Make Money Online with Blogging

Janan Allen
Blogging is all the rage right now, and I am sure you have heard about it or you may even have a blog. Blogs are basically online journals or diaries open to the public. You can write about your day, your dreams, your hobbies, or even your love life. There is no limit to the creative freedom you have with your own blog. It is an excellent outlet to express yourself. But aside from being a creative outlet, blogs are an excellent way to make money online.

If you are trying to make money online, then the perfect place to start is blogging. You can find many places online that offer free blogs that give you options to make money from them. Two very good places to get a free blog are Hubpages and Squidoo. These two websites allow you to generate money through your blog.

After your blog is setup, you need to start posting. What you post about is important as well. To make the most out of it, you should choose to write on highly searched topics and news. You can check out Google Trends to find out what topics or people are highly searched. The more popular the topic you post about, the more people will visit your blog.

Once you find a hot topic or person, you should start posting right away. Your posts should generally be more than 300 words each time. Search engines love content and will reward your blog with a nice search engine ranking. Although it does not matter how short or long the post, you will want to make your posts as long as possible. Be careful not to overdo it as your posts may become boring and will deter readers. Once you have 3 or more posts that are each 300 words or more on a hot topic you are ready for the next step.

What you need to do next is sign up for a free Google Adsense account and a free Adsdaq account. After you signup for a Google Adsense account, they will give you a little snippet of code to place on your blog. This code will appear as advertisements on your blog. The code will grab from the content in your blog, so these advertisements will be related to what you are blogging about. Place this code in a highly visible place on your blog. You will get money every time someone clicks on these ads.

After you signup for a free Adsdaq account, they will also give you a snippet of code to place on your blog. I like Adsdaq a lot because you will get money for every impression. This means that the visitor does not have to click on the advertisement for you to make money. So you will make money from every person that views your blog, whether they click anything or not. This is a very easy way to generate money from your blog.

After your blog becomes more popular and you are receiving a good amount of traffic each day, you can sell ad space directly. Just designate a small part of your blog and in that space write that ad space is for sale, and ask them to email you to inquire the rate. If your blog is on a popular subject, and you have more than 300 visitors a day, you will sell ad space very easily.

There are numerous ways to make money with blogs, but in my opinion these are the quickest and easiest method to begin with.

Published by Janan Allen

Internet Marketer of 10 years ; Writer for over 15 years (article writing, songwriting, and sales page copywriting} ; Web Designer & Graphic Designer for over 10 years. Content and Article writer for FlipM...  View profile

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  • Aaron Smith10/14/2008

    It isn't easy, but it's fun and can be rewarding. nice tips!

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