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You aren't the richest person in the world. You are probably an average, hard-working person, working 40 or more hours per week, but not having a whole lot to show for it at the end of the week. The reason I know this is because this is the description of almost everyone who begins their attempt at making money online. Based on this information, you may be pleased to know there is a way to start earning money online with no money down, and no start-up costs. I'll tell you how you can start making money online by writing a blog.

Blogging - An Intro

Blogging is one of the best ways to get started pulling some spare cash in because of two reasons:

1. You get somewhere to post affiliate links, and avoid the very expensive Pay Per Click engines...these are just too expensive. 2. You avoid having to learn HTML.

Actually, there is a third good point as well...blogging is free. There are many free blog sites sprouting up all over the internet which will give you a home to place your affiliate links. Affiliate links are links that connect to someone else's product using a special code that is assigned to you. Every time someone reads your blog, clicks on your affiliate link and makes a purchase, you make money.

Blogging Attracts Traffic

The trick to making the most money possible is to get lots of people to read your website. The great thing about blogs is that you don't have to worry much about this, since blogs are already crawled by the search engines. This means that you are guaranteed placement. The only concern for you is to make sure you write lots of articles since the more you write, the more chance you will be found in the search results. People with their own websites not only have to worry about getting writing content for their site, they also have to worry about getting listed. You're one up already.

Multiple Streams Of Income

The best way to make money (and the way most people get started) is to show Google Adsense ads on your blog. Basically, you place a few advertisements on your blog for Google and every time someone clicks one, you get a small amount of money. You aren't usually losing any visitors with this because people won't usually click them unless they are done looking at your blog, or weren't going to buy anything anyway.

Word Of Mouth Profits

The best opportunity for writing a blog is to place affiliate links on it. Like I described above, these links make you money every time someone clicks and purchases the product you link to. You usually aren't making small amounts of money here...affiliate links can be quite lucrative!

Choose Your Topics Wisely

The best topic for you to write about is something that you already know about. You should know your topic well enough that you are never stuck for ideas to write about. The worst thing you can do is to pick a topic that you exhaust your ideas within a day or two. There's simply no point to even begin those kinds of topics.

A One Man Gang

The real trick to making money with blogs is simple math. If you find a way to make $20 per day, you should try to do the same thing 20 times. This would mean you were now making $400 per day. This is where the real money is. The problem is that if you do it wrong, you will get banned by either your blog host, or worse, the search engines. This will guarantee that you get no visitors, which guarantees no profits.

Rob Benwell has written an eBook entitled Blogging to the Bank and he shows you how to do it the right way, which will save you the frustration and time of having written a blog for a month, only to have it removed by your blogging host or search engine. I've got additional information on this eBook on my main website, http://www.makingmoneyman.com.

Never-ending Money Streams

Hopefully, I've helped you see a new possibility for making money online. Feel free to check out my website for a link to Rob's eBook as it is a great guide for someone new to this format of blogging for profits.

About the Author

Mark Mann has taken affiliate marketing to the max and is working from home on the strength of his 20+ websites. He is now showing the world his top ten list for making money online.

Among his many accomplishments are his eBook downloads site and his new article repository.