Are you a Pakistani looking for ways to earn money online? Do you have an interest in writing? If yes, then blogging is the answer for you!
Blogging is a trending way of making money online. In fact, with the growing internet urgency of digital media, the potential for blogging is limitless.
So, why is blogging an excellent way to make money in Pakistan? Here are some reasons:
1. Low investment
Unlike other businesses that require huge investments, starting a blog is inexpensive. All you need is a laptop and an internet connection.
Many free blogging platforms, such as WordPress, Blogger, and Medium, offer customizable templates and features to create a professional blog. Blogger and Medium provide you with hosting services as well. However, you must buy hosting and a domain to install WordPress.
Additionally, running a blog requires very low ongoing costs. There are no inventory costs, rent, or employee salaries to worry about. Promoting your blog through social media or paid advertising is the only ongoing cost.
The low start-up costs of blogging make it affordable to start an online business and earn money in Pakistan.
2. Flexibility
Flexibility is another advantage of blogging. Blogging allows for flexibility in time and location. It means you can work on your blog from anywhere, as long as you have an internet connection.
Blogging offers an efficient way to earn money from the comfort of your own home.
Furthermore, blogging allows you to work at your own pace, giving you the freedom to balance your work. This flexibility can reduce stress, leading to job satisfaction.
3. Passive income
The best thing about blogging is that it keeps giving you something even if you are inactive. Yes, you’ve heard me right. Once you have established steady traffic to your blog, the clicks you get on your ads pay you monthly.
Normally, a blog gets more and more traffic when it gets older.
What is Adsense?
Adsense is an official old ad network (by Google) that pays you when someone clicks on an ad on your blog. You can apply to Google AdSense after your blog attracts a few hundred monthly visitors. Other ad networks are also available, but AdSense is leading among them.
Adsense takes money from advertisers and displays ads on the blog. Once a successful click visitors on an ad, Google pays a good commission to publishers.
Tips to Make Money Through Your Blog
1. Choose a profitable niche.
It is the most important part of blogging. You must select a niche that is consistent with profitability. A good niche balances the profit and competition as well.
A niche is a core topic around which your blog is built. The high-paying niches such as health, digital marketing, and insurance pay a lot, but there is huge competition. Hundreds of brands compete with each other and are willing to spend millions of dollars to appear on the first page of Google.
It reduces new bloggers’ chances of appearing on search engine results. I would highly recommend targeting the Indian or Pakistani niche as a beginner.
Also, read about Blogging vs Youtube.
2. Write high-quality and engaging articles.
If you get this part wrong, you will stand nowhere in search engines. Your content is the most important part of your SEO. You should craft well-researched and organized content for your visitors. It should be engaging, informative, and meet the customer’s intent.
Google analyzes web pages on how visitors engage with the content. If the bounce rate is high, Google can throw your webpage outside SERP. A good engagement and low bounce rate indicate high-quality content that Google prefers.
Whatever the user is searching for, ensure your content satisfies that intent. If your visitors close your website after loading, your website will disappear from the search engine.
Suppose writing is not your thing; fear not! You can hire content writers from Fiverr or Facebook groups for a reasonable price. Many writers use AI software to write content that can damage their reputation in search engines. So, hire wisely!
3. Build an audience
Search engines love returning users! Yes, it means if visitors return to your website again, it helps Google understand that your content is worth promoting.
Normally, it happens when you have a loyal audience on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram that comes back to your web pages when you post something. Loyal visitor engagement is high as compared to new customers.
You can build an audience if your blog is niche-relevant. For example, if you have a blog about digital marketing tips, you should teach people how to promote their businesses on SERP and social media platforms successfully. Don’t post any irrelevant topics of no interest to your audiences.
4. Patience is the Key
Creating a blog is easy, but consistency is hard, which is why many blogging failures in Pakistan. People want to get rich overnight. It is not the case in blogging!
Blogging requires consistency, discipline, and hard work to succeed. There was a time when website owners used to outrank their competitors just after a few days of creating the blog.
It doesn’t happen anymore. Google consistently updates its algorithms to show visitors only relevant and original results.
Typically, a blog ranks after 4-6 months of creation. You must write unique content daily, hit the content word count, and outreach people to link back to your valuable content.
Summary:
Blogging is a great way to make money in Pakistan due to its low start-up costs, flexibility, and opportunities for passive income.
By choosing a profitable niche, high-quality content, and building an audience, bloggers can turn their passion for writing into a good business.
A big misconception about blogging is many people think of it as a part-time job, but it is not the truth. It is not a 9-5 job, but it initially takes more time than that. Once everything is set up and you generate revenue, you can hire dedicated people to run your websites. All this can happen if you follow all the above instructions.
Meanwhile, you can keep reading websites like Price Best & Nasir Helps to help you learn blogging.