Blogging versus Freelance Writing part1

Blogging versus Freelance Writing As more and more people start using the internet more and more, there is tremendous amount of material to be written on the web. Not surprisingly there are several opportunities for good writers where they can make money online on a per writing assignment basis. These writing opportunities are sometimes called freelance writing jobs and the person who writes articles for others to make money is sometimes called a freelancer. Although you can make money online by freelancing as well as blogging, there are some marked differences, disadvantages and advantages of both which are summarized below.

Make Money Online with Squidoo

Make Money using Squidoo - a combination of blogging and Freelance writing.


Making money by writing with Squidoo is again similar to making money with Hubpages or eHow with some more differences that I will point out. The revenue sharing on Squidoo is 50-50 and you can read more about it on Squidoo FAQ. The main additional difference is that on Squidoo you can write posts which have adult content. This is perhaps the best site to write such articles and make money online. You get paid by paypal and the compensation depends on how well your articles are doing, measured by a lens score.

For non-adult articles, Hubpages seems to be more efficient to attracting traffic. You can however sign up on both and see what works out best for you.

Make Money Online with eHow

Make Money Online with eHow - a combination of blogging and Freelance writing.


EHow works like hubpages. You write articles on eHow and you get paid. However there are some key differences. On eHow you can only write articles which are of the type "How to" do some particular thing. For e.g. you can write an article dealing with "How to save money", but the title of your article cannot be "Best Savings Account to save money". The format of articles is also restrictive and you cannot use eHow as SEO for other sites. You get paid by paypal and the formula for compensation you recieve is not clear. However if you can write good "How to" articles, it is possible to make good money from eHow. Some say the money you can make online by using eHow is sometimes more than what you can make from Hubpages or Squidoo. One great strategy would be to open an account with eHow as well as Hubpages and use Hubpages to boost SEO ranking of your eHow articles.

Make Money Online with HubPages

Make Money using HubPages - a combination of blogging and Freelance writing.


Hubpages is a great place for 'casual writers' who love to write and also don't mind making some money on the way. This is like a freelance writing job, only the money you make is variable, depending solely on the quality of articles you write. Articles you write on Hubpages are called Hubs. From the hours I have spent reading about hubpages, i believe that if you write say 100 quality hubs, you can expect an income of somewhere between $20 to $200 per month, depending of course on the quality of your hubs. Let me quickly point out some features of hubpages which might interest you. Continue reading or Take a tour of hubpages.

1. Using Hubpages for traffic and SEO reasons - This has already been discussed. If you have a blog, which is your primary publishing platform and primary source of making money online, you can write 200-300 word articles on hubpages and place one or two links in each of those articles pointing towards your blog articles. This will help you to drive some traffic from hubpages to your blog and may also be useful for SEO reasons. It would be a good idea if you can make sure that the articles on hubpages are independently interesting on their own.
2. Enjoyable experience : If you are looking for earning income by freelance writing, then you will enjoy your experience on hubpages. Especially creating hubs, putting images, and all that is quite user friendly.
3. Variety of Options to make money online: By writing hubs you have a variety of different ways to earn money online from the articles you have written. You can display Google Ads, sell Amazon and Ebay products, make money with Kontera in text ads, etc.

Visit Hubpages to find out more

Make Money from Home - Fulltime

Work from Home Full time - Risks, Strategies and Benefits.
Are you planning to make money from home full time? That is, quit your current job and be a full time blogger? Or may be not blogging, but make money from some other site? Working from home has its own perks and risks. The perks are obvious. You get to choose how you work, when you work, there is complete job satisfaction. Here are the risks that you will have to face if you plan to make money from home full time.

1. Kick-Start Risk: If you are planning to start a blog or a website, you may never manage to get enough traffic to make enough money for a living. This unfortunately does happen, and some of the reasons are mentioned in the section "Can you make a living by working from home?"
2. Competition Risk: Lets say even if you manage to make a blog or website and currently you ARE making a good amount of money from home. Even in this case, if your entire source of traffic is based on only a few keywords or pages, then you are vulnerable to the risk of competition. It can easily happen that as newer and better pages on that topic are created you lose your search engine ranknig and consequently lose traffic. In order to avoid such risks, you do not want to be in a situation where you rely on only a few pages of your blog or website for majority of the traffic and revenue.
3. Missed-Opportunity Risk: Your lethargy or lack of discipline or incurious mindset may avoid you from spotting new opportunities. If you never write a page on a topic, you never know how much traffic you have lost. This is a risk you face of missing the money making opportunities around you.

