So you play video games and you want to run a gaming blog and you want to make money? Well running any type of blog will take hard work and time to make the blog work. Here are some tips on running a gaming blog to make money online:
Post content on a schedule
The best thing that you can do is post content to your blog every week if you can. Over time people will follow you and they will know when you post a new piece of content. There are other gaming blogs out there that post 5 to 6 post per day and you don’t want to be behind so posting content should be done all the time if you can. You can post your gameplay and any tips and tricks about the game. With gaming, you will have to post videos of your gameplay more than written content. Some people do read content but with gaming, it’s more visual so more people would want to video but you can do written content. So posting content is the best thing that you can do.
YouTube is a must have:
I think with the blog, you must have a YouTube channel as well. YouTube is free to have and free to use and your gameplay from twitch or other places should be on YouTube. If you are using twitch, you can download your gameplay and edit the video and upload to YouTube. Editing video for YouTube is not hard to do and if you would edit a few videos than over time will get better. You can add your YouTube video on your blog post for people to click and watch your video. So go start that YouTube channel.
How to make money with a gaming blog;
So when you are playing the game online, you should be posting and talking about your blog and giving people your URL or your blog name so people can look you up and find your blog. Once people comes to your site, the first thing you should do is capture their email address so you can contact them when you go live or have a new YouTube video that you made. You also can promote an affiliate offer and that is called affiliate marketing.
Were you promote someone else product and when you sell, you will get a commission. you can promote anything that you want from different places like Walmart or amazon. Since you are in gaming, you can promote anything that relates to gaming or promote anything that you use when you play the game. With email marketing, you will have a list of traffic that you can promote to when ever you want. You need a email service called an autoresponder and I use a company called Aweber.
You can run ads on your blog from google, you can promote affiliate offers, and you can promote your YouTube channel and anything else that you have going on. You can build and email list of people which is the best way to make money online. With that email list, you can send people different things when ever you want to and that is the best way to get traffic. Remember that there are big time gaming blogs and sites that post all the time and with that email list can help you get your content in front of people.
