Making money through blogging

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Out of all the ways of making money online. Blogging is the most easy one! Anyone with working knowledge of computers can start a blog within 5 minutes. With no or very little investment.

There are many successful bloggers out there.They make up to 1000$ everyday! Many of them have taken up blogging as a full time profession.

If you can build a blog which can drive more traffic, you can make money! What makes blogging such a successful activity? How it can be fun and rewarding at the same time?

To answer the question, let us discuss, how you can build a blog and why you should build it. And the other nitty gritty of it…

What exactly is a blog?
Blog is a short term used for Web Log, it is a web based software which lets you publish content through a simple CMS(Content management system).

Its nothing but a website, which you can update easily with no technical expertise.

The main difference between a blog and website is a blog is a little bit more personal. There is usually a single person or a group of person writing a blog. So a blog is more personified and hence more personal as compared to a professional website.

The special thing about blog is the ease of use, As of December 2007, there were about 112 million blogs. And millions are created everyday, by 2009 it is estimated that 1% of the world’s population would own a blog!

What a blog is not?
A blog is not an e-commerce web site where you sell products.

Blog is not only for rich people, anyone with little or no money can start blogging. Blogs are available in many languages and platforms.

Anyone with an interest about a certain topic and knowledge of internet can set up a blog running in minutes.

How do i set up a blog?
That’s a big question, so let us divide the process into three steps:

Step 1: Planning
Think about the Name of your blog, target audience, design, topic that you would want to cover and strategies.

Plan all the above mentioned things in advance, it will be easier for you to manage and promote you blog in the future if you have solid foundation and principles.

The best way to learn is by learning from other’s experience. You should start reading the best blogs in your category. See what the successful bloggers are doing. Join social networks, afterall this is what blogging is all about!

Step 2: Setting up
Setting up a blog is super easy, to open an account you may use any of the following services:

1. Blogger.com
2. Wordpress.com
3. Typepad.com

Which blog service is the best?
Depends, if you want easy to use and free service go with Blogger! Another free option is Wordpress. Choose it if you want to host the blog at your own servers (It is also more customizable)

Typepad is the commercial one. It is the least popular amongst the two other service mentioned above. However typepad is also gaining popularity. Especially if you want specialised paid service go for it!

You may also set up other tools and services on your blog like RSS feed and email newsletters, this may help your readers to subscribe to your blog and keep in touch.

Step 3 Maintaining
Here comes the important part, the most important thing about the blog is it’s content.

You should update your content regularly, be consistent! I repeat… please be consistent. Not only it will make your visitors come to your blog again and again. It will also also help increasing your search engine rankings and position.

You may also carry out other SEO activities to promote your blog on the WWW.

Tips for writing good content
The readers on your blog have come to “spend” their time and they want value for it!

Always.. provide with usefull content. Whatever your blog’s proposition is, make it clear and stand to it.

You can write short articles with useful content rather than very long meaning less posts. Also don’t copy the content from other sites (Not even from Wikipedia) Search engines may decrease your blog’s score. But if you will have original content, more people would come to your blog and it will easily get attracted to search engines.

What are the ways I can monetize my blog?
There are quite a number of ways, you can it up with Google Adsense account or any other such service.

Google adsense delivers high quality relevant ads on your blogs and you will get paid whenever someone clicks on your advertisement.

How much can you make blogging?
It’s difficult to give an exact figure.But just to give you an idea… a blog that receives 60,000 visitors everyday makes up to 1000$ every single day! That may give you an idea on how much a blog can make.

Now that’s a ball park figure.But you can make a calculation and get an idea on how much you can make!

How to Promote your blog?
The best way to promote your blog is through search engines. Consider doing SEO for your blog. You may also want to submit its URL into various directories and search engines.

You may also leverage social bookmarking tools such as Digg and delicious.com

Wish you happy blogging!