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People today are looking for authentic and legitimate ways to make money online. Blogging is a good option.

Today people all over the world are blogging. CEOs, doctors, lawyers, journalists, chefs, florists, school students, mothers. It's too simple.

The best part about blogs is that anyone can make one. Blogging requires very little or no knowledge of HTML or designing. If you can write a paragraph, you can blog. Blogging gives this freedom. It does not need navigation architecture designs of a website nor a structured menu. You write and get printed - as simple as that. People are using them to communicate with family, for education, for business, and almost anything else you can think of.

According to Wikipedia, a blog is a user-generated website where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.

Blog, a short form for weblog, is a personal journal that is frequently updated and intended for general public consumption. A blog is a way for people to share what they are thinking and what's on their mind. It's a public way of speaking over the internet. It can be business or personal.



The essential characteristics of the blog are its journal form, typically a new entry each day, and its informal style. Postings on a blog are almost always arranged in chronological order with the most recent additions featured most prominently.

A person’s Web log is almost like an open diary. It chronicles what a person wants to share with the world on an almost daily basis. Blog generally represent the personality of the author. So, a blog is basically a online personal journal that is available on the web. The activity of updating a blog is "blogging" and someone who keeps a blog is a "blogger." People can also add comments to Blogs. Have fun with it.

In sharp contrast with regular sites, blogs are like a whiff of fresh air in the stagnant world of web contents. Corporates and people publish blogs for different reasons, but some use of blog are:

1. Blogs are probably the easiest way to have a website.

2. Create your own personal blog. Let the world know what you think. Empty the contents of your head.

3. Providing articles and links to useful resources for people interested in a specific topic.

4. Keeping family and friends up to date on what’s happening in your life.

5. Posting announcements to supplement an existing website.

6. Publishing news announcements and press releases.

7. Blogs are an excellent way of sharing knowledge on specific topic.

8. Blogs can be a positive way of getting feedback, keeping your finger on the pulse of your blog readers.

9. Promoting your website, business, product, etc.

10. Making money from blogging - I am interested in this ! Aren't we all ?


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Step by step instructions for starting your own blog on Blogger

Step by step instructions for starting your own blog on Wordpress

How to Earn Money from your Blog

Well, basically, setting up a blog means that you are creating a little space of your own on the Internet where you can make posts about anything that interests you.

Now you have created a blog and your blog is dedicated to a niche industry. Have you ever thought that the blog could make money for you? We would look here, ways and means, to make money blogging. Lets first have a look at what are the prerequisites for a blog needed to make money:

1. Blog needs to be dedicated to single theme. Let's say for instance your favourite passion is your love for dogs. You could blog about anything pertaining to dogs.

2. Updated regularly. Search engines like this.

3. Good blog host or application (blogger, Xanga, typepad or WordPress)

4. High quality articles or news items supported with images and links.

Blogging is a lifestyle friendly way of making extra money, as you can do this from the comfort of your own home. Lets now take a look at the ways using which you could make money blog from your blog:

When you're just starting out as a blog entrepreneur, the simplest most hassle-free ways to make money from your blog are via Google AdSense (or Yahoo's text ads), and via Affiliate Marketing.

Kontera : Kontera lets you make more money from your posts, without giving up any advertising space. Their technology reads your posts and turns certain words into ads. The ads are double underlined. If you hover your mouse over a underlined word an ad pops up.

Google Adsense : So, how would you make money out of having a blog even if you don't have a product to sell? One word : Adsense. Google Adsense delivers text and image ads to the authorized websites/blogs depending on the content of the website. Small code is required to be pasted at proper locations on a webpage and Google automatically recognizes the page.

Google shares the revenue it gets from the advertisers whenever a visitor clicks on these ads. Some tips before you apply for the Adsense program:

1. You have to have an existing blog.

2. Blog that you want to apply adsense to, you have to have at least 5 or more posts on your blog.

3. Your blog or site must have a clean, easy to use interface. No under construction pages or broken links, or too many animated gifs, or pop ups.

4. You don't have to have a professionally designed website or blog. The simpler your site is the better for the search engines to spider, and the better it will be for your visitors to navigate.

So to recap : Select a topic that you would like to blog about, set up a blog, make a couple of posts a day on your blog, wait about 5 days, then apply for the Google Adsense program.

