Earn Money Blogging Part 3

As we discussed in Make money blogging part 2 i would be using the example of a blogger blog when helping you to make money from writing blogs. Blogger or blogspot is a good free blog service because it is owned by Google and it requires very little set up and is search engine ready, which will increase your chances of getting higher search engine ranking, more about search engine traffic later.

How to set up a blog with Blogger

You will need to register for a new account and www.blogger.com

You will then be asked to select a blog name, try and include your main keyword in the domain for example if your blog is going to be about writing a book then try http://bookwritingtips.blogspot.com if this is taken try adding a dash like book-writing-tips.blogspot.com. I have recently done some research about whether or not adding your keywords in the URL (domain name)makes a difference to search engine ranking and i found it does not really but it does from a potential readers point of view and it could help you get more traffic. You can read more about blog domains how to get your blog noticed blog.

So you have set up an account with blogger and you have chosen your blogs name now for the blogger template select Minima Template.

You are now ready to post, there are some more settings you can go into to help you get more visibility but i will discuss these in a later Earn Money Blogging post.

Earn Money Writing Blogs Part 2

Earn Money Blogging Part 1 in case you missed it

Now onto Part 2 of how to Earn Money Writing Blogs
In part 1 we talked about how you can make money blogging by advertising ads or affiliate products on your blog. Products you think your customers maybe interested in, like i have done by advertising the book you see to the right. I used commission junction and copied my affiliate link. So when someone buys this book through my blog i get a bit of commission. This is the easy bit but what is more difficult is getting visitors to your blog, traffic is the most important thing to make sure you earn money from blogging.

There are two main leaders when it comes to free blogs, blogger and word press. Both have very good features. I would personally recommend blogger because it is all ready and set up to obtain high search engine ranking, providing you write keyword optimized posts, more on this in later posts. Blogger is owned by Google and it needs very little tweaking. In my next post i will show you how to set up a simple blog with blogger.

So to round up from part 1 and part to of how to earn money writing blogs we have established the following:

You can make money writing blogs

Blogging can be done by anyone who has something to say about any topic

You earn money blogging by monetizing your blog with ads or affiliate products

Blogger is a good free blog host to use as it is easily tweaked to get traffic

In Part 3 i will help you set up a blog from scratch with blogger and you will be soon on your way to earning money blogging.

Part 3

Earn Money Blogging

How can Blogging Make me Money?

I should start off by telling you how to set up a blog etc. how to start blogging and how to write posts however this is a blog about how you can earn money writing so i will jump straight in and tell you how you can make money blogging.

You can make money blogging by displaying ads or affiliate products.

Now that i have told you how you can monetize your blog let me dampen your anticipation a little and tell you to hold fire. Why, well because if you monetize your blog straight away when your blog is new then google will think you are spamming and you will get nowhere. You will not rank high in google, you will not get traffic and so you will not earn any money from your blogging efforts.

Patience is a virtue!

To earn money blogging you must first set up and most importantly establish your blog. More about this in my next article
Earn Money Blogging Part 2