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Getting Started with a Blog and Making Money Out of I

April 29, 2010 |

If you are new or not very conversant with how the web works, you may have heard ‘blogging’ or ‘bloggers’ mentioned on your local dailies or news channels. In this article, i wish to give a brief overview of what a blog is, how to get started with blogging as well as how to use a blog to promote your products/services and even make money out of it.

To start with, a blog is fundamentally a website where items are posted on regularly and displayed in reverse chronological order. The term blog is a short form of ‘web log’ or ‘web log’. The act of authoring a blog, maintaining it or adding articles to an existing blog is called ‘blogging’. Individual articles on a blog are called “posts” or “entries”. Someone who posts these articles is reffered to as a “blogger”. A blog comprises images, text, hypertext and links. You may also use a blog to display videos, movies and other media.

There are two options for getting started with a blog. The first and easiest way is to get a free blog hosting platform. Popular sites like Wordpress and Blogger offer free blog hosting services and you don’t need any expertise in blog installation or html authoring to start publishing your own articles. The only limitation to this is that you are bound by their terms and conditions and violating these may lead to your blog getting deleted. If you want to host your own blog, you can still do this quite easily by getting a web hosting provider with “PHP” and “Fantastico Deluxe” enabled. Fantastico deluxe is a script installation application that allows you to install a fully functional wordpress blog just by filling in a few details and clicking the install button. This will install a ‘Wordpress content management system’ on your blog and once logged in to your blog, you can change the theme (Looks of your blog), change display settings and start posting articles. One web hosting service that offers packages with fantastico deluxe is Hostgator. Apart from Wordpress, you can also get a free blogging script installed on your server through Blogger. To do this, you just need to create an account with Blogger and once logged in chose “Advanced Setup” option. You will then need to enter your server login info and click install to get the job done. The limitations with blogger include fewer theme options, fewer plugins - if you want your blog to do more for you and a limited support system.

Once you have your blog up and running, you may want to make some extra bucks out of it. Below, you can find some popular ways of earning money on your blog -

1) PPC Ads:

This involves displaying banner or text link ads on your site form popular PPC networks. Once a visitor clicks on these ads, you get paid for it.

2) Affiliate Advertising:

There are many companies that offer commisions for customers you drive to their sites. With this form of monetization strategy, you earn money once a sale is completed.

3) Paid Reviews:

If your blog enjoys high traffic and Pagerank, you can make some decent Cash out of it just by writing and posting reviews of other people’s products and sites on your blog.

4) Paypal Donate:

Sometimes, you may not want to place advertisements on your blog for some reasons. If this is the case, you can still earn some good money out of blogging by putting a small ‘Paypal Donate” button on your site. If visitors like the content or services you are offering, you could be surprised to see how much this can earn you.

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