In any case, you are the best person who can decide whether or not you are ready to make money from home full time.

Here is a list of ideas you can follow in order to maximize your chances of success. This list is based on observing some very successful bloggers who make their living by working full time from home.

1. Don't just build a blog - Build a website (on one single domain) which has a blog, a forum and some information or resource pages.
2. Build a Glossary or small Encyclopedia: It is advisable to build a comprehensive glossary of the terms that you will be dealing with on your site. For example if you have a finance related site, then you would want to build a glossary where you explain terms like mutual funds, tax deduction, market derivatives, etc. - one term on one page where you also include an image, an external link and a complete information. The idea is that whenever you use a term in your site or blog, you link it to the page on your glossary. This is useful for your readers, it is also more likely that the readers will click on an ad on the glossary page and these numerous internal links that you will have on your page will also help SEO.
3. Learn to interact with people: Building a successful website is not just about writing pages after pages. It is also about dealing with several other people including your visitors, advertisers, and other fellow bloggers or even your competitors. You will have to make efforts to improve your skills of dealing with people. Start early and never miss opportunities to communicate with people or offer help.

Apart from these you will have to follow the general guidelines of building numerous high quality pages. Remember that although the main perks of making money from home are flexible and relaxed working hours, these perks are only visible once your website kick starts. In the initial few months or maybe a year, you will have to work hard, maybe over 5 hours a day until you get a few thousand visitors and signs of a decent income. You should allow at least one year of time for getting your make money from home project running in full swing.

There are many ways in which you can make money from home. Apart from blogging for money, the following income opportunities seem to be popular.

1. Making money online from home by participating in paid surveys.
2. Making money by finding online data entry jobs which allow you to work from home.
3. Making money by freelance writing.
4. Making money from home by blogging.

However writing a blog or maintaining a website seems to be the best way to make money from home - if you succeed in it of course.

The Art of writing an Article

The Art of writing an Article
If you master the art of writing useful articles you will make a lot of money online from your blogging activities. Let me give you some specific tips in order to writing 'successful blog articles' which will bring you a lot of blog traffic. These are a result of my own experimenting and experience.

• Choosing the Title / Topic of your Blog Article: You article should be a blog post focussed on one or a group of related keywords. One to three of those keywords should appear in your title. In order to choose the best keyword for title and sprinkling throughout your blog post, use Google Insights to get an idea for what people search. For example, if i want to write a blog post on Home Loan, there are some similar sounding keywords - Home Loan, Home Mortgage, Housing Loan, etc. After using Google Insights I find the following - The queries for Home loan and home mortgage are much more than those for housing loan or house loan. So it is better to home loan/ mortgage in the title and in most of your blog article.
  Get the idea? Also remember to select the country and other specifics of audience you are planning to target while using Google Insights.
  
• Try to give complete information related to that group of keywords: When you complete writing your blog post, ask yourself the question - if a person lands up on your blog post by google search, will he/she find what they are looking for? Whatever keyword or keywords you have in mind for that blog post, have you supplied complete information? This is important for making your blog visitors stay on your blog for a longer time.
• Provide related and meaningful external links : Try to link to top external web pages on related topic. This will be good for your visitors and also good for your rankings too.
• Update your best blog posts - You will have some blog posts which will attract good blog traffic. It is important to keep the information in that blog post up to date. It is useful to use sitemeter to track what your visitors come looking for and then see if your blog post actually has information useful for them. Monitoring what keywords your blog visitors use to arrive at your blog post can also be useful for getting ideas to write further posts.

Get Paid to Blog - Earn upto $1000 pm

Get Paid to Blog - Make Money Online by writing Paid Blog Reviews

For a new blogger, perhaps no other income is as exciting as directly getting paid for writing a blog post. You can actually earn between $1 to $20 (realistically, sometimes even more) for writing a 200 or 300 page blog review of an advertisers product or service or website. It is actually possible to make anywhere between $100 to $750 per month (depending on how often you write and the quality of your site, etc.). Here are three main Paid Blogging networks where you can find opportunities to get paid to blog.

