Nowadays there are many bloggers still find difficulties on how to make money from blogging. Actually, the whole picture of making money blog is simple :

Step – 1 : Create your blog
Step – 2 : Bring traffic to your blog by doing SEO techniques which could improve your search engine result page rank,
Step – 3 : Put some pre-selling affiliate links on your blog
Step – 4 : Monetize your blog.

But before you rush into monetization, there is something you must take care of, otherwise you’ll rush in vain. If your blog has a lot of traffic, you may need to focus only for how to monetize it. And the way of monetization is simple, something like placing banners, affiliate text link, Google Adsense, or writing paid reviews. What you have to realize is all of them is really step-by-step approaching. Monetizing will work only when you make a good success in every step described above.

So, what kind of blog can make money? The answer is any kind of blog! A well-prepared blog!. What to prepare? Why not just posting? If you just blog and don’t care things to prepare, maybe you are not serious about making money from your blog. So, before you blog, consider these 3 questions and answers :

1. What topic you are going to write about ? Are many people want to know about that topic?

Answering this question, do a little bit of research before you write. This is called “keyword research”. There are free tools fit for keyword research. Take a little bit of time to find what kind of keyword people are using when they want to look for information about how to make money from blog. This keyword research has two fold benefit. One is that it helps you find what kind of topic people want to read. The other is that by optimizing those keywords you’ll have better chance to be positioned high in search engine result page.

2. With that topic, what product or link am I gonna introduce?

To answer this question, think about what monetization method you are going to use. Are you going to introduce an affiliate program, placing advertising banners, seling an e-book, placing Adsense code or write paid reviews?

3. And how am I gonna do that?

Here is the word “presell” emphasized. In blogging, though you want to sell something or want your visitor to click links, don’t rush it. What do you do if you see a blogger is doing nothing but a sales pitch?. You leave him once, don’t you? So presell is the key of how to write. It is something like creating a worm mind to your suggestion.

If you want to make money from your blog, start writing it only after you know what keyword is related to your topic and what kind of monetization you can apply. This will bring huge differences. As a simple conclusion, you can build a making money blog which is :

1. a blog talking about the topic many people searching for which can be achieved by keyword research
2. a blog that uses the the keyword in the homepage and post pages so that search engines can easily crawl
3. a blog that presells products or services which generating warm mood to the visitors