Make Money Online - Center Around Blogging

If you are serious about using blogging as a method to make money online, here are guidelines which point out the different options that you have.

 

Step 1 - Finding an Informative Niche of Interest

 

Think of a unique niche or topic that fits your personal interest and something that you would like to blog about for life. You can use keyword research services like Google Zeitgeist or Yahoo! Buzz Index to find popular searched topics.

 

Step 2 - Create Your Blog

 

Probably the most popular of the blogging platforms is Blogger.com - but there are others like WordPress.com and MSN Spaces. Wordpress.org offer the platform for free but you then need to find and pay for your own hosting and domain name. MovableType charge for a license for the platform and then you need to arrange and pay for your own domain name and hosting.

 

You need to include the keywords in Step 1 in the content of your blog but try not to overuse them as it sends out bad impressions to the search engines.

 

 

Step 3 - Go Google

 

Signing up for Google Adsense will probably not make you a millionaire but it is an instant way of generating a small amount of money just by inserting the adsense code in the margin of your blog. When an ad is clicked on, Google will pay the publisher about half of what the Adwords advertiser is paying to run the ad. Google gets the other half.

 

Use Google Analytics to track your website performance and anonymous visitor behavior with the installation of a simple JavaScript snippet.

 

Also add your URL to Google's index.

 

 

Step 4 - Find Something to Sell

 

If you don't want to sell anything and are happy with the income Google Adsense is bringing in then you can skip this step. If you want to maximize your income and truly learn How to Make Money with Blogs you will want to find an affiliate program to join. Of course, you can find hundreds of affiliate programs on our network, SOSComplete!.

 

Whatever program you join will give you help inserting the code you will need to insert into your blog, but be sure you do this correctly or you WILL NOT earn money from your visitors. If you do not know how to edit HTML, W3Schools HTML tutorial is a great place to start.

 

Step 5 - Social Bookmarking

 

Social bookmarking sites like OnlyWire and SocialMarker are used for people to share their bookmarks or websites that they have liked with other people in their online community.

 

I would not suggest you add your own links to these services, but provide visitors to your website the ability to do so.

 

Step 6 - Write an Article

 

Whether your blog is about a specific product, for example a certain MP3 Player you are promoting, or just about giving people information, I would suggest you to write an article or a review of it. Most article directories require articles of 500 words and over so I would use this as a rule when writing to ensure your article is published.

 

Submit your article to any of the hundreds of article directories which are out there. I personally use a few of the top article directories such as EzineArticles, Article Dashboard, Amazines.com, isnare and SearchWarp. I also use an article submission service which has been amazing, and has dramatically boosted my ability to make money online.

 

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