1. Pay Per Post - The biggest and perhaps the best such site with plenty of opportunities. On their website they claim that you can find income opportunities for your blog and make $500 per month or more.
2. Sponsored Reviews - Maybe the second best. Lesser opportunities, but still good paying ones.
3. Buy Blog Reviews - Low paying opportunities, but still worth joining.

Sign up on all three of them. You can find more such paid blogging networks on my previous blog post - Get Paid to Blog where you will also find more details on payment options about the above site, etc.

Make Money Online using Affiliate Programs

Make Money Online using Affiliate Programs Affiliate or Referral advertisements allow you to earn money or commission if website or blog visitors click the affiliate link and make a purchase, or join a newsletter, or perform any other action as prescribed by the advertiser. If properly used, and also depending on the type of your blog, affiliate programs can one of your best source of online income from your blog. Let me give you a concrete example of how money is made using affiliate links.
Example: The following link is an affiliate link or referral ad for them.
Quality Web hosting - Unlimited Bandwidth & Storage - Only $4.95.
If you click on the above affiliate link and make a purchase, then I make money in the form of commission. If you click but do not make a purchase, then I do not make money at all.

Affiliate programs allow bloggers to make income on basis of Cost Per Action (CPA), which means you get a specified amount of money if your blog visitor performs a specified action which can be anything like purchase, signing up a newsletter, etc.

A good affiliate income is a sign of a healthy blog. Although in the initial stages of your make money online project, it maybe a bit difficult to earn from affiliate links on your blog, you must keep it as your medium term goal to achieve success with earning money from Affiliate programs.

How to start earning income from your blog using affiliate programs?
There are two ways to enroll in affiliate programs and start . Either you directly search for suitable affiliates one by one or you join a affiliate marketing network or referral programs network like Commission Junction where you can find hundreds of affiliate programs to enroll at one place. The following are some popular affiliate marketing networks (there are several others)

1. Commission Junction
2. Market Leverage
3. DGMPro (affiliate programs for those in U.K., Australia, India and Asia Pacific)

My personal experience is that for small blogs (like this one) it is a bit difficult to make money online from affiliate programs. For example, although I have displayed and tried several affiliate ads on my blog, my income from them is practically zero. If your blog or website traffic is less than 100 visitors per day, it is unlikely you will make a lot of revenue with affiliate programs. In that case I would first recommend you to focus on traffic building and earning money online with Google Adsense in the meantime. After you take your blog traffic to the next level, say 1000 per day, it would be a good time to take the idea of making money with affiliate programs or referral advertisements seriously. If you are a new blogger, just bookmark this section and visit later after you work on your blog traffic.

Make Money blogging using Google Ads - Adsense Optimization part3

Adsense Heat Map

It is important to think like a blog-visitor when you place ads. Try these recommended ad placements and then test them using custom channels. You may also want to have a look at where I have placed the ads on this page. There is large rectangle right at the beginning of the blog post, mainly for those visitors who do not stay for long on the page. There is a wide skyscraper at the right, aimed for those who leave the blog reading a post halfway. And then there is a large rectangle at the bottom of each blog post. For me this combination works quite well. It took me a series of tests spread over 2 months to find what works best. Remember placing ads will not repel your visitors or reduce your blog traffic. In fact as Google puts it, the ads are so targeted that some of them may actually useful for your visitors.

Adsense Tip: When you create custom channel and test ad performance, allow at least one week for each test. In my experience the income generated from very new ad units is usually less and thus in the first couple of days, the test results can be lower than what they should be.

Make Money blogging using Google Ads - Adsense Optimization part2

	The thumb rule is that bigger Adsense ad units work better. A wide skyscraper is better than a thin skyscraper, a large rectangle is better than a medium one and so on. Try putting a large rectangle just at the bottom of your blog post. Read more about this on Adsense Optimization I.

It is important to place the ads near the content. Ads placed far away usually have lower CTR (Click through rate) simply because your blog visitors will not notice these ads. Watch this video and then see the heat map below for some recommended ad placements. Read more about this point on Adsense Optimization III.

It is usually found that ads on a 'uncluttered' and clean blog work much better than those on a highly cluttered one. Also choose ad colours which complement the layout of your site. Dont try too hard to attract the attention of your visitors by using gaudy colors. Read more about this on Adsense Optimization II.

Make Money blogging using Google Ads - Adsense Optimization part1

Displaying Google Ads on your blog is perhaps the best way of earning income from your blog, especially when you are a new blogger. It is for this reason that you should never ever mess up with Google Adsense TOC because a blogger who is banned by Google from the Adsense program is banned forever. Now lets talk about Adsense Optimization - how to find the best configuration of Google Ad formats, color patterns and ad placements in order to maximize your bloggging money.

