding.
Giving out a unique look to your blog so that people know you by design too.
You could buy professionals template, that are already fit to go on with in most cases. But still you would be needing a branding phase. Or you could either simply hire a programmer and build out one from scratch.
Ever read about how About Us page can make or break impression? People often visit About Us pages to get involved in what ever they would read later on. They like to get connected virtually with the mind behind the content they read.
So make sure you give out your best picture on about us page, a video would be even better. Write out about your self in a friendly way as if you would narrate your story.
Design it well. Tell them what reader can expect from your blog and finally at the end, give them a call to action. Mention out your best posts etc to tell them what to do next.
It can be a good idea to have a separate Contact Us page on your blog. People often like to get connected with you for seeking inspiration and sharing their views about your blog. Or they may like to get any advice.
Post frequency matters a lot to a blogs success. Posting content frequently on your blog, may be daily, would attract your visitors and your blog would become a part of their lives. I wrote a post yesterday about choosing the right post frequency for your blog. Once you decide it for your self, simply stick to it.
Search engine optimization is most crucial and is backbone to driving traffic to your blog. You would aim to get major traffic from search engines, and for that your content should attract them. Your blog should too in general!
SEO is majorly depended upon few vital aspects that i have talked about in the post below. There are couple of Search engine plugins that i compiled too, in one of the posts below.
The more comprehensive quality content that you give out to readers that solve their problems, the more they would be loyal towards your blog. They may subscribe to your feeds and social network (Facebook, Twitter etc) at the end of the post.
Readers would come back to your blog and would recommend it to their friends too. So as a whole due to word of mouth and social media interaction, you would start seeing increase in your blog traffic. And remember, its exponential!
It may be difficult to build those first 100 visitors. After that its becomes much more easy. So look forward to that time and motivate your self to workout hard in those early days. Simply follow these tips consistently and you would feel the rewards coming.
14-Choose Perfect Post Titles- A Gateway Of Traffic
Understand that optimized post titles are Gate Way of search engine traffic. The more search engine optimized content you write, the more doors are you building for people to access your blog through different search keywords and phrase.
Posting timings matter a lot too. Though you wont feel the difference in early days, but when people start following your content on daily basis, you should make sure that you give them content when "They" want it to come.
Look towards the statistics of your blog and know the demographics. Like most of our traffic comes from United States. So i would make sure that i post out an article when people are in their offices (they often like to read something of their interest in morning).
Posting Timings becomes crucial in manipulating Alexa rank later on when your blog is highly ranked. I would keep you updated over this as i am experimenting upon this now days too.
16-Monitor Blog Statistics Regularly
Though it might not be a good idea to waste too much of your time in looking to stats, as you cant do much about it in early days.
At then the only thing you should concentrate on is creating content. Later on when you start getting decent traffic, you can make use of statistics and plan out your approach and posting timings likewise.
17- Make Use Of Blog Feeds
Many readers like to read content through their emails. Its called your blog feeds.
Your daily content is emailed to your blog feed subscribers and thus make them satisfy.
Many people also limit their blog feeds to 'jump break'. That is a limited snippet of your daily article is mailed to them and thus they reach out to your blog post page to read the remaining content, and thus increasing traffic.
Top Lists are always attractive to the eyes and drive traffic through search engines to a great extent. People often like to share them in their social circles to thereby increasing your traffic. Sometimes if you're lucky, they might get viral bringing in thousands of visitors.
Connecting With Fans
19- Socialize With Your Fans
When you get a decent following on social media (Facebook, Twitter etc), socializing really benefits your blog. Its doesn't mean that you should always share a post with them. You could share you views on a particular topic, take their views, or just post out a quote of your liking.
Got the idea?
Make sure that they remain connected with you and your blog brand.
Do you have a custom Facebook Fan page URL? If not, read the post below:
This works best in early days of blogging. It helps to increase your back links (through blog commenting) and brings in few of those first valuable visitors, that keep you going in blogging career.
Leave out comments (with a link to your blog) on blogs with in your niche. Its even better if the blog is do-follow. That would earn you a respectable Google Page Rank due to quality back links.
Guest Posting is another great way to put out your voice and name in blogging world. Popular blogs have massive following and by leaving out a quality guest post their would bring traffic towards your blog. These visitors often subscribe your blog too as they look forward to get connected with you, if you leave a lasting impression over them.
That's where first impression counts.
21- Encourage Comments On Your Blog
Building out a community is a dream of every blogger. The more informal and friendly you are towards your readers, it is more likely for them to leave out a comment. Always replay to them in an encouraging way, and help them out in a professional manner.
You would see those commentators becoming loyal fans of your blog in no time!.
22- Handle Negative Comments Wisely!
Its too important and makes an impression over other readers too. Negative comments are always their and you just cant make every body happy in the world. But you ultimate success is to convert those haters into loyal fans.
And that would only happen if you would appreciate those commentators and say like :
" I appreciate your comment though i would like to clarify this or that..."
Something in this fashion so that the hater gets the room to become a fan and change his words later on. Don't corner him and force him to be even bitter. Blogger are kind of psychiatrist too :)
23- Promote 'Easy Following'
Place Facebook like boxes, Twitter follow button in most suitable places on your blog. Above the post, below the posts, above the fold on homepages etc.
Make sure your readers get the chance the share your content easily. Sometimes you need to ask them to do so as they get distracted in other things on your blog. AND that's what ill be doing at the end of this post :)
So don't forget to share this post too! That would mean a lot =)
Formatting
24- Always Edit Content Before Publishing
Make sure, and make it your utmost priority that you go through your post and edit it in the end. Read out these productivity tips that i wrote few days back that talk about editing content.
