There are a lot of things to consider before monetizing your blog and seems like only few bloggers understand it. Everyday I visit different kinds of blog to gain more knowledge, enhance my blogging skills and to get more ideas how to design blog. What I notice was many of the blogs I visited doesn't know the values of having a professional looking blog. All they care about is to make an income from their blog for themselves which is a very bad idea when you want to become a successful blogger.But I know everybody make mistakes in their lives, like me I used to do these bad idea's too. When money starts to get in your nerves all the possible ways to make money will control your mind and make your blog look like trash. When you start putting too much ads from Adsense, Adbrite, Bidvertiser, other networks and Affiliation your blog will never become successful even if you have great articles. Your readers either get confused or will have a hard time finding what they're looking for.
So take it from the 10 Influential Bloggers Today. Do you know how they become what they are now? Honestly I don't, but for sure they are aware of this things.
- Make a domain name that will suites your niche/s. (for those who doesn't money to buy domain)
- Buy a domain name that will suites your niche/s. (for those who have money to buy domain)
- Decide what Blogging tool you will use.
- Use a professional looking themes or template you can download a free one but when doing this be aware that you might see blogs that have the same themes or template as yours. (for those who doesn't money to buy themes or template)
- Buy your own professional looking themes or template but buying themes or template doesn't guarantee that your the only one who can use it. Others can buy it too. (for those who have money to buy themes or template)
- Create your own professional looking themes or template. 99.9% guaranteed that you will be the only one who can use the themes or template (for web designers)
- Improve SEO and SEM and other ways to drive more traffic.
- Build a name by creating great articles.
- Make feeds for your Blog. (You can also put Ads in your Blog feed)
- Remove all unnecessary widgets or gadgets in your blog. Put only the things that your blog needs. (So you'll have good space for your Ads)
- Part of having a user-friendly blog is to help your visitor find what their looking for. Blog search is the best way for this. A good example are Google Custom Search and Quintura. (You can monetize your traffic with these two examples)
