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Starting a blog to make money

by Edgaras Marcinkus

Created on: May 31, 2009   Last Updated: June 04, 2009

Everyone who is interested in money making on the Internet should give some thought to starting a blog to make some money. Personally, I thought about the same thing too, but I was not as experienced as I am now and I was not able to start a good and successful blog. I was looking for information all over the Internet - tried many search engines, asked people about money making with blogs and I also did many more things to find out how this "market" works. But I hadn't found any information I needed, I mean, I hadn't found anything, which would be understandable and easy to assume. Anyway, now I am pretty experienced, I am earning money with my blogs and I also have many things to tell you about!

The beginning. Let's clear out how these things works.

OK, you have a blog, you have some articles and you have it posted on the Internet. Where does money comes from ? They come from Google Adsense or other advertisement programs. Believe me, there are many them! Anyway, it is not too hard to add Google Adsense to your blog. In fact, it is really easy with help of simple Google tutorials and articles.

So, you have already added Google Adsense or any other program to your blog (you can add multiply advertisement programs), what now ? Now, if any visitor comes to your blog and he(or she) presses on Google Adsense advertisement text you will earn money. The amount of money is not big and it depends on the niche you chose to write about. OK, I guess you got the part about where the money comes from, so let's keep going.

Looking for the best niche.

If you decide to create a blog, you can create it about various things - from things you like most to things that pay the most. For example, if you decide to write about sports, you will earn only about 0.2$ per click or even less. But if you decided to write about things like finance, money investing or health - you will be able to earn to about 5-10$ per click. This amount is not real, it will fall down or grow up a bit anyway. But you I guess you got the point.

Looking for a template.

Every blog needs to have a good template. It doesn't matter what you call it - theme, template, design - the point will be the same. Be sure to choose a theme, which corresponds to your niche and doesn't look disastrous. Because if people will come to your blog, they will find information needed, but if they do not like your blog's view, they will not come back. You can be sure of that.

Writing an articles.

If you want to make some traffic (visitors), you need to write unique articles time to time. For example, if you copy content from other blogs or websites, Google will not like that and you will be placed somewhere in 5-10 search pages with your keywords. But if you make some back-links, write unique content once couple a days, you will be able to see yourself in the first pages with your keywords.

I guess you found this article useful and have basic idea how does things works with making money with blog.

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