How to make money online blogging

This is a comprehensive guide on how to make money from blogging. It provides information on different methods of earning money from blogging. First it looks at creating your own successful blog/s and then considers how to make money by blogging on other blogs.

Some people are making substantial amount of money from blogging that they treat it almost as a work at home job. Blogging can represent a substantial online money making opportunity. There are some people that make a living either creating their own blogs or through blogging for others.

Blogging (web log) is a phenomena sweeping across the internet. Blogs, as they are known, have mostly moved on from personal diaries to covering all sorts of subject areas. Blogs are monetised through either pay per click advertising by showing ads from Google, Yahoo or others, or by displaying ad banners that are paid by thousand impressions. This works well for really popular blogs.

There are several ways to make money online from blogging

• Creating your own blog or a network of blogs and displaying pay per click ads
• Selling links on your blog and charging a monthly rate
• Writing on other people's blogs

Many others have created substantial network of bloggers who are paid for blogging on one or more of these blogs. The key to making money from blogs is to create a lot of fresh, unique comments (content) that drive new traffic but also returning users who come to read more of what you are writing. To keep blogs updated requires people blogging on their behalf. It would be difficult to update so many blogs personally, or would require employing bloggers.

Blogging for money is a great way to earn money online and is suitable work at home job that can earn some extra money on top of your daily job. For some, it has become a fulltime job.

There are essentially two ways to about making online from blogs:

• Create your own blog/s
• Make money from writing entries in other people blogs

Creating your own blog

This is one of the ways to make money online from blogging. Creating a blog in itself is not difficult at all. Since everything is done server side, all you really need to do is create the entries. There is no need for any technical know-how.

The key to creating a good blog is the information that you put on it. Another important factor that plays a role in making popular blogs that drive in a lot of daily traffic is to make sure you choose a subject that you are very familiar with and create really interesting observations in that particular sector. It is also critical that the blog is updated daily, as it would increase the likelihood of returning traffic.

Great content

The best way to drive lots of new and returning traffic is to blog on interesting topics, whether one niche or separate niches, and create great entries that people would be looking forward to reading. This will create a lot of interest in your blog, resulting in users providing links to your blog thus bringing more traffic from the links themselves, the links will also improve your search engine placements. Can you imagine being recommended on a very popular site?

Promoting your blog

To make a substantial amount of money online from blogging or even making blogging a work at home job would require substantial amount of traffic. The higher the traffic the more clicks you will receive from the ads you display.

There are several ways to go about promoting your blogs:

Post and ping

Getting backlinks

This is very important in order to improve your Page Rank (PR) designated to your blog by Google. Since Google is the most important search engine, getting a high PR is crucial to boost your rankings in the SERPS.

Advertising on other related sites and blogs

Buy links either on a popular page or sidewide links on a site or blog that is related to the content of your site. Make sure these are

Blog directories

Submit your blog/s to blog directories as well as general and niche directories. The more good backlinks you get the more it is likely to improve search engine traffic.

Make money online for writing entries in other people's blogs

There are two sources to make money online from blogs operated by others. First, there are professionally run blog networks that rely on people making entries from their home. People are compensated financially either on a fixed basis once for making a set number of entries on a monthly basis.

Secondly, there are thousands and thousands of blogs run by individuals, some of who pay a not unsubstantial amount for making entries on their blogs. They pay to blog for two reasons: 1 st , they do not have enough time to make the entries themselves because they could run several blogs or also operate sites, Secondly, some blogs require a quick turnover of entries to satisfy the needs of returning visitors. Also, some blogs have lots of segments and therefore require people with interest in different areas to blog with unique and insightful information.

Tip : To make a decent return from writing on individual blogs, it's best to find quite few people to blog for. The money can really add up.

How to go about finding blogs to blog for?

Well, there are some popular blog networks that pay money to bloggers, some of which are listed below.

Another method of finding them is to look through webmaster forums. There are individual bloggers there that are looking for people to blog on their blogs either because they are too busy with other blogs and sites, or they may want well-written blog entries to make their blogs popular by driving a lot of returning traffic. You have a chance to become their permanent writer or blogger.

Promote yourself in forums

You can also start threads yourself in the correct sub-forum that you are looking for blogs to blog for. You can set your rate for each entry. Of course, you can send private messages to those interested in setting out the terms such as the amount and methods of payment, etc.

Here are some of the best blogs to earn money online from blogging:

Soulcast

Soulcast is a popular blog that pays members money for blogging. You will get paid every time a user reading your page (which has your adsense code embedded in the HTML, but not visible to the user) clicks on an ad on that page. Of course, the amount will vary according to the value of the ads clicked. After Google takes its share from each click, the rest will be shared between Soulcast, who is hosting your blog, and yourself.