Make Money Blogging- Non-Traditional Blogging

Written by Aisha Moore Sunday, 10 July 2011 03:47

Let's look at nontraditional blogging compared to traditional blogging. They are radically different ways to make money online. While traditional blogging starts with creating a blog on a subject you enjoy. Followed by posting your writing on a daily basis. Then adding ways to make money. Now look at the nontraditional way bloggers make money.

Let's look at nontraditional blogging compared to traditional blogging. They are radically different ways to make money online. While traditional blogging starts with creating a blog on a subject you enjoy. Followed by posting your writing on a daily basis. Then adding ways to make money. Now look at the nontraditional way bloggers make money.

First of all it's not a way; it's actually a collection of different ways that include the following:

*Create a niche blog on a topic that people are actively looking for information on and then use YouTube, social media sites, and or aggressive link building campaigns to drive traffic to it.

*Create a niche blog simply to promote a particular product (for example you could create a blog just to promote the iPhone). This is known as affiliate marketing.

*Create a niche blog on a topic that has a high pay per click rate and then charge advertisers to place ads on your site. I have seen this done with both direct ads, ad networks (like Google Adsense), and the good old fashion affiliate marketing ads.

Let's look at what separates nontraditional blogging from traditional blogging.

One key separator is the fact that traditional blogging is an ongoing process. Each day you post articles to your blog. You constantly work to get people to join your email mailing list. You are building a community and in the process become one of the who's who online personalities. Your blog will get a constant stream of loyal visits coming back to it weekly or monthly.

Traditional blogging sites eventually become authority site. Think Wikipedia but on a small topical level. For example if your passion is makeup techniques, you could build a blog about ways to put on makeup, different types of makeup products, and include YouTube videos where you walk people through how to create different looks with makeup.

Nontraditional blogging is a set it and forget or set it and check in once a month type of activity. You focus on a very narrow subject (an example might be tank tops within the shirt category). Then you load the site up with information (sometimes a lot of information and other times a little) on the topic. Although these sites do eventually gain some authority, they don't achieve the level or authority that traditional blogs receive.

What's the overriding benefit of nontraditional blogging versus traditional blogging? With a nontraditional blog you don't have the daily maintenance of posting articles. They can be setup in a fraction of the time it takes to create a traditional blog, and they have a history of generating income quicker than traditional blogs.