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6 more
free steps to making money online
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>> If
you read my previous article you will know that the goal
of these articles is to teach you ways to get started
making money online without having to spend any money.
This is the second in the series and this time we deal
with having your own blog. There are endless ways of
making money once you have traffic, and your blog will
get you traffic. The income we will be looking at today
will come from Google Adsense.
There are multiple benefits to having a blog including
the low cost (or no cost), the resources that will help
you get traffic to your blog and the fact that you can
provide your blog as an RSS feed. An RSS feed will allow
readers to automatically receive your updates into their
RSS reader.
Let's get started with our 6 steps.
1. Set up your blog. You will need to decide what you
are going to blog about. You should decide on a theme
and name your blog appropriately.
There are a number of free ways to set up a blog & to
have it hosted for free. We will go with Blogger.com for
our first blog.
Blogger will allow you to set up a blog for free they
will host it for free and they will ping search engines
every time you update, meaning you will get spidered &
found.
Visit blogger.com & click the button on the front page
labelled 'create your blog now' then follow the step by
step instructions that Blogger provide.
Some key settings you will want to get right are:
I) 'Host your blog at Blogger' = Yes
II) 'Add your blog to our listings' = Yes
III) 'Ping Weblogs.com' = Yes
IV) 'Publish Site Feed' = Yes
2. Write some content. Before we move any further there
has to be some information on the site & that means that
you have to make some entries. You can write some of
these entries yourself & some can be quotes from sites
of interest to your reader that you can post using the
Google Toolbar.
You can download the Google toolbar for free at
toolbar.google.com. The toolbar includes a Blogger
button. When you visit a site that has something of
interest to your readers you can highlight the
appropriate text & click the Blogger button. The content
will then be added to your blog along with a link back
to the site.
3. Once you have some content eg a weeks worth of
blogging with 1 or 2 entries for everyday, you can apply
for an adsense account. When you sign in to Blogger you
will see an invitation to join Adsense. Use this link
and apply for an account.
You can find out all about Adsense on the Adsense page
but basically you get Google ads on your site & get paid
if your visitor clicks them.
Google will decide what adverts show on your site based
on the content it finds within.
You need to be aware that Google will decline your
application if your site is not considered to have
content. Nobody outside of Google knows the precise
rules on this.
Once you have been accepted you can get some javascript
from Google to add to you site. Copy this & then log in
to Blogger.
Once you have logged into your blog you will see that
one of the tabs across the top of the screen is labelled
'Template'. Click this. You will need to know a little
bit of HTML to help find the right location to paste
your Google code. But with a little experimentation you
will find the right place for you. See the resource box
at the end of this article for more help.
I would suggest that the ads need to be seen when the
site loads but should not be too obvious or dominate
your site.
4. Write some more content. Try and keep your content
coming at regular intervals as a number of directories
will check on your site at regular intervals & the
smarter ones will visit on a schedule based on your
update schedule. They will probably determine this in
the hours after you first submit to them. Which is what
we will do next.
5. Submit your site to Blog & RSS directories. Because
you are hosting at Blogger, Weblogs.com will already be
notified when you update your blog. (That means that
every time you make a new entry they are automatically
notified) You will need to manually submit to the
various other directories some of which will require a
link on your site to theirs.
You can add these links to your template below your
Blogger logo. For a list of directories to get you
started visit www.themoneyseed.com/rss
6. Keep writing interesting content. Ideally you want
people to come back again and again. As with customers
its harder to get a new visitor than to keep existing
visitors. So make it interesting, in fact make it so
interesting that they can't help but tell all their
friends about it also.
As with most free ways to make money this will take time
to get going, but if you can build a following you will
make money. << |
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