Blogging for money

There are many methods that you can use to make money through the internet. I believe that blogging is one of the top contenders!! WHY?? Why you ask?? Well it is simple because you get to write about something that you like and know about. If you are good at writing, you will get followers, the more followers you have the more traffic you will have, the more traffic you have the more popularity you gain, the more popular you are the more people will approach you for advertising and finally, the more advertising you do, the more MULLA you get. Ohh I almost forgot Google Adsense. You can skip the advertisers approaching you part and the rest remains the same because (here I go again) the more traffic you have the more the clicks on the Google Ads, the more the clicks the more the MONEYS!!! I'm sure you get the picture.

So here is what you can do.

- Setup a blog on a free service for practice e.g. blogspot (like me :)) or wordpress etc. It is always better to get your own domain and build your blog there but if you don't want to spend your hard earned money, this is an option you have.

- Make a reasonable professional design OR get free templates and themes from the net. Play around with them to be unique and you are more or less done.

- The next step is to start blogging. You can create a plan about what to blog about or simply just wing it. BUT make sure that you are consistent.

- Promote your blog through social media and social networking sites

- Search Engine Optimization is the key. (Here I go for the third time...) The more optimized you are, the high you rank on google, the higher you rank on google, the more traffic you get, the more traffic you get, the more....I think I should stop. I can get really annoying :S.

Anyways...Home work for today. Start thinking of a blogging topic and a name. For extra credit on only and see if the name is available.

18 Ways to Make Money Online That Actually Work

Making money online is not easy as some people promote it to be. You see ads all over the internet with a number of methods, systems, gadgets etc. that can be used to make money in just weeks.


However, in reality when you try these programs you tend to get frustrated and give up. Most of the times, these will be scams. Instead of paying someone a lot of money and then ending up disappointed, here is a completely free list of 18 ways you CAN follow to make money online that actually work.


1. Generate leads for your offline business. Write an e-book or sell a product and use a the net to sell it. Better yet, sell a product and give out free e-books and reports to your target market.

2. Offer free e-courses that people would like to attend. These can be text, videos, audios etc. e.g. how to start up your own online home business course.

3. Google adsense is a great source of making money online. Put adsense on your blog, add a new post atleast every 3 days and promote your site using multiple methods e.g. SEO, networking, press releases etc.

4. Make a target email list of followers to create a relationship with them and use this relationship to sell them products.

5. Get people to subscribe to your blog/site by offering a something free the first time.

6. Sell a series of web seminars (or webinars) and do a free launch one to encourage subscribers.

7. Affiliate programs are excellent. See which products are popular and become an affiliate. You promote the product and get a percentage out of the sale.

8. Start an eBay store with popular yet unique products.

9. Sell services that not many people know how to do e.g. custom Facebook fan landing pages, attractive capture pages, and other similar services.

10. Learn tools like photoshop, coral draw, illustrator etc. and sell graphic design services including e-book covers, banners and twitter backgrounds.

11. Use the internet to generate leads for a network marketing business or any other business with a national or international target audience.

12. Write an e-book on a topic that is both interesting and that you know about and offer the first few pages for free.

13. Create a DVD with videos of doing things that people would want to learn. e.g fix a car, do math etc.

14. Do the same things is point number 13 but make an audio CD.

15. Create a home study workbook course on a topic of interest to your target audience.

16. Upload videos on youtube and drive traffic to your website.

17. Create several high quality Squidoo lenses and sell products on them.

18. Start freelancing e.g. software development, article writing, search engine optimization etc.


There a lot more methods but try one or some and let me know what you think :).