subject: How To Make Money By Blogging - Strategies That Really Work [print this page] So you want to know how to make money by blogging. It seems like everyone is asking this very question these days with the economy the way it is. But, you can make money by blogging if you learn a few simple strategies. Most people online are not making any money blogging and that is because they fail to use easy to follow tips like the ones I am going to share with you. So lets get to it...
First of all when you set up your blog make it on one topic only. Don't set up a blog on gardening tips and then talk about fishing. You want to make your url to your blog to match your blogs topic. So if your blog is about gardening tips your url should be gardeningtips. This will make it show up higher on the search engines like Google when people search on this keyword.
Second you need to have a product to sell. Don't worry about this just become an affiliate marketer and sell someone else's product and keep a percentage of the sale. You can become an affiliate marketer for free at either Clickbank or Paydotcom. Find products that compliment your topic.
Once you have your niche selected and your product you should set up your blog. You can do this for free at blogger or wordpress. Important note: Your first post should have your keywords as the title and then sprinkled throughout your post. Keywords are very important in getting targeted traffic to your blog. After you have made your post and published it you need to ping your blog at sites such as Pingomatic or Pingoat. Wordpress will automatically ping for you. You do this after every post on your blog so that the search engines know you have new material and can then crawl your blog to rank it.
Traffic is the most important part of blogging for money. To get traffic to your blog just write articles and link them to your blog. Article writing is simple and free and will drive tons of traffic to your site. You should try and write 2 articles a day and then submit them to free article directories like GoArticles, Ezinearticles and ArticleAlley are just a few to get you started.
You want to make sure that you update your blog at least twice a week if not more. The more content you have on your blog the more followers you will have. Make your content useful and helpful so that your readers will return and maybe even tell their friends.
How to make money by blogging is not rocket science it is just common sense. Keep everything simple and keep your content current and write your articles to keep traffic flowing and you should do just fine.
