3 Steps to Making Money at Home Through Blogging

Step 1 - Create A Blog
Well, for a start you need a blog. Depending on your desires, Blogger, WordPress and many other options exist. I always go for a self hosted version of WordPress, but you might prefer another option. Set it up, customise the look and then you are ready to get going.

At this point many people expect that advertisers are going to be falling over themselves to pay the blogger for advertising space. If only it were that easy! You now need to prepare the blog!

Step 2 - Prepare Your Blog
You prepare the blog by writing, writing and more writing. Place plenty of interesting posts so that when visitors arrive they have plenty to read and can find several related posts. It doesn't have to be a lot, but make sure there is a good amount of choice and they are not obviously arriving on a brand new site.

Then research some keywords that are relevant to your blog. Find keywords that might be being used and write posts about these and follow this up with further articles on these keywords submitted to article directories and via guest posting to other blogs. Build plenty of inbound links so that you may start to see traffic for these keywords.

Make sure that you have a newsletter that visitors can sign up to and maybe offer a free ebook to subscribers. Open a Facebook page and Twitter page and suggest that people follow you on both of these. Nurture your blog to create plenty of traffic.

Step 3 - Turn A Blog Into A Money Making Machine
Now you can turn it into a really good money making machine using a few simple techniques.

First, sign up to Google AdSense and drop some of their advert blocks onto your page. Never overdo third party advertising, just one or two blocks of adverts works best else you can scar readers off.

Next, sign up to some relevant affiliate schemes. You can blog about the products and leave a link in the post, maybe a link in the main area of your blog (if it keeps you under the two advert block rule!) and mention the affiliate link on your newsletter and Facebook marketing.

Lastly, you can also give sponsored posting a go, which is where many people think they can start right from the outset. Many of the best paid posting systems require that your blog be 90 days old and have plenty of posts, so waiting is a good idea anyway. But you can sign up to various services who will make available to you various offers for being paid to write about. These are not always on the subject of your blog, but if you have prepared your blog well the profits available per post that you write make it well worth your while.

If you want to, there is plenty of money to be made blogging. Just remember that it does take time to get started as advertisers do want something back.

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Written by Keith Lunt