MAKE MONEY BY BLOGGING

WHAT IS BLOGGING ?

The internet had witnessed in the past years a new type of cyber communities known as
BLOGS. In a blog everyone is a webmaster who can share jokes, ideas, emotions, advice,
and anything that can be translated into words; making them popular sites that are visited
about 10000 times a month!!
I will guide you through 10 essential steps to create a successful, interesting
and profitable blog that can, at the end, generate money 24/7 even if you are asleep.
How is this possible???
Well, you are going to find out in just 10 seconds. We are just asking you to spare us a
small fraction of your precious time to read and to fully understand everything included
in this blog

"STEP 1"
In this step, we are going to look into the profitability of a blog and set up a blog of our
own at no cost! Interested? Read on!
First, we need to obtain a blog. There are several options – host a blog on your own
domain or get a free blog. For starters, let’s talk about the free blogs. You can obtain a free blog at
WWW.BLOGGER.COM
WWW.WORDPRESS.COM

"STEP 2"
Today, we’re going to discuss the type of content that is suitable for your blog in order to
make it profitable. First off, I want you to understand that there is no fixed scope that
your blog should have, which means you can write about whatever you’re interested in.
However, the difference between a profitable blog and a non-profitable blog is the way
the blog is written. Just imagine, would you prefer to read your university professor’s
lecture notes or the latest novel by your favorite author?


"STEP 3"
Blog Content Brainstorming

Face the fact – your blog needs to be regularly updated to maintain its readership! Hence,
you must always find fresh topics to write about, and we’re going to discuss how to do
just that in this step.
We have discussed how to write attractively, so now we are going to discuss what we are
going to write on. The very first option that I think a blogger should write on is a topic
that he or she feels passionate and interested in. You’ve chosen to make blogging your
career because you want to escape a mundane job – forcing yourself to write about
something that you’re not interested in is as torturous as as your mundane job!
Once you have chosen your main theme, start posting to your blog about it and make it a
habit to post at least once every day, even if it’s only a comment on the newspaper article
you read today. Think of yourself as a gigantic train. It takes a lot of effort to get you
moving. First, you might just budge an inch, and later trudge slowly on until you finally
reach your full speed. Then, it’ll take a lot of effort to stop you instead!
However, no matter how well you know your topic, your brain is bound to get exhausted
over some time, so here are methods to brainstorm for content for your blog.
1) The very best way to brainstorm is to see what other bloggers have to say about stuff
happening in your field of discussion. And the very best way to find related blogs is
to use http://blogsearch.google.com/ or www.technorati.com. There are other decent
search tools too, you just have to look around. From other blogs, you can gather more
knowledge on your subject and you can also comment on what others have to say on
your own blog!
2) Once you’ve established contacts with other bloggers in your field, you’ll have quite
an unexhaustible “conversation” ongoing, so you’ll not need to actively search for
content to write about. However, if you’re still stuck, search for news articles related
to your niche in the local newspaper or online through sites like
http://news.google.com and http://news.yahoo.com.
3) You can also have conversations with people with the same interest as you in the
particular niche you choose, so you will eventually build up a bank of questions and
answers and interesting discussions to write about in your blog. To do this, join
forums related to your niche, but don’t join every forum there is out there. Stick with
one or two with the biggest number of members or the one which is most focused on
your niche. This will also come in handy much later in gaining traffic and generating profits.

"STEP 4"
On Page Search Engine Optimization

Now, you should have a blog full with content you have passionately written. It should be
a very interesting grapevine for the community of your chosen niche, as opposed to a
lifeless factsheet.However, to get traffic onto your site, you have to think backwards. Where do people
look when they need information? Yes, they search using search engines like
www.google.com, www.yahoo.com and www.msn.com, to name a few more popular
ones. So, to get these people on your blog, your blog needs to rank high on search result
pages of these search engines. When these people search for information through the
search engines and see your site among the top results, they will naturally click through to your blog!

Step 5
More Traffic Sources

Getting links from other websites is not the only way to attract visitors to visit your blog.
This time, we are going to explore alternative methods to attract high quality traffic with
both free and paid methods.
The first thing you can do to generate traffic is to recycle all the content you have written
on your blog. What I really mean is to turn your blog posts into little “manuals” or
articles that help people solve their problems or offer valuable information and submit
them to article directories. These article directories are like aggregators that collect articles of similar themes together in one place, so they receive thousands and thousands of qualified visitors every day.
Some good article directories to get you started:
www.eZineArticles.com
www.ultimatearticledirectory.com
www.submityourarticle.com



Step 6
Monetizing Your Blog

You have been working hard to produce good-quality, original content on your blog and
you have attracted a decent amount of traffic by doing so. However, money is not going
to appear out of thin air just because you have traffic. You have to turn your traffic into
money.
There are several ways to generate profits from the visitors of your blog, and Google’s
Adsense programme allows you to do so with ultimate ease. First, visit their website at
http://adsense.google.com/. You’ll find out more about their advertising programme
there, but here are some extra bits I’d like to tell you.
First, Google’s Adsense programme is a really useful way to monetize your blog because
when users finish reading your newest post, chances are they want to leave your blog
because they have nothing else to do on your blog. If your Adsense advertisement block
is visible on your blog, they might see advertisements relevant to them and click on them
to exit your blog. Ka-ching! You’ve just cashed in on your first virtual cents!
But yes, your profits will only be cents if you don’t “do it right”. This involves placing
your Google ads in the right places and ensuring they blend in to your site so that they
appear more like links rather than advertisements to your visitors. Consult the page
https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html to see the “heat
map” of your blog. The “hotter” a certain area, the greater the chances of someone
looking at your blog.

Now, affiliate programmes are very nice ways to generate profit, but how do you find
affiliate programmes that are related to your blog’s theme? Easy, just go to Google and
search for +”affiliate programmes”. Another slightly better way is to go to
http://www.associateprograms.com/search to look for affiliate programmes in your niche.
The two ways mentioned above are basic ways to generate profits from your blog. We’ll
be discussing other great, profitable ways, so keep your eyes peeled!

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