Blog Basics for Beginners: How to Make Money Online With Blogs – Step 2

So you’re ready to create a blog… The first thing you might want to consider is what your blog’s topic should be. I would recommend that you spend some serious time thinking about this; generally you will be the most successful in your efforts if you pick a subject that you are seriously interested in. Because really, why not going ahead and learn something on your journey to financial independence?

After you have decided on your topic, the next step will be determining where you would like to host your blog… Many people decide to set up a website as a permanent home for their blog. If this is your first or even second blog, I would recommend setting up a free blog at one of the following sites :

WWW.BLOGGER.COM

Or

WWW.WORDPRESS.COM

Both sites have great features and benefits and either site is an excellent choice for setting up your blog. For the sake of this article, let’s go ahead and set up a new blog at Blogger. After you go to the website, you will see an option to -> create an account

Go ahead and pick a name, I picked “Blog Basics for Beginners” as I wanted to create a blog to assist other bloggers in setting up and monetizing a niche site. See if the name you want is available. If not, you may have to play around with your name like I did… Because the URL “blogbasicsforbeginners.blogspot.com” was already taken, I decided to add dashes in-between all the words so effectively the same keywords were used just with a slight variation (this will make sense later in my series).

Try your best to use keywords you’d like to be found with in your blog’s title and web address.


After the first step you will be asked to select a template, I used Minima for example because it is set up to work perfectly with Google’s search engine. This will be important when it comes to SEO – Search Engine Optimization…

Click the publish option to change objects on your blog… If you click edit in the top right corner it will offer you additional features you can add to the sidebar of your blog, I would recommend selecting the Adsense option. It will go ahead and ask you for your Adsense publisher ID number. If you haven’t already signed up for Adsense, I would recommend doing so by going to the following URL: http://www.google.com/adsense

At this point your blog is ready to go complete with your first advertising channel. Follow me to the next step in my series entitled “Blog Basics for Beginners: How to Make Money Online with Blogs – Step 3” for information setting up your first post.

Written by Locke D.

Blog Basics for Beginners: How to Make Money Online With Blogs – Step 1

Almost everyone has asked themselves this question at some point in their life, “how do I make money online?”

There are literally a million ways to make money online but this site is dedicated to just one topic. It is all centered on the following theme, how to make money online by blogging about something you like.

If you’re like me, you’ve been to a million websites and blogs with promises to make you rich if you just buy their “wonder” product or sign up to their email list for their “special report.”

I’m not going to lie; making money online with your blog is hard work… It takes time, dedication and lot of planning and footwork. The rewards far outweigh the costs because once your blog is up and running, you are towards the top of Google’s search with your particular keyword niche and you have a very substantial subscriber base, the passive income you will make from your ventures will be more than enough to support yourself and offer you more time in life to do what you want to do, no longer at the mercy of an employer.

There are millions of online advertisers out there and only a tenth as many online marketers, the odds are on your side, so if you want to start blogging about something you like and start cashing in on the lucrative opportunity to be rewarded for your efforts, follow me….

The first topic of conversation is something called “Google Adsense.”

This is by far the easiest service to become affiliated with if you want to place ads on your blog. Each time someone clicks on one of the ads you will receive a contribution depending on how much value is placed on the particular ad. After utilizing this service you may also want to diversify your advertising with Affiliate partners.

Adsense can become very profitable once your site has a high quantity of web traffic flowing through. Google offers another program called Adwords, a program in which you pay them to place links to your own site. Some people make money using Adwords to get traffic and then having that traffic flow thru their Adsense links generating them revenue.

I have found that the best traffic is the traffic you obtain for free through multiple links, high search ranking etc...

Chances are you will not make a lot of money through Adsense when you first set up your blog. It takes time and effort to build web traffic but it is manageable. When you hear stories of people making tons of money via Adsense and you know they haven’t been running their site for long, what they are probably doing is running multiple blogs and websites with multiple niches, each generating a small amount of revenue... Of coarse they wouldn’t want to tell you that because they’d like to stay ahead of the game and keep their competitors in the dark…

So, it may be time to make a choice… Do you want to make money blogging? Would you rather have one blog and spend years of hard work and dedication to make that money? Or would you rather create many blogs and spend substantially less time and effort to reach the same result?

That’s what I thought… Please check out the following article when you’re ready to get started: Blog Basics for Beginners: How to Make Money Online with Blogs – Step 2

Written by Locke D.

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