I just thought of a few things needed to make money online and would like to share it.

Patience

Working on the internet takes time, you have to wait for affiliates to come back to you, you have to wait once you’ve signed up at a place for them to approve you, you have to wait for search engines to scan your site and then you even have to wait for the search engines to send traffic. (if you dont socialize). You have to wait for Google to give you a pagerank and then you have to wait for a Alexa rating to get more advertisers to make you wait more for the money you will get in 3 months time after you waited for the advertisers

Waiting is part of the daily internet life. Especially in a country like South Africa where we have the worst internet connections in the world. Having a fast connection might help you a bit but you still need a lot of patience to be a full time money making blogger because things just dont happen overnight. Anyone can make money online if they have enough of this thing called patience.

Most blogs only last 3 months because people dont have patience.

There are so many examples why you need patience to make money online.

Traffic

Without traffic you might as well write a decent post on a piece of toilet paper and keep if for when you really need the toilet. Traffic is what drives money on the internet. The more traffic a site gets the more the site is worth. No traffic, no money. No matter what you have on your site, if you get traffic you can make money. Traffic is humans visiting your site. Not those nice people who leave you random links in your comment sections. No they are called bots. What you want is humans reading your content. And for that you need great content which I will come to later.

Time

Apart from patience you need time to write, socialize, comment, learn, research and once more write again, seo, analyze, get motivated.

Domain

Please get your own domain. Read this post why:——

Plan

If you dont have a plan, you wont know what to do next. Where you are going with your blog is a important thing to know. If you dont know where you are going how can you get there? What is your target or if you plan making a living online, how do you plan on getting there?

Stragedy

Stragedy is different from plan. Stragedy involves planning with a roadmap, how will this be done? The plan is the path to the end result but you still need a stragedy to get there.
Niche

Having a niche gives you something to target as well as a reason to advertise. If you have no niche you cant really advertise and get your blog branded. You need a slogan that says: this is what I do and what this blog is about.

Other bloggers

Without other bloggers you will not make any money online. Networking with other bloggers helps your blog grow as well as their blogs. Networking is what makes blogging work, without this one thing blogging would be kind of dull.

Content

This will determine if you have a great blog or not. How you write it, how much time you put into your articles. Is it original? You need to make your content stand out from the rest. Having ordinary content will not give you a job on the internet. Having ordinary content will make your blog melt in with the rest of the crowd. It’s not a bad thing but if you want to make a living from your blog you really do need original content.

Endurance

This is different than patience. To make money online you might have to struggle sometimes and even make no money at all. The thing that might make it work at the end is endurance. Keeping on when things are not going well with your blog is always a good idea.

Design

The design of your site matters. Are your ads well integrated? Can people find your rss button easy? Another thing that matters is how well your ads are camouflaged to not make your site cluttered. Your logo is also important for branding your site.

Rankings

Rankings do matter, this is because most affiliate companies use rankings to choose who they would go with. The better your rankings the more work you will get

SEO

Search engine optimization matter because that might be the only way people will find your site and also the only way to turn those visits in clicks on your ads.

Knowledge and Passion

I would love to write about Tech stuff because I really like gadgets and stuff like that. But the problem is my knowledge of certain things that I like is not enough to write articles about the certain topic that would stand out. Thus I would be able to blog about it but not make a living of it.

So there might be more things, maybe I missed something. Feel free to add it in the comments.

Thank you for reading.

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