Blog Marketing for Beginners

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Create a Blog

Blogs are here to stay. So for us bloggers we might as well figure out how to monetize them. So here are ways you can monetize your blog which includes Google Adsense, Affiliate Marketing, Content Ads.

Google Adsense places Google Ads on your site. You can sign up at <a Google Adsense. Adsense are PPC ads. They are the best paying ads. They are known to pay better than Yahoo, and MSN.

The next way you can monetize your Blog is using affiliate programs such as Clickbank. The best programs on Clickbank offer payouts of at least 50%. The programs on Clickbank usually offer 51% to 60%.

Another way to monetize your blog is using content Ads, such as Kontera. These are the double links you see within the text.

Look in the coming days for more ways to monetize your blog.

What is Amateur Blog

What is an amateur blog? It's not what you think. If you do a search on "amateur blog", it's all about porn. Essentially it's an adult blog. I've never been to these adult blog sites, but I can imagine what is on them. Aside from what is on them. I can tell you that you can make very good money operating adult blogs, and adult type sites.

The unfortunate thing is amateur porn blogs or more commonly known as porn sites in the US is still consider taboo. People don't really talk about it in public. It's stuff that goes on behind close doors. In other words, amateur nude blog, and adult sites are not part of mainstream America.

I am not going to link to any these blogs, because I don't encourage or condone porn on this site. However, I feel it is important to address it, rather than ignore, and pretend amateur porn blogs didn't exist. I am approaching this from an educational point of view.

What is Blog Search

Blogs are here to stay. They are becoming more and more mainstream. You see them on more corporate websites, and traditional media websites as well. What does this mean? This means that there are hundreds of thousands of blogs created each day. How do you sort through all these blogs, and find one that are worth something.

Well, it's blog search to the rescue. All the major search engines, such as MSN, Google, and Yahoo have blog searches. For Google, it's Google Blog Search. For Yahoo, it's Yahoo! Search Blog. For MSN there is Windows Live Spaces. There are also sites specifically dedicated to searching blogs, i.e Technorati, IceRocket etc. visit blogblat

What is the best blog Software

So what is the best blog software out there? Well there are some that you get an account on their server? Others you install on your own server or virtual hosting.

There are two versions of Wordpress.org blog software out there. There is Wordpress, and Wordpress Mu. You can read my previous post on Wordpress: De facto Blog Software.

Today I am going to to talk about the other major blog software. There is of course, Blogger.com, which is owned by Google, from Pyra Labs. The other major one is Typepad. Which you pay for. And of course, we can't leave out Wordpress.com.