Blogging In Your Spare Time

This post is about an easy way to get started making money online that only requires time and a little writing skill. While it will take a little time to get your first paycheck, it requires no money at all. Here are the basics:

Getting Started:
You need to start a blog and you need to get visitors to your blog. You can use google’s blogger to set up a free blog. If you want to make money on a free blog, make sure your host will allow you to place ads on your site.

The foundation of starting a successful blog that is going to make you money is simple. You have to write about something that other people care about. You have to provide USEFUL, FREE content that is going to attract an audience. It should also be something that interests you or you probably won’t stick with it. My father just started a blog called, The Online Mechanic . He’s been in the auto repair industry for quite a while and with a little prompting has started his own blog posting auto repair info and answering visitors auto repair questions. He has already had a great response and he’s only been doing it for a short time. I mention his blog as an example of USEFUL FREE information.

Getting Traffic:
This is the next most important part of making money from any online business. You have to have visitors. Just starting a blog and posting to it isn’t going to get you many visitors. You have to let everyone know you’re out there. One of the best ways to do this is by visiting other blogs that are similar to yours and posting thoughful comments on them. Make sure that your comments have real and sincere meaning. Don’t just say stuff like “Hey, Great Blog.” That’s not going to get you anywhere. Personal experience or insight that will possibly add to the value of another bloggers post is the best type of comment that you can leave. It will get you noticed not only by the author of the blog, but also by all of the regular visitors to that blog.  You’ll also want to add links on your blog to the blogs the you comment on regularly. That way, you can personally find them each time and blog trackers such as technorati will let other bloggers know that you are linking to them. The outcome? The bloggers that you are interacting with will begin visiting your site to see what it’s all about. If they like what you blog about, then they will likely add a link to their blogroll to help their visitors find you. Now, there lots of other ways to get traffic to your blog, but the way I just described is the most cost effective(Free) and in the long run will generate loyal visitors to your blog without needing search engines.

Making Money:
Making money from this is simple if you have done the first two steps correctly. If your blog has valuable free content and lots of people coming to it then you have everything you need to start cashing in. The last step is to visit google.com and sign up for an adsense account. Google with then give you some code to install on you blog that will display ads that are related to the content on your site. When visitors click on the ads, you get paid. That’s all there is too it. You can ask me any questions that you have by posting a comment. Good Luck!