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The first time you set up your own blog, your only intention was to start a new hobby – something that would keep you busy during long, insomnia-filled nights or slow, lazy days at the office. You didn’t care about blog traffic and how many readers your posts got. You wrote and posted only for your own fulfilment.

You soon came to realize, however, that a handful of people have come to discover your blog, and what they saw and read, they liked. You discover that your blog is getting a constant increase in hits as well as a steady set of visitors every week. This, in your opinion, was a very interesting development that had potential.

The potential was in advertising. While surfing for other blogs you notice that a lot of them have ads put up in their sites. You do a little research to find that you too can put up ads on your sites, so that you can earn a little extra cash with your blog.

With the success of your blog came a brilliant, albeit extreme, idea – why not quit your job to become a professional blogger?… Continue reading

If you enjoy blogging, consider adding a blog about real estate to your website. A blog brings you closer to the people who you want to connect with and can give them a better idea of your personality and what you can do for them. If you take the time to show your prospective clients who you are and how you can solve their problems, it will up your chances of them actually calling you up.Be passionate!If you are passionate, it will show in your writing, no matter how inexperienced a writer you may be. Readers of any kind can tell if you’re bored or just doing this so you’ll have some unique content on your page. If you’re not passionate about what you write, you won’t convey a very good impression on your blog. Don’t blog if you don’t enjoy blogging.Write how you speak. Not only is it easier to write how you speak, it is also more likely to convey your enthusiasm about your subject. Refrain from utilizing a grandiose lexicon and ostentatiously exhibiting erudition. Nothing shrieks, “Look at me! I know all these words! Hire me because I’m smarter than you!” Any fool with a thesaurus can compose… Continue reading

There are many ways to earn with your blog, there are direct methods which you earn money directly from your blog. There are many ways of selling advertising space on a blog but some of the different advertising options that bloggers experiment with include:Contextual Advertising – Programs like AdSense and YPN (beta) are very popular with bloggers and are probably the most common income stream being used by them today (MSN are developing one too). Impression Based Ads – Impression based ads pay a small amount for every person who views the advertisement. The amount that they pay varies from program to program (and ad to ad) and is generally a fraction of a cent. There are a variety of ad systems around like this including Fastclick and Tribal Fusion. Impression based ads will not earn you much if you do not have a lot of traffic but can be great if you do.Other Ads Systems – AdGenta, CrispAds, Clicksor, Intelli Txt, Peak Click, Double Click, Industry Brain, AdHearUs, Kanoodle, AVN, Pheedo, Adknowledge, YesAdvertising, RevenuePilotTextAds, SearchFeed, Target Point, OneMonkey, and TextAds. Consulting – when you are perceived as an expert on a topic you will find that people naturally… Continue reading

Have you ever imagine how much money you can make by knowing how to blog? People all around the word are earning an extra income by just sharing their daily activities or their interest with the world. Isn’t it wonderful that you too can make your living by sharing your voice on blog? So, here are some tips for you when you want to engage in this industry.

1. Host or guest

The guest here means you are publishing your blog on a free platform instead of hosting it with your own domain name. Many said that you should host your blog with your own domain because you have more control over your blog and you can optimize it more easily. Although there is nothing wrong with that statement but you should also look into your budget when you are starting this blogging business.

Please know that you still need to pay monthly hosting fee when you are not making money with your blog. Personally, when you can market your blog successfully and the conversion looks good, it is still alright to have your blog on free platform.

2. Be focus

Another rule of thumb for… Continue reading

If you are new to writing a blog, let me first explain the types of blogs available on the Internet. In general there are only two types of blogs, commercial and non commercial blogs.

Commercials blogs are like Trump University blog where it professional writers post regularly with tons of advertisements or products and services of their own, mostly created by companies not individuals. The most common type of blogs are the non commercial blogs, where people like me and you normally write on.

In non commercial blogs it can further break down into 2 different types of blogs. The first one is blogging for leisure, which means you only blog for the purpose like a personnel online diary. The second type of blog would be business blogs. Business blogs are like blogs like mine where I write this blog and update it regularly to make a living out of it.

If you are wondering can people take blogging as a profession, yes you can. And I have search on the internet there are many others just like us making money from blogging. The reason before I go into some tips to blog right… Continue reading