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7 Ways to Get Blogging for Money

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Blogging for money isn't particularly difficult any more. You don't have to be famous or even have huge traffic (although how much money you make from your blog will depend on both of these factors to some extent). Get blogging for money by using one or more of these seven ideas.
1. Blogging for money using advertising programs.
These are more advertising program options for blogging for money than ever before. Here are just four of the ever-expanding possibilities for making money from your blog by putting ads on your pages:
Besides placing ads on your blog pages themselves, there are also programs for RSS advertising such asPheedo.
2. Blogging for money using affiliate programs.
With affiliate marketing, a company agrees to pay you a commission for helping to sell their products. Visitors see the company's ad on your Web pages and, if they click through to the company's Website and do a particular thing, you'll get paid. The particular thing the visitor has to do varies; some affiliate programs pay per click while others pay per lead or even per sale. These are four of the biggest (and most established) affiliate programs on the 'Net that you can use for blogging for money:
3. Blogging for money via a company sponsorship.
Blog sponsorship is a growing trend as more businesses realize the popularity of blogging and the potential marketing reach of bloggers. Company sponsorship deals appear to range from obvious "advertising" blogs that are squarely focused on a company's product(s) through adding a company's name, logo and brand to an existing blog ("sponsored by...").
The main problem with this way of blogging for money is that you have to be known already (and have enough traffic) to attract sponsorship.
4. Get hired by a company to be blogging for money.
Many businesses would love to have blogs, but just don't have anyone currently on staff who has the time and the talent to put a blog together and keep it going. You could be the answer and make money from a blog in the process. The trick to landing such a gig is finding the businesses that want/need the services and persuading them that you're the blogger they need; diligent research and some cold calling will probably be needed unless you already have a high profile and a track record that will bring the businesses calling.
5. Freelance blogging for money.
Networks of blogs appear to be springing up all over the 'Net, some of which are looking for people to write blogs and are willing to pay for it. Payment models vary but a fixed monthly payment in exchange for a specified number of blog posts seems to be most common.
BloggerJobs.biz is one example of a website that specializes in posting blogging for money opportunities.
About.com's Freelance Writing site is a great place to look for freelance writing opportunities of all kinds, including blogging gigs. 10 Things to Know about Content Sites is a good article to read before you start reading through job postings.
6. Create a blog to advertise a specific product/service.
Blogs are fast becoming the trendy alternative to the classic salesletter site. In this case, the format is the only real change; the message is the same. Typically, the pitch is woven into as many blog entries as possible - or even used a tagline to every blog entry.
Jim Kukral's 99 Ways to Blog for Business blog is a good example of a blog designed to move a product (in this case, his strategy guide for creating blogs for businesses).
7. Blogging for money by selling intellectual property such as ebooks, telecourses or consulting services, through your blog.
This idea is closely related to the previous way of blogging for money. The difference is that in this case the intellectual property you're selling is just part of or incidental to the blog you're writing; it's not the raison d'etre for the blog. For instance, you might have a blog about beekeeping and be selling an ebook about how to build a mason bee house on your pages.
The Secret to Blogging for Money
No matter which blogging for money model you choose, or even if you choose a combination of ways to make money from your blog, there's still one secret to success; you need to be able to write well and engage your readers. That's how you build an audience, and of course, the bigger your audience, the bigger your chances to make some serious money blogging

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How to Make a Blog Button

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Answering more reader questions today…
Many people have asked me how to make their own blog button. This is the mother of all blog button tutorials (well, at least it felt that way when making it!!). Stick with me.
Update: Before you embark on your blog button-making journey, I highly recommend you read my two blog button tips. These are two things I learned when making my own blog button.
This time I'm going to show you how to make a 125px by 125px blog button like this(ahem…pardon my ugly, thrown-together button):
BloggingWithAmy.com
Once you do, you might want others to be able to grab your button and put it on their own site, in which case you'll need a grab box along with your button like this:
How to make a blog button.
A visitor would simply copy the code in the grab box, paste it into their own site and your button would show up there!
In order to do it you need to:
  1. Create an image 125px by 125px (which will be the button itself).
  2. Upload your image to your server.
  3. Create the code others will copy & paste to grab your button.
  4. Display your button & grab box on your own site (ready to be grabbed by others).