It is the experience of several bloggers (including me) that tweeking the position, type and format of your Adsense ads and finding the right combination can virtually double or triple the money you make from adsense. There are three questions that need to be addressed:

1. Which ad formats to use for maximizing income?
2. Where to place Google Adsense Ads?
3. How to test the performance of your Google Adsense ad units?

The answer to the third question is easy - Adsense Custom Channels. I strongly recommend you start using Custom Channels right away, because without them it is not possible to fine tune your ad placement and formats to optimize your blogging money.

There is no magical answer to the first two question that suits all. For example: on some blogs Leaderboards work well, on my it does not. However the most common ad formats are 300x250 medium rectangle, 336x280 large rectangle, 160x600 wide skyscraper and 728x90 leaderboard. You must find out what works well on your blog and it may take a month or so to find the most efficient combination. Here are some Adsense videos from Inside Adsense which explain some of the basics of Adsense Optimization. If you haven't already, watch all three of these videos.

learn Basics of SEO techniques and Page Rank

Basics of SEO techniques and Page Rank
SEO techniques or Search Engine Optimization techniques are those which you can use to improve your search engine rankings. Even improving your ranking for a particular keyword or querry from say position 8 to position 1 can literally triple the traffic to your website or blog. Thus SEO is extremeley important. Before understanding the basics of SEO, you have to understand how search engines work. Well, the exact criterion and formula is a secret, but roughly, search engines like Google decide the ranking of a particular page based on the following three criterion.

1. What other websites think about your site – this takes into account other pages which link to your page, the quality of those pages, the anchor text used to link to your page and all that jazz. This can be summarized in just one number – your page rank. Getting more pages from other domains to point towards your page can increase your page rank.
2. What the Search Engine Robots or Crawlers think about your site – this takes into account the keywords appearing in your page, the keyword density and the relevance of the appearing keywords with the search query.
3. What your site visitors think about your page – this takes into account the visitor behavior for example how often do visitors press the back button on their browser immediately after visiting your site. If most visitors to your site find that it is not useful at a first glance they will press the back button and submit query to the search engine again. This, eventually will damage your search engine ranking.

SEO TIP 1: Participate in blog carnivals, submit your articles to free-article-submission sites like Bestcashcow.com, or best way would be to write your own 200 to 300 page relevant articles on sites like Hubpages and yourself link to your articles on your blog. One or two links per article on Hubpages pointing towards your blog is allowed. Don't be too fussy about page rank though. It is clear that nowadays page rank has less and less to do with search engine ranking.

The following is an interesting video about page rank.

SEO TIP 2: Having the right keywords and keyword density can improve your chances of search engine ranking, but dont take this too literally. Believe me there are several examples of web pages which have rank one but repeat the main keyword only twice or thrice in their page. In any case, if you overdo it and repeat a keyword too many times, Google or other search engines may consider it as a spam. Keywords are important. Learn to use them naturally and throughout your blog post, without overdoing it.

SEO TIP 3: Visitor behavior is the most important thing that will determine your search engine ranking in the long run. It is important that you try to keep your visitors on your blog for as long as you can by providing information they need, other external useful links, etc. Keep your blog clean and tidy so that visitors are not repelled instantly by watching the enormous amount of irrelevant content and links on a page. Write articles for human beings first, search engines later. More about this in 'The art of writing an article'.

SEO TIP 4: Develop the habit of putting internal links (at least two or three links to your own previous articles on related topic). Internal links and the content of those pages has role to play in Search Engine ranking.

SEO TIP 5: Try to include relevant (not junk) images and videos if possible. Also whenever you include an image describe it using a short keyword or phrase in the ALT tab of the image.

Different ways to monetize your blog

Monetizing your Blog or Blogspot


There are several ways to make money blogging. A blogger's goal should be to diversify his/her blogging income and try to make money from as many different sources as possible. This is especially important if you are planning to work full time from home and are going to be heavily dependent on your blog income. It is always good not to put all your eggs in one basket. Here is a list of ways in which you can monetize your blog.

