If you are a stay at home mum, and are looking to create some extra income, there are many different things that you can do to accomplish this. By far one of the easiest ways to make money from home is to set up a blog and post to it on a regular basis. Here is an outline of how you would do so.

If you haven't got a Gmail account already, go ahead and sign up for one. Even if you have an existing account, it would be helpful to create a separate account for this venture, that way you can track comments and other communications all in the one place, without it being mixed up with your personal correspondence.

Once you have a Gmail account set up, you need to figure out what it is you will be blogging about. It's good to have a focused approach, because your main aim here is to drive traffic to your blog. If your blog is about everything and anything (which the majority of blogs out there are), then you are not going to get a great deal of traffic, other than from people who already know you. Ask yourself what your interested in, what your passions are, what skills you have, or what strong beliefs you may have. For example, you might absolutely love cooking, and have a huge collection of recipes and tips that you have collected over the years. You could use this as the topic for your blog. But it's good to take it one step further than that. If you do a search for "Recipe Blogs" on Google, you will come up with hundreds of thousands of results for that search. This equates to hundreds and thousands of competitors for that topic. What about "Banana Recipe Blogs" or "Cooking With Rabbit Blogs"? The more focused your topic, the more likely you are to target a particular audience. This is called a niche, and it's a very important step in choosing what your site will be about.

OK, so you've chosen a niche, and now you want to set up your blog. The easiest way to do this is using Google's own blogging platform called Blogger.com. These sites are easy and fun to set up, and there are plenty of instructional sites that will help you get it all up and running. Once you have it set up, all you need to do is start posting. Ideally, you should be putting up a post every day, this keeps your blog fresh, and entices people to come back to see what is new.

After you've been posting for a while, you should look at setting up AdSense on your blog, This is another free service from Google, and it allows you to place ads on your site. The best part about this service, apart from the fact that it is completely automated, is that the ads that are on your site will be relevant to what your blog is about. So, for example, if your blog is about "Cooking With Bananas", you are going to have ads about bananas, and ads about cooking displayed on your pages. This is great, because the people visiting your site are people that are already interested in these topics, and are more likely to click on these ads. Now, here's the best part. Every time someone clicks on these ads, you are going to earn a little bit for that click. It may not be a whole lot, but as your site becomes more popular, more and more people will visit it, and you will receive more and more ad clicks.

This is by far the easiest and funnest way to make money from home. It's well worth giving it a try, the entire process is free, so you've got nothing to lose. Why not start today?