How Long And What Does It Take To Make Good Money, With A Blog.

Hey, It's a Bright and somewhat clear morning, this morning here in Riverside, CA.
Dogs are out running the yard and I am here, to share some more about blogging with you.

Today, I am going to discuss how long it typically will take to get blogs noticed.

Overall, taking into account of your efforts in getting noticed; it should take about 90 days to start seeing some results from your blogs.  For some, it may be a bit longer.  For others, it may be significantly less.  It really depends on how you go about putting your site out there and where you go to put your blogs in the public's eye.

What I typically do, to get my blogs out there varies, depending on how quickly I want to either monetize the blog, or whether or not the blog is just for me to share daily stuff with friends and family.   In either case, I normally do not expect anything from either one type of blog, for about the 90 days.  When or if the given blog does start to go up in rankings and visitor counts,  it is taken with the grain of salt and keep up marketing efforts to get it out further into the spotlight.

So, if your blogs are not living up to your expectations, don't worry so much about it.  Everything takes time; unless you have a lot of supportive friends who are going to follow you and are going to purchase what you are selling, to be supportive of your efforts.  Another, scenario that will significantly help your blogs, are if you can build a large list of emails from people joining your site, as loyal customers (in cases of a static site where you have been selling goods or services.).

Now, to start off with a new blog, I typically start with my network sites where I share life events; like Facebook and HubPages, Youtube, and Yahoo's Me sites.  I will plaster my initial posts in those places, because it begins to establish "Back-Links" to your site, and it draws initial interests in your blog from friends and family.   I always ask for visitors in my  sharing posts, to leave a comment, leave a suggestion, ask them to join my mailing list, to share the pages with their network of friends and followers.

I then use a submission tool, to blast my URL or web address to the blog, out to the search engines.  IN this case, I use a tool called Webfire.  Now, I use the basic free services on that  program to blast out to the search engines, each of my sites; Especially my blog, after I make a post and have shared it with all of my social network sites.

By blasting the site out to the search engines, the search engines will send out robot crawlers to review what I have posted, and makes them realize that there is fresh content on the blog.. New information, excites the Search Engines and increases blog ratings, in most cases.
which brings in more visitors, who are in my case, looking to make easy money on the internet and to promote their business.

Now, some of you might be saying you can not wait for 90 days to drive visitors to your site, and maybe the work sounds like it will take a long time to work on a daily basis to build up.  Well, I have to say, "yes and no."   Again, there are ways to make your visitor and sales efforts pay faster, but over all it usually takes me an average of about 1 1/2 hours daily, to make a series of posts, get them posted and get the word out that a new post is available.

What I have done, to make this an easy habit is this:  
I find a topic to write about.. I almost never use content from another site and so, I have to come up with original content, from my own mind, brain, and thoughts.  I write all of the given thoughts down and do what is known as "Free writing."    

"Free Writing," is the method of breaking brain freeze and provokes random thoughts onto virtual paper or a real piece of paper.  I use virtual paper (Lord love technology!), it makes it easier to transfer stuff to the blog.  Okay, after I get all my thoughts on paper, I break them down and then funnel the thoughts down to several categories.  These individual categories, are individual blog posts.

In another tool I use, which you are all pretty familiar with called the "Blog Beast," and schedule my posts to publish at given times through out the day.  I add keywords to the post and save my work.  The blogging platform will then systematically post the blog posts, through out the day for me..  Easy!   (by the way, some of the normal blogging platforms like blogger, has a scheduling tool as well.)     By doing this, It appears I am blogging multiple times daily and allows for the search engines again to see changes on a very frequent basis.  A good thing!

There are several other tools, I use when promoting my blogs.. However, I usually wait for the blog to produce some results, before I go onto the more advanced efforts.   However, I do wish to draw your attention to an earlier post I put up, called "Todays Topic is Backlinks".  you can find it in the archives, but it was posted on 11/13/13.   

Through out the day, I see a lot of websites.  In this, I will look at sites or blog posts that have topics I am familiar with and can easily go into the comment sections.   When I go into those areas, I will typically post a comment with relevant information in line with any current comments or postings, then I will add a signature with my URL and title of Webmaster of "such and such" site, as well as the URL.    We just left a book mark and book link that can potentially drive added traffic to your site.  The nice thing is that depending on where you place that link, it can bring some very highly targeted results.  The nicest part of it all, is it gives the Search Engines more links to drive up your blog's popularity, for your blog or website.

Do the math, just as an example:   You visit 10 sites daily.  You find half of those sites you can discuss issues, in a positive manner and intelligently, and you post your link.  that is five back links to your site.  you do that twice daily;  you have 10 backlinks or more, daily!  Multiply that by 90 days, you have no less than 900 back links.

Now, the above is just a mere example of what can be done in less than 25 minutes of time.  Add that to 10 min of blasting your site to search engines, you now have only 35 minutes tied up for that day, so far.  now you did your blogging posts and scheduled them for posting.  now you have maybe 1 1/2 hours into this blogging promotion.  Then later that night, or even twice daily, you add in about 5 min. to blast a new submission out, every couple of days, you might average out your daily commitment to maybe 37 minutes.. (NOTE:  You want to try to keep site submissions down, as too many on a daily or weekly basis, will cause the search engines to classify your site as a "spamming" site and then will not respond to your submissions; leaving your site and your efforts to a vein effort.

Well, that is enough for now.   I am going to slide out of here and go take care of the dogs, and do some chores before my work week starts.  I do hope you have a great week.. I hope you had a joyous weekend, and are looking forward to a wonderful blogging week.  

Oh yes, Please don't forget to leave a comment or question in the comment section, and please join my follower's list by filling out the box at the upper part of my blog post, so that we can keep in touch.   Again, as soon as I see we have a comment or question, I will answer that inquiry as soon as I can; but it will be answered!

Take Care and Happy Blogging
Gary