Making Money With a Blog

For those of your who do not know what a blog is, a blog is a web page where someone continually adds events and content to the site through a reverse chronological order. Blogs can contain anything from text to pictures to video or even all of them. Some blogs are setup to allow readers of the blogs to comment on a particular entry, picture or video. This is what makes blogs along with social networking web sites so good at generating traffic. Search engines love blogs because the content is constantly updating with new fresh material and the generate a lot of traffic about specific niche markets. Creating your own blog about your hobby is a great way to make some extra cash on the internet in your spare time. I am not going to tell you that this will make you a $1000 a week or even $1000 a month but you can get enough money to make it worth your while.

Creating a blog is as easy as purchasing web space for as little as $5.00 a month and a domain name for $10 a year. There are a few places you can get free blog software, like WordPress, B2Evolution, and Nucleuscms. These are all free programs you can download and install on your site to begin blogging right away. Once you have created your web page check out Google AdSense and sign up for a free AdSense account. Google AdSense is an paid per click service where you place links on your web site and every time they get clicked you receive some money. AdSense adds to placed based on bids, so you could receive 0.01 per click or you could receive $2 per click.

But you don't want to stop their, next head on over to amazon.com and sign up for their free associate program. Amazon is one of the biggest distributors on the internet and have some of the best conversion rates in the business. Also with Amazon's large collection of many different items you can find products to sell no matter what your web site is about. Once you have signed up for your free associate account locate products that relate to your newly created blog site. Then post the products on your web site using the links created by Amazon.

Your site is now setup to begin generating money for your with paid per click links and affiliate products. The last thing you need to do is advertise your web site and this can be done by a number of different venues. Article marketing and participating in other blogs are a very easy free way to generate traffic to your web site. Newspaper advertisements, Craigslist advertisements, flyers, radio and TV advertisements are all good examples of paid advertising that can really get your some good traffic to your web site. Once you do all this work to generate traffic to your web site remember to keep it up to date and current so your first time visitor come back as return visitors and you will begin to make money in no time.

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