Money From Blogging

Many people blog for making money or have started blogging for making money. I think people who blog for publishing their thoughts or giving a creative outlay, would not be many. There is nothing wrong in trying to earn online by blogging. In fact, one has to spend some money in blogging so, it is good thing that people want some return from it, and fame or recognition are not only things people should get back from blogging, money should also come to him along with fame and recognition.

Here is a TO-DO list for a blogger to earn online, specially during the first few months:-

1. Get a good internet speed
A must, if pages do not open and updating a post takes hell lot of time, you may get irritated and lose interest in blogging. So, get yourself a good internet line.

2. Get a laptop
Get yourself a laptop. It has many advantages over PC. WIFI, Battery Backup, multimedia, less space are few things where laptop score over. Now days laptop cost is almost same as PC or little higher. So get a laptop to blog seriously and earn serious amount of money.

3. Good mobile with camera and GPRS, 3G
In order to dissuade you from not updating your blog daily while traveling, buy yourself a good Mobile Phone with camera and subscribe to GPRS or 3G. They will help you even when internet connection goes down at home and can work as back up net connection.

4. Finalize 5 keywords, 10 phrase with the keywords, 20 variants
Finalise at least 5 mother keywords with single word for your blog. Try to use at least one of them in your each post. Keep a track if your keywords bringing you organic visitors using Google Analytics.

5. Identify 20 blogs website similar to your topic which has good Alexa rank, Google page rank
Identify these blogs and read them religiously daily. Read its old articles too. Always comment on any new post if you have something say. Subscribe to them. If they are not posting for many days, send a message using their contact option.

6. Join in 5 forums
Join minimum five forums. Try to join forums which have many subscribers, active and similar to your topic or has some threads with topic as your blog. Post in those forum at least one in a day. This is required for your first 3 months of blogging. Make sure you complete your profile with your blog address, signature etc.

7. Post minimum one article a day, minimum 4 images in a week
Most important of all, post minimum one article with proper tag, category and title. Try to put image in every post with proper title of the image, description, ALT tag. If image is not possible in every post, make sure you post in every alternate post.

After following these for six months, start putting Google AdSense in your blog. If you do not earn money from your blog, do a recheck if you followed above 7 steps religiously or not. I am sure, you would start earning online from your blog.