This is a list post of 5 ways I feel making money blogging will change. I’ve been fortunate enough to learn and practice some daily strategies to make money blogging. I think I am onto something good when I make $300-400 a month. The truth is though, I feel I’ve earned more at the end of every day. While I love making money blogging and publishing online, sometimes I do get bitter when I read about the success of other bloggers who’ve been able as much as 40k a month (Dooce.com shared that on Oprah recently). Tonight I am thinking about the changes that have come about in blogging for money and I’m wondering how those methods will change in the next 5-10 years. I came up with this list of 5 ways blogging for money will change in the future:
- Total transparency will become more important to advertisers than PageRank. To be on track with this, I recommend ignoring PageRank and putting a link or widgets in your blog that show your reader CAN Blog Stats. Did you know PageRank 1-4 blogs have very low traffic and popularity when compared to many PageRank 0 blogs? Soon advertisers will start to see this. In a slogan: Focus on CAN not on PR.
- Free Hosted Blogs like Blogger will lessen. More people will start self-hosted blogs. People will begin to “get the memo” that spending hours a week typing in their free-hosted blog is a waste. They will see that folks doing the same thing on a self-hosted blog, Wordpress for example, are profiting.
- The smaller companies that pay you to blog will go out of business and merge. This will bring a greater variety of opps and the expectations will become more uniform.
- Plugins will emerge that offer you opps in your “write” screen based on the categories and other items you select.
- Continued opps will rely more on the measure of a post’s effectiveness. In other words, take writing paid posts seriously. Act as if you are promoting your own blog.