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Blogging is a growing trend among worldwide internet users. Blogs are a great way to attract attention to whatever you are promoting. Whether you are just blogging about your daily activities, providing information to a certain niche, or promoting a business or product, you can use a blog to make money. Blogging for money is simple, here's a few steps to get you started.

Blogging for money step 1: Start your own blog. There are many services you can use to start your own blog. The two I recommend are Wordpress and Blogger. The best way to use these free blogs is to host them right from your own website.

Blogging for money step 2: Once you have your blog setup you need to work on getting traffic to it. This step should be thought of as the post and ping process. You should post to your blog several times a week and then use a pinging service to ping each individual post. (Wordpress pings automatically every post.)

By posting and pinging on a regular basis, you will really begin to see traffic pick up. Another way to get traffic to your blog is to use social bookmarking. There are hundreds of different bookmark sites you can join and post your blog and get tons of free traffic.

Blogging for money step 3: Once you are getting good traffic to your blog, there are several ways to make money. The first thing you need to do is sign up for a free Google AdSense account. With these ads, you get paid for every person who click on them, and you can place them anywhere you like on your blog.

You can also sign up with some affiliate programs and promote their banners on your blog for another form of income. When people sign up for their programs from your blog, you will get paid a commission.

There are also different companies that will pay you for leads that you provide them. This can be a very good form of income because your blog visitors don't have to pay for anything. A lead is simply a name and address and these companies will pay anywhere from $1 to $30 for leads you bring them.

As you can see, blogging for money is quite easy. Getting the blog setup is the most difficult part. Once you have cleared that hurdle, earning income is easy as making a few posts to your blog. The more you post, the more traffic you will get. The more traffic you get to your blog, the more money you will make. Get started today!

Copyright (c) 2008 Matt Helphrey

Matt Helphrey is the owner and webmaster of http://www.livelifetothefullest.biz He uses Internet Based Affiliate Marketing to make money online. Use this website to research the many programs available or sign up for free money making tips and tricks.

So you operate a blog do you? Perhaps this is something that is for personal use on one of the more popular social networks, or maybe it is a small business blog and you use it to educate your clientele and reach out to customers, vendors or even your own team members and employees. Well, have you ever considered the value of your words? How about the value of your blog?

Surely you have to admit that your blog does have some value, unless of course you are of such low-self-esteem that you think your words are meaningless, of course if you thought that in reality, you most likely would not be posting at all. So, then you do agree that your blog is worth something more than free. In other words it has value. Value to you is sentimental in nature and intrinsic, but it also has value to your readership, friends and folks who happen by. Why? Well, if it didn't no one would bother to read it now would they.

If you have a business blog and you spend time posting or pay a trusted employee too, that time is the same as energy and it has a cost, a cost in time. If you receive business from your blog, then it has real commercial value and if you divide the time spent and cost by the revenue generated and compare that against other forms of advertising and marketing, then you begin to see just how valuable it really is.

Obviously, your business blog is extending your business credibility (if done right, if done wrong it could actually hurt your business) and brand. If your brand name has value, which all CFOs and accountants agree, then your blog is an asset of your company and thus, it too has value.

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In this article we are going to take a quick look at even more free ways to get free traffic to your blog. The simple truth of the matter is this: Most blogs (and the bloggers behind them) will NEVER make enough money from their efforts to buy their family ONE nice dinner at the local diner. For all their pomp, pontificating and circumstance, your favorite blogger is most likely broke! (Or at least relative to the income they derive from their favorite pastime) Let's look at why - and watch as I give you a few FREE and easy ways to make sure you aren't one of them.

Cast a Wide Net

The truth is, if you are reading this article, you are most likely someone who is trying to break into the blogging world as a professional endeavor. You want to turn your PASSION, into profit...rather than simply sharing a few trite thoughts about the world, and your place within it. That said - you need to grow a larger base of readers, and content. How do you do this? Simple. Leverage and Software!

Which Blog are YOU Stalking?

The easiest way to get the word out, and do it fast, is to use a simple free tool like bloglines to aggregate and collect all of the cool content, blogs, and feeds that are relevant to your industry. Load them all up, and every morning, as they updated, stop by and comment on the new posts. Or alternatively, have someone do it for you. As a tertiary option, use a free browser like FLOCK and the "blogthis" function to add THEIR content to YOUR blog, with a perfectly formatted and attributed link back to them in the footer of your post.

What does this do? Very simply - they will SEE incoming links coming from yours to theirs and be much more likely to read YOUR blog regularly, refer their readers to you, etc. Of course when you choose the first option, your comments would be linking to your blog anyway, which is the conventional, and super easy way of broadening your base and increasing your exposure in record, rapid fire turn around time.

Next we are going to talk about SOFTWARE, and how you can use simple and efficient Wordpress plug ins to aggregate content across your niche to your very own site, supercharging your blog building efforts with push button simplicity. So check back for Part 2 of this series for an even more powerful way of building a BIG buck blog....often overnight!

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