5 Simple Steps to Make Money With a Blog

It is actually not that hard to make money with blogs. Here are 5 simple steps that you need to take to start cashing in from your blog.

1. Find A Profitable Niche

How do you find a profitable niche? Simple. Go to Clickbank.com and click on Marketplace. Browse through the categories and look out for hot selling products. The top 10 product are usually the hot selling ones.

Take note of the niche or market that these hot selling products are in. Now, choose one hot selling product and go into the niche that the hot selling product is in.

2. Create A Wordpress Blog

You can try out other blogging platforms but I prefer a self-hosted Wordpress blog. It is quite cheap to get a self-hosted Wordpress blog. You need to buy a domain and a web hosting service and install the Wordpress blog into your domain using the easy installation option.

Free Wordpress themes are available online to enhance the design of your blog.

If you don't have the budget, you can use free blogging platforms like blogger.com and Wordpress.com.

3. Get Content For Your Blog

For you to make money with blog, you need good content or articles on your blog.

How do get free yet good quality content? From EzineArticles.com that is. Go to EzineArticles.com and find good articles related to your niche. Copy the whole article including the author's bio box and place it on your blog. Get about 10 articles to post on your blog.

Make sure you read EzineArticles.com terms on using the articles.

Do not worry about duplicate content penalty. As long as you do not post the same article twice in your blog, there is no problem with duplicate content.

4. Monetize Your Blog

You can't make money with blog if you don't monetize your blog. The easiest way to monetize your blog is to add Google AdSense advertisements on your blog. Google will pay you for every person that click on the advertisements. Do not click on your own ads! You will get banned by Google.

You need to apply for a Google AdSense account first before you can add AdSense ads on your blog.

Another way to monetize your blog is to add affiliate banners. Affiliate banners are banners that link to a product related to your niche and when someone click on the banner and buy the product, you get paid a commission. Commission ranges from 50% to 75% of product price.

You can get affiliate banners from Clickbank.com.

5. Driving Traffic To Your Blog

This is the most important step. Without traffic, nobody will click on the AdSense ads or the affiliate banners so you can't make money with blog.

You can drive traffic by writing articles and submitting to EzineArticles.com. There are millions of people who visit EzineArticles.com daily, so there is a good chance that will people will read your articles and visit your blog.

Another way to drive free traffic is to submit your blog's RSS feed to RSS aggregator sites. This is by far the easiest way to get traffic to your blog. A lot of people visit these RSS aggregator site so if they are interested in your blog, they will visit it.

You can also submit your blog to social bookmarking sites. There are a lot of people looking for information there so you might get a good amount of traffic from there.

There you go! 5 simple steps to make money with blog. Don't procrastinate and take action now.

If you sit around and do nothing, you will get nothing.

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