what is blogging and how to make money from blogging 2020

You Can't Blog Money, Can You? Yes, you can Let me tell you So I've been blogging for nine years now. My blog: goodfinancials.com personal finance blog. When I started this blog in 2008, I knew nothing about blogging. And the story that I share so much is that I thought blogging meant you were on MySpace. Remember that thing called MySpace? - Do you guys have MySpace or not? - But the fact is that I knew nothing about blogging, but still, I decided to start my own blog. Now, I'm a financial advisor, so initially, the blog was started so that I could attract my clients to my financial planning process. So I wrote the content. I posted blog posts, they were all trying to market themselves and trying to get as much visibility as possible so people could see me and want to hire me.

 But then something funny happened. (Laughter) And I started connecting with other personal finance bloggers. And as I linked to them, they shared with me that they were making money from their blogs. The one who blew me away because I didn't know you could make money from blogging. How Can You Make Money With Blogging? It just looks weird. But then one of the bloggers trusted me and told me how much he was making. And he told me that he was earning from his blog, 000, 30,000, 000, 40,000. Now for most of you, generating 30 to 40,000 pages from a single website, that's amazing. I mean it's almost an annual salary for a lot of people. But this is the one who blew me away. He wasn't making $ 30- $ 40,000 a year from his blog; he was making $ 30- $ 40,000 a month from his blog. How much did you say Yes, you heard that right. $ 30 to $ 40,000 a month from one website. Now, it has caught my attention. So I started to learn some basics of how to monetize my blog. So I learned how ads work. I learned how affiliates work, and eventually, I learned how to make digital products. There are different ways I can make money from my site and pay in writing. And I'm not even that good of a writer. But these are some of the top things I learned from making money from my blog and making my first $ 1000. (Upbeat music) So the first thing I learned is in search engine optimization. And if you don't know what SEO means or search engine optimization, it basically means only when you go to Google and type in phrases like red hot dogs. I do not know what you are making of the red hot dogs. What appears at the top of the ranking is SEO or search engine optimization.

 Now when I first started my blog, I wanted to rate Jeff Rose because that's my name. Do not wear them outside. And if you googled Jeff Rose before I started my blog, you didn't find Jeff Rose, Oregon superintendent, Jeff Rose a golf polo shirt maker, and Jeff Rose an actor. And no it's not me. But I think I'm a really good actor. How dare you talk to my mom like this?  So I thought if anyone wanted to hire me as their financial advisor and they went to Google and Jeff Jeff Rose and they didn't see that would be a good thing. So I wanted to find out. But then I realized that if no one knows who Jeff Gulz is and they want to hire a financial advisor, they will not accept Google Jeff Rose. So I started thinking about what would potential customers or clients type in Google to find me, or to find a financial advisor? So the first keyword I targeted was financial planner Illinois. I wanted to be a leader on Google this term. Now you can pay Google to earn a higher position with Google AdWords Advertising. But I didn't want to pay $ 25 or $ 35 each time I clicked on a link and came to my website. 'That's why I didn't know they were going to call me. Pick up the phone and shoot me an email, or schedule an appointment. So I wanted to find a freeway because free is so good. So I learned the tricks and strategies I needed to find for a financial planner in Illinois. And definitely enough within two or three months, I think, when you go to Google and type in Financial Planner Illinois, oh my! I was there. I was the top search result, a position that I have maintained to this day. Once I learned how it worked, I began to think of other ways I could be found for different search results.

 So I started to think that if they are trying to find a financial advisor, what are the other terms that people will type into Google? And I started this way of writing articles about 41Ks and Roth IRAs and how to invest and how much life insurance do I need? Now some of them worked and I found out and others didn't work because there were other sites that went beyond me. But I was never showing Google that I had a standard website and they were putting me at the top of the rankings. Now, remember, I was doing all this before I realized that I could make money from my site. So I was trying to rank a lot of search terms, which were related to people trying to get financial advisory services, but it was also appropriate if I wanted to insert an ad and Want to get paid? So as my search engine traffic increased, I added a website called Google Adsense, or Google Ads. And if you've been to any website,

 I guarantee that you've seen Google ads in some way. Or if you've gone Google and typed some search, you've seen a Google ad. How it works is that you sign up for a free Google AdSense account, and then you get the Google code, you copy it, paste it into your website, and then Google find Find out which companies are willing to advertise for different search terms that can be found on their site and one example I can give you is if anyone wants to buy life insurance and if you want to buy life, A great insurance company like John Hancock, they put Google AdSense on their code, and if they are willing to advertise for a particular keyword. You will then start an account with Google and paste it into your site and match it with whatever ad you're ready to pay for the dollar above. This is by far the easiest way you can make money from your site. You've got to write content, copy and paste the code from Google Adsense, paste it on your site, and then you're done. You have to rank for these search terms and this is something we can talk about at another time. Now by copying and pasting this Google AdSense code into my website, I didn't even get a $ 1,000 check immediately I do not remember at all but I am sure that like the first month, I would have made 10 or 15 bucks. Maybe $ 20. The next month it reached 30 or 40. Finally, I received my first $ 100 payment. What's more, on the off chance that you get a $ 100 check from Google, it's sweet since it resembles, it's cash via the post office. Thanks, Google. I got $ 100. But as I started to write more content and started ranking other search terms, and my traffic increased, I also saw an increase in my revenue. Furthermore, inside six or seven brief months I was making $ 500 every month. And within about a year I was earning more than 1000 a month from Google AdSense. Now you just think, I didn't know what I was doing. I was still trying to figure it out. But, after interacting with other bloggers and understanding some of the basics of search engine optimization, I was able to start making some extra money. And at that time it was so cute to make $ 1,000 extra a month. Another method that was able to take AdSense revenue to the next level is something I would call the Crystal Ball method. Now this is difficult so if you are not really in an industry where you have a good understanding of what is being plugged in and what is going to happen in the future then it will be difficult to do but here it is How did it work for me So, in 2009, this thing came up with a Roth IRA conversion. And I knew the IRS code was going to change in 2010 and how it worked. Now I was not the only one who knew this, every financial advisor in the country knew this. Every investment brokerage or investment firm knew this too.

