How To Make Money Blogging
Blogging is like having your own TV or Radio show. You provide unique content for people to read. This content should be what you are passionate about. Do you love to travel? Create a blog about traveling. You like to eat out? Create a blog about dining out. Whatever gets you excited you can create a blog about it.
Once you have stories, videos, and other content on your blog, people will come to read it. See what your opinions are, what you have to say. Once you get a lot of traffic to your blog you can sell advertising. Companies will pay you monthly to put their ads on your blog. You can also sell other peoples products or even your own products on your blog. As long as they are related to your blog, you can offer it to your visitors.
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Your Duties
As a part-time blogger, I would recommend you post at least one new post each week. That will be 52 a year if you are consistent. But to be real serious about blogging, I would aim for one a day or one every two days. The more content you can put on your blog, the more chances you'll get ranked high in Google and get more free traffic.
You can also contact other bloggers in your niche and ask to interview them for your blog. Perhaps you can even do a guest post on their blog. This will get you more content for your site and get you new visitors from the post on his site.
How Much Can You Make?
This will all depend on how much traffic you can generate. Here is a list of top blogs along with their income and how that income is generated:
30 Blog’s That Make A Lot Of Money Online
| Rank | Website | Owner | Monthly Earnings | Main Income |
| 1 | The Huffington Post | Arianna Huffington | $2,330,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 2 | Techcrunch | Michael Arrington | $800,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 3 | Mashable | Pete Cashmore | $600,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 4 | Perez Hilton | Mario Lavandeira | $450,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 5 | Noupe | The Blonde Salad | $200,000 | Private Advertising |
| 6 | Smashing Magazine | Vitaly Friedman | $190,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 7 | SmartPassiveIncome | Pat Flynn | $153,000 | Affiliate Commissions |
| 8 | Timothy Sykes | Timothy Sykes | $150,000 | Affiliate Sales |
| 9 | Tuts Plus | Collis Ta'eed | $120,000 | Membership Area |
| 10 | Life Hacker | Gina Trapani | $110,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 11 | Gothamist | Jake Dobkin | $110,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 12 | Tuts Plus | Collis Taeed | $110,000 | Membership Area |
| 13 | Venture Beat | Matt Marshall | $100,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 14 | Slash Gear | Ewdison Then | $80,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 15 | Car Advice | Alborz Fallah | $70,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 16 | Life Hacker | Nick Denton | $60,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 17 | Dooce | Heather B. Armstrong | $50,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 18 | Steve Pavlina | Steve Pavlina | $45,000 | Pay Per Click |
| 19 | Talking Point Memo | Joshua Micah Marshall | $45,000 | Advertising Banners |
| 20 | Problogger | Darren Rowse | $40,000 | Advertising Banners |
How To Get Started
The great thing about blogging is that you need no formal application. Here are the steps you can do today to get started as a blogger:
Purchase a domain name. This is around $10 a year. Do a google for "cheap domain names" and see if you can't get your first year for about $1.
NOTE: You can sign up for hosting at my favorite place, Dreamhost AND get a free domain.
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Now that you have the domain (such as MyTravelBlog.com) and a hosting company, you need to configure the domain to send visitors to the server where your blog is hosted. If this sounds confusing, just go to where you registered your domain name for directions on how to do this.
OK so visitors should now be coming to your blog, but you don't have anything there yet. Now is when we need to set up the software that will be your blog. Wordpress is the #1 blogging platform. The company that hosts your blog should have a "one click" install feature. You simply press a button to tell it to install Wordpress and it installs it on your site. Once installed you can login and start posting.
More than likely you won't like the way your blog looks, you'll want to make it look better. No need to know programming. Fortunately for you, you can get free and paid "themes" for Wordpress. Programmers create different looks for blogs all the time. All you need do is find one that looks good to you, download it to your computer, upload it to your website, and turn it on in Wordpress. Your blog will have a whole new look.
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