Minor typing errors leave a bad impression on your readers and they start taking your content less seriously.
25- Paragraphing Is Too Important
Notice how this post is divided into eye catching format. It becomes much easy for the reader to hover over the content if its divided into small paragraphs of few lines (3-4).
You just have few seconds to convince the visitors to become a reader!. Formatting makes him to be that.
Thanks a Lot!
This was one of my greatest posts of all time. Hope these blogging tips were productive for you and would make a difference in your life.
DON'T forget to share the post with your fellow mates. It would mean a lot to us. :)
Astalavista!
If you yet haven't started a blog, you can learn and get started from scratch from this getting started video!
Making money online for some can be extremely easy. Much easier that the effort we put into our every day jobs in real world.
But for some, it can be like hitting the head with the wall with absolutely no positive results. Today, we see people all around in India/Pakistan confused about whether one could earn money online. Some think of it as a delusion and some have heard random stories of someone who made huge bugs online.
Today, we'll go through the major ways through which you can surely making a decent living online and also, I would like to put forward some streams that you should avoid wasting your time upon. I tried tons of schemes online, and wasted hundreds of hours.
The conclusion is this post it's self. Before we move forward, you can always go through some of the similar posts I posted in the paste. This topic is so vast and needs to be discussed every now and then so that more and more brothers/sisters could get benefited from it.
Setup a blog in niche that you're in loved with or that has low competition in Google. Once you've your audience built up after blogging for 8-12 months, you can apply for Google Adsense and start monetizing our blog. There are couple of ways through which you can make money with your blog.
a- Setup Ads: You can setup Ads and use platforms such as Google AdSense, BuySellAds etc. There are couple of other Ads delivery network but they aren't quite profitable.
b- Promote Products/Affiliate Marketing: You can become affiliates to different companies that offer products same as in your niche and promote their products. These companies offer commissions on every sale that you'd make.
For example, I use Bluehost for my sub domains in BloggingeHow, and thus I love to recommend it to my readers. As I trust the product my self, I believe in it.
Like wise, you can go through Affiliate marketplaces to choose different products that you think are suitable for your niche. Clickbank is one great example.
c- Monetize Email List: If you have spend some time researching about blogging and how to succeed, one basic and most important blogging tip that you would get is to 'create your email list'. This is so core and important which you'd only realize once you're 1 year into blogging.
You can put Adverts in your email broadcasts/Newsletters that you can charge on monthly basis. Platforms like BuySellAds allow putting adverts in email newsletters.
Also, if your email list is of high quality, meaning by that people in your list are actual buyers and are targeted towards the product you are affiliate to and promote on your blog, you can also recommend this product to your list and get some extra profit out of these audience.
d- Offer Services: You can offer various services on your blog such as 'Skype consultancy' in a field that people believe you're experienced with. There are many bloggers out there that offer 'Free WordPress Setup Service' which I offer my self too. Such services are helpful for the people who either don't have the skill to do it, or are short of time.
In any case, you can earn from offering services to your blog's audience.
There is a huge potential to earn through event based blogs. Event based blogs are the ones that are short lived and are only aimed for a particular time period and targets a set event. For example, you would notice tons of blogs/websites popping up for free coupons and deals before New year or Black Friday or specially on Christmas.
Bloggers build blogs (2-3 pages max) before these event and try to rank them on the first page of Google. On these blogs, they either have banner ads setup, or they promote a particular product and earn commission from it on each sale.
When the actual event arrives, Google would bless them with thousands of visitors which would help them earn big bugs. Some people only do event blogging.
But the down side is that you're not able to build a brand name and loyal fans. After 30 years of event blogging, no one would recognize you with a brand name.
3- Write For Other Blogs
You can write for other popular blogs and earn a reputation online. With time, as your portfolio would become strong, you would be able to earn more on per article basis.
4- Become a YouTuber
If you're crazy about making videos, then you can earn a decent amount on YouTube. I've seen people rising up on YouTube from nothing to well known celebrities who now tour different countries to visit their fans.
How cool is that.
YouTube have their own YouTube's partner program through which you can make money with your video by displaying Ads around them. As YouTube is owned by Google its self, these ads are Google AdSense ads and the process works just like how you would earn through any blog and Google Adsense combination.
With popular freelancing sites such as Freelancer.com, Elance.com, Odesk.com and Fiverr.com, you can offer your skills (Any skill that you have can be offered in these platforms) and you could meet up with potential clients who would give you big orders.
People have become millionares through freelancing. Once they get a decent setup, they build up their own companies and outsource the projects they get.
If you're good at marketing, you can promote third party products on sites like Ebay/Amazon and earn commissions just like in Affiliate marketing through blogs.
This requires quite a skill as you need to coupe up with the competition as there are tons of people already doing this. You'd have to research your marketing first on these platforms and the prices that those or similar products are priced at.
Conclusion - Yes You Can
If you have that urge and dedication that you can certainly make money online. With every business, there comes failures. It's pretty hard to not face any failure along the way, but what makes you a champion is that you don't quite at that point when you're down.
I hope this post would help you out to start somewhere in the field of your interest and never look back.
Best of luck
JazakaAllah :)
P.S For some motivation, I have attached these posts for you. Every time I read these again, I aim not to waste any moment more of my life :) Cheers.
