Question by justwondering: Blog tutorial so I can learn to make money online…?
I once cam across a free blog tutorial and it taught the user (such as myself) how to create a money making blog. Does anyone know of a good one that I can follow/use for free here online? I prefer to use WordPress and I think I want it to be self hosted too. Thanks for your help in this matter.
Best answer:
Answer by Fertility Nurse
I just used this one yesterday and it was awesome!
http://momscashblog.com/blogtutorial/
Hope this helps you – sounds right up your alley!
It teaches you everything you need to know about how to create a money making blog – I made mine in about 10 minutes.
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You can try http://www.stillbloggin.com. Basically a blog explaining how to get started creating an income online. There is an article on starting from nothing.
Comment by JUP187 — August 30, 2010 @ 1:17 am
See if this helps
http://www.theedifier.com/blogging-blogger/make-money-earn-revenue-google-adsense.php#a
Comment by krishbhavara — August 30, 2010 @ 1:58 am
Learning How to Make Money Blogging
There are two major types of business models that
entrepreneurs use to make money blogging. The first
and most common way to turn a blog into a profit
making machine is to sell advertising to different
companies and brands who want to reach that blog’s
readers. The second kind of money making blog is one
that helps a single brand improve its image by creating
positive associations between the blog and the product
in the mind of consumers. Both kinds of blogs can
make a lot of money, especially if the creator has a keen
mind for marketing.
If you are blogging with the goal of selling advertising,
there are two basic ways that you can go about
recruiting sponsors who want to put ads on your site;
you can let someone else do all of the legwork, or you
can do the work yourself and keep all of the revenue.
Within the first group, many people make money
blogging by selling space through Google’s AdSense
program. The advantages of this program are numerous,
as it requires very little effort on the part of the blogger
or webmaster to begin raking in profits. However, most
people discover that they make less money through this
method than they had hoped that their blog would earn.
Selling advertising directly to companies who want to
put banner ads or sponsored links on your blog can take
quite a bit of time, but it is often fairly lucrative. If you
have a lot of contacts in industries that are related to the
topic of your blog, you may want to try to go this route.
People who have a strong background in sales and are
experienced at pitching proposals can make quite a bit
of money by renting blog space to interested companies.
The most serious problem with this model is that you
often have to build quite a sizable readership before you
can attract advertisers, which can mean that you have to
do several months of work before you start to make
money blogging.
As blogging becomes a more and more lucrative
business, a lot of established companies are considering
how they can get into the action. One way that
companies are capitalizing on the blog movement is by
having blogs that provide a kind of friendly face for
their corporation. Often, a company will employ an
established blogger to create a weblog designed
specifically to appeal to that company’s customers and
to create positive associations with the brand in
consumers’ minds. More than one writer who never
even dreamed that he or she could make money
blogging has been approached by a company and
offered quite a pretty penny for this kind of gig.
Comment by Sven van Gink — August 30, 2010 @ 2:40 am