1. Monetizing your blog by displaying Google Adsense Ads. - This is the best way to make money online for relatively new bloggers. For me this is the most important source of blogging income. Take adsense very seriously, at least until other revenue options open. Also, do not forget to monetize your blog feed. GoogleAdsense is discussed in detailed in the section 'Google Adsense Optimization'.
2. Monetizing your Blog by writing paid blog reviews - There are several opportunities where you can get paid by paypal for writing reviews of products or websites of advertisers. This can be the second best source of income for new bloggers. Once you have a decent blog with over 50 blog posts or so, (or maybe even less will do, try) apply to paid blogging networks like Pay Per Post. Other details are discussed in the section 'Get Paid to Blog'.
3. Monetizing your Blog by Affiliate programs - Affiliate programs allow you earn money per action (Cost Per Action or CPA). Although new bloggers will struggle to make good blogging income from affiliate programs, later on you should try to diversify your income and make money using referral or affiliate ads. Details in the section 'Make Money using Affiliate programs'.
4. Monetizing you Blog by directly selling Flat rate Ads - This is one of the best source of blogging income, since it is stable and independent of variations in your blog traffic. When the time is right, advertisers will themselves contact you after they come across your blog. This maybe a difficult money making option for new bloggers.

new learn Step by Step Guide for beginners

new learn  Step by Step Guide for beginners

This is a step by step guide for those who want to make money online from blogging. It is a result of my own experience and it is what I would do if I had to start with a new blog once again.

Step 1: Choose a Blog Topic - This is one of the most crucial decisions a blogger has to make. I will only say the following two things:

• Choose a blog topic about which you have above average knowledge, or at the very least, above average interest.
• Choose a blog topic withing your interest area which is as general as possible. For example: instead of starting a blog about weight loss ideas, it would be much better to start a blog on a much more general topic : Health and Fitness. Get the idea? Believe me, this is very important. The reason for choosing a general blog topic is simple - you have a larger audience to target and this increases your chances. To give my own example, Investo Blog was first started as a blog for trading nifty futures (hence the url niftyprediction.blogspot.com). However later on i realized that by generalizing the blog topic to include everything related to money I would be able to get a lot more blog traffic.

Step 2: You have to develop a weekly routine. Decide how much time you can spend every week for blogging and related online activities. Since most of us have full time jobs, it may not be possible to blog everyday. For those of you who are serious about making money I recommend writing at least 3 to 5 blog posts per week, (daily one blog post or more would be awesome!). At least one of the blog post you write every week must be high quality. By high quality i mean one which has lot of content (say at least 1000 words or so) and which is on a topic which people search a lot. Include relevant images and videos in your quality blog posts.

Step 3: Submit your quality blog posts to Blog Carnivals. Submitting blog posts to carnivals is extremely easy and it can bring valuable blog traffic and help improve your page rank. Following these small tiny steps will have a tremendous positive impact on the amount of money you will make online from blogging.

Step 4: After you have about 20-25 articles in your blog, I recommend that you apply and open the following accounts:

1. Paypal Account - This is what you will need for receiving money from paid blogging networks or various other online sources. If you have regular visitors who admire your blog, you can also add a "Make a Donation" button on your blog using Paypal. I myself however, have never managed to make money online by donations to my blog.
2. Google Adsense Account: This will be your first sources of online blogging income. Apply for an adsense account and then come back to the section of Adsense Optimization of this page and learn some tips to maximize your income from Google Ads. In some cases your adsense application may be rejected because your site is not 6 months old or some other criterion. Relax ! dont worry. My adsense application was rejected 5 times. It turned out i was using the wrong email address to apply. In any case if your adsense application is rejected, take the reasons seriously and then reapply at a suitable time.
3. Pay Per Post: This will be your second important source of online blogging income. Initially you may get only a dollar or two for each paid review. But later on as your page rank increases you will earn more and more. You may also apply for other paid blogging networks listed below. Read the section Get Paid to Blog to learn how to make money online from Pay per post and other paid blogging networks.
4. Hubpages: You can consider this optional, but it is useful for SEO and traffic reasons. Writing a one or two articles per week on hubpages and putting one link to your blog in each post. Remember as your page rank increases, so will your income from pay per post. Read more about how to make money online from Hubpages below.
5. SiteMeter or StatCounter: This or any other equivalent web counter is good enough. This will be important to study your blog traffic as discussed in the next step. As I have mentioned earlier, the amount of money you make blogging is directly proportional to your blog traffic. So putting a good hit counter can help you take your traffic seriously.

