How To Make Money with a FREE Blog

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


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Blog Setup - How to Setup Your Blog in Less Than 17 Minutes?

It Doesn't Take A Techie To Setup A Blog...

Now, I'm going to clarify this point in the beginning because I know you will probably have so much questions in your mind. For those stunning graphics and super complex HTML codes and widgets on your blog, yes you will need help.

But if all you need is a handsome looking blog with some nice template and ways to communicate effectively to your audience, then you're going to love this write up. Let's start immediately.

1) The First 5 Minutes

Sure, you look around and there's lots of blog types to choose from, right? But I'd recommend you go to Blogger dot com and set up a blog there. You got Gmail then its even easier. Basically, choose your template and make sure you like the main colors.

It's real easy to navigate. Just make sure you get an idea about what you are writing and how you want to your basic blog post, pictures and special gadgets to appear on your blog site.

2) The Next 5 Minutes (We're At The 10 Minutes Mark)

Here is where you need to put some details into what you want in your blog especially your blog content and your widgets. It can be anything from extra HTML codes or just an image that you want to add in to be consistently appearing on your site.

With Blogger nothing is impossible. So, basically by now you will know your template consists of posts, gadgets and even a header or footer. I don't bother with the footer or header really unless you want to put a banner there. Just make sure you want to archive your posts properly for readers.

3) Your Last 5 Minutes (15 Minutes Mark)

Gadgets or some HTML based widgets can be added easily using your Blogger interface but most blog tricks might not tell you this. You need to be able to know your target audience. Such as if you are writing for dog lovers, think about dog keyword terms.

Place them into your tags, header, title and also the name of your blog. I should have mentioned that earlier before you start setting up your blog but well what matter is your content. Write your posts related to the keywords you want in your niche and you will get targeted visitors.

What Next?

Without appearing too generic, I'd say we accomplished all your blog setup procedures or steps in less than 17 minutes as I promised you earlier. However, it doesn't stop there is you want to truly boost your profits. Getting detailed tips about gaining valuable traffic will help.

by Vern How Chan

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16 Ways to Drive Traffic to Your Blog

You've got your blog set up and you've started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?

Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.

1.
Set up a Bloglet subscription form on your blog and invite everyone in your network to subscribe: family, friends, colleagues, clients, associates.
http://www.bloglet.com

2.
Set up a feed on My Yahoo.com so your site gets regularly spidered by the Yahoo search engine (see tutorial on http://www.biztipsblog.com)
http://www.my.yahoo.com

3.
Read and comment on other blogs that are in your target niche. Don't write things like "nice blog" or "great post." Write intelligent, useful comments with a link to your blog.

4.
Use Ping-0-matic to ping blog directories. Do this every time you publish.
http://www.pingomatic.com

5.
Submit your blog to traditional search engines:
http://www.submitfire.com

6.
Submit your blog to blog directories. The most comprehensive list of directories is on this site:
http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/

Tip: Create a form to track your submissions; this can take several hours when you first start so schedule an hour a day for submitting or hire a VA to do it for you.

7.
Add a link to your blog in your email signature file.

8.
Put a link to your blog on every page of your website.

9.
If you publish a newsletter, make sure you have a link to your blog in every issue.

10.
Include a link to your blog as a standard part of all outgoing correspondence such as autoresponder sequences, sales letters, reports, white papers, etc.

11.
Print your blog URL on your business cards, brochures and flyers.

12.
Make sure you have an RSS feed URL that people can subscribe to.
The acronym RSS means Rich Site Summary, or some may consider its meaning as Really Simple Syndication. It is a document type that lists updates of websites or blogs available for syndication. These RSS documents (also known as 'feeds') may be read using aggregators (news readers). RSS feeds may show headlines only or both headlines and summaries.

To learn how news aggregators/RSS readers work, see this site: http://www.rss-specifications.com/rss-readers.htm

13.
Post often to keep attracting your subscribers to come back and refer you to others in their networks; include links to other blogs, articles and websites in your posts

14.
Use Trackback links when you quote or refer to other blog posts. What is TrackBack? Essentially what this does is send a message from one server to another server letting it know you have posted a reference to their post. The beauty is that a link to your blog is now included on their site.

15.
Write articles to post around the web in article directories. Include a link to your blog in the author info box (See example in our signature below).

16.
Make a commitment to blog everyday. 10 minutes a day can help increase your traffic as new content attracts search engine spiders. Put it on your calendar as a task every day at the same time.


About Author:
Denise Wakeman of Next Level Partnership, and Patsi Krakoff of Customized Newsletter Services, have teamed up to create blogging classes and marketing services for independent professionals. You can read and subscribe to their blogs at http://www.biztipsblog.com, http://www.coachezines.com and http://www.bizbooknuggets.com

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