BLOGGING FOR CASH PART ONE: HOW TO MAKE
MONEY FROM COMPANIES USING YOUR BLOG OR WEBSITE
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Renting advertising space to them and making
money in the process (GOOGLE ADSENSE)
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Writing reviews/ promoting the products and
services of different companies and making money for yourself as an affiliate.
For you to be
successful blogging you must write about something that you are passionate
about. If you are not passionate about the topic/ theme you choose the chances
that you will stop half way is very high. To know what you are passionate about
ask yourself this question “can I do it for free” if your answer is not a yes
then you cannot blog about that particular subject/ topic but if your answer is
a yes then you have found your topic/ subject area, people who blog primarily
for money seldom make it because the passion to sustain their effort is not
there.
Unlike article
writing where your employer dictates what you are going to write about, you get
to write about what you are passionate about in blogging and decide how you are
going to earn money from writing about what you are passionate about.
In this
article I am going to walk you through all the necessary steps you will need to
set up a blog/ website so that you can start using it to make money from
companies such as Google.com, Clickbank, Amazon.com, commission junction e.tc,
who are dying to have you promote their services and product for them and in
the process reward you with dollars.
To start
making money today from blogging about what you love like your hobbies,
interest, sport, business e.tc.
please follow
the following steps now
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Set up
a website/ blog
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Add content regularly
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Monetize your blog/ website
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Promote/ advertise it
STEP 1: HOW TO SET UP A BLOG/
WEBSITE.
Over the next few steps you are going to learn how to build your own
money making blog/ website. But before we begin we need to do the following
Choose a topic/ subject area. The first step in blogging is to select a subject/ theme that you are
very passionate about; it may be soccer, finance, pornography, home business,
and the stock market e.tc. For the purpose of this discussion we shall be
choosing home business, as this is one of the biggest and most lucrative
markets on the Internet. There are thousands of affiliate programs and business
opportunities to choose from and there are many products and services that
offer 50% commissions and residual commissions.
This does not mean that for
your blogging project that you must choose home business; there are virtually
thousands of other areas you can choose from, the procedure is the same just
substitute the subject/ topic of your choice for home business.
Choose a good domain
name:
Now that you have chosen a topic /subject area that you want to blog
about the next step would be to choose a good domain name that would reflect
the nature of your business. A domain name is simply a unique address for your website and it should
be relevant to the type of website you have. Since we are building a home
business website it makes sense to have a domain name that is related to “home
business”, “making money online”, “working from Home” or “earning extra income”.
Before you start searching for
domain name availability, do a little keyword research to help you think of
possible keywords to include in your domain name. Visit the Google Adwords
Keyword Tool. Type in all the words and phrases you can think of that are
related to the website that you will be building and hit the return key after
each keyword or phrase. Once you have
done this, click the “Get Keyword ideas” button and wait for the results
You will see a big list of keywords related
to the keywords you entered along with the approximate number of searches per
month on Google. You can use these keywords to help you find a domain name.
Write down some of the keywords
that have thousands of monthly searches. Next find a domain name that is
available. You can use the following tools to help you brainstorm:
Choose a blog/ web hosting service:
Now
that you have chosen your topic/ subject area and your domain name the next
step is to sign up for website hosting.
A Web Host is just a server (computer) that
stores all the files and databases for your web site so that other people can
view it on the Internet any time. There are thousands of web hosting companies
on the Internet, some excellent, some mediocre and some bad, so it pays to do a
little research before signing up with a hosting plan.
I would recommend the following blog
hosting services because they not only offer you free blog hosting services but
also give you the opportunity to upgrade to paid packages. So if your problem
is you don’t have sufficient cash don’t worry, you can start with the free
hosting and as your business expands you can upgrade to paid services. Though you have limitations if you are using
their free service. For more detailed information on how to open an account
with them you can visit their websites i.e.
www.wordpress.com
and www.blogger.com. Then you can
register an account with them with the domain name of your choice.
Building
your website/ blog.
Ok, now we have finally reached
the most exciting step – building your website/blog. There are many ways to
build a website/ blog, but we highly recommend using WordPress. WordPress is a
free but very powerful content management system. It allows you to quickly and
easily add content to your blog/ website without having to know anything about HTML or web
programming.
In addition to this there are
thousands of templates known as “themes” available, many of them for free. You
can change the look of your blog/ website at any time by uploading a new theme,
you can choose from a variety of different blog/ website templates at www.blooger.com.
You can download the latest
version of WordPress at www.wordpress.org
and follow the
instructions to install it on your host.
STEP 2: HOW TO ADD CONTENT TO YOUR BLOG/ WEBSITE
By now I want to assume that you would have
signed up an account at www.blogger.com
or www.wordpress.com . You would have
used your chosen domain name to sign up the account. So now you have an
empty blog/ website, the next question is how do you add content to your new
blog/ website so that you can start generating money from companies who want
you to promote/ review their products and services and others like Google.com
who may want to use your website/ blog as a platform to advertise their customers
products and services. If you are using WordPress, adding content is very
straight forward. Just login to your WordPress admin panel and click “Posts” then
“Add New”.
All you need to do is enter your post title
and body then click the publish button and your content will be published on your
site. The same is applicable to the blogger platform too, it has an easy to
manage content management system that allows you to publish your post without
the need or knowledge of HTML (hypertext markup language).
Try
to add a post to your website a few times each week as this will help you to
attract visitors from the search engines. It is best to add unique content, but
if you are stuck for ideas search for “PLR articles” in Google and you will be
able to buy batches of cheap articles which you can edit as you wish and add
your name to.
If your blog/ website is about starting a
home business here are a few ideas for content:
-Review a product or service that you have
used and
-Write an article about the benefits of
running a home business or working from home
- Write about your own experience of making
money online
- Provide some tips about working from home
or Internet marketing
To
increase the chances of your content being ranked in search engines such as
Google you can use the Google Adwords Keyword Tool that I mentioned earlier on
this article. Make a big list of keyword phrases that have a few hundred
searches per month. Every time you make a new post to your website/ blog use a
different keyword phrase in the title of your post and 2-3 times throughout the
post body.
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