Making Money With Your Blog

Making Money With Your Blog - The Full Guide

While there are million of people blogging, the percentage that are doing it for profit is very small and the opportunity for you is absolutely huge.

Blogging is one of the only truly "free" start-up business models on the internet. You can quickly and easily sign-up for an account with a free blog service such as Goggle's Blogger. From there you can add AdSense and other affiliate links to your blog and make money from your visitors clicking on those links. This is referred to as monetizing a blog - making money with a blog. You can accomplish all of this without ever spending a single cent of your own money.

Google started a program called AdSense. AdSense is for website owners to make money by hosting other business's advertisements on their websites. These AdSense ads can also be hosted on a blog, even if it is hosted by a free blog service. Google owns both Blogger and AdSense so they are both programmed to be very simple for anyone to use. Because Google owns both Blogger and AdSense they go extremely well together.

With AdSense you paste the code the program generates for you into your Blogger template. Where the advertisements will show up on your blog depends entirely on where you choose to paste the AdSense code into your template.>More

While there are loads of people blogging there are 1000 times more that aren't getting any traffic to their blog at all.

That's pretty sad isn't it?

After all, the whole point of having a blog online is so you can share your thought and insights with like minded people and communicate about them.

So what is it that makes a blog fail? Today we are going to go over the two biggest things that create failure...

1) Content isn't updated regularly - with a blog you need to post at least once a week to keep the search engines interested and sending you traffic.

2) The content isn't targeted - if your content isn't targeted and is too broad, no one will read blog or return.

If you watch out for these two pitfalls, you're already way ahead of the crowd.

You see, the Internet has largely moved toward commercialism and many people are publishing blogs loaded with no good content!

This leaves the doors wide open for you to come in and fill a need that just isn't being properly met.

If you become known as the "content provider" for your chosen niche market, you'll get much more traffic than people who pack their blogs with nothing but self serving advertising.>More

Here are two more highly important things you must have to create a highly successful blog:

1) A professional look - while it doesn't have to be flashy, your blog must be easy to navigate and easy on the eye to keep visitors interested.

2) Easy bookmarking options - your blog must have a "Add to favorites" option both as a webpage and to popular RSS readers to promote repeat traffic.

These two options alone, combined with the two you learned of previously give you more of an edge than 99% of bloggers out there.

While they may be simple, don't shake their power. These simple things are making people silent fortunes with their blogs.

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