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Make Money Online by Blogging - How to Get Started
by emigre
Explore the many ways to make money online by blogging with or without a blog,
get paid to write reviews of products and services, and earn extra cash by
writing articles, content and blogging for Google AdSense blog networks.
1. An overview on paid blogging
There are three main flavors of paid blogging - your own blog on your own domain
and webhost, using a blog on a free blog service such as Blogger and creating a
blog on a blog network. The work is the same. You get paid to write or blog
about a product, service or anything required by a customer.
The amount paid varies greatly from $1 to $200 or more for about 50 to 200 words
depending on advertiser requirement. The more popular or higher traffic your
blog has, the greater your reach and therefore the higher you are paid. Terms
vary in that you may be asked to write a single post from time to time or you
may be contracted to blog a minimum of 1 post a day for a few weeks for a specified sum.
2. Blog requirements
Usually, there are certain requirements that your blog will have to meet before
being accepted for assignments. Requirements vary with each paid-to-blog
network. Generally though, paid-to-blog networks do not accept new blogs with
little content and no readership base, so you will need to spend the first few
weeks or months writing posts regularly to build up a sizable amount of content.
You could buy articles or use free articles from various sources of course, but
ultimately you will have to write your own unique content to keep readers coming
back. It's a lot of hard work.
Other requirements could be that your blog has to be several months old, be
indexed by Google, be of a certain pagerank or have a certain amount of traffic.
Blog content and writing standard also affect approval. If you do not own a
blog, you may be asked to provide some writing samples for evaluation.
3. Using a free blog on a blogging service
Creating a free blog on Blogger, Live Journal, Wordpress and other free blogging
services is how most bloggers will start off. These sites are fine for personal
blogs but if you have plans to monetize your blog and use it as a means to
provide some form of viable revenue, it is best to register your own domain and
host your own blog on a web host.
This is because you will have complete control over how you want to monetize
your blog and have your own entity and identity eg. yourblog.com instead of
yourblog.blogspot.com. Also, some paid-to-blog networks do not accept blogs
created on a free blogging service.
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