Adbrite : Adsense doesn't allow to show their ads on blog with certain types of content, like adult and gambling. In this case you need Adbrite.

FeedBurner : FeedBurner is a great tool to monetize your RSS feed. If you have descent traffic, say, over 1,000, you should definitely monetize them with Feedburner.

Blogads : You can use Blogads as an effective tool to have a better control over the advertisers in your blogs. You can analyze and compare your profits with any one of your online agencies. Blogads can be simply specified as an advertising service used for the web logs or blogs. From the total money generated by Blogads, it retains 20% of it and the remaining money is paid to you through PayPal or checks.

Alternative to Blogads are:

Crispads - Another useful network focused on the blogs. You can put your advertisements in their blogs using Crispads. You can move through their RSS/ATOM feeds that help in generating revenues.

Tagworld – It is similar to Blogads. It makes you select the ads and their price.

Note : Don't display contextual (text like ads) ads of some other company along with Google Adsense ads. They don't allow this. Please read Adsense Program Policies very care fully first. Best combination is contextual (text like ads) ads of Google Adsense and banner ads from different affiliate networks.

Affiliate Programs : Another very popular ways to make money with your blog or website is by promoting affiliate Programs. Affiliate links are provided by companies/affiliate networks that will pay you a certain percentage of each sale/lead made through your unique link. There are thousands of affiliate programs available for almost every niche you can think of. Just go to any popular affiliate network website and sign up for their affiliate or partner program. Most of them are free to sign-up and very easy to implement. It is where you advertise someone else's website details, or product details on your blog. Each time someone clicks on the advertisement, and then ends up buying the product (or maybe just signs up to be a member), you will get paid the agreed commission.. Most popular affiliate network are Commission Junction, Clickbank, Clixgalore, Linkshare.

How you earn money from affiliate programs ? You would place either a small text ad, a banner ad, or a video ad (the ads are generally provided by the Advertiser so you don't need to worry about making your own - all you have to do is copy and paste some code into your blog - easy as pie). Each time someone clicks on the ad and perform required action - lead/sale, blogger gets commission.

Sell products : A blog is a great place to discuss advice and opinions on various subjects. It can also be a great place to promote your product and tell them how it can benefit them. Whether it’s your blog or someone else’s, look at it as an opportunity to fulfill peoples’ needs, not that you are just selling your product.

Amazon.com : Amazon.com has an affiliate program which allows individuals to promote any one of their millions of products for them. Because they have so many products to offer, it should be easy for you to find ones which compliment your blog niche. However, unlike AdSense, you don’t get paid on a pay-per-click basis. In order to receive a commission, the visitor to your blog must actually purchase the advertised product.

ebay.com : Same as Amazon

Sell Advertising Space : The most common way people make money with blogs is selling advertising. If you build a large blog with high traffic, you can sell advertising space for people to put their ads on your blog.

Maintain More Than One Blog : There is no limit to how many blogs you can have. Because most blog services are free, and because most affiliate programs are also free to join, you should strongly consider maintaining multiple blogs in multiple niches. This will allow you to promote more products and programs, and in turn make you more money.

When it comes to making money from your blog you can do so easily with these tried and true tricks of the trade. Whether you utilize Adsense, affiliate marketing, blog ads, a business blog, or a combination of all of the above, you will certainly benefit and make money. Don’t delay and start implementing these types of money making strategies in your blog today. Not only will you make money, but your blog will become more popular as well

Now that you know how to start your own blog, you have no excuse not to make money online! Happy blogging!

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02SmithA profile image

02SmithA  says:
18 months ago

Good stuff. Thanks!

guidebaba profile image

guidebaba  says:
18 months ago

Thank you for your comments.

Julie A. Johnson profile image

Julie A. Johnson  says:
17 months ago

Some helpful information. Thanks for the tips. Julie

guidebaba profile image

guidebaba  says:
17 months ago

Thank you Julie for your visit. Hope you found this helpful.

kiri  says:
17 months ago

hey all this is quite a revelation your cooking blogs are amazing , contrary to my hub men are boring you seem pretty interesting

eswar profile image

eswar  says:
17 months ago

That's really nice. Thanks for the tips.

guidebaba profile image

guidebaba  says:
17 months ago

Thank you eswar

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omarabid  says:
13 months ago

cool post but long! i prefer short one

derobil profile image

derobil  says:
13 months ago

Thanks for the great tips guidebaba!

guidebaba profile image

guidebaba  says:
13 months ago

Hi derobil: Thank you for your visit, comments and appreciation.

