Selling Blogs For A Living

The process of creating and selling (flipping) websites has been well known for a long time now. You would basically create a website and either sell it straight away for a profit, or keep it for a while until it starts making money and sell it for even more.

With the popularity of blogging increasing all the time, many people are now earning money by selling blogs. The reason blogs are popular is because it takes no technical knowledge to use them. Just write your content, click a button and it is published to the world. So it gives the more ordinary person the chance to control their own website.

So if you browse the Sitepoint Marketplace, you’ll see more and more being sold. The money you can earn from this can be very good indeed. The cost to set up each one can be minimal but you can sell them for over $100 each. So you could easily create a full time income by creating and selling blog.

So Where Do You Begin?

Well, the first step is to decide what subject you want to create your blog on. Once you have done this you will write 5-10 articles that will be posted on the blog. Then you will buy a domain name and set up Wordpress on your web host. Then post your content and put the site up for sale.

Obviously there are a few other smaller details to be taken care of but that is the basic system in a nutshell. There are dozens of people doing this everyday and making good profits by doing it. Take a look at what blogs are selling and it will give you a better idea of what subjects to choose and create yourself.

Make Money Blogging

If you’ve been online for even just a short time you have almost certainly heard of blogging. A weblog or blog as they are commonly referred to are basically ways for people to write and publish their thoughts and feelings to the rest of the world.

It really took off with the popularity of blogger.com where people would create their own personal blog and posted photos of themselves and what they were doing each day. But the popularity grew so much that people started earning money from blogging and more professional blogging platforms were released.

The most common blog platform that you can have on your own hosting account is Wordpress. The great thing about using Wordpress is that it is very easy to add/change the advertising you show on the site. Plus you can login from anywhere in the world and publish new content. This means you can literally blog from anywhere.

The way people make money from blogging can actually be in a variety of ways. One way is to show adverts on the site such as Google Adsense, then when visitors click on the ads you earn money. You can have affiliate banners on the blogs and when people click through and purchase, you then earn a percentage of the sale. You can write paid posts on your blog and earn money from publishing them. You can sell advertising space on your blog.

The list goes on and on. There are dozens of different ways to earn money from blogging. So what are you waiting for? Go and set one up today!