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Setting Up Your Own Blog - As Easy As 1-2-3

Posted by Online Marketing on Monday, April 23, 2012

By Hannah S. Thompson


Starting your very own blog is a terrific way to pull in money through AdSense or affiliate programs and can also be a great choice for branding your own business products. Yet, the majority of people are not familiar with the process of creating a blog and monetizing it successfully. This article will show you how to easily put up a blog and get started on driving traffic to it.

You have two alternatives when it involves making money from a blog. One alternative is to buy a domain name and put up the blog on a website that belongs to you. Your second alternative is to get a free account on blogger.com, as they will give your permission to add Adsense and promote affiliate programs from this blog. Then again, do not set up a free blog at Wordpress.com if you want to make money from affiliate products since they will cancel your account. Still, you can always create a WordPress blog directly on your own hosting if you like that option.

If you choose to have your own domain, you will find that there is a program set up in your cPanel that will let you automatically set up a WordPress blog on your own web site. This choice is better so that you build up your individual site and not something that is owned and controlled by Google. Go with the free option for starters though if money is tight and you are not able to afford hosting and a domain name.

Once you decide how you want to get started, you will then be able to add Adsense to your blog and start blogging about many affiliate programs. Try to begin blogs that focus on subjects you love so you will not have any issues adding posts daily. This is crucial to improving your search engine ranking for that particular blog. Be sure to avoid being pushy when it involves your affiliate promotions. Tell visitors what the product can do for them and leave a link for the product, but never, ever try to push people into ordering since you will end up just pushing them away from your blog.

It's imperative that you promote each and every blog post as well. An effective method of doing this is with article marketing by building links to individual blog posts, or you can use social bookmarking to do your linking. Over time, you will be able to present yourself as an expert in your chosen subject, and this will help to establish credibility for the products you advertise. You will soon have your very own profitable blog if you take the time to execute these simple steps.




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