1. Create an image 125px by 125px (2 options)

Blog buttons are typically 125px by 125px square. To create your button, you can use either an existing image as your base, or you can start one from scratch.
Option A: To use a photo or existing image as your blog button base:
You are going to use the very same technique I showed you in How to Watermark a Photo. I'll post the video again in case you missed it. The only difference is, instead of resizing your image to 16×16 pixels square, you're going to resize it to 125×125 pixels square.
Can't see the video? Watch it here.
Here are the steps (video notes):
  1. Go to Picnik.com.
  2. Upload your photo.
  3. Crop your image into a perfect square. (It doesn't matter what size it is at this point as long as it's the same number of pixels wide by the same number of pixels high.)
  4. Once it's cropped, resize your image to 125px by 125px.
  5. Add text, effects, stickers, etc. to embellish your button as you like.
  6. Save it.
  7. Done!
Option B: To use a blank canvas as your blog button base:
If you want a button with a solid-colored background as a base, you could employ the trick I showed you in How to Make and Install a Favicon (above). That is, find a photo with a good swatch of color you can isolate to use as your solid-color background. Once your background is set, you'd follow steps 3-6 above to add your text, etc.
OR
You could also use an application like Gimp (which requires a bit more design knowledge but is free). In this case you would open a new canvas, 125px wide by 125px high and then add text and maybe an illustration or two (iStockphoto is a popular site where you can purchase illustrations).
Now you've got your image.

2. Upload your image to your server

Follow the instructions in How to Access Your File Manager or How to Use FTP to upload your image to your server. (Aren't you glad we learned how to access our server? It definitely comes in handy!)
Take note of the location of your image. It doesn't matter a whole lot where your image is stored, as long as you know where it is. To make it easy, I would install it in my "root" (first level of my blog files). This is what it looks like (click to view larger):
How to install a blog button
If you do upload your button image here, the location of your image will look something like this:
http://YourDomain.com/ButtonImageName.jpg

3. Create the code others will copy & paste to grab your button

The basic code one will copy and paste to get your button to show up on their site looks like this (you will replace the bold with your own URLs):
<a href="YourSiteURL"><img src="YourButtonImageURL" /></a>
The <a href="…"></a>" portion is your hyperlink and is the page you want someone to land on when they click your button (most likely your home page).  Make sure you don't forget the closing tag (</a>) at the end!
The <img src="…"> identifies where the image is located so a browser (i.e. Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Internet Explorer…but I know you're not using Internet Explorer, right??) knows where to find it in order to display it.
So, for example, if I was going to put a button on my site (and I uploaded it to my root directory), my code would look like this (ignore the line break):
<a href="http://bloggingwithamy.com"><img src="http://bloggingwithamy.com/button.jpg" /></a>
<a href="http://bloggingwithamy.com"></a> (i.e. BloggingWithAmy.com) is where they land when they click on my button, which the computer reads like this: <img src="http://bloggingwithamy.com/button.jpg" / >
Make sense?

4. Display your button & grab box on your site (ready to be grabbed by others)

Let's put your button and a grab box in your sidebar for others to grab. You'll do this by pasting the below code in a text widget.
To get to your widgets from your Dashboard, go to Appearance–>Widgets. Click & drag the "Text" widget into your sidebar (your sidebar options may differ from mine in this photo):
How to install your blog button
The text widget should automatically pop open for you once you drag it into the sidebar; if it doesn't click the little down arrow on the right side of it. At this point you're ready to paste your code (below).
(By the way, if you want a refresher course on placing widgets into your site, check outHow to Use WordPress Widgets.)
Here's the code you will paste into your text widget. It consists of two parts:
  1. Your image.
  2. The grab box.
Highlight and copy the entire next paragraph into your text widget. You will obviously replace the bold parts with your own code:
<img src="YourButtonImageURL" alt="YourSiteTitle" /><div style="width: 123px; height: 125px; overflow: auto; border: 1px solid #666666;">&lt;a href=&#34;YourSiteURL&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;YourButtonImageURL&#34; alt=&#34;YourSiteTitle&#34; width=&#34;125&#34; height=&#34;125&#34; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</div>
So, for example, this is what mine would like:
<img src="http://bloggingwithamy.com/button.jpg" alt="BloggingWithAmy.com" /><div style="width: 123px; height: 125px; overflow: auto; border: 1px solid #666666;">&lt;a href=&#34;http://bloggingwithamy.com&#34; target=&#34;_blank&#34;&gt;&lt;img src=&#34;http://bloggingwithamy.com/button.jpg&#34; alt=&#34;BloggingWithAmy.com&#34; width=&#34;125&#34; height=&#34;125&#34; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;</div>

Important Sub-Step: Make all code above HTML-friendly by changing the quotes!

