How to Make Money From Blogging

Blogs are a great way to share facts, ideas and opinions directly between people, but also, they are a viable way to earn money. In fact, earning money with blogs is something just about anyone can do. Making money with blogs is completely dependent on your audience and you’re ability to attract people to click on the advertisements. Blogs are simple to set up, and relatively easy to update. As many as 75,000 blogs are created every day—almost one per second!

If you are looking to start making money on the internet and you have a budget that is very small or zero, blogging is a great way to get started. You can set-up a free blog and join advertisement programs for free. The only cost involved in setting up a blog is your time.

Although there are many factors involved in making money with your blog, there are a few vital keys to remember when setting up, maintaining and promoting your blog in order to achieve success.

1. Your blog needs to have the right layout in order for your adsense ads to be “clickable” by visitors. Choosing an advertisement’s location, size and color is very important and is something you will need to constantly test and tweak to determine which formats produce the most clicks. It’s amazing how one small change can produce monumental results. There are also many other ways to make money with your blog than with adsense alone. You could promote affiliate products and implement contextual advertising such as Kontera.

2. Your blog will need lots and lots of traffic. This is really a no-brainer, yet it’s the greatest challenge of any website owner. The encouraging reality is that there are more ways to generate traffic for your blog than ever before. This is due to the emergence of Web 2.0 sites like YouTube and social bookmarking sites. Many of these sites provide great sources for one-way links to your blog. Getting hundreds, even thousands of quality links is a must if you expect significant traffic to your blog. There are also many SEO tools on the market now such as directory and article submitters that will help you get thousands of backlinks to your blog quickly and save lots of valuable time.

3. Your blog will need to be updated frequently. You cannot expect return visitors if your blog is not a source of fresh information. You can use RSS feeds to provide your blog with relative information, however you will need to add personal posts as well at least once or twice per week. This will increase your blog’s search engine rankings and also help brand you as an expert in your niche.

Blogging is a great way to share your thoughts and ideas online, but it’s also a powerful money-making tool. Making money with blogs is fairly simple if you know what to do and if you’re willing to invest the time and effort necessary to make it profitable.

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Create a Blog To Drive Traffic To Your WebSite

Blogs (short for web logs) are not only free and easy to create, but they can be awesome traffic generating tools if you use and promote them properly.

If you haven't learned by now, the key to building free search engine traffic is to get as many related, high-quality sites to point back to yours. Search engines like Google take this into great consideration when ranking your website.

You can create your own blog that can act as that "related website" to point to your own, and in the long run your blog can not only attract its own traffic, but will help you build traffic to your main site.

My Blog Example

I have another site called www.flat-stomach-exercises.com. It shows you how to trim and firm your stomach by eating and exercising properly.

I created a blog for that website that documents some of the emails I receive from my visitors. It's almost like a Q&A section so people can reference some of the problems that other people are experiencing with weight loss and read my advice.

As I mentioned before, search engines look for related websites that link back to you, so I link the blog back to my main site's homepage to help with search engine rankings.

User Blogger.com

There are a lot of good, free blog hosts out there but I chose to use Blogger.com because with every new post you make, it creates a separate search-engine-friendly web page.

In a sense, it's like having a whole other website. Also, the more posts you have, the larger your blog becomes. Remember, search engines seem to favor sites with a lot of content.

Also keep in mind there are tons of blog directories out there that will list yours for free. So you can submit to these free sites/directories to help increase your traffic.

Let People Subscribe to Your Blog Feeds

Another benefit of creating a blog is that people can actually subscribe to it. You may have heard of RSS feeds (RSS stands for really simple syndication). It's a growing Internet trend where people can receive updates from their favorite sites without having to visit them.

They use software (or the Firefox browser) which allows them to manage all of their feeds in one place. So let's say someone subscribes to CNN.com and USAToday.com's live news feeds, they can open up their RSS reader and quickly browse the latest headlines from these sites. They can choose to read the articles that interest them and ignore the ones that don't.

Blogger.com will automatically create your own RSS feed URL so people can subscribe to your blog feeds. So when they open up their live feeds to get the updates from their favorite sites, any new posts on your blog will show up in their reader.

Add Adsense Ads

Once your blog starts bringing in traffic, you'll want to maximize the revenue potential by adding Adsense ads. If you aren't familiar with Google's Adsense program, go here to learn about it.

In Conclusion...

As you can see, a blog can really help increase the traffic to your main website if you continue to update and promote it. Many webmasters are finding that Google sometimes spiders blogs faster that some websites giving them that added boost of traffic.

If you remember nothing else from this article, remember that the key to having search engine success is to get as many related websites to link back to yours. Having a blog in your posession is like creating another vote for your site.

Be sure to update it often with unique content so the search engines will visit frequently. Happy blogging!

About The Author Philip Walusimbi is the President of ISS and founder of Shared values a leading Internet marketing company. He offers a free newsletter on how to create wealth at www.freewebs.com/pwalas. email:pwalas@yahoo.com viewed at www.tagworld.com/pwalas http://www.link-art-city.blogspot.com http://www.exclusivelink.blogspot.com http://www.cukilan.blogspot.com http://www.ayo-nge-blog.blogspot.com