How to Earn a Real Income with Blogging?

By Victor Rock

By now, unless you've been living under a rock in central Asia, you heard of blogs and blogging. You may even have heard that some people make money off their blogs. Well, maybe you're a decent writer and have some opinions to share, so why not give your hand a try at blogging? But... how does one go about earning money by blogging? How is it even possible to make money out of blogging?

In one word: advertising.

If you can generate a lot of traffic to you blog-in other words, you have a ton of people reading them-then you can sell advertising space on your blog website.

But before you can start selling advertising space, there are a lot of things you'll need to do first. You need to set up your blog. You need to fill it with interesting content. You need to generate traffic to y

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our blog. Then you need to find some advertisers. This article will talk you through those steps and answer your questions.

What is a blog?

Just in case you don't know, blogs as written by inline journalists (often amateurs) who voice their personal opinions on various topics. Internet surfers come to read their essays and start or join discussions on those essays.

How do I set up a blog?

First, you need to set up your blog. Don't panic. You don't need to know HTML or web programming. You don't even necessarily have to spend any money. There are a number of free blogging websites that allow you sign up and point-and-click your way to your own blog site for free. Such sites often offer free tutorials if you are new to blogging. Blogger.com, for example, is one of the easiest free sites to use.

How do I get people to read my blog?

The second step in blogging for money is to get a lot of traffic coming to your blog. There are a number of different ways to do this.

First, search engines automatically help you. Search engine bots and spiders (programs that constantly scan the internet for new content) will hopefully find and index your blog site. Search engines love blogs because they provide regularly updated, fresh content.

Second, start spreading links to your blog on other blogs. Find a blog on a similar topic to your, post a comment on it, and include a link to your blog with your signature. The hope is that people reading that blog will be impressed with your comment and link to your blog to see what else you have to say. It is important not to spam every blog you can find, however. You have to post good, lengthy, thoughtful comments to other blogs for this tactic to be effective.

How do I sell advertising space on my blog?

Your third and final step, once you have a good amount of traffic coming to your blog, is to stat sell advertising space on it. The easiest way to do this is through Google AdSense. Just sign up for an account. Once it is approved, chose the type of add you want to put on your blog (text links, banner ads, etc). Once the ads are in place, you should start collecting some money into your AdSense account.

No one is guaranteeing blogging will make you a millionaire overnight, but it will generate you some extra income. If you do it right, you can make a significant amount of money this way.

Now that you know what to do and how to do it, go forth and blog!