Getting Started: How do Bloggers Make Money Online?

Cherice Strong-Madison posted the following question on BBWO: “I need help…I am trying to understand how to start a blog and get paid for it. Do I start this on my website or just in general…This is new to me, so I am trying to get a full understanding.” If you have questions about blogging or have tips then click here to respond to her post. Read Below for my explanation on what blogging is and how bloggers make money online:

A blog is an only journal that you start to write about a topic of your choice. I have a ton of them like: www.sistasense.com or my Black Parenting Blog – http://blackparenting.blogspot.com. And you also have the ability to have your own Blog Right Here on BBWO.

Alright so now that you know what I blog is, how do bloggers make money?

Well, let me back track a bit. A blog is created so you can share your information or entertaining interests with others SO the main reason people blog is so other people will subscribe to their blog and read it all the time. It’s kind of like having your own newspaper or magazine except a digital version.

Where does the money come in? Well if you look at popular blogs like ConcreteLoop.com or Afrobella.com for example, the money comes in different ways. The most common being:

1. When you put adsense on your site and people click the ads … you make money.

2. If you charge people to advertise on your blog … you make money.

3. If people pay you to put their reviews or sponsored posts on your website or talk about their products on your blog … you make money.

4. If you sell your own stuff on your blog …. you make money.

5. If you join an affiliate program where you make commissions to share other people’s stuff … and people click on your affiliate links and actually buy stuff… then you make money.

That is the long and short of it.