Make money online with Google AdSense and Amazon

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My first day of blogging was in 23 January 2006. I remember this particular day because was the most annoing day of my life. Maybe you wonder why? Simple: too much information !!!

When you Google about "blogging", "blogging tips", "Google AdSense", "AdSense top paying keywords" and so on... you get tons of informations about what you should do. Ofcourse, some of these infos overlap or they simply contradict themselves. In 5 years of blogging, I've had to learn all kind of stuff to reach the level of earnings I make today: copyrighting, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), good and strong ways of bookmarking for better ranking my pages, where to put your link, how to promote your blogs on Facebook and Twitter, and much, much more !

The most valuable advice that I can give you is "Listen, Learn, Pay Back". Let us take them in this order:

1. LISTEN

When people are talking to you, they are giving you the most important thing that they give: their time. Time is not only money, as the saying "Time is money", but time is the ONLY thing that you can not buy back: once is passed by, you can not take it back.

People DO want to help you ! You must let them help you. Maybe they know less than you, or you may think you know more, but if they wanna help, let them help you. Everybody knows a little part of the big truth. Listen and learn.

2. LEARN

Someone once said "A smart person learns from everything and from everyone". I belive this is true. Several times in my life I was amaysed by how I thought about people that are less knowledgeble than me only to find out I was wrong. And one more important thing: people tend not to share everything just from the beginning: is just like when you meet for the first time a girl - you say something, she says something and, in time, you open up to each other. This is life, my friends: a small step over and over again.

3. Pay Back

I belive in paying back the persons that they help me. Even if it takes only a smile, or a simple link on my personal blog :) If someone makes your life more sunny, repay them the same way. Share the information, help others to understand it, be glad you know it and you are blessed by God to be able to help others. Share this lens or make your own. Help everyone - if everyone would be happy, none of us whould be sad. This is my philosophy, hope is yours too.

OK. Enought with the theory. Let's digg in into practice.

For you to make money online, you have these options:

1. Make yourself an online business
2. Make a blog and start earning money from ads form Google AdSense and Amazon

For making your own online business I recomend chosing a product, making a website and using Google AdWords to promote it.

But, for starters, let's stick only to blogging.

MAKE A BLOG

Making a blog is also simple and also complex. Why? Starting a blog is simple, but making it a GREAT blog takes time, confidence that you can do it and really-really hard work. But belive me, it's all worth it.

The best solution for a blog is a self-hosted blog ( for hosting solutions, i recommend www.bluehost.com - they have the best cost/performance ratio ) using a CMS (Content Management Solution) called WordPress - you can download it from here: WordPress.org. The reason for being the best solution for blogging is that a self-hosting solution allows you to use WordPress plugins, which are some programs that make better use of WordPress and give more stuff for you to play with.

Another important thing you should keep in mind is that Google LOVES WordPress!!! Better Google exposure of your blog, more visitors will come to it.

But, if you are on a tight budget, I strongly recommend

- Blogger.com - the blogging platform from Google - good indexing, but less options for customisations
- WordPress.com - the free blogging platform from WordPress - good indexing, but less options than a self hosted solution
- Squidoo.com - shared revenue blogging platform
- HubPages.com - shared revenue blogging platform

PS: after trying them all, please consider coming back to this page and tell us your opinion. Also, maybe you can find more good blogging platforms by googleing "bloggind platforms" in Google.

For Blogger.com, you can chose to put yourself your ads from Google AdSense and Amazon or chose to let the system do it for you.
For WordPress.com you can not put ads on your blog, but you can get the feeling and make some experiments for free before you go and start your own self hosted blog.

For Squidoo.com and HubPages.com is simpler because they do all the work for you. Just write ORIGINAL CONTENT, participate in others blogs and make friends and promote your blog to them.

If you wanna just start and get the feeling of writing good content and blog for money today, just go on and join Squidoo.com or HubPages.com.

Instead, if you are really commited to hardcore blogging and much more revenue, you must learn Search Engine Optimization, Keyword Research and get yourself a self hosted website with WordPress on it. After that just join the Google AdSense and Amazon Affiliates advertising programs.

Hope you enjoyed this startup tutorial and good luck in blogging ! For further tips, do not hesitate to ask me by commenting below.

Squidoo.com - free blogging platform and also a shared revenue website
HubPages.com - free blogging platform and also a shared revenue website
Blogger.com - a free blogging platform
WordPress.com - a free blogging platform
WordPress.org - get yourself the best self-hosted blogging platform
BlueHost.com - a hosting company
Google AdSense - a PPC (Paid Per Click) advertising system from Google
Amazon - simple Amazon :)