In a nutshell, if you just copy the code above and paste it into a widget, it won't work. Why? Because there are these things called "smart quotes" which mess everything up. (Feel free to google if you'd like. I'll spare you the details.)
The bottom line is, it's a bit of pain, but this is how I recommend making your code HTML-friendly:
  1. So you copied the above code.
  2. You pasted it into a text widget (as described at the beginning of Step 4).
  3. Now, once you've pasted it in your widget, very carefully delete every quote (") and re-type it. There are 6 total. I suggest doing them one at a time and in order. Be sure not to add any spaces or extra characters in the process.
  4. Save your widget.
  5. Your image and text box should appear. If not, delete the code, re-copy it and paste it into a text widget and try changing the quotes once again. (It's easy to make a mistake.) (If it still doesn't work, it's probably all my fault. :) )
Once it's in your sidebar, people can simply copy all the code in the grab box, paste it into their site and your button will show up!

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How Do Blogs Make Money? How to Make Money Blogging?

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How Do Blogs Make Money? How to Make Money Blogging?

There are several ways to make money blogging.
Affiliate programs – We show you how to locate the best affiliate programs and how to incorporate them into your blog –and how to get people to click on your links so you can actually earn an affiliate income.
Google AdSense – AdSense is Google’s advertising program for bloggers and website owners. It is free to join and you can make thousands of dollars a month from people clicking on your Google ads if you know how to do it.
ClickBank – ClickBank is a source of thousands of information products that are ready made for you to sell. All you have to do is mention them in your blog and when readers purchase, ClickBank sends you a commission check. ClickBank pays every week, so this is one of the fastest ways to make money blogging
Advertising –There are dozens of companies that will pay to place advertising banners on your blog. This is actually my least favorite way to make money from blogging, but it does work.
The Blog Market – It may surprise you to know that once a blog has steady readers there is a good market to sell your blog.  We will show you how to do that.

Do I Have To Be A Good Writer To Make Money Blogging?

No.  However, if you absolutely hate to write this may not be for you.
Many highly-successful blogs don’t have great writers. I have seen some that have spelling mistakes, poor grammar and just plain bad writing, but, the ideas they present are interesting.
If you have good ideas about a topic and can express them in basic conversational English ( or Spanish, French, etc.) then you have all the writing skills you'll need.
And most importantly, we will show you some instant writing tips that will solve your problem.
You may be thinking…"I don’t know what I would write about" or "I don’t write well enough to produce a blog."
We show you how to work around that too. How To Make Money Blogging From Home contains techniques to help non-writers produce blogs and poor writers how to produce well written blogs that will capture interest.
Skip – I am one of your biggest fans, but your blogging book blew me away. I think it’s one of your best yet.  I have just registered my URL and should have my blog up and running this afternoon. ~ Allan B, Henderson NV

How will anyone find my blog?

You may also be wondering "How will anyone find my blog?" We answer that question too. Our book gives you built-in SEO tools that will make sure search engines find you –and you won’t have to wait weeks and weeks for Google to index your blog. Our reader’s blogs can often be found within a few days or two of doing their first posts.

Is This Legitimate?  Can people make money blogging?

Blogging is an ethical, legitimate and a proven way to make money on the Internet working from home. In fact the best bloggers who make the most money do it because they like to help other people and enrich their lives. Our book is a straight forward program of simple steps to create, and launch your blog. There are no tricks, spamming software or goofy schemes.  We use proven techniques developed by professional bloggers to show you how to find and grow readers and legitimate ways to make money while you do it.

What Will I Learn?

