subject: Make Money Online With Blogging and Adsense [print this page] I first heard about blogs maybe 4 years ago but never really thought about getting my own blog and also never thought of it as a way of making money. For the longest time I was like most people in the world, naive to the Internet and it's potential for generating a supplement income for me. I learned a couple of months after discovering blogs that there were actually people that were earning hundreds of thousands from their blogs. That was all I needed to hear, at the time I was unemployed and desperately needed to find something to get money in my pockets. Through long hours of study I found that it actually isn't that hard to make money with a blog. Now all I do is update my blogs and the traffic just flows in and so do clicks and commission checks for me. By now I bet you want to know what I did well it was simple really I'll put them below in a simple to follow number system of what you need to start doing now. Find a niche preferably one that you don't mind writing about and focusing on. Find the keywords this is important because nobody can just find your site in the beginning you have to do some SEO (Search Engine Optimization) to get your site ranked high in search engines. To find the most searched for keywords for your niche you can use the FREE Google Keyword Tool. Select a platform like a Blogger or Wordpress where you will do your blogging. It would also benefit you to get your own hosting service I recommend JustHost. You won't need your own host but later you'll find it for your benefit to have your own web hosting service. Pick out template make sure it's appealing and user friendly. I personally like using three-column templates for my blogs. Sign-up for affiliate networks some of he more popular ones include Google Adsense and Commission Junction. The easiest to make money on is Google Adsense nobody has to buy anything all they need to do is click the ads and you get paid per click. Commission Junction or CJ represents all the major companies like BestBuy, Blockbuster and Dell and all you do is put up text links or banner ads. Start blogging.and keep blogging. Success online is just like everything else it takes persistence.
