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6 More
Free Steps to Making Money Online
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by:
Darren Power
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Copyright 2004 Darren Power
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.
About the author:
Darren Power is the author of The Money Seed, your step by step guide
to making money online. For supplimentary information & free
resources related to this article visit www.themoneyseed.com/rss
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