What's the easiest way to start making money with blogs? Bucket loads of traffic! Do you know how to get bucket loads of traffic to your blog? No? Well, as in the offline world it's all about connections.
If you have a huge social network online it will be far easier for you to make money with your blog.
Why? Simply because the ripple effect will be greater.
The simple fact is that most direct traffic online comes from referrals! What does that mean? It means that unless they are searching for stuff in search engines such as Google most people get to a website because they are referred to the site by one of their online friends.
This is the kind of traffic you can't use SEO to optimize your site for.
It is also a source of traffic that can go viral if you are lucky.
However, for that to happen you need to have a social network in place.
A group of people who will carry your content to your friends.
This is where the cash is! So, how do you go about building a social network? The biggest social networking sites are Facebook, YouTube (yes, YouTube), Live and Twitter.
3 out of those 4 sites are among the top 10 most visited sites in the world.
The 4th (Twitter) is 11th in the world.
Do you think these sites can make an impact when it comes to driving traffic to your blog? These social networks are massive so you bet they can! The thing is that you have a group of friends (or whatever the site calls them) ranging from a handful to several thousand.
Each of these friends have a similar network.
If you play your cards right when publishing your blog posts and take advantage of these networks your post can potentially reach 100s of people! The key is to send your online friends to your blog post.
Now, you need to treat your friends right! So, you need to make sure that you only send them to content that is actually worth their time.
Warning: no sleazy promotions!