Automatic Blogging For Cash

People talk about 'setting up' a blog but that makes it sound hard. In fact it can be so easy, you will be surprised.

You have two options here. If you have heard of WordPress and you have your own domain and hosting with Cpanel or are prepared to go get it, choose option B. If you don't, choose option A.

Option A is totally free. It is also easier to get started with, but you do not have so many possibilities for the ads that you run and you will not own the "real estate" that the blog is built on. It's more like having a lease on a site. Google owns the domain and if they close your account you're out of business. So option A has disadvantages. However, if you are new online or have no money at all, I suggest you start with option A so you can have something up and running fast. When you see how easy it is and you have some money coming in, then consider moving up to option B for your next blog.

For this example we will be creating an article directory style blog. You could create a blog on just one subject if you want to. I will have more suggestions for that in my free report, coming soon.

Option A

Go to Blogger.com and sign up to create a blog. Give it an appropriate name and choose one of their themes. Pick one with the sidebar on the left to improve your Adsense placement.

Option B

1. In your Cpanel hosting, look for the Fantastico icon and in 3 clicks, install a WordPress blog on your domain.

2. Find a free theme that is not niche specific (search for free WordPress themes), upload it to your blog and select it.

3. Go to www.articledashboard.com. See that big list of categories on the front page there? Add them all as categories on your blog except for Recreation & Sports*. The main categories e.g. Arts & Entertainment are your 'parent' categories. Set up the ones underneath them as subcategories under that 'parent'.

* A Note About Sports

If you automatically accept sports articles on your site, you risk receiving articles that promote gambling or include links to sites promoting gambling. This is against the terms of Google Adsense. So to save you the trouble of checking every article that comes in, I suggest you do not accept any sports related articles.

If you like sports, you could set up a blog that is only about sports, take the articles as drafts for approval and check each one. But don't try to do this for a general site that could receive 100 articles a day!

Click here to go to UAW and scroll right down to the bottom to where it says: "Directories/Webmasters - Receive FREE unique content direct to your site! Click for details."
Click through, read about it, scroll down to where it says "Download your plugin here" and then ...

... if you chose Option A in Step 1, click where it says "click here" next to the word Blogspot and follow the instructions to set up your blog to automatically accept emailed articles. Accept all categories except for Recreation & Sports (or for a sports-related blog, accept only Recreation & Sports and take them as draft).

... if you chose Option B in Step 1, download the plugin for WordPress and follow all the instructions in the zip file to get UAW running on your blog. You could set it to draft at first so that you can check the articles coming in, but you will not want to do that for long.

Articles will automatically start posting to your blog within 24 hours.

There are plenty of ways to make money from your new blog but one of the easiest to get started is Google Adsense. Adsense is also probably the best way to monetize a general article directory type blog that accepts all categories. So here we go.

1. Sign up for the Adsense program at adsense.google.com. Read the terms and policies, they are important and you can lose your account if your site does not comply.

2. For Option A blogs - in your blog, go to Layout, Monetize, and set Adsense to appear in the sidebar and at the bottom of posts. Then click on Page Elements and move your Adsense to the top of the sidebar.

2. For Option B blogs - download the WhyDoWorkAdsense plugin and upload it to your site. Follow the instructions to have Adsense ad units appear automatically at the top, middle and bottom of every post. Choose a large rectangle ad in each case.

If you know how to edit your theme, you can also run a link unit (not an ad unit) above the posts or in the header, and a search box under posts or in the footer.

3. For both options - consider running an affliate ad in your sidebar for UAW. All you need is a box with some text like "Submit Your Articles To This Site" hooked up to your UAW affiliate link. If people click through and sign up to distribute their articles through UAW, you will be paid ... every month that they stay a member.

Hey -- you made it to step 4! You're doing great! I hope you have a HUGE sense of achievement. If you never did anything like this before, you have done something amazing. Just try telling your friends you have set up a blog that runs on autopilot and see their jaws drop.

You may be tempted to go create another one, and another, and another - but wait!

You are not quite done yet.

You MUST do just 2 more things to let people know that your blog exists, otherwise it's like opening a hotdog stand on Mars ... nobody will find it.

The good news is that it's not hard to get traffic. You can do it. Follow through with me here - all of the way - before you even think of creating your next blog.

Here we go:

1. Create accounts at the following sites and submit your RSS feed.

- feedbite.com
- rss2.com
- badrss.com
- feedage.com

Here's what your RSS feed probably looks like:
Option A: http://BLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
Option B: http://DOMAIN.com/feed
... and tomorrow you can also submit http://www.DOMAIN.com/feed

Make sure that you have the right link by typing your feed address into your browser. What comes up should show the last few articles that have been posted to your blog, either in full or in summary or list form.

2. Download Comment Kahuna here. It's free and it will help you to find other people's blogs where you can post comments that link back to your blog. Follow the instructions, especially regarding how to write a good comment. Use this to submit plenty of comments (I would aim for around 100), linking sometimes to your home page (the main address of your blog) and sometimes to a specific article on your blog (a different article each time).

I know this may seem tedious but it's easy, and if you do it right it will make all the difference between a blog that nobody visits from one full moon to the next and a blog that pulls a huge crowd every day (and a lot of income). You can even have someone do it for you if you want, e.g. your kids - that's called outsourcing :-)

But whether you do it or your kids do it or you hire someone, it MUST be done ... that is not negotiable.

OK that's all ... it wasn't too hard, right?

There are two things that are important in getting more visitors to your site and those are (1) how much you have put yourself out there to build links and (2) how long your blog has been around. So you can keep ahead by following through on all of these steps right now.

Making money online is pretty easy but you have to act RIGHT NOW and you have to see it through, every step. There will be thousands if not millions more people giving this a try in the current economic climate. Most of them will give up because they are not serious. Make sure you are part of the 1 in 100 that sees it through.

Next go impress your friends with what you did ... and then start creating your next blog :-)

I know probably you read to here before deciding whether or not to act :-)

Please ... actually do it. Follow this easy 4-step formula to see how simple it really is to make money online.

People will try to sell you courses costing $1997 or whatever but really, you can do it for yourself.

Start for free.

Then, if you want to make a living online and replace your 9-to-5 job the way that I did, then you do need to invest something. I recommend that you join me as a member of Portal Feeder when you are ready to shoot for the prize.

And please leave a comment below to tell other people what you think about this simple system :-)

Live your dreams,

Rosie :-)