When monitizing a blog, one of the popular ways is to do it is subscribing to Adsense.
This is not a surprise since Adsense has become the major earning scheme for most bloggers, and through the years it gave them decent incomes to the point that others decided to make blogging as their full time job.
But what if Adsense has become unsustainable because of changes in the internet trends? or Google had suddenly shut you down? What would you do?
Recently, google has updated its search engine indexing with Google Panda updates, and a lot of blogs and websites were affected because of it.
Even decade old blogs suffered.
As a result, they experienced dramatic decrease in their visitors and consequently their Adsense earnings.
Blogs who were dependent with Adsense suffered the most, and I can only imagine how these changes made bloggers and website owners scramble to cope up with the new trends.
Some blogs were able to keep up with the pace while others has to make a long way updating their websites.
As a new blogger owning several websites, I recommend several ways to keep your blogs and websites alive even with fast changing internet trends.
Create your subscribers list
Subscribers list or mailing list is where you can find gold in your blog. This is the followers who were enticed with the information they are getting from your blog.
These people had regarded you as one of the authorities to look upon with a specific topic. With your large subscribers list, you don’t need to have search engine traffic to earn from blogging.
Write good original content
Search engines are constantly updating their indexing system to effectively show search returns that is most relevant to the users. As a result, shady practice by some bloggers are being penalized, while bloggers who strives to put good original content are rewarded.
To make your website or blog update proof with new internet trends, write only original articles that you think might help or needed by your readers.
Develop other ways to monetize your website
In order for you not to be solely dependent on Adsense income, you have to develop other ways to monetize your blog.
One of the popular ways is to sell ebooks, you can also make some decent income with affiliate marketing and advertisement in your blogs.
Any other means of generating income from your blog should be tested and developed in order for your to take advantage of it and turn it into a cash machine.
Become authority in your niche
When you project yourself as an authority in a specific topic, people will look up to you for advice in the form of articles you write.
People who have the same interest with your niche will come in flock and discuss what you write and subscribe to your blog. They will bookmark your site for their own reference.
And the good part about being an authority in your niche is that, they will buy products that you can offer related to your niche.
Don’t write article for SEO’s sake
This is one of the mistake of some bloggers, in order to get a decent traffic from search engines, they write articles to cater search engines, which unfortunately not the customers they are looking for.
Your readers are looking for information that will spark interest from them due to helpful topics that you are writing or your articles might have solved problems that they have.
Use other means for your blog to be indexed by search engines such as back linking and guest posting, in this way you are creating back links to your site which is an essential measure for search engine ranking.
If you plan to make a decent living through blogging, you should follow these certain rules for you to thrive in this internet age.
It is not impossible that you can get a full passive income through blogging, the problem though is how you can make is sustainable and be update proof of the fast changing internet trends.
The good news is you can make it make it update proof and sustainable by just following these rules.
