Well, mainly, setting up a blog means that you are creating a tiny space
of your own on the Internet where you can make posts about anything that
interests you. Of course, if you are going to be blogging on a variety of
topics, the best way to make money with it would be to have different blogs for
different topics otherwise your blog will be just one big muddled mess that
nobody would want to read about.
So what topics should you blog on? Well, I would propose blogging about your
own interests or favorite hobbies. There are always people out there who could
learn from your detailed experience.
Lets say for example your favourite passion is your love for dogs. You
could blog about anything pertaining to dogs. Do you know how to potty train a
dog in a week? Lots of people would love to know how to get their dogs not to do
their potty work inside the house :) Or do you have a recipe for a dog biscuit
that your dog absolutely adores? There are lots of people who absolutely adore
their puppies - I am one! And they do a lot of searches on the topics of dogs,
cats, puppies, kittens etc. So why not make some money out of sharing your own
knowledge to help those people? Share your ideas with them and they will just
love you for it!
So, how would you make money out of having a blog even if you dont have a
product to sell? One word: Adsense. Adsense is a program offered by Google that
pays webmasters and blog owners to display Google ads called Adwords on their
sites, and if you have a blog that gets many visitors, they will click on the
ads which means that you will earn money from it. To learn more about how to
apply for and start using Adsense on your own site, visit : Google Ads
Some tips before you apply for the Adsense program:
1. You have to have an existing blog or an existing site.
2. Your website has to have at least 10-15 pages of pertinent content. If you
have a blog that you want to apply adsense to, you have to have at slightest 5 or
more posts on your blog.
3. Your blog or site must have a clean, easy to use interface. No under
construction pages or busted links, or too many animated gifs, or pop ups.
4. You dont have to have a professionally designed website or blog. The
simpler your site is the better for the search engines to spider, and the better
it will be for your visitors to traverse.
How to get a blog? You could use any of the free blog services like: Blogger to set up a blog that
will be hosted on their server.
Alternatively, you can have blog that you can host at your own
website, like Wordpress
Wordpress is an easy to set up php script that is free for download.
So to recap: Select a theme that you would like to blog about, set up a blog,
make a couple of posts a day on your blog, wait about 5 days, then apply for the
Google Adsense program.
Once you have been permitted for Adsense, you should submit your blog or
website to the major search engines. If you dont know the foremost search engines,
do a search for "free website submission". You will find that there are a lot of
sites that will allow you to use their services for free to suggest your site or
blog to various search engines.
Their are many blog directories that you should also list your blog with.
Once again, do a search for blog directories, and submit your site to all the
the ones that you can find.
Tell others about your blog, your family and friends etc. Ask them to tell
others about your blog. That way you will start receiving instant traffic. Just a
word of caution: do NOT ask family and friends to click on your adsense ads, and
under no circumstances should you click on any of the ads yourself - that is a
sure fire way of getting banned by Google and you will have lost a valuable
income source!
Now that you know how to start your own blog, you have no excuse not to make
money online! Happy blogging!
