subject: Making Money Blogging [print this page] Many people today consider blogging a way to make ends meet. With the introduction of free blogging platforms, it is becoming one of the most exciting ways to spend your free time. People are now making more money than they have a right to out of what was at first considered just a hobby.
You are probably wondering how you can join this new breed of bloggers who are making insane amounts of money working just two hours a day. The answer is that you can even start without a single coin. You can open a blog with the free blogging platforms and be doing your thing minutes from now. I would recommend Blogger for the beginners as it is the simplest to use. Blogger uses drag and drop interface and anybody who can access a web page can use it.
After your blog is up and going you have to ensure that it has lots of high quality content. Remember there are millions of blogs out there and you have to work on your blog to make it stand out. You should at least have a post every week. This means your readers will have something fresh every week. Google loves fresh content too and you will have the Google bot coming more often if you give it something new to index.
Search engine optimization(SEO) is another must do. The best free and highly targeted traffic comes from the search engines. You can hire a search engine specialist or learn the basics and do it yourself. I would recommend the latter as the internet is full of black hat search engines specialists who can get your site banned. SEO is not difficult and if you have a little knowledge you can make your site top the search engine results pages(SERPs).
Once you are getting a considerable amount of visitors for your blog then it is definitely time to monetize it. You can choose different affiliate programs. The most popular is Google Adsense but there are alternatives like Chitika, Adbrite, Bidveriser etc. Choose one that suits you.
Remember you have to keep on posting and marketing your blog if you want to make lots of money. The top blogs like Tech News Blog are updated daily. But that is a little price to pay if it can bring you more money than you want to keep!
