How to Make Money Blogging

Basically, two major business models that entrepreneurs use to make money blogging are:

• To sell advertising to different companies and brands who want to reach that blog's readers and
• To helps a single brand improve its image by creating positive associations between the blog and the product in the mind of consumers.

If your goal is selling advertising, there are two basic ways that you can go about recruiting sponsors who want to put ads on your site; you can let someone else do all of the legwork, or you can do the work yourself and keep all of the revenue.
Within the first group, many people make money blogging by selling space through Google's AdSense program. The advantages of this program are numerous, as it requires very little effort on the part of the blogger or webmaster to begin raking in profits. However, most people discover that they make less money through this method than they had hoped that their blog would earn.

Selling advertising directly to companies who want to put banner ads or sponsored links on your blog can take quite a bit of time, but it is often fairly lucrative. If you have a lot of contacts in industries that are related to the topic of your blog, you may want to try to go this route. People who have a strong background in sales and are experienced at pitching proposals can make quite a bit of money by renting blog space to interested companies.
The most serious problem with this model is that you often have to build quite a sizable readership before you can attract advertisers, which can mean that you have to do several months of work before you start to make money blogging.

Blogging is now a lucrative business and a lot of established companies are considering how they can get into the action. One way that companies are capitalizing on the blog movement is by having blogs that provide a kind of friendly face for their corporation.
Often, a company will employ an established blogger to create a weblog designed specifically to appeal to that company's customers and to create positive associations with the brand in consumers' minds. More than one writer who never even dreamed that he or she could make money blogging has been approached by a company and offered quite a pretty penny for this kind of gig.

Let's Start Blogging

The popularity of blogging is increasing everyday. Blog is short for the term web and log or weblog. Basically, a blog is an online journal whereby thoughts, ideas, opinions and practically anything that you want people to read are digitally expressed. They come in different formats, styles, and settings, depending on the preference of the user. Many blogging sites, offer built in features such as hyperlink, straight texts, pictures etc. Some blogging sites, even allow you to put video and mp3's on your blogs. Instead of writing texts, some bloggers choose to make their blogs more audio friendly, by using spoken word entries. This is called audio blogging.

Basically a blog contains these features:

title- where you put label your post
body- where you write the content of your post
trackback- other sites that can be linked back to your blog
permanent link- every article that you write has a URL
comments- allows readers to write comments on your blog.

Unlike, other websites, blogging is basically made of only a few templates, which make it easier for blog users to create new pages, because it already has a fix setting that include: slots for title, body of the post, category, etc. This makes it easier for first timers to start blogging right away from the templates the blogging websites provide.

To start a blog, a person registers as a member of a blogging website of their choice. There-after one becomes a member and automatically become a part of that particular blogging community. You can browse through other bloggers pages, and link them back to your own blogs. You can also make comments on other members' blogs.

The most popular blog type is the personal journal blog; individuals who want to document their daily activities, opinions, poems, rants, find that blogging offers them a medium to do this.

Blogging has expanded from just personal usage to various themes like social commentary, philosophy, sports, politics, etc. Some authors even use their blogs as a means to advertise their books. While other bloggers, use their blogs to shed light to currents happenings. In education line, Lectures and Professors use blogging to document the lessons that they have discussed and taught, thereby allowing students who have missed classes, to easily catch up with their assignments, by visiting the blog.

Entrepreneurs also promote their businesses and merchandise on their blogs; while others profit through advertisement. With the massive number of people logging onto the net everyday, blogging has become a phenomenon. Bloggers usually communicate within themselves- creating a community of people sharing ideas, thoughts, and comments with each other. Various blog themes, topics, and set-ups, can be found in blog directories. First time users who want to get an idea of what the blogging world is all about can browse through a number of blogs using these directories. This way they'd get an idea of what these blogging communities are like.

Numerous blogging websites abound on the net, first time users just need to join the blogging community that appeals to their interests. To do this, just search any blogging directory and you'd get a listing of blogging sites that are available on the net. It's easy to search a blogging directory, because it is organized according to category. This way you would get exactly what you are after.

Blogging is fun, easy, and simple; it's really for everyone.

The Creative Art of Blogging

If writing is an art, then, blogging is one way of using words to come up with an art. This is because people who are into blogging are the ones who are artistic on their own sense, carefully choosing words that would best describe their feelings, sentiments, wishes, desires, and everything.

Basically, blogs were first introduced as weblogs that refer to a
“server’s log file.” It was created when web logging hit the virtual market. Since its inception in the mid-1990s, web logging gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a viable source of greater information.

However, with web logging, you still need a web site and domain names, but with blogging, you do not need anything just an account with blog providers. In most cases, these kinds of blogs are free of charge.

With the onset of blogging in the industry, personal journaling had been a common ground for people who wish to be known all over the world. However, not literally famous as this is not a case on being popular or well-known personality.

Generally, blogs are created for personal use. Like a journal, people can write their daily adventures, sentiments, and whatever ideas they want to express online.

Nevertheless, with the advent of the online businesses, blogs had gradually taken the limelight in providing businesses a chance to boost their productivity online. This is where the business blogs have taken the limelight.

Business blogs are, basically, created to advertise the services or products of a certain web site or online business in order to increase online sales.

Moreover, business blogs are also one way of promoting the company so that the other readers will know that a certain company exists online. With blogs, entrepreneurs are able to establish a name in the virtual market through articles that can be very useful in the reader’s life.

From there, you can make money out of blogs by simply syndicating it to your business’ web site. This can be done through the RSS technology.

So, if you are thinking to create a blog, whether for business or for pleasure, you need to know some tips that could help you get through and make your blog one of the interesting blogs online.

Here’s how:

1. Consider your audience

Even if your blog is generally personal, still, it would be better to consider the minds of your readers. You have to think of something that would interest them.

After all, most of the reasons of people who write blogs are not at all confined to their own personal motives. Most of them would love to be “heard” (or read) and would love to be known, in some way or another, even for just a minute. Hence, it is very important to come with a write up that everybody can understand, not necessarily that these people can relate to it but they can understand it.

2. Pictures speaks a thousand words

To make your blogging worth the browsing effort of your readers, it would be extremely nice if you will put some pictures in it. It does not necessarily mean you have to place a picture of yourself. Any photographs will do as long as it does not pose danger or insult to anyone who will be reading your blog.

3. Make constructive and beneficial blogs

Even if you are free to write anything you want to say to the world, still, it would be better to create some write-ups that would be beneficial to your readers.

After all, its information technology that you have there so better be inclined to provide information rather than sheer quirky entertainment.

4. Avoid making multifaceted and complecated blogs

In order to have an interesting blogs, try not to use some highly technical and highfalutin words. After all, it is
not a science discourse or a debate that you are making, so better stick to simple facts and short blogs.

Bear in mind that most people who use the Internet usually do more scanning than scrutinizing each site word for word. Therefore, it would be better to come with blogs that will not bore your readers just because you have these lengthy articles.

5. Make it interactive

As much as possible and if your capacity will allow it, make your blog interactive. Yu can do this by placing some video or audio clips in your blog.

You can even place an area for comments or for some feedbacks. In this way, you can get some impressions or reactions of other people. Who knows, you might even gain some friends just by making them feel at home in your blog site.

Indeed, blogs are not created just for the mere fun of it. It also has its own purpose in the world of the Internet.
Therefore, for people who wish to harness their craft, as far as writing is concerned, blogs are the best way to do it.

As they say, blogging is the contemporary term of creative and commercial writing.