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The Truth About The Publishing Business Blogging For Bucks You Must Invest In Book Reviews How To Turn One Book Into A Fulltime Income
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Blogging For Bucks One of the newest and easiest ways to make money from your writing/publishing efforts is with a blog, sort of an online diary. I’d heard of blogs for some time, but just had no real interest in them. I already have enough ongoing writing projects without saddling myself with a daily deadline. My thinking about that has changed in the last few months. While researching some information for one of my publishing seminars, I came across several references to blogging and followed a link or two, and realized that there is an entire income stream out there I have been overlooking! Google, the online search engine, launched an advertising program a while back called AdSense that is putting money in online publishers’ pockets every month. In some case BIG money! The process is simple. After registering with Google, web masters and bloggers can quickly and easily paste a simple HTML code into their web pages. Once they publish or update their blog or website, Google’s robots search the web pages and insert small ad links leading to advertisers with products or services relevant to the web page or blog content. Whenever a reader clicks on one of the ad links, the publisher receives a small commission. It’s really pretty interesting to see how fast
the appropriate ads links appear. I added a story on traveling the
Natchez Trace to our RV website at www.gypsyjournal.net
and within a minute or two of uploading the story to our website, ads
appeared on the page related to I added the Google ad links to our RV website and also started a daily blog on the website back in November, 2006. Almost instantly we started to see small commission credits appearing in our Google AdSense account. I quickly added the ad links to this website and my motorcycle website www.motorcycletravelonline.com and every day we were earning several dollars in passive income. The more pages and content I add to my websites and the blog, the more my commissions go up.
Google has some strict rules about revealing just how much income a person earns with AdSense, but let me just say that I won’t be purchasing a new Mercedes anytime soon. However, the extra $500 to $600 a month I am earning adds up over time. I’ve found that different ad links produce different commissions, and they can range from a few cents for some of the ads on our RV website to $2 or more for ad links here on the publishing website. Our best single day of commissions has been just over $60, and we’ve had a couple of days where commissions were just a buck or two. On average we are earning around $20 to $23 a day at this point in commissions. Now, don’t get greedy and start clicking on your own ad links, or have all of your friends getting online clicking the ad links! Google calls that click fraud and will quickly slap you down for that. Recourse for click fraud can be as simple as a stern warning letter, to losing several hundred dollars in ad commissions, all the way to having your Google AdSense account suspended or cancelled. So just play the game the right way and, like with any business project, let it grow over time. Publishing a daily blog has also brought in some other income as well. When I announced a year end closeout on several of my RV books in the blog, a dozen or so orders came in within 24 hours. The blog also brought several paid reservations for an RV rally we had in February, 2007, and when I announced the dates for the 2008 rally in the blog, several more paid reservations quickly arrived in response. Following the Publishing4Profit methodology, I have been revising and using these daily blog entries as content for my Meandering Down The Highway column in our Gypsy Journal RV newspaper. For more information on the AdSense program, go to https://www.google.com/adsense/ Find Great Writer's Resources In Our Writer's Bookstore
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