No more steps. After you complete the above steps, some real online action begins. By now, you must have at least 5 to 10 google visitors per day and maybe some more visitors from other sources. Install a decent web counter (one of the above two is my own preference) and start monitoring your traffic. Spend a couple of minutes every day studying your traffic. What keywords do people use to arrive at your blog, etc. You will know which blog posts attract traffic and which blog posts do not. Get ideas from this and continue with your weekly routine.

Step 5: After you finish about 100 blog posts and start getting about 50 to 100 blog visitors every day you may join some affiliate marketing networks and apply for Affiliate programs. It may be a bit too early for you to start making money from referral or affiliate ads, but you can try.

After this you are on your own and your can read different ways to monetize your blog mentioned below. I have found that it is good to set yourself targets - for example : write at least 10 blog posts in the coming two weeks, or develop at least two links per week using Hubpages or try hard to take blog traffic to so and so level by end of next month etc. Setting targets provides good motivation.

Can a blogger make a living from blogging income

Yes! absolutely. Or let me put it this way- the theoretical answer is Yes. There are several bloggers who are earning thousands of dollars per month more than a average decent paying job. BUT .... there is a very sour note to the above happy statement. The fact is that most of the bloggers hardly make enough money. I would say less than 10 in 100 bloggers who think they want to make a living from blogging income can actually manage to do so. The reason for this is complicated, and instead of digging into the reason, let me express my honest opinion. I think that

You Are Not ready to Make a living from your blogging income if

1. You do not have an above average knowledge about your blog topic.
2. You are absolutely ignorant about basics of html, javascript, css, or other web designing jargon.
3. You are blog is in English and your English is extremely poor.
4. You are not ready to take the search engine optimization seriously.

New Learn how to earn a lot of money blogging

How much money can a blogger earn from blogging?The answer to how much money do bloggers earn blogging depends on so many factors that there is no precise answer. However as an extremely crude an approximate guess I would say that a blog typically has the potential of earning between $2 to $20 per 1000 visitors. The money you make from your blog will be directly proportional to your blog traffic. So if you want to earn over $1000 per month, you have to build a blog which receives at least a couple of thousand hits per day. You may be interested in my earlier blog post on Blog Money, or a progress report of my Make Money Blog which deal with similar questions. The following image summarizes a survey of 'how much money to bloggers earn' by problogger in 2007. The results tell the story of how over hyped 'income from blogging' is.

Can a blogger make a living from blogging income?

Yes! absolutely. Or let me put it this way- the theoretical answer is Yes. There are several bloggers who are earning thousands of dollars per month more than a average decent paying job. BUT .... there is a very sour note to the above happy statement. The fact is that most of the bloggers hardly make enough money. I would say less than 10 in 100 bloggers who think they want to make a living from blogging income can actually manage to do so. The reason for this is complicated, and instead of digging into the reason, let me express my honest opinion. I think that

You Are Not ready to Make a living from your blogging income if

1. You do not have an above average knowledge about your blog topic.
2. You are absolutely ignorant about basics of html, javascript, css, or other web designing jargon.
3. You are blog is in English and your English is extremely poor.
4. You are not ready to take the search engine optimization seriously.

Introduction to earn money from blog

IntroductionThis is a detailed guide about how to make money online by writing a blog (for e.g. from this blogspot). As compared to other methods to make money from home like online data entry jobs or freelance writing, blogging for income is perhaps the most powerful method of making money online and at the same time having fun. Yes, making money from the internet, by sitting in front of your computer.

If you do not have a blog or a high traffic website and would like to build one, you may be interested in reading about Site Build It!.

When Investo Blog was started in August 2008 the intention was not to make money from my online activities. Since I had a full time enjoyable job, I had no intentions at all to make money from home by quitting my job. It was just a casual blogging attempt which to my surprise turned into an important income source. Now, after about 6 months of blogging, i earn over $1000 per month from my blog. That, for me is a already a significant amount of money, and especially since this entire blog income comes purely from my online activities. Based on past traffic patterns, it is my guess, that I am only a couple of months away from achieving an income of $100 per day. Although, as compared to other bloggers, this is not a tremendous amount of money, what surprised me is that it is possible to achieve this level of income in less than a year.

