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What are blogs and how do you profit from them?
By Alan Cheng
'Blogs' or 'Blogging' have existed for several years and
there are still many people who don't know what one is
and how important it is to making you money.
A blog is a web log. It's used to add contents of a diary
or news by the owner (blogger). For example, I may
want to blog about the latest affiliate programs there are
and ones that have good commissions as soon as I
know about them. People can visit my website and see
new contents on my website regularly.
A blog should contain information about a similar topic.
For example, cars, computers, stamps etc... The good
thing about blogs is that you can write whatever you
want on it. Your visitors can even comment on what they
think about a particular blog. With a blog you do not
need to have any programming experience. You can
update a blog easily by just typing what you want just
like with a word processor. What an easy way to update
a website.
So now we know what a blog is, what's so good about a
blog? Why are so many talking about it?
Owners have found that updating fresh content to their
websites has been made easier by using blogging
software. Before blogs were popular, people had to
create the content, get it transferred into HTML by the
programmer, and then uploaded to the website. All this
hassle is gone with blogging.
Perhaps, the most important thing about having a blog
is that the search engines love them. Yes, search
engines love new content. It means a website is not
static, therefore search engines will visit that website
often and get them indexed. If you have a blog, search
engines will have your website in their listings quickly.
Blogging should be done regularly by your business.
The customers should have the feeling that your blog
will be updated regularly so that they will feel the need
to visit often. If your blog is stagnant, then people will not
go back. This is not how blogs are used.
What a lot of people don't know about blogging is that it
can also help make you money. Yes - blogs can be
profitable too.
One of the ways you can profit from blogs is to provide
valuable content to them, and keep them regularly
informed. Once you have created that relationship with
them, you can place affiliate links within your blogs.
These have to be products or services that you
recommend to your readers to use. Good commission
comes with using this idea.
You can even ask your readers to donate money to
maintain your blog. Stress that your blog is a free
service and you hope that they will support you etc...
Once you have a lot of visitors to your blogging website,
you can use Google's Adsense which shows Google's
ads on your blogs. When your visitors click on those
ads, you'll get a percentage of the payment for each
click. With a lot of visitors, this will add up to a nice check
every month.
You can even have an advertising space at the top of
your blog. Advertise this space. You can charge people
weekly to advertise what they want. You may even have
more than one space for advertisements. The more
popular and more visitors your blog gets, the more you
can charge for these advertising spaces.
The blog http://www.home-business-setup.com shows
the ways in which money can be made which I've
discussed throughout this article. Notice the AdSense at
the top of the page and also the text link which other
people will pay for once they know the blog gets traffic.
Just shows that there are so many ways to profit from
blogging that it would be crazy if we don't start now. About the Author Alan Cheng, is the owner of Online Money Machine, the system to help start a profitable internet business. Sign up for the Exclusive Report "10 Critical Factors to Making Money Online" at http://www.onlinemoneymachine.com
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