There are 2 kinds of blogs. One kind is hosted on your own server/hosting account and is created by installing a script and then customizing the template and then adding your own content.
The 2nd type of blog is hosted by a service and all you have to do is sign up for a free account and start adding content.
If you have a budget that is very small or zero, and you are looking for a way to start making money on the internet, blogging is a great way to get started. You can make money with a free blog by adding Google Adsense, and promoting affiliate products.
The following are 10 online safest techniques, suggestions and tips for Blogging
1. first think of your goals and your resources.
2. Go to http://blogger.com and open an account. It's free...
3. Once your account is open, create a new blog using your chosen key phrase as you Blogger sub-domain. Select a template to use.
4. Set the Blog title to be exactly the same as your key phrase. Create a description that contains your key phrase in it at least once.
5. Find affiliate programs for high-quality products in your niche. Create affiliate links for these products and insert them into your sidebar on the template where it says "Links".
6. Insert links to other blogs, related news, etc. at the bottom of each post using your key phrase somewhere in the anchor text of the link.
7. Submit your blog to as many of these blog and rss feed directories as possible.Use your key phrase in the title and at least once in the Description if you are able to enter one.
8. Go to http://yahoo.com and set up an account if you don't already have one. Add your RSS feed to your "My Yahoo" account as a news feed you want to monitor.
9. You will need to add RSS Beta to your My Yahoo content if you don't have it. For more info on how to do that, go here: http://my.yahoo.com/s/rss-faq.html and add it. You will now add your blog into the RSS feed in my yahoo. To do that, click on edit in the RSS feed section. Enter the url of your blog.
10. Go to MSN.com, create an account, and do the same. To do that, enter your blog URL with "atom.xml" appended to the end of it where it says "Search for content to add".
Aside from the fun it brings, blogging can also give you profits even if you are not a businessman. In fact, there had been many people of different jobs that claimed to have gained benefits through their blogs. There are many ways one can profit through blogging.
1) - Trade Advertising - the most common way to generate income through your blog is by means of selling spaces in your blog to business institutions. Through this, you may directly consistently earn money.
There are bloggers that offer the spaces in their blogs for a certain period. This would mean that a space can expire depending on the agreement of both the blogger and the business institution. You just need your blog to be known in order to garner more business institution to advertise in your blog.
2) Trade the Products of Others - This sounds illegal but its not. On this type of profit making, you're actually helping businessmen sell their products. There are companies that offer equivalent compensation to bloggers who mentions their product in their blogs.
Through it, the company may have a larger chance of selling the product. The product and company that one will mention in his blog will be highlighted. Whenever a reader clicks on the highlighted product or company, the reader will have direct access to the seller.
3) Ask for Contributions - there is no limit in blogging except those moves that are abusive to others. You may initiate and make a club through your blog and ask your members to pay for the membership.
Think of a good service that you may offer to your members. It can be a finding-your-match service or whatever that comes out of your mind. Let them pay for the service you are offering and that's how you profit.
4) Sell Your Products and Services - Enough of the boxed idea that blogging is solely made to air opinions. You can make use of your blog to market you products and services to others. These can help your earn money anyway.
There are many people out there who made use of the bogs to find the products and services they want. This is because in blogging people are actually dealing in real time. In addition to that, hoaxing and fraud is very minimal in blogging since people do negotiate personally and directly.
- Anne-Marie RONSEN -
goarticles dot com
15 years ago