Stunning discovery: I have recently discovered that the income I get by displaying Adsense and Chitika together is significantly more than my Adsense income alone. Thank you Chitika !. If you have visitors from U.S and Canada who come directly from Google or Yahoo, I strongly recommend you try Chitika (place it right above the title or below the post title). However only quality blogs are accepted by Chitika. Be sure to boast about your blog when you apply. More info on Chitika.

I would like to however caution every new blogger that merely writing a blog does not guarantee that you will make money online. There are some bloggers who earn a lot of money, well over $15000 per month while majority of bloggers barely manage to make $10 per month from the totality of their online activities including blogging. Have you wondered why some bloggers make thousands while others barely cents? Read this guide in detail if you want to find out why this happens and what you as a blogger can do more to make money efficiently from your blogging and related online activities.

Few Easy Ways To Make Money Online

Some Easy Ways To Make Money Using Nothing More Than Your List

An opt-in list can be quite crucial to any site or internet based company. Even for a small venture such as a niche profit site an opt-in list can make a world of difference & also add some extra income for your pocket. Rarely would you see an e-commerce site, big or small, that is without an opt-in list. An opt-in list allows for a company to market their wares & site via an e-mail.
With an opt-in list, a site and a subscriber consents to sending and receiving a newsletter from your company. Through this, you can keep your subscribers abreast of what is currently available in your site as well as whatever is coming out. And because there is mutual consent between the two parties, any mail sent to the list is not considered as spam mail. There is a great number of successfully read promotional materials such as catalogs, newsletters and such that are sent because the subscribers themselves have signed up for them, meaning, they do want to be sent those items. Building a list is crucial, only a small percentage actually subscribes for an opt-in list. Many people find promotional mails annoying but of you provide a good newsletter or promotional material, you will see your list build up and grow. You can also achieve this by having good content on your site. If people like what they see & read on your site, then they surely would want more. Newsletters would be a way to attract them back to your site. A little teaser or appetizer if you will.

But other than marketing your wares & your services, an opt-in list can also be used to make extra money. Not all lists can be used though. It would be good to first build a successful list with a huge number of subscribers. The more subscribers you have, the more money you can get. Here are seven ways to make money easy using nothing more than your list.

1) Have affiliations with other companies that have at least a semblance or relation to what your site is about. Here other companies will provide links & brief descriptions of what they offer, products & services. With every click made on the link that directs or leads a subscriber from your list to their site, the company will pay you. This P4P or pay for performance.

2) Place advertisements. There are many corporations who will be willing to pay to put their banners & ads on a list with many subscribers. Selling or renting out lists is not a good idea so rather than doing that, many companies would just rather place ads with lists that have a huge subscriber base. Your newsletter could be placed with many ads & each one spells money.

3) Make deals with other companies by asking for a small percentage of sales done through your list. With every sale done by customers that have come from your list & have gone there because of your newsletter, the other company will pay you a small percentage of your sales. The more people who buys from them, the more earnings you get.

4) Sell e-books or a compilation of your articles on your list. Manuals and how-to articles are in great demand. Many people will be willing to shell out money to gain knowledge about a certain topic & subject. With your existing list trusting your expertise in that area, an e-book could be offered & sold or used as an incentive.

5) You may also get products from other sites on a consignment basis and sell them to your list via your newsletter. Place descriptions, articles & photos of the product in your newsletter. There will be those who will buy from you and when that happens, you can order the product from the other site & sell it to your buyer.

6) Create a network out of your list. Get people to invite more people to view your site and subscribe to your list. The larger your list is, the more people will be able to click on your links and affiliate links as well as make your advertisement rates higher.

7) Subscribers are willing to pay for information if they know that it can be trusted & relied upon. Use your list to get more and more people to subscribe to you as well as browse your site. Lastly, you can use your list to make money easy by making them your partners. Your list will be the bloodline of your growth and increase. Above are easy ways to make money at home

Children new ways to make money

When you hear the term "blogger" do you think of yourself? If you're like many people then you might find the idea intimidating! While most people enjoy reading blogs, there are few people who think they can become bloggers themselves. It's time to put that thinking aside because anyone can run a successful blog!

 One of the major hang-ups is

that some people don't like to write. If you find this is a problem for you, it can feel like getting your blog started is hopeless. The good news is that you don't have to be Mark Twain to write good content. People care less about how you say it and more about what you're actually saying.

It also helps that content is generally expected to be short and to the point on the web. People are so busy these days that breaking your text into small paragraphs & bullet points is ideal. That makes your life easier as well!

