Starting a Blog To Make Money Online

If you have your own website, but haven’t yet started a blog you can easily start one using a free service such as Blogger or Word Press. Try to post to your blog at least once or twice a week on topics related to your website. Blogging will helpyour search engine rankings and open up the communication channels between you and your visitors or customers, encouraging them to interact with you and give them a reason to return to your site in future. There are many ways to make money from your blog, but here are a few ideas to get you started:

-Google Adsense - this is free to join and easy to set up. The ads will match the content of your blog and you will get paid every time a visitor clicks on an ad.

- Affiliate Programs – sign up for affiliate programs related to the topic of your blog and display links to related products on your blog. Clickbank, Trade Doubler and Commission Junction are good places to start, or do a Google search for “affiliate program” + the topic of your blog to find more affiliate programs. Whenever someone clicks through your affiliate link and buys a product, you will receive a commission. If you are knowledgeable about your topic you could also write product reviews to help increase your affiliate sales.

- Submitting your blog to blog directories – just search for“blog directories” in Google.

- Pinging blog ping services every time you make a new post– pingomatic.com and pingoat.com are two sites you can use to do this.

- Participating in forums related to the topic of your blog. Put a link to your blog in your forum signature.

-An excellent source of step by step instructions is the e book Bloging for Cash.

- Finally, once you have your blog monetized and you havestarted promoting it don’t forget to post regularly. The mostimportant aspect of every successful blog is frequent posting, so be sure not to let the virtual dust gather over your blog!

To Your Success!