How To Make Money Blogging From Home starts with the basics and takes you step by step through a proven system that will help you master the key steps to making money blogging:
  • Finding your niche in the blogosphere
  • Step-by-step simple instructions to creating and setting up your blog
  • Publishing your blog
  • Creating quality content
  • Building traffic to your blog
  • Building a loyal and repeat reader base
  • Six ways to monetize your blog
  • Automation and traffic building tips
  • How to use simple widgets and plug-ins to drive traffic and increase your readership and earnings potential
  • Developing a blog personality to attract and keep loyal readers
I wish I had this eBook months ago. It would have saved me hours and hours of trial and error. I was doing a lot of the things you teach, but I didn't know if I was doing them right. Some of the things I probably would have never figured out. ~ Jerry C.
These are just some of the things you will learn. In How To Make Money Blogging From Home, Marsha and I will take you step-by-simple step through everything you need to do from getting your blog URL, setting up your hosting account and publishing your first post.  The process is so simple and quick you can have your blog up and running within a hour or so.

So, how much will it cost me?

How To Make Money Blogging From Home is $27 and will include annual updates as things change on the blogosphere.   You get over 150 pages of solid information, detailed instructions and screenshots.  You also get three bonus items, the Blogger’s Affiliate Resource Directory and the Blogger's Resource Rolodex.
"How to Make Money Blogging from Home" is the perfect 'how to' book for people like myself who don't really understand all of the internet high-tech stuff while at the same time is perfect for those people who already know how to blog and use the internet. Having attended a number of presentations about blogging - non of them give me the kind of information this book gives the reader.  Not only is this book inspirational - written by two experienced web professionals - it is a step-by-step workbook with brilliant examples.
I would recommend this book for anyone wanting to Make Money Blogging from Home.
 Linda in Leavenworth 

How Technical is this?

If you can type, point and click then you can blog.  The most important thing is that you have something interesting to say. You don’t need to be a great writer –but you do need to be able to write simply and clearly about a topic that people care about and would like to read about. If you can do that, we will show you how anyone who can at least turn on a computer can do the rest.
There is no risk. All of our books and publications come with a No Questions Asked, money-back guarantee.
There’s more….

Bonus #1 – Blogger’s Affiliate Resource Directory.

This is my personal directory of affiliate programs that you can join for free and will help you locate legitimate affiliate opportunities related to any blogging topic you can think of.

Bonus #2 – Blogger's Resource Rolodex.

This is my personal online Rolodex of resources for bloggers.  The doc contains clickable links to dozens of resources designed to save you time and improve the performance of your blog.

Bonus #3 – How To Generate Quick Content Easily for New Blogs 

One of the most challenging tasks for the new blogger is generating content. This bonus report gives you additional examples for focused content that should help you reach your income and traffic goals.

Bonus #4 – Build Traffic with Blogging Networks

Learn how blogging networks can increase you exposure, expand your audience and help your blog improve in search engine rankings.

Bonus #5 – 42 Blog Post Ideas

Worried that you won't be able to come up with blog posts?  We've got 42 ideas for you!

Just Click on the Buy Now Button on the left to order your copy from our secure server.
You'll receive How To Make Money Blogging From Home in the form of a downloadable eBook.  This means you can start working on your new blog TODAY!

P.S.  I've Got Another Bonus For You

One thing that every blogger struggles with is content. It's content that attracts traffic to your site. And there are some days you are just too busy or too tired to create content. So here is one more super bonus.
  • 1,241 copyright free articles on dozens of different niche topics
  • The articles are between 400 to 500 words each
  • The content of the articles fall into 15 categories (NO Internet marketing or "make money" subjects)
  • The right to use the content of those articles however you wish - you can even rewrite, update or put your name as the author

Here are the categories:
Additions and Renovations
Alternative Fuel
Cloth and Fabrics
Common Metal
Exotic Garden
Extreme Sports
Farm and Gardening
Food		Health Concerns
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Guarantee

GuranteeI am so confident in the value of the information in my book, and the incredible value of the bonus items that I'm going to make it absolutely, positively risk-free!  We have a No-Questions-Asked, Unconditional, 90-Day, 100% Money Back Guarantee.  You can transfer all the risk to me!
Even if you just say, "Skip, no thanks, not for me, take it back" and you return How To Make Money Blogging From Home, I'll refund every dime

Disclaimer

New Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations effective in January 2010 require that if I state any amount of money I have made, or someone using these methods has made, then I have to state the “average” amount of money that everyone who bought this book made.  Well, as you can imagine, I would have no way of knowing that!
So to comply with the law, let me say that although myself and other people have made differing amounts of money with these methods:  “The ‘average’ person who bought this book made less than one-cent ($0.01).”

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