Blogging your way to Income Online

Blogging is one way you can use to make easy money online. A blog is just like a website but it is much more interactive and easier to manage. How does a blog work?

Well, to begin with you will need to identify which program you would like to use like Blogger or Wordpress. In our case we shall use Blogger. Blogger is a blog program from Google. It’s free to use and doesn’t require you to pay for domain name or for hosting. It’s also very easy to use and you don’t need to know html.

Now, if your choice is blogger you will have to sign up or if you already have a google account you can choose to use it for blogger. After doing that you can now sign in and create your blog. Of course you will not just create a blog just for the sake of it; you will need to think about what you will be posting in your blog. Because you want to make money with your blog, think about a topic that you think will be searched for by internet users. This is what is known as ‘Niche’. Note that you don’t want to choose a niche that is highly searched (one that could be having tens of millions of sites competing for that niche). For selecting your niche you will need to use a keyword tool and google adword:keyword tool which is absolutely free to use is a good one.

If you get your niche, you might want to use the keywords in your url and in the Title of your blog. If you can’t on your url, your blog title will suffice. This is primarily for search engine optimization purposes.

Once you have completed your selection, you can now go and publish your first post. Just click new post and type. This should be about your blog and a welcoming message to your expected readers. Always use your keywords in your posts but not too much-you will be penalized by search engines. Ensure it is also used sensibly. After finishing, click publish and view your post.

Getting your blog indexed

This is getting listed on the search engines for search results. If you take your url with the http and do a search, you will not find any listing of your blog. So how do you get your blog indexed?

First, submit your site to search engines. Just do a search on the search engine on how to submit a site and you will get directions.

Secondly, submit your site to internet directories. Use the free option and submit to as many as possible each day. This is one of the best way get your site indexed quickly.

Finally, use article directories. Read more here.

Bringing in traffic to your blog

This is the most important aspect of getting your blog ranked by search engines. The higher the traffic to your blog, the more importance the search engines will give to your blog.

To effectively bring in traffic, there are things that you will need to implement.

1.    Use article directories. If you write good articles and post them to article directories, chances are you might get visitors to your site or your article will be republished on other sites giving you baclinks-which are very important in ranking on search engines and you will need many to even be ranked on 1.
2.    Comment on other blogs leaving your url on the option for-your website url but don’t spam.
3.    Use social networking sites to market your blog like facebook.
4.    Put lots of content on your site but it should be unique. Search engines love fresh content.
5.    Comment on forums related to your blog.
6.    Use yahoo answers.

If you get good traffic you can monetize(but you can also monetize prior to getting traffic) your site with google adsense, amazon or other affiliate programs like Clickbank, Paydotcom or a product that you have depending on the niche you had selected. Blogger already has monetization options for google adsense and amazon associates.

That’s it for now but check out other posts to see whether you can make easy money online with a home opportunity.