Friday, March 13, 2009

BLOG AND HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH IT

Blog is a very popular word on the internet but not all people know how its benefits can be optimally harnessed.

A blog is an online archive where one can regularly post information contents which can be viewed by many people on the internet.
Having a blog can be very beneficial in increasing the search engine ranking of ones website as one continues to add fresh content to the blog.
A blog also provides an opportunity of bringing visitors back to ones website repeatedly, if it is linked to your website and it is regularly updated with fresh content.

Another vital use of the blog is for interaction. As one can program a standard blog to receive comments from people viewing the content of the blog.

Futhermore, one can also use a blog to generate a steady flow of income from pay-per-click programs like Google adsense which shall be dicussed later.

SETTING UP A BLOG

There are two major ways that one can get a blog set-up. One is by using a web host that integrates blogging software with their hosting package.
And another way is by using the service of blog hosting companies.Blog hosting companies are companies that host blog site for people. Most of these blog hosting companies usually give free blog accounts to people. Below is a list of places where to get a free blog account.
www.blogspot.com
www.wordpress.com
www.blogger.com
www.livejournal.com
These blog providers make available to you different blog template from which you can choose and customise for your own blog.

HOW TO MAKE MONEY WITH YOUR BLOG SITE
There are many ways to make money with your blog site. But here we shall limit our discussion to adsense.
Adsense is a way of of making money by putting pay-per-click advert on ones website or blog. Each time a visitor clicks on any of the adverts placed on on the blog site, one will be paid. So by using your blog site for adsense, you can generate a steady flow of income for yourself.

However, to get a blog site and make money with it using adsense, you have to do the following:

1. GET A BLOG ACCOUNT: create a free blog site with any of the campanies mentioned earlier on, or use the blogging software that comes with your hosting package to set up a blog on your website.

2.FILL YOUR BLOG WITH CONTENT: After you have set up your blog. You need to start posting information or articles relevant to the topic or the nich of your blog on it. For example, if your niche is internet marketing, you will need to post information on internet marketing or any other closely related topic on the blog.

Writing articles and posting them on your blog regularly is a good way of enriching your blog with content. Apart from writng your own article there are many places online where you can get free articles to post on your blog. But using private label right articles is the best.

3. LET PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT YOUR BLOG SITE: If you have a blog site and people do not know about it existence online, it is like it's not existing. So after your blog has been filled with content, you need to start advertising the blog immediately. A good place to start is on ezine directories and on article submission website. Draw traffic to your blog through these article submission sites by writing articles on issues relating to your blog content and submit them to the article submission sites, but don't forget to add a link to your blog on the articles, so that those who read your artcles will be able to come to your blog through the provided link.

You can also use the following means to draw traffic to your blog, namely, pay-per-click campaign [PPC], online directory listing, classified advert, ezine adverts and through search engines submission of your blog URL to search engines.

Furthermore you can also generate free traffic to your blog by pinging your blog on www.pingoat.com

4. PUT PAY PER CLICK ADVERT ON YOUR BLOG: This is exactly where you will make money with your blog, once you have visitors coming to your blog. All you need to do is to sign up for Google adsense account on www.google.com/adsense/. Google will give you some code to put within your blog. Through this, Google adverts will be served on your blog and you will be paid each time your blog site visitors click on any of the adverts on your blog.

5.Other way to make money with your blog apart from Google adsense is through affiliate programs. You can recruit or refer people to your affiliate program through your blog site, and you can also sell your affiliate product and services too via your blogsite.

I trust this article has enlightened you on how you can generate streams of income from your blog. Visit this blog regularly for more useful information on internet marketing.