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How To Make Money Blogging

Sun, Jun 8, 2008

Blogging

Do you want to make money blogging? Blogging can be a great way to make money, and its also a lot of fun to create valuable content or an online journal.

Here are some valuable tips on how you can make money blogging.

Get Hosted

It’s important to get your own hosting account and domain if you are serious about making money online. For SEO purposes I recommend regsitering a domain which is short and contains a keyword related to your site. For example, if you we’re starting a site about dogs, register a domain such as doginformation.com. When it comes to hosting you can pretty much go anywhere, but I recommend finding a host that includes Fantastico because will make installing a blog a lot easier.

Software

Once you have got yourself a hosting account, you will need to install the blogging software. I would go with Wordpress as its widely supported, included with the Fantastico 1 click installer and has many themes and plugins available for it. Its also very easy to integrate Adsense into a Wordpress blog.

Content

When it comes to making money with blogging, the key really is content. Quality content will attract visitors to your site and if you create lots of quality content, coupled with good marketing practices you could make lots of money. I recommend writing at least 1 post per day.

Money

Now here is the important information. There are many ways to monetize a blog and won’t go into long detailed descriptions here. Instead, I will list off a few sites which provide a valuable source of income for many bloggers.

Adsense is probably the easiest. This works well on niche blogs (blogs on a specific topic) but not so well on general or personal sites. Earnings will be minimal unless you can attract a large audience. If you aren’t interested in Adsense, then I would take a look at PayPerPost. PayPerPost will pay you anywhere between $5 and $1000 to write a sponsored post on your blog. It can be very easy to make money with PayPerPost.

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