Lydia Rose profile image

Lydia Rose  says:
11 months ago

Hi! This info was helpful to me. Do you make money blogging and if so, is it decent?

guidebaba profile image

guidebaba  says:
11 months ago

Hi Rosy: Yes I do make a descent amount of money from blogging. Recently i was able to buy a new car with my online income. You just have to be little serious and clever.

Nina Lewis profile image

Nina Lewis  says:
10 months ago

I haven't heard of Blogads, Crispads, or tagwords before. Thanks so much for providing great information!

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guidebaba  says:
10 months ago

Most welcome Nina.

Christoph Reilly profile image

Christoph Reilly  says:
10 months ago

Lots of great information here. I have a blog, which is a little more involved than just my random thought, and have found that I can't keep up with a regular publishing schedule, especially every day, though I think that's best as you say. I think you have covered the topic really quite thoroughly. Thanks!

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guidebaba  says:
10 months ago

Hi Christoph. Thank you for your visit and comment. I have several well maintained blogs. I think 3-4 Posts per week is good enough. But I make sure that each post is automatically updated using RSS feeds. I also use Amazon,e-bay and videos in my posts.

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Christoph Reilly  says:
10 months ago

I try to stick to 3 days per week; Sun., Tue., and Thur. I only started it about 2 months ago, and with WordPress, the video feature is for paid memberships and I have not yet upgraded. I'll look into the RSS feeds...Thanks!

guidebaba profile image

guidebaba  says:
10 months ago

You can use Youtube videos in FREE VERSION of Wordpress too. Use the Video URL.

Christoph Reilly profile image

Christoph Reilly  says:
10 months ago

Hey, thanks! I've just gone and done it. I didn't realise that was even available (clicking on the URL option).

You da GuideBaba Man!

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EYEAM4ANARCHY  says:
10 months ago

Thanks, this is very informative and the ad resources at the end are very helpful.

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riotgrrrl  says:
10 months ago

awesome, i feel much better informed now!

xxxxx

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guidebaba  says:
10 months ago

You are welcome Christoph.

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guidebaba  says:
10 months ago

Welcome EYEAM4ANARCHY and riotgrrrl

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Laila Rajaratnam  says:
10 months ago

Great hub Guidebaba! I have a blog & you have given wonderful tips! Can I ask for help regarding Adsense?Also..how did you manage to disable the Contact Guidebaba button?

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guidebaba  says:
10 months ago

That is easy Laila. Go to your Profile > Edit > Uncheck - "Allow other users to contact you?" > Save > You are done. Any other question regarding blogging? I like and respect people who ask questions?

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Laila Rajaratnam  says:
10 months ago

Thanks!..I did not know..Yes,I need help guide baba..Can I mail you?

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guidebaba  says:
10 months ago

Yes. Please fire your questions to me at: guidebaba@gmail.com

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Ayesha08  says:
10 months ago

Great article....it surely is very helpful. Thanks for all the tips!

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Latrelle Ross  says:
10 months ago

Fantastic hub! Thanks for all the information :)

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cindyvine  says:
9 months ago

Thanks for the tips!

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sukkran  says:
9 months ago

really an useful hub with full of useful information. thumbs up and posted it in my facebook profile

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nancydodds1  says:
9 months ago

Great article!

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Anamika S  says:
9 months ago

You have a good list of resources here... Keep it up!

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Angela Heess  says:
9 months ago

An informative artice, and I really like how you focused on the specifics. Nice to hear from you... I ust started a blog about making money ethically online and I really enjoyed your point of view.

www.buildethicalincome.blog.au

Be blessed

guidebaba profile image

guidebaba  says:
9 months ago

Hi Angela. You site is not working !!!

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Angela Heess  says:
9 months ago

sorry... i was half asleep writing the link I think...

www.buildethicalincome.blogspot.com

Again, great work and I'll be checking back to see what else you write. Thanks, Blessings :-)

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linjingjing  says:
9 months ago

Blog and Money

Funny article

guidebaba profile image

guidebaba  says:
9 months ago

Wow. What a funny thought you have. I make around $ 500-$600 from blogging. Is that funny?

ladyvenus  says:
9 months ago

Hi thanks for the nice information.

