Blogging was created years ago as a process for people to connect to other people and share experiences, stories and pictures. It was viewed as a great personal daybook type tool that enabled one to leave their tag on the net through their encounters.
Evolution reached blogs and made them become excellent Marketing Tools as well as a medium to make profit off of. Blogging can be used in a few different ways to make money. Here are some examples:
Adsense ads - The popular search engines offer a way to make a little additional income with any blog or internet site. The idea is to position these advertisements on your web site and once a visitor clicks on an advert from your site, you make a pre-determined sum of money. The more clicks you are able to get from your web site visitors, the more you are able to make. There are a few rules, so if you decide to go down this path, make sure you find out what not to do prior to signing up for their programs.
Review Products - There are a few sites that you can register up with that can help you connect with other companies who want people to review their products and get them some exposure on your blogs. More often than not you are required to have a blog that not only has a fair amount of visitors but has also been around for awhile. Those companies would pay you a specified amount of money to review their product on your blog.
Contextual Links - Some website owners or business will pay a blogger to post one of their links within their blog posts. It may be the owners themselves contacting the blogger or a company that acts as the middleman. Those businesses are only interested in blogs that relate to their companies sites, so the links provided on the blogs will be search engine friendly. This is a great technique to make some more traffic for a site.
Sell products - Blogs are an additional way you are able to sell your own products from. Those who have businesses selling home dcor items or food container items use blogs a lot to help sell their products and earn further income online.
What skills would you need?
There isn't a great deal of skill needed in this type of business except the ability to market your blog. You would need to research blogging as much as possible to acquire a few of the tricks of the trade to get your blog popular.
What tools do you need?
Besides a computer with an internet connection, your main tool would be a blog. There are several blogging programs you can choose from. Some are free to set up with, while others require a monthly or annual fee to get started with.
Using the paid versions of blogging programs can help you to connect with other blogs and increase your blog's traffic. The free versions are super easy to produce and most are very popular among bloggers, so getting hold of people to connect with wouldn't be too hard to do.
How do you get started?
Sign up with a blogging program and start putting up posts. It is a good idea to blog on a regular basis, normally, about twice a week. If you don't update regularly, the blog tends to get lost in cyberspace.
Market your blog as much as possible. Get listed on blog directories, get on other people's blog rolls and comment on other blog author's posts to get some exposure to your blog. The more traffic you can drive to your blog, the higher your chance of making blogging a lucrative way to make money.
Most of the blogging programs will already have included in their set up feature a sign up for adsense ads, so getting started with that will be easy. You will need to be blogging for a while as well as having a lot of traffic, if you want to provide product reviews and contextual links.
When your blog is ready, find the companies that will help you connect with businesses that want to pay to have their products reviewed or have their links embedded with your blog post entries. Once that's set up, you can start earning some extra income with your blog.
Blogging is an easy way to earn some extra cash if you plan to work hard at marketing it. The ones successful at blogging for money use every route possible to get their blog well known in the internet communities. The ones that don't, tend to earn only a few cents a week.
Become one of the more successful bloggers and make your blog your business and not just a hobby to partake in once in awhile. Your pocketbook will thank you for it.
Evolution reached blogs and made them become excellent Marketing Tools as well as a medium to make profit off of. Blogging can be used in a few different ways to make money. Here are some examples:
Adsense ads - The popular search engines offer a way to make a little additional income with any blog or internet site. The idea is to position these advertisements on your web site and once a visitor clicks on an advert from your site, you make a pre-determined sum of money. The more clicks you are able to get from your web site visitors, the more you are able to make. There are a few rules, so if you decide to go down this path, make sure you find out what not to do prior to signing up for their programs.
Review Products - There are a few sites that you can register up with that can help you connect with other companies who want people to review their products and get them some exposure on your blogs. More often than not you are required to have a blog that not only has a fair amount of visitors but has also been around for awhile. Those companies would pay you a specified amount of money to review their product on your blog.
Contextual Links - Some website owners or business will pay a blogger to post one of their links within their blog posts. It may be the owners themselves contacting the blogger or a company that acts as the middleman. Those businesses are only interested in blogs that relate to their companies sites, so the links provided on the blogs will be search engine friendly. This is a great technique to make some more traffic for a site.
Sell products - Blogs are an additional way you are able to sell your own products from. Those who have businesses selling home dcor items or food container items use blogs a lot to help sell their products and earn further income online.
What skills would you need?
There isn't a great deal of skill needed in this type of business except the ability to market your blog. You would need to research blogging as much as possible to acquire a few of the tricks of the trade to get your blog popular.
What tools do you need?
Besides a computer with an internet connection, your main tool would be a blog. There are several blogging programs you can choose from. Some are free to set up with, while others require a monthly or annual fee to get started with.
Using the paid versions of blogging programs can help you to connect with other blogs and increase your blog's traffic. The free versions are super easy to produce and most are very popular among bloggers, so getting hold of people to connect with wouldn't be too hard to do.
How do you get started?
Sign up with a blogging program and start putting up posts. It is a good idea to blog on a regular basis, normally, about twice a week. If you don't update regularly, the blog tends to get lost in cyberspace.
Market your blog as much as possible. Get listed on blog directories, get on other people's blog rolls and comment on other blog author's posts to get some exposure to your blog. The more traffic you can drive to your blog, the higher your chance of making blogging a lucrative way to make money.
Most of the blogging programs will already have included in their set up feature a sign up for adsense ads, so getting started with that will be easy. You will need to be blogging for a while as well as having a lot of traffic, if you want to provide product reviews and contextual links.
When your blog is ready, find the companies that will help you connect with businesses that want to pay to have their products reviewed or have their links embedded with your blog post entries. Once that's set up, you can start earning some extra income with your blog.
Blogging is an easy way to earn some extra cash if you plan to work hard at marketing it. The ones successful at blogging for money use every route possible to get their blog well known in the internet communities. The ones that don't, tend to earn only a few cents a week.
Become one of the more successful bloggers and make your blog your business and not just a hobby to partake in once in awhile. Your pocketbook will thank you for it.
About the Author:
About the author: Lorraine Smith is an Internet Marketer. See how she was privately coached by an online multi-millionaire to start an online business
