Make Money Online Writing Articles
There are a number of ways to make money online without a needing your own expensive web server or even registering a single domain name. In this article we will discuss how you can blog your way to big bucks without spending a single dime to get started.
Blogging is a fast, graphical way to quickly post information on the web that you update very regularly with new information about your specific subject(s). Visitors can comment on your posts for others to see, which provides a social aspect for others to interact. You can place advertising on your blog, provided automatically by Google or many other companies, and get paid whenever anyone clicks on one of those ads. You can also use a blog to sell products as an affiliate. Affiliates get a commission, determined by the product owner, for each sale that is generated as a result of one of your visitors buying the product. If you already have a product or service idea, you can start a blog to promote the different aspects of what you can/will offer.
LiveJournal and Blogger are two free sites where you can quickly and easily set up your own blog.
Pick a broad market that you are familiar with as the general topic for your blog. Every few days add another post on your blog that contains keywords that relate to your topic.
The next step, is to get people to read your blog and hopefully click on your paid ads, or buy the products you are promoting as an affiliate.
This is one very powerful tip that may not be immediately obvious to a new blogger and many overlook, which leads them wondering why nobody ever reads their blog.
You need to ping your blog after you publish a post, by using Pigoat or Ping-O-Matic.
Pinging your blog is an important concept to grasp. When you update your blog, by pinging one of the two services (don’t over ping the services, they can ban your IP Address) immediately after you have updated your blog, the search engines will come rushing to your site eager to gobble up and index your new content, which is one factor that gets your site ranked very quickly for the keyword phrases that are contained within your website.
If you find or decide to pay a host for your own wordpress site, you can find the automatic pinging option under Options -> writing. Typically Ping-O-Matic will be listed by default. However, I have found that Pingot pings other, different services, that just might bring traffic to your site. You will want to test which works best for you. There are also many many other sites you can ping, which is considered an advanced topic and out of the scope of this article.
Another powerful tactic is to write articles on your specific topic and distribute those articles to online directories. Ezinearticles and GoArticles are two directories which are currently favored by Google. The best part of submitting unique articles to online directories, is you get a one-way link back to your website in the ‘about the author’ section of the article. So, not only do online directories provide you with the potential for visitors to your websites they also help you rank higher by linking to your website.
With a little bit of research to develop your specific make money online strategy, you too can begin to make money online by blogging about those topics you are interested in.