Why are there so many blogs started every single day? It’s easier than putting together a proper static site that works better than a blog does right from the box.

I can setup a blog in just minutes and be making money in just a few days, whereas when I build a web site it takes me days just to build it and that’s before any promotion. So it’s just so much simpler to create a blog that makes money. That’s attractive to non techies.

Search engines like Big Daddy Google already love blogs as they usually have continually updating with new content. Static sites get set up and then they can go unchanged for months, even years. Not so much lovin’ from search engines.

I use Wordpress blogs and have pinging setup automatically so that when I blog Wordpress pings services letting them know I have new content.

So blogging works, all you have to do get started, right?

7 Simple Methods You Can Use To Make Money Blogging

1. CPA Networks: Monetize your blog with ad units from Google Adsense, Yahoo Publisher, Bidvertiser, RevenuePilot and other contextual ad sites. Contextual ads are ads that the ads sites show on your blog that are related to you’re your blogs topic. When these ads are clicked on you get paid for it.
2. Sell Your Products: If you have a product blog about it and offer it for sell on your blog. You already have an audience that’s interested in what you’re doing take advantage of it.
3. Resell Rights And Affiliate Marketing: If you have an affiliate account at Amazon. com, Clickbank, Ebay or some other affiliate program, sell affiliate products on your blog. You can do related posts for any product you want to sell.
4. Sell A Few Ad Blocks: If you have a blog with a pretty good Page Rank you can sell ad space on it. You can have different prices for different areas on your blog.
5. Get Paid To Write Reviews: You can make money from your blog by writing paid reviews for paid to blog sites like PayPerPost, SponsoredReviews, Blogsvertise, Smorty and others. These sites offer advertisers who pay to have their product or service reviewed. I must add a word of warning here though. Google has started penalizing blogs for doing paid reviews and will drop your Page Rank if you are caught doing so. However you can still make money online doing this even after a PR drop.
6. Create And Sell Ebooks: Lots of people make some good money online writing and selling their own e-books. You can write an e-book relate to your blog’s subject and offer it for sell on your blog. Your e-book doesn’t have to be real fancy just give some information that people would be interested in and downloadable.
7. Ask Your Visitors For Donations: You would be surprise of what you can just by asking. You can for donations to help your blog going. Just put a PayPal donation in your sidebar or after every post. It doesn’t hurt to ask.

Think about creating a blog and remember you only need one method to work and you will start earning. Then you can invest a bit of your earning to do even more.

Note: Don’t go as wild as I did when I first started making money online. I let myself get way over worked and had to step back and think about whether it was better to have a ton of money or make a living and be a lot healthier. After all I make money to make a living but I want to be around to spend it with my friends and family but I can’t do that if I never leave my home office.

I am not a programmer and going with Wordpress as my blogging platform scared me a bit so I tried the free route first using Blogger.com and regretted wasting my time. I was even shut down at the complaint of a competitor and they didn’t even check to see if the claims were valid, which they weren’t but I was still shut down for a week while they did nothing until I asked them to have a human check it out.

Now it’s Wordpress for all my blogs and I have never had a single page shut down. Gotta love Wordpress.

I soon found tips online that showed me how to modify the code in Worpdress blogs. It wasn’t as hard as I had led myself to believe and after a few practice runs I was able to add the code I wanted to place advertising on my blogs.

Now I don’t even contemplate other blogging platforms. Wordpress does all I need and a whole lot more.

WordPress Is Search Engine Ready

Search engines really like Wordpress and I get my pages indexed pretty fast. I am no expert but I would say that the Wordpress developers did a great job on the Wordpress code.

I have had no problems getting search engine spiders and bots to index my pages. All I have to do is add great content and I am set to go.

Notifying Pinging Services For Your Blog

Pinging?? In blogging, ping is an XML-RPC-based push mechanism by which a weblog notifies a server that its content has been updated. …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ping_(blogging)

I love Wordpress, it tells web blog tracking systems each time my blog is updated.

Pinging services are to blogs what search engine spiders are to websites.

It always amazes me when I do a search in Google an hour after posting and find my article indexed already. That’s power. Wordpress has to be the quickest method for letting the world know you just said something.

I have a long list of pinging services that I have added to the Ping List in the Writing section under Settings.

More Themes Than You Can Shake A Stick At, Switching Themes Is Quick And Easy

I probably go way overboard on collecting themes for Wordpress but there are just so many cool themes for every niche imagineable.

I spent my first 5 years online building web sites for others and for myself of course and it was a lot of work with lots of headaches. Switching everything I do from static web sites to blogs was the best thing I have done online.

Note: I have made changes to the Wordpress code that didn’t convert when I switched themes. Other than that the change over from theme to theme is pretty seemless.

It’s great fun to have multiple themes for holidays and seasons.

Extend The Power of Wordpress With Plugins

One of the things I like the most about Wordpress would have to be the available plugins that make blogging so powerful.

Make Your Own WordPress Themes

I haven’t given this a try yet. I keep myself pretty busy but I think it’s just a bit of fear creeping in. I have heard that developing a WordPress theme is fun and easy. Well that’s if I use a Theme Development Tool like Artisteer.

I talk with people every day who have never tried Wordpress but once they see the potential they are all over it. If you haven’t already given WordPress a try. Enjoy