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RobertHassey  says:
9 months ago

Good article on how anyone can earn from niche blogging. You're very enthusiastic and specific in your article. But could you give urls of niche sites that have good page ranking and which earn a lot? It would really help in convincing your readers more.

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guidebaba  says:
9 months ago

Please read my last article for more information.

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zenmagic  says:
9 months ago

Really great and informative Hubpages. I learn a lot of tips and tricks here that I can surely apply. Thanks for sharing.

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guidebaba  says:
9 months ago

you are welcome zenmagic.

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9 months ago

Is it as good as http://www.articleenterprise.com ?

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pkoson  says:
8 months ago

Blog and Money

I think this hub is the anti-anti-toxin to anxiety! Help, the verbosity of it is making me anxious!

John Cena  says:
8 months ago

Great Post.!!

I was also thinking of making money through some or the other technique through my blog and guess I got the GREEN SIGNAL after reading your post. :)

Keep up the good work and keep updating nice info..!

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Louidam1  says:
8 months ago

Great tips....keep up the good work!!

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guidebaba  says:
8 months ago

Hi Louidam1: Thank you for your visit and comment. Don't forget to Bookmark this for future reference and also forward to other people who may be interrested.

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8 months ago

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Apepperson  says:
8 months ago

Thanks for the inspiration. I've been thinking about startin a blog, now I know how to go about it. Plus, your Hub showed me a few things that I had't thought of before. I can't wait to get started!

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wan_jombiz  says:
7 months ago

Great Article.Thank for information.Im update my blog now..^^

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Apepperson  says:
7 months ago

Thanks for taking the time and sharing this information with us. For someone who is new to this industry, this is a lot of helpful advice. Thanks again for sharing and I look forward to seeing more Hubs like these in the future!

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ethel smith  says:
6 months ago

Good info thanks

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RobertHassey  says:
5 months ago

You're right in that essentially a blog is an online diary. But earning from a blog would have to mean sticking to a theme. It maybe better to think of that theme as a niche where ads or affiliate links related to that niche can entice readers to click on the links and buy products. So in that sense, a niche blog can't be a purely diary format. It maybe better to think of that blog not as a blog but a site that showcases magazine style features stories that fit a certain theme or niche. Everything else is up to the author's prose and layout.

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guidebaba  says:
5 months ago

Agree. You are completely right.

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5 months ago

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5 months ago

I recommend join clixGalore.com.

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prasannasutrave  says:
5 months ago

Very nice and informative hub.

Earning from blog is not so easy as every one stated it requires lot off dedication and hardwork.

I am using google adsense and happy to say i am earning some good money from thos program.

Still i think if i have my own hosted blog then it will make much more difference in my confidence, i am going to be a professional blogger very soon.

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jimcassa  says:
5 months ago

Very interesting ideas here, thanks, informative and useful,

thanks for sharing,

sincerely,

Jim.

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4 months ago

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jojo  says:
4 months ago

Nice sharing hope I could reach that $500 . I'll bookmark your site for more informative articles. Thanks .

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4 months ago

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Ladybird33  says:
4 months ago

As a beginner to blogging, these are some awesome tips, Thank you.

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guidebaba  says:
4 months ago

Thank you ladybird. I am glad you found this useful.

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Philipo  says:
4 months ago

Very elaborate. Thanks for sharing.

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guidebaba  says:
4 months ago

Thanks!

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WealthKingdom  says:
3 months ago

I love creating blogs, so this is a very good hub. Thanks and many blessings to you.

Imayadash  says:
2 months ago

Solid information here! thanks

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desigac  says:
2 months ago

It is very interesting to read it and all the web masters can remember the ideas to make money.

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2 months ago

Very useful and informative ideas

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5 weeks ago

very useful resources. If ever I can get 1,000 visitors to my blogs, I will be jumping high and low.

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5 weeks ago

This is a very informative hub. I will bookmark it so that I can read it over and over again. Thank you for sharing your expertise in this area.

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4 weeks ago

I’m looking forward to hearing more about this topic in the coming days. I’ve yet to incorporate email into my strategy and I’m not sure how to with my site.

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uliveulearn  says:
9 days ago

Great clearly written and informative hub. Thanks, I am looking at starting a blog. I read somewhere that some blog sites retain the right to your content. It sounds like Blogger.com is popular. I will be reading this hub again and looking at more.

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