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Is blogging a good idea for making money online?
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Augustus
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99.99% of the time you'd make far more working in McDonalds.
Can make money from donation via Patreon or the like, or creating bonus 'members only' content. Unless you are pulling in huge numbers, or are dealing with a particular niche that translates well to sponsorship, advertising won't make a huge amount.
To make much you really need to be doing something that people are willing to pay for, which requires it to be stuff they can't get for free.
Youtube is better for money as video adverts make more money (which is why we get bombarded with autoplay videos on websites). You still need to be getting tens of millions of views a year before you can make much though. I know someone with over 100,000 subscribers to his channel and he makes a few thousand a year. Good money for a teenager, but nothing that would support a family.
Have you got any specific areas of expertise?
Youtube isn't good because of ad money, it's good because people are more likely to watch videos in the background rather than read articles in the background. Paetron is still the majority of cash flow for youtubers. I guess in some cases if they have tens of millions in views on every video it's a different case, but other than that for the lower and mid tier it's all about paetron.
I've actually done a bit of research and used different youtube channels as case studies for this. A blog is generally going to be harder too. In any case the fastest anyone can get to making decent money, if you play your cards right and hit the right demographic at the right time, is a year. Though it seems up to 4-5 years to get to that point is more common.
In other words, do it because you love it, money should be secondary as there is no promise it will ever get to that point even if you do everything more or less right.
I've actually done a bit of research and used different youtube channels as case studies for this. A blog is generally going to be harder too. In any case the fastest anyone can get to making decent money, if you play your cards right and hit the right demographic at the right time, is a year. Though it seems up to 4-5 years to get to that point is more common.
In other words, do it because you love it, money should be secondary as there is no promise it will ever get to that point even if you do everything more or less right.
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YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
I agree that Patrion is the chief source of income for YouTube content providers. The thing is to find a niche. But no, you are not likely to make much money off a blog unless you can generate loads of interesting content and that is not easy.
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Infinitum
Possessed Bookworm
I run a moderately successful blog on a niche topic, and I make maybe 20-40 euros a year from ads and affiliate links. Affiliate links and sponsorships have the potential to get big, but you have to be really good at what you do, and even then the competition is fierce. Blogs are starting to give way to YouTube, and it's become a whole lot harder to enter that platform either.
I haven't tried Patreon for the blog myself, but I agree it's the best way to monetize when you've built a loyal following. However, blogging on that level is serious work, because your search rank drops the moment you don't publish a post on schedule, and readers similarly expect regularity or your traffic drops. To add to the problem, Facebook and other social media sites you could use to inform readers about new posts don't actually show your posts to more than a small fraction of your followers.
In a nutshell, unless you strike literally internet gold, blogging is a nice hobby at it's best.
I haven't tried Patreon for the blog myself, but I agree it's the best way to monetize when you've built a loyal following. However, blogging on that level is serious work, because your search rank drops the moment you don't publish a post on schedule, and readers similarly expect regularity or your traffic drops. To add to the problem, Facebook and other social media sites you could use to inform readers about new posts don't actually show your posts to more than a small fraction of your followers.
In a nutshell, unless you strike literally internet gold, blogging is a nice hobby at it's best.
You'd get more money picking your neighbors garbage for repairable / resale items. Adsense doesn't pay much, and that's what most bloggers use for income. YouTube is something like $0.06 cents per 1,000 views, so unless you're getting millions of them it really doesn't matter. (A million views would get you $60-70.) The most profitable videos on YouTube have probably made maybe $6-7000 in their entire lifetimes.
None of these methods make any sense in and of themselves, but if you have another product to sell like a book, music, or other merch it can be profitable by selling that. (Most of those items would profit nearly 50% per sale) So, that's what most people do... My advice for a blog is only do it if you have real products to sell, and build the blog and YouTube around the interests of those products.
So I forgot, but it also matters how engaged you are with your audience and fanbase. One person that isn't too engaged at a quarter million subscribers is only making 400 USD a month on patreon, and then two people doing a show with only 150,000 subscribers are making 80k USD a year on patreon that they are splitting together. The latter I know for example has been doing youtube for 5 years and only quit their day jobs when they hit 100,000 subscribers somewhere less than 2 years ago IIRC.
So how many views or subscribers you have doesn't really impact your income. It's establishing a dedicated fanbase that does, and having content that they want to pay for both that's given out for free and also behind the paywall. You need to connect with people on a personal level in an entertaining way. You're not just selling a product, you're selling an idea that people can relate to.
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So how many views or subscribers you have doesn't really impact your income. It's establishing a dedicated fanbase that does, and having content that they want to pay for both that's given out for free and also behind the paywall. You need to connect with people on a personal level in an entertaining way. You're not just selling a product, you're selling an idea that people can relate to.
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Sensor
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Blogging is a very popular way now for earning money but really good money get only a rather small amount of people. The main thing in this case is content you make, amount of your audience and subscribers and there's a great competition in this sphere now, I mean that producing a really unique and interesting content isn't an easy thing at all
You'll need to spend really much time for developing your blog firstly and even after that it usually won't be enough for full replacing of other jobs.Besides your other important things will be web building and online advertising. The first one in case of making a free blog is rather simple because of such platforms like WordPress, made wordpress theme https://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes.php for making a design and many other simple free tools which can be used successfuly even by newbies. But you'll need to spend really much energy and time for advertising, it can take even more time than preparing your content.
Also I recommend you to look through this article smartblogger.com/make-money-blogging/ about more details, this guy has a really good experience with blogging.
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I agree that site design is really important. It's something I spent ages on myself and it really paid off. The more clean and professional your site looks, the more it will stand out. Of course after a certain point if you got a lot going on you might need some clutter, but overall you should try to make it as clean as possible. Youtube right now is a good example of being right in that sweet spot in terms of design, but they probably got like 100 web designers working on it all the time lol.