making money from internet

'Blogs' or 'Blogging' have existed for several years and there are still many people who don't know what one is and how
important it is to making you money.

A blog is a web log. It's used to add contents of a diary or news by the owner (blogger). For example, I may want to blog
about the latest affiliate programs there are and ones that have good commissions as soon as I know about them. People can
visit my website and see new contents on my website regularly.

A blog should contain information about a similar topic. For example, cars, computers, stamps etc... The good thing about
blogs is that you can write whatever you want on it. Your visitors can even comment on what they think about a particular
blog. With a blog you do not need to have any programming experience. You can update a blog easily by just typing what you
want just like with a word processor. What an easy way to update a website.

So now we know what a blog is, what's so good about a blog? Why are so many talking about it?

Owners have found that updating fresh content to their websites has been made easier by using blogging software. Before
blogs were popular, people had to create the content, get it transferred into HTML by the programmer, and then uploaded to
the website. All this hassle is gone with blogging.

Perhaps, the most important thing about having a blog is that the search engines love them. Yes, search engines love new
content. It means a website is not static, therefore search engines will visit that website often and get them indexed. If
you have a blog, search engines will have your website in their listings quickly.

Blogging should be done regularly by your business. The customers should have the feeling that your blog will be updated
regularly so that they will feel the need to visit often. If your blog is stagnant, then people will not go back. This is
not how blogs are used.

What a lot of people don't know about blogging is that it can also help make you money. Yes - blogs can be profitable too.

One of the ways you can profit from blogs is to provide valuable content to them, and keep them regularly informed. Once
you have created that relationship with them, you can place affiliate links within your blogs. These have to be products or
services that you recommend to your readers to use. Good commission comes with using this idea.

You can even ask your readers to donate money to maintain your blog. Stress that your blog is a free service and you hope
that they will support you etc...

Once you have a lot of visitors to your blogging website, you can use Google's Adsense which shows Google's ads on your
blogs. When your visitors click on those ads, you'll get a percentage of the payment for each click. With a lot of
visitors, this will add up to a nice check every month.

You can even have an advertising space at the top of your blog. Advertise this space. You can charge people weekly to
advertise what they want. You may even have more than one space for advertisements. The more popular and more visitors your
blog gets, the more you can charge for these advertising spaces.

The blog http://www.home-business-setup.com shows the ways in which money can be made which I've discussed throughout this
article. Notice the AdSense at the top of the page and also the text link which other people will pay for once they know
the blog gets traffic.

Just shows that there are so many ways to profit from blogging that it would be crazy if we don't start now.

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I monitor a lot of blogs, forums and news sites with my trusty RSS reader. One of my favorite sites is SitePoint, which is a terrific discussion forum for webmasters, programmers and domain name investors.

I’ve had some great conversations on the forums and via IM that have been very enlightening.

In a recent post, one of the SitePoint forum guys was lamenting the fact that he was having trouble getting to 100 unique visitors per day.

There was some good, solid advice that I would like to share and build upon:

1. Make sure your posts are optimized with popular keywords. I would be careful with this one because you don’t want to
lose your blogging voice or make your pages read awkwardly by jamming in as many keywords as you can. Do check for the most
popular keywords in your universe, though, using a tool like WordTracker. As a poster on SitePoint said, using the
competition values in WordTracker allows you to pick keywords that haven’t soaked the web yet.

2. Use a service like PinGoat to ping blogger indexing sites every time you change your site. Pinging is basically
extending an invitation to indexing services like Technorati, IceRocket and Feedster to come to your site and index it. The
more indexing you get, the more exposure you get. PinGoat is a terrific service that pings them all at the same time.

3. Update your Google Sitemap every few posts and resubmit it. A Google Sitemap is an interesting and amazing phenomenon.
Here is how Google explains it:

The Google Sitemaps program is two-way communication between webmasters and Google. You can give us information about your
site so we can index it more effectively, and we can show you how we see your site and tell you about any trouble we’ve had
crawling it.

Basically you create a special xml file and tell Google to go look at it. It uses the file to better index the site. And it
definitely works. There’s even a Plugin for WordPress that will build the perfect sitemap for Google. You can read more
about sitemaps by visiting the Google Sitemapspage.

4. Post relevant comments on blogs related to your content area. Look around, find people blogging about the same stuff as
you. Monitor their blog sites and participate in the discussion. Be sure to include a link to your site in all of your
comments. It’s a great way to correspond with like-minded people and get your name and site name out there.

5. Search for link partners and link exchanges at least once a week. If you find a site you like, include it on your link
page and drop the site owner an email. He or she will most likely list your site as well. Join a couple of free or cheap
link exchange sites and stick to your subject area when exchanging links. Always visit the prospective link exchange site
and ask yourself if you would be doing your readers a service by sending them to that site. If not, don’t link to the site.

6. Write great content, and don’t plug stuff unless you are familiar with it and approve of it. If you write interesting
content about subjects that interest people they will always find you. Don’t hustle your readers — if you are going to plug
something for money, make sure the product or service is something you would use and recommend. If people sense a hustle
they will not convert and they will not come back.

7. Watch your keywords and make sure they are performing. DigitalPoint has a terrific tool that will help you track your
keyword placement over time so you can see how your efforts are doing.

8. Perform some basic Search Engine Optimization. Learn how to not only optimize your posts, but optimize your entire site.
You can get some great tips and tools at SeoChat.com

9. Shake loose a couple of bucks and buy some ad space. Once you’re certain your blog looks and operates perfectly, spend
$100 on Adsense ads and see how that helps.

10. Be patient. It isn’t going to happen overnight. It will take weeks or months to get things rolling.