Today I want to cover several ways to get traffic to your new blog. The more traffic you can bring to your blog the more money you can make.

One popular method to drive traffic to your blog is called article marketing. You create short articles that are about 400 words long and post them to the popular article sites. You can learn more about article marketing by visiting the following link.

http://www.ezinearticles.com/

Another popular method is by social bookmarking your posts. If you are not familiar with social bookmarking check out the following sites.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://www.delicious.com/

Are you familiar with YouTube? Why not create a short video about your subject and post it on YouTube? Just make sure you display your blog URL at the beginning and end of the video. You can check out YouTube at the following link.

http://www.youtube.com/

Do some searches on the search engines and see if you can find any forums on your blog subject. Then become active on the forums and respond to peoples questions. What you want to do is position yourself as an expert on your subject. Do not blatantly advertise! This will get you banned.

Most forums have what is called a signature line. The majority of the time they will allow you to advertise your site in your signature.

One last method I am going to touch on is purchasing traffic. You can purchase traffic from Google. You can have your ad show up on the right column of searches on specific search phrases. You pay per click on your ads. To learn more about Google Adwords, visit the following URL.

http://adwords.google.com/

Here’s to your success!

Re’s
Rob Whisonant

Blogging has been around for many years now and has become quite popular. Most people use blogs to record their thoughts and lives, while a few use them as a free way to make money online. In this series I’ll be covering the basics on how to setup a blog and make money from it.

First you are going to need a blog. You can setup a free one at wordpress.com or blogger.com or better yet host your own blog on your own website. If you have your own hosting and website you can download WordPress for free from wordpress.org. It’s actually very easy to install. Just read the instructions that come with it. You will have it installed in just a few minutes.

Now that you have your blog, you will want to start posting 250 to 500 word posts a few times a week to start. You want these posts to be as informative to your readers as possible so they will want to bookmark your blog and become a follower of yours.

There are several ways to make money from your blog. Here are two popular methods.

The first method is by adding Google Adsense ad blocks to your blog. You can join Google Adsense by clicking the following link.

https://www.google.com/adsense/

Google Adsense will read your pages and determine the best ads to display on your blog. You get paid each time someone clicks on any of the Adsense ads you have displayed on your blog.

The next method and the one I prefer is to locate products or services that you can recommend to your readers and be paid a commission on each sale you generate.

You can find products and services you can promote at the following affiliate sites.

http://www.clickbank.com/
http://www.cj.com/

One of the best ways to make money from your blog is to write reviews on different products and or services. You would want to keep your blog mostly full of free valuable information and work in your product reviews when it is appropriate.

Personally I like to write three or four informative posts and then reference a product review that is related to the previous blog posts.

Now it’s time for you to determine what subject you want to blog about. Then watch for part 2 of blogging for dollars, where you will learn how to drive traffic to your new blog.

Here’s to your success!

Re’s
Rob Whisonant