Sunday, December 6, 2009

Would you Consider Making Money from your Runescape Blog?

There is no doubt that a lot of runescape bloggers blog just for the fun of it, but have any of you considered the possibilities of making real money from your runescape blog?

I am not talking about getting rich overnight, but rather have it pay for some of your expenses - like a cup of coffee and muffin once a week or perhaps even more, depending on how many visitors you get.

If you still feel alienated from what I say then consider this: by signing up (for free) to advertising networks like google adsense, refferral programs (get paid per sale or sign up), and putting those ads on your site or blog, you could be making money - aproximatively 5$ to 25$US for every 1'000 visitors that come to your runescape blog. So you could be getting various ammounts of income depending on how many people come to your blog - just do the math and you can already get an idea of about how much you would be earning.

I must mention also that not all blogs are ready to be monetized. If you have a blog on a wordpress domain or within a forum, they will not let you put ads or affiliate programs on it. Most likely, the owner of the forum already has ads on it and will not want any competition, so don't do it or you could wake up one morning and see that your blog may have dissapeared and account banned.

For this not to happen, I suggest that you use google's blogger/blogspot blogging platform. Your runescape blog will be safer there, and google has proved through out time to have a reliable blogging platform. It's free to use and you can have peace of mind, so long as you don't post any strong hatred, copyrighted stuff or malicious software (read their terms for details). But other than that, you can do just about anything - playing with your blog template's code, choose from jundreds of google pre-made templates on various sites, etc. You can also buy your own domain name (www.yourrunescapeblogname.com) through google's blogger platform for 10$ a year, and they will also host your blog for free.

If, for some reason, you prefer the Wordpress blogging platform and want your own domain name, you will also need to pay for webhosting apart from the domain name, which would make the bill rise from 40 to 100$ a year...personally I like having my blog on a  .blogspot.com adress (google's free blogger service).

Anyway, back to my main question for today - How would you feel about monetizing your passion/your runescape blog? And for those of you who don't have a runescape blog yet, would you be willing to start one with the idea of earning revenue from it?

*Check out this runescape blogging video from IceyDan1 for tips if thinking about starting a runescape blog*

So please share your thoughts on this in the comment box below. I read every comment and will gladly answer any questions or even help you with getting started or making money/receiving visitors for your runescape blog. Cheers!