How to use the Blog Archives For Making Money Online

There are ways to earn money online using services like Google AdSense but what about the blog post? How much can they continue earning after they are published?

In this article I want to show you how blog’s archives can continue to be a source of income.

This method depends on how people can find your pages within search engines. Bloggers can continue to earn in the long term if they include the correct titles and terms in their articles, and allow an optimal indexing for search engines.  The result is a small but steady amount of money provided each day by the advertiser.

This can be useful both to ablogger and to a famous journalist.  Writers get paid for their work initially, but if he posts his stories online, he can continue to earn based on how many times the page is viewed.

Not all posts are able to be monetized.  But if a story is interesting, over time it can earn as much as the initial amount of money that was paid by the developer.

Money with archives

After reading a recent article of Wired News concerning the ability to use the blog to earn money online, I started thinking about how to monetize the blog’s archives.

As you can see by visiting many website on Internet, many bloggers and others use the Google Adsense service to earn money.

The first thing to note is that the business model used is the so-called “Long Tail” whereby a person can earn more with a small steady increase over time, compared to a large sum of money obtained at he start.

For a blogger, this means building good stories on a regular basis that will gain money on an annual basis rather than all at once.

I believe that people through blogs that develop a good audience of readers, are able to obtain good results.

Let’s look at the example of a story of 1000 words

The standard pay for high-level journalists is a dollar per word (I have seen pay far less because of falling sales of technology publications).

In this way, a writer writes a story and takes the standard $ 1,000.  At that point, the publication will be printed and / or posted on their Web site and start generating an income.

This model is based on taking a risk with the writer and then recovering the money by building an audience over time.  The publication is sold and the writer gains credibility by being associated with that publication.

But the truth is somewhat different.  Until you have an established brand or your story is famous like Harry Potter novels, no one will be interested in the author.

For a quick test, try to think of who wrote the first newspaper pages this week.  Blogs offer the writer a single platform. When I visit a blog, I know the writer and have a relationship with him. With time I will understand his brand.

This is very important. Many bloggers have already made the leap from the blog’s world up to the traditional media world thanks to their well established brand.

But in the future, a person needs to look at a long-term gain. The gain of the traditional freelance ended with the payment for his article.  The story in a blog remains online.  If a blog is optimized for search engines, it seems like each item has a second life, getting traffic even after it has been published.

It’s possible to verify this by looking for an old post in whatever important blog you know.  If these posts continue to be popular, it means money for blogger.

With Google Adsense, once a post has its own advertising, all the earned money will go directly to bloggers.
Initially this money can not be compared with the thousands of dollars that a writer can get from traditional media, but if the post continues to have a big audience, it will continue to generate money until one of these three things happens:

• the writer decides to remove advertising from his website
• the writer decides to remove his post from his website
• the story has run its course and is no longer useful or interesting

Another important element for those who write a blog is to be sure to promote their work in the best way.  I read an average of 300 blogs, and I met some of their bloggers.  If I write something that can interest them, I can send them an email with a link to the story that includes a quick guide and a note explaining why they might be interested.

This type of self-promotion generally helps to get traffic to your original article and it can also be useful for traditional writers.  In fact, since the price per word is decreasing, the writers can negotiate the terms of the exclusivity rights of your post.

I usually negotiate the rights to obtain the exclusivity of my post after a certain period of time (e.g. after the first 90 days of publication). There are many publishers who negotiate these terms. Once the story is published, remember to insert a reminder in your calendar or content management system to publish the story on your site after the first 90 days.  In many cases, some storied that I wrote many years ago, become a substantial source of income again.  In this way, a lot of money can be made online using the archives of your blog.