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You want to start a blog. However, it can take months for a new blog to start showing a profit. Could you make money faster by buying an abandoned blog?

A blog which is been online for several years has many benefits. Even if the blog hasn’t been updated in a year or two, if it has pages which are indexed in the search engines, it has value. If it still gets traffic, it has even more value.

Let’s look at two alternatives when starting a new blog.

1. Start a New Blog from Scratch

The big benefit of starting a blog from scratch is that you can set up the blog exactly the way you want it. Every decision is up to you, and you can set the blog up for search engine optimization benefits right from the start. If you know your industry, you’ll set up a capable, efficient and professional blog which is primed to make money for you.

However your blog will take time to get indexed and to start generating traffic. You’ll need to build content, and build links. For most blogs it takes at least six months before they are generating a reliable income.

But what if you could buy a blog which is already established, and which already has traffic?

2. Buy an Established, Abandoned Blog

Thousands of blogs are started every day. Most of these blogs are abandoned after the first post. Many more are abandoned after the tenth post. Unfortunately many of these blogs were never indexed, because they failed to get links.

However some old blogs remain indexed, and if you’re lucky enough to find them, you could approach the buyer and make an offer. Most of these blog owners have completely forgotten about their blogs. They may be surprised that somebody wants to buy the blog.

When you actually buying when you buy an established blog?

Firstly you’re buying the domain name, secondly you’re buying the fact that the blog is indexed in the search engines and has some degree of Page Rank. You’re also buying traffic. Using common online tools, you’ll be able to estimate the amount of traffic any blog gets every day. If there is traffic it may be minimal, but it’s still worth money.

Any blog is a long term investment, and you can shortcut your route to profitability when you buy an established, abandoned blog. Consider this option, when next you’re planning a new blog.

Blogging makes a great home business

Many bloggers blog full time in their blogging home business, and earn a great income – much more than they could earn at a job.

Discover how you can make money blogging, with Angela Booth’s blogging bestseller, Blogging for Dollars – blogging is fun, and profitable.

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Are you an experienced blogger? If so, you already know that the more time and energy you give to your blog, the more money you will make online. If you’re new, let’s look at five ways you can grow your blog and income.

1. Monthly Review: Get Everything You Can out of Everything You’ve Got

You need to track your blog carefully so that you know what’s working. At the end of every month, create a monthly report.

This report should contain: a daily visitor count, a list of your most popular blog posts, and the number of sales you’ve made on your blog, as well as the income the blog has generated.

When you know exactly how your blog’s visitors are interacting with the material on your blog, you can give them more of what they want and turn your occasional visitors into confirmed readers.

2. Find a New Revenue Stream Once a Month

Have you created a business plan for your blog? If you haven’t, don’t feel bad, most bloggers haven’t. However, do create a plan as soon as possible. It doesn’t need to be complex.

Part of your business plan should be finding a new revenue stream each month.

At the end of the month work out which sources of revenue have been the most successful for you and which have been the least successful. Drop the least successful sources and your income from your blog will go up each and every month.

3. Plan Your Blogging Activities: and Follow up

It’s vital that you plan everything that happens on your blog. Your plan gives you direction; it also eliminates procrastination. For example, if you know that you need to write 10 blog posts a week, you’re less likely to simply stare at the computer screen or play computer games: you’ll get those blog posts written.

4. Build Traffic Streams to Your Blog

The more you focus on traffic, the more traffic you’ll get. However all traffic is not created equal. Some traffic is useless. If you get 10,000 visits from from one of the social networking sites for example, and none of those visitors does anything to increase your income, that’s useless traffic.

Focus on traffic which generates an income for you.

5. Build Your Blog’s Community

(This is optional for many blogs. If you’ve created niche blogs for example, there’s no need to create a community for them.)

You can build community on your blog in many ways.

You can send out an ezine, offer a forum, or even offer free classified advertising. How you choose to build community is up to you; it will depend on the topic of your blog and whether you audience spends a lot of time online or not.

Step by step to blogging success

Blogging for Dollars is a comprehensive blogging package which helps you to make money blogging.

Pro bloggers can make serious money, whether you choose to blog for a company as a freelance blogger, or build your own entrepreneurial blog. Many bloggers make six figures annually, and blogging networks have been sold for millions of dollars.

Make money blogging today – you’re sure of success with Blogging for Dollars to guide you.

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One of the most common questions new bloggers ask is: “how long does it take to make money blogging?” Depending on how you set a blog up, you should start making money with a blog within a couple of weeks. If you’re not making any money at all for months at a time, go back and rethink your strategy.

These three tips will help.

1. Monetization Starts Before You Create Your Blog

Monetizing your blog stats before you create it. You need to decide on a focus for your blog, and how you’ll make money with it, and then set up the blog for that purpose.

If you just set the blog up without planning, it’s unlikely you’ll make money.

2. Converting an Old Blog Into a Money-Maker

If you’ve never made any money with a blog, you can start making money. Many of these non-earning blogs tend to be blogs which are personal in nature. A blog which is all about YOU is hard to monetize. However it if the blog has been online for a period of time, it will have ranking in the search engines, and some traffic.

The best way to use one of these old blogs is to siphon off the traffic into a new blog you’ve created in order to make money. However, you can also write product reviews, and can monetize directly on this blog.

Some of your readers may be annoyed, but since your blog, you can do what you like with it.

3. Single-Product Blogs Make Money Faster

If you want to make money quickly with the blog, the easiest way is to focus the blog on just one product or service.

You can choose anything you like. For example let’s say you’re an affiliate for fitness machines. You can set up a blog for elliptical trainers, or for exercise bikes and make money quickly. You could even set up a blog for just one brand of these products. The more focused a blog is, the sooner you will earn with it.

Making money with blogs is reasonably simple, as long as you start out by planning before you create your blog. If you not making money, take action now, using our three tips.

Step by step to blogging success

Blogging for Dollars is a comprehensive blogging package which helps you to make money blogging.

Pro bloggers can make serious money, whether you choose to blog for a company as a freelance blogger, or build your own entrepreneurial blog. Many bloggers make six figures annually, and blogging networks have been sold for millions of dollars.

Make money blogging today – you’re sure of success with Blogging for Dollars to guide you.