Thursday, July 9, 2009

Free Money Making Ideas For Your Blog

Blogging is the easiest way to build and maintain your website. I don't know anyone who would say no to free money and your blog can provide it for you. There are several easy ways to make money from your blog and they don't cost anything to set up.

I like to use WordPress because it's free, simple to use and has plenty of support programs like themes, widgets and plug-ins. Hostgator hosts my site and I've found their service to be very reliable.

Wordpress has several plug-ins to help you add advertising to your site. Google AdWords cost you nothing and if someone buys from one of the ads, you are paid. Clickbank and Paydotcom also have advertising plug-ins for your Wordpress blog.

Once you have the advertising set up, you need people to come to your site to see the ads. One of the most effective, and fun, ways of getting free traffic is to give away a free e-book. You write it yourself, based on things you know about the subject of your website. For example, if your site was about roses, you could do an e-book on the most popular rose varieties of the twentieth century.

If you go to other blog sites with a similar theme, for example, a gardening website, you can offer your free e-book to the readers of the gardening site. You can also get involved with forums with similar interests to yours. Mention you are giving away a free e-book at your blog site and as long as you have something interesting and of value to your readers, you will gain lots of free traffic for your site. Some of this traffic will buy from your advertising and you will make money.

If you find your e-book is very popular, you might consider making another and selling it to your fans. This will make you even more money. E-books are just the beginning. You may want to branch out and do a video training series, or a podcast.

Wendy Streater has a money making blog about making money from your blog.
Find great ideas, articles on other bloggers, software to make your blogging easier and heaps of suggestions on how to make money from your blog.

http://www.blogbillions.info

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