Blogging Way of Life

This is the first month my blog is published and I have started monetizing my blog. In the first month of the blog I wasn’t expecting any income actually because of the low content and no regular visitors at all. I have started this blog with 100$ spending (for my hosting and domain name) and the worst case scenario for me is losing that money. Looking at my earnings I won’t lose that money even if my earnings stays same. (which isn’t likely because as the content increases and I gain regular visitors the traffic is more likely to increase in an exponential graph)

Earnings for November: 15,76$

• Google Adsense Earnings : 13,12$
• Amazon Affiliate Earnings: 2,64$

 As you can see I don’t use Amazon Ads in my blog because it’s not an item/product related blog. I am publishing my Amazon ads at my Hubs. I have sold 4 items and this is a good amount as a beginner at Hubpages. I have earned from Adsense from my blog and my hubpages account. I have accomplished my first amount with a decent amount for the first month of a blog and I am expecting the 100$ limit in a few months.

My blog has been visited 1,813 times with 3,034 page visits. The best traffic source is StumbleUpon for now. Referring Sites has %86 percentage in my traffic while search engines are %4,5. (Which is normal for a new blog) For a new blog social networking sources seems the best way to start driving traffic.

Regarding all the effort I am spending on my my Hubs created 1,620 visits in November with %60 of the traffic is from search engines. So you can use Hubpages if you want to benefit from free organic traffic without any effort.

Thanks to all supporters and followers.

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Okay here is the deal, the first thing we got to do is start up our blog. (A crucial suggestion)

The mostly known, open sourced, free and easy to start blog is Wordpress. You can download the necessary files from the Wordpress and actually start blogging following their “Famous 5-minute install”.

For installing our blog we need a host which supports a Mysql and PhP. You can choose from a variety of free hosts but bear in mind that they can include their own ads in your blog and they can cause problems as your traffic goes up. Also owning your own domain name at first is a good idea because you wouldn’t like to change your address while your traffic is going up. After some research I decided to use bluehost which can be considered cheap and reliable. They also register your domain name with hosting for free. The total cost is approximately 95$/year. So you can choose to spend some money for hosting and domain name from the start and prevent the problems later on or you can choose to try your luck for free.

After you set up your blog you can easily start posting using the wordpress admin panel. Now take a deep breath and let your fingers pump out your brain to the keyboard..

Next step; “how will we start earning money?”

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