Another hang-up you might have is that you don't consider yourself to be an expert on any one topic. Once again, you can easily overcome this. The way that people go from being in the dark to being an expert is by researching! Research your topic and start writing about it and you'll be an expert soon enough.

Now that you know you CAN start your own blog, it's helpful to know how you can cash in! Basically, people are always looking for information on the web. There are also always people who are buying things online. You're going to attract people with the things you write, and set your blog up so that you can entice them to buy things they are interested in. It's a great way to make money!

Your first step needs to be picking a topic that will be a good money-maker for you. Look to see if there are ads and products readily available. You should also try to narrow your topic down so it's easier for people to find you. For example, instead of "weight loss" you might write about "weight loss for first time moms." Narrowing things down is helpful for you and your blog visitors!

After you've chosen your topic you will:

* Find a domain name

*Get hosting

* Do Keyword research

* Write Content* Monetize

That's a very simplified version of the steps you're going to take, but that's all there really is to it! Blogging is something that does take some time and effort, but it's also something that anyone can do. You can cut down your learning time a lot by looking to the blogging experts to learn their exact process. You can tweak things and make them your own from there!

After that, cashing in is just a matter of writing content, choosing the best monetization strategy, and watching the profits start to roll in. The best thin

g for you to do right now is to decide that you are going to become a blogger, and take action right away. Success is right at your fingertips

Earn money from blog

Best ideas to make extra money online is, work at home blog. There are a lot of free blog hosting providers over the internet. Blogger.com and Wordpress.org are good and famous blog hosting providers. When you register for free blog hosting you can post something which you interesting to that blog. You can continuously submit interesting post at your blogger. Also, you need to drive some site traffic to your blog. Then, people come to your blog and read the stories that you have already posted. Now you can place some Google Adsense and affiliate advertisements on your blog. While people read your post they will click on Google advertisements or they will want to buy some product or services that indicate on affiliate advertisements. Then, you will earn with this blog free and easy. There are a lot of kid, teens and moms make business blogs / website and make money with income blog

new Work Home Website

It is not easy finding a legitimate ways to make money. Most of jobs can be hard to trust. That is why we have to be carefully when we are going to start earn from the internet by joining a website. To avoid scamming sites, best thing is discuss with the internet community. For that you can use forums, blogs, social networks etc. After finding a good legitimate sites, avoid "request to pay for joining" sites. They can be the biggest scam sites. You can find some better programs at "makemoney.top-site-list.com"

Few Online And Offline Businesses

Are you ready to get income at home? But, you have no idea where to begin? OK. My suggestion is to do an online or offline business. Many businesses are available from the internet. For that you need a computer and internet connection. Spend few hours with your computer. You can be succeeded. Do one or more online/offline business which I have listed below.

1) Write an eBooks & sell it online.
2) Make money by Internet advertising.

3) Use Resume writing service.

4) Start Internet Research service.

5) Auctions - Sell on eBay & Other Internet Auctions

How to earn money from internet

Why, many people want to do legitimate work at home jobs? Everyone likes ,if they have freedom. We can use, most of online money earning program as part-time jobs. No need to report to bosses or managers. Just we need a computer and internet connection. What kind of things, can we do to earn money? There are several ways to collect income from the internet. As an example, we can do online surveys, paid posting, eBay business, affiliate marketing, selling advertising spaces & much more.

Learn internet marketing and affiliate programs

One of the most powerful work from home opportunity is Affiliate

Marketing. Sell other's products or services and get commission for the sold items is a simple explanation for Affiliate Marketing. Many people know about this program. Millions of Internet users earn by participating with this. If you hope to be a good merchandiser, you must have a blog or website to sell things. You can get best products for selling by registering at Commission Junction (cj.com), ClickBank (clickbank.com), LinkShare (linkshare.com) or Affiliate Window (affiliatewindow.com)

New learning to earn money from home-Article Marketing

Article marketing is a very famous and interesting income opportunities among the net users today. Not only elders, but also kids & teens earn money at home by selling their own articles to various places. We can see huge market for quality and interesting information written by the authors. After write a good article, you can submit it to some directories which sell your articles to their buyer and pay you for that. Also, you can sell it to blog or website owners. Many blog and site owners who need quality and unique contents to publish at their blog/site, waiting for good articles daily. So, if you are a good author, you can earn enough money by doing this at home