You guessed it: I’m selling out.
OK, maybe that’s a little over the top. But I am planning on moving over to WordPress.org in the next month or two so I can start monetizing my efforts here (you can’t do it on WordPress.com). After all, one of the reasons I started this blog was to understand everything blogging offers for business, and most businesses are interested in making money.
I just read this excellent post by Scott, and I’ve picked up a thing or two at ProBlogger. But I want your tips and ideas. What suggestions and advice can you leave here in the comments on how to best make money with a blog? Anything you can think of for this blog specifically? Maybe you can even write your own post on your blog in response and just trackback to this post.
Let me hear from you.
10 responses so far ↓
How Can I Make Money Blogging? // November 14, 2007 at 8:45 pm
[...] Cal Law wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWhat suggestions and advice can you leave here in the comments on how to best make money with a blog? Anything you can think of for this blog specifically? Maybe you can even write your own post on your blog in response and just … [...]
Niyaz PK // November 14, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Get out of wordpress and use your own domain. Thats it.
Aaron at FullTiltBlogging // November 15, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Have a dual traffic focus:
Short Term:
* Current Interest Items
* Short “Link Bait” Posts
Long Term:
* In depth articles designed for keyword phrase searchers
Mix up both each week and you should have a growing readership which means more ad and affiliate dollars.
The Couv // November 15, 2007 at 7:39 pm
just post a picture of you doing your situps without a shirt on. remember college?
Brett // November 16, 2007 at 9:49 am
All good advice, except maybe the sit-ups idea. But it’s worth a shot, right?
Aaron, could you expand a little bit on “link bait?” I know what it is, but I know there’s good link bait and bad bait.
cwd // November 16, 2007 at 1:19 pm
And there’s jail bait.
Brett // November 16, 2007 at 3:10 pm
And stink bait
Link Bait: Kyla Ebbert Nude in Playboy « Full Tilt Blogging // November 16, 2007 at 3:46 pm
[...] other day Brett made a post about making money as a blogger. I made a comment where I encouraged him to give link baiting a try (in addition to other traffic [...]
marshallyard // November 19, 2007 at 10:10 am
I am in the “consideration” mode of setting up a wordpress.org blog too, I need stats, more so than are provided here.
Helen // February 10, 2009 at 9:29 am
What sort of stats are you looking for marshallyard? I know there is rather a long interuption of reply here, but I’ve just come across this blog post and found it interesting.
Hope your move to WordPress.org was managed smoothly, Brett!