by Jonny Quinn

Created on: January 17, 2009

This has got to be one of my favourite topics. As a web designer and entrepeneur, i have dedicated the past 8 years experimenting with online business opportunuities and i will tell you straight from the start that most, if not all, are scams.

I have, however, earned a very repectable sum of m oney to date, through online earnings, and from those which i have earned i have not invested a penny.

Is it possible for anybody to make money online ? the answer is yes ! however most people don't have the drive and patience to make it work. These are the people who Pay to join "Get Rich Quick Schemes" only to be dissapointed.

My first successfull earner was a simple travel blog, through which i doccumented my travels around the world, on this blog i posted Affiliate links to Airlines, Flight Comparison Sites, Car Hire Companies, Hostel Bookers and many more. Initially i didn't see any great income, but as my blog content grew and got more interesting, my traffic increased and as my traffic increased so did my earnings.

I am now going to tell you how to do the same. It is no great secret, but for many people it may come as a surprise how easy it is to find these paying advertisers.

The first thing you need to do is decide, what the topic of your blog will be and think of a name relevant to your content. I would advise purchasing a Domain Name which usually costs as little as $5 per year, but it is not absolutely necessary. The next thing you need to do is find somewhere to put your blog and design an attractive layout. Again you can use a free script like Wordpress and pay to host it on your own hosting space, but personally i would wait and see if your Blog is going to be successful before paying anything. A great place to start is www.blogger.com, here you can create your blog for free with many different templates, which can be customised to your liking. Blogger is clean and Ad free, allowing you to place your Paid Advertisers in the most eye catching areas.

So what to do now .. Start Writing, create exiting interesting content, add photos, put passion into your articles, write because you love to write, don't write purely to make money, just let that happen naturaly.

So where do you get your advertisers ? one of the most common and probably easiest places to start is www.google.com/adsense, you place a little bit of code on your Blog and Google feeds Ads to it based on keywords. It works quite well and pays regularly, but as time goes on you will get tired of the lack

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