How to Make Money With A Blog

In this post I will touch briefly on setting up a blog and making money with it using Google's adsense advertising program.

Basically the first thing you'll want to do is to write about something you enjoy and are passionate about. This will make it easy to update and keep the content fresh. Also the idea is to write something that is of interest to others as well. By doing so, this will help your blog gain more readers and contributors.

A site to check out for great blog tips and strategies is http://technorati.com

Once you know what you’re going to write about, you can set up a blog within minutes by using one of the free blogging platforms such as www.blogger.com

As for making money with your blog using Google’s adsense you can sign up for an adsense account once you’ve created your blog so that you can enter the appropriate URL address when asked for it.

To sign up for free visit: https://www.google.com/adsense

Actually if you use blogger, you can set up your adsense account directly from the blogger set up menus.

So how do you make money with your blog?

Well it’s quite simple: adsense allows you to place targeted ads that are relevant to your content (what you write about) on your blog. Every time someone clicks on one of the ads, Google will pay you a portion of the revenue they get from that particular advertiser.

Note: The ads will automatically be targeted to your content since Google analyzes your text to match it with ads that deal with your subject matter.

That’s how to make money with a blog in a nutshell. Just remember to write about compelling things you are passionate about in order to keep people coming to your blog. Traffic is the key to making money – if no one is interested in coming to your blog, then no one will click on your ads!

A few simple tips to get more people to your blog include:

• Tell friends, family and co-workers about it
• Join social networks that deal with your subject matter and get involved by writing on them - don't forget to mention that you have a blog where you talk about the subject. http://www.43things.com is a good example.
  
• Buy traffic by advertising on the different search engines such as Google, Yahoo, MSN. (Beware though that this could be costly so do your research)
• Look for cheaper sources of Search Engine Marketing such as Miva or Kanoodle.
• Request that other sites/blogs with similar or related content put a link to your blog on their site/blog you can do the same for them. (Thsi is called link exchange)

There are other ways to gain traffic to your blog, but this will be a good start.

That's it for now - Feel free to post a comment on how you are doing with your blog and any tips and strategies that you may have.

Good Luck and Happy Blogging!