 But I was lucky or I was distracted, however, so you want to see it. I wrote this blog post about this Rothra change in March 2009 before anyone else wrote about it. As 2010 came to a close, I was suddenly getting tons and tons of traffic from everyone who was looking for that term. And I was able to take advantage of this traffic for the entire 2010 year. So in 2010, if you Googled Roth Iera exchange, you didn't find redemption. And that's when I saw that my AdSense revenue was $ 1,000 to $ 3,000 per month and then, 4,000 to 4,000 per month. Earn $ 5,000 a month. Now the crystal ball method is something you can't do every single month. And you might not be able to do this every single year. But the other opportunities I have been able to find are Facebook IPOs, Twitter IPOs, Snap Chat IPOs. These are all the events we knew were happening, and a lot of people are talking about it. So whether he was writing a blog post or recording a video while talking about it, I was able to take advantage of it. So whatever topic you decide to blog about, is there anything in this industry that is likely to change that no one has written about yet? That you might be the first to write. And you don't even have to be the first to write about it. You may be the second or third person, but if you post content that is better than anything else out there, you could potentially push them further and get even more social shares. Are. So for a long time, Google AdSense was the only way I was making money from my blog. And while I was earning over $ 1,000, $ 2,000 a month, I didn't really see any other reason to change it. But, once I started talking to these other bloggers and how they were making money on their site,  I realized that I was losing even more money. That's when I started to add affiliates. With affiliate marketing, you're representing a company that offers your product or service that you believe in, preferably a company you've tried yourself. And if you write about them and mention them on your blog, if one of your readers clicks on this link, and then opens an account with this affiliate or a product via that link If you buy, you get a small commission. Now in the world of investment that was so easy for me, because there are so many online investment options. The first person I contracted for was Scott Trad. Scottish trade no longer exists. They merged into another investment company. 

But they are from St. Louis, which was near me at the time. Now, at the time, I didn't have a Scottish Trade account so I wasn't really comfortable talking about them or would recommend that I do an account with Scotland. I went online, opened an account, made some money so I could really experience what it feels like to be a Skytrade customer. And let me tell you, I was impressed with the whole experience. The next day I received a phone call from a branch manager who was 45 minutes away from me, offering to meet me to help me make my first investment. Now I told him I was a financial advisor and I was just doing my research on his platform, but he was still kind enough to answer my questions, and what I needed. Help me with this. So after being a customer for a while, I was able to understand how their platform works. And then I could tell others what I had experienced. I recorded a video on how to open a Scottish Trade account, I wrote blog posts about it. I answered the questions I had about opening an account with Scottrade and compared it to other online investment platforms. So since I was a SkyTrade user, and wrote a lot of content on them and posted videos about them, they eventually became a great affiliate. And if I had AdSense on my blog and I didn't have affiliate relationships, I could still make money, but I can guess that because of that affiliate relationship I would have made it five times more Made more money. So what I've learned about affiliate marketing is that you don't want to be scolded. You don't want to be a douche bag.

 Make sure that you are representing the people you trust, that you trust. If you're just signing up to be affiliated with some company to get instant money, your readers will know. They are going to find out. What's more, you don't need to be proficient to prescribe a member organization. Yes, I am a financial planner who is opening an account with some of the Escorts, he probably had some credit, but I know a lot of personal finance bloggers who are not financial advisors who have a day job. Which has opened accounts from places like Scott Trade? , Other online investment platforms. And just by showing their readers what they did and how they did it, they are now considered experts because they have done it.

 And that's all. Open an account, become an affiliate expert, try it out so you can share this experience with your readers. So representing Google AdSense and various affiliated companies, I was able to get a blog that had zero readers who weren't making any money and made $ 1,000 a month, $ 5,000 a month, 15,000 were earning up to $ 20,000.Since then it has grown tremendously and we've added different channels of monetization. But, with Adsense or any kind of banner ads and their affiliates, you can easily earn a thousand dollars extra in just a couple of different ways. In fact, I want to show you how to do it. I've created a free email challenge called Make 1K Challenge. And I want to tell you how to get your blog started and make your first $ 1000. Let me show you the exact blueprint that I used that I talked about doing nothing before paying the first 1,000 today. So if you want to make $ 1000 from your blog, you can visit Make1kchallenge.com. Sign up for a free email challenge, because free is great. I do not like to pay for goods It is free. Sign up. And you'll join this challenge immediately because I want to help you make $ 1000 before that. I want to change your life I want you to start something new that excites you and inspires others. So check out make1kchallenge.com and let's get started. take care. But then one of them ... and then you get Google's code. I'm not if it's funny but whatever. Quickly cut this section off. Now it has grown a lot. My goodness