How to make money online by blogging.

Blogging is one of the best ways to make money on internet. It is very easy to set up a blog on the internet, you can go the free route and join Blogger.com or wordpress.com and have a blog set up for free in minutes. However I would recommend that you go the route of getting your own hosting and domain name as this will give you security and provide a peception of professionalisim amoungst your visitors.

Unfortunatley, no matter how professional looking or how well your blog is designed, it is not a garuntee of success. You need targeted visitors coming into your blog that are interested in the service or products you promote to develop a sustainable business that makes money on the internet. Make sure that you offer quality content to ensure repeat visits and dont underestimate the power of free, in that I mean find something of value be it a service or product and give it away for free and your blog will grow virally. By providing quality content that is of value and giving or providing a service of value away for free, you will reduce the amount of spam bots that will automatically find and comment on your blog and increase the number of actual interested visitors and subscribers required to produce sales.

There are a number of reasons that blogs are one of the best ways to make money on the internet namely:
1.The ease of which you can start one either free or self hosted with the fantastico application available on most hosting packages.

2.The fact that Google and the other search engine love blogs and rank them well naturally because of their regular unique content posting nature.
3.The ease of which you can learn to opperate and monetize them, affiliate and advertising programs like Google adsense make it easy to implement and publish advertising by providing the html, Javascript or banner advertising that you can copy and paste into your blog. A blog has a small learning curve allowing for a new bloger to produce a professional blog without the need for website code knowledge. affiliate or advertising networks offer a wide range of ready made ads that can quite easily be placed in the header, footer, sidebar or post itself. Consider hosting your own blog, if you want your blog to be taken seriously.If you intend on building a large blog, hosting it yourself makes sense.
4. Plugins, there are so many new plugins available for blog platforms that will help to automate aspects of your blog and help improve functionality and promotion.
The most important thing to understand is that it is a business so treat it like one, apply consistant effort, professionalisim and publish unique quality content. You are a publisher and as such will need to write articles and posts if you are going to make an impact on the rankings for a keyword and enguage your readers. Outsource as much as you can and as you find more success you will be able to fund more of the outsourcing processes, but take care in the quality and originality of the content you publish as articles and posts on your blog will ensure you build a targeted audience that leads to sales.

To your success!