Make money with own blog

Blog or weblog is simply a website with frequent and continuous updates on a particular subject or topic and the latest blog post usually appears on the top. Blog is often used by people as their personal online diary. The content of your blog can be anything (except those illegal and unethical content) as there are no clear rules of what should write on blog. You can blog for your interest, post news or provide educational resources and advice if you are an expert at something.

Blogger.com is one of the top sites that allows anyone to create a free blog (free domain name and hosting) without any technical knowledge. There are only several easy steps to follow in creating a blog:

1) Sign up for an account.
2) Name your blog.
3) Select a professional template.
4) Make your first post.
5) Publish your blog.

There are several ways to make money with a blog. Here's how:

Become a Google AdSense publisher
You can become an AdSense publisher by joining Google AdSense program and start earning advertising revenue from your blog. It is not difficult to set up you AdSense campaign on your blog as Blogger.com also provides Adsense tool and guidances to help you start an AdSense campaign. This can be a great source of income, though of course the revenue you can expect from your AdSense ads will depend on the amount of traffic (visitors) to your blog.

Sell Other People's Stuff
You can promote your affiliate programs by placing the affiliate links and banners on your blog and earn commission whenever someone clicks through your affiliate link or banner to your merchant's website purchases an item. You can also write a review for your affiliate product.

Sell Your Own Product
Blog can be used to promote and sell your own products too. You can write about your products' features and benefits. Discribe how your products are different from others.

Drive Visitors to You Blog
To make money you need to drive visitors or traffic to your blog. The more traffic you're getting the higher your earning will be. There are several free and paid ways of getting traffic to your blog. Here's how ......

Free method
1) Introduce your blog to your family and friends.
2) Submit your blog to directories. You can find a list of blog directories by going to Google and entering the search term 'submit blog url'.
3) Write an article or more with a link to your blog and submit it to article directories. You can find a list of article directories by going to Google and entering the search term 'article directory'.
4) Post messages on community forums with a link to your blog on the signature of each message posted.

Paid method
1) Advertise your blog on Pay-per-click (PPC) search engines.
2) Announce your new blog by posting a press release to news websites.

There are other ways (free and paid) to increase traffic for your blog. You can find a lot of free information and resources about blog promotion from search engines.