There are thousands of people who are making money blogging right now and new blogs are being started all the time. You can make money blogging and it’s not as hard as you may think. I will admit, it’s not the easiest thing in the world but anyone can do it if they are willing to put in the time and effort.

The first thing to remember if you are started a new blog is to stay away from the “Make Money Online” (MMO) niche. It is very hard to make money blogging in the MMO niche. There are many reasons for that but I won’t go into them right now. Just take my word for it.

There are thousands of easier niches you can tap in to and make money blogging about them. All you have to do is use a free keyword tool and do a little research. Start with things you are interested in or know a lot about, and go from there. You should be able to find a good niche pretty quickly. The more it gets searched for the better. However, volume of searches is not the only thing you need to take into consideration. You are looking for niches that have a fairly large market with money they are willing to spend, and not a lot of competition.

You can find the first one with the Google Keyword Tool. It will tell you the approximate monthly search volume for any keyword phrase and how strong the advertiser competition is. If there is a lot of advertiser competition then it’s usually a good indicator that the niche has profit potential.

Then, you need to see how much competition there is for that keyword phrase. An easy way to do that is to go to Google and search for it in quotes. The results will come up with sites that are using that exact phrase on their sites. You can see that number in the top right corner of the search results page. You do want some competition but not a lot.

Once you find a good niche then all you have to do is set up your blog and start blogging. Wordpress and Blogger are popular blogging platforms that are free and very easy to use. After you get some blog posts written and published you should start getting inbound links. This can be done through article marketing, link exchanges, dofollow blog commenting, buying links, directories, social bookmarking, forums and many other ways.

Updating your blog often with quality content and getting a lot of keyword anchored inbound links will increase your search engine rankings and start bringing in a lot of traffic to your blog. Once you have the traffic you can put up some affiliate links, do paid reviews, sell advertising or any of the other methods there are for making money from a blog.

That’s pretty much all there is to making money blogging. Of course, this post is a very summed up and simplified guide for how you can make money blogging for free. But it is the basics of how you do it. Use my tips as a guide and do some searching for a more in-depth explanation of anything you don’t understand. You could have your niche picked and blog set up in a matter of hours, and be making money from it very soon.

Dedicated to your success,
Trent Brownrigg
Teaching you how to make money online with your own internet home business since 2003.

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For those of you who dig Star Wars, you might be delighted to hear about a new blog that focuses on make money online free. Wookie is a fun take on Chewbacka (did I spell that one right) and the sole focus is on helping you to make money without charging a $1 per post.

Ok that was a joke on the Conn man. Never mind, the blog is failry new but already contains some words of wisdom for budding Internetpreneurs. If your dream is to make money online, then What A Wookie is your place to snoop out.

If you like freebies, you will be at the right place since the owner plans to give away free domain names and maybe some other goodies over time just for blogging about his blog.

Since I’m a sucker for goodies (like the rest of you), this is my take on the blog, throwing my towel into the mix to be picked.

So head over to make money online and enjoy the content.

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Sometimes it’s hard to find a good topic for a new blog post and you need a little help. One way to do that is to take a look at Google Hot Trends and see what the hot topics of the day are. You can usually find at least one trend to fit with most niches so there’s a good chance you will be able to find something that will work for your blog.

This can also be a great way to get a nice boost in traffic. If you blog about a hot topic and your blog has enough authority to get posts indexed quickly and rank well then you stand a good chance of getting thousands of new visitors who are searching for that topic.

Going for the hottest topics on the list probably won’t do much for you because they will have already been picked up by the huge authority sites that you don’t have a chance at competing against. However, if you pick a topic somewhere in the middle to end of the hot trends you might just reap the rewards.

As I said above, there’s usually enough of a range of topics that you should be able to find a trend that is at least somewhat relevant to your blogs niche. You should choose a term that is as closely related to your niche as possible. You could also just start a general information blog and make all of your posts based on any hot trends that interest you on a daily basis.

Use Google Trends to your advantage to help you find topics to blog about and possibly bring in huge surges of traffic to your blog.

Dedicated to your blogging success,
Trent Brownrigg
Teaching you how to make money online and build a successful home business!

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…Blog, Blog, Blog while I sing this song… I’m gonna write this post, I’m gonna publish it online… Then I’ll start another but I don’t know why!

Does that pretty much sum up your daily blogging habits? Are you one of those bloggers who thinks you need to constantly update your blog as much as humanly possible? If so, I want you to sit back in your chair right now and really think about why you feel the need to write 10 blog posts every day even if you really don’t have anything to say.

Contrary to what you may have been told before, there really is no need to update your blog numerous times per day. In fact, you don’t even need to update your blog once per day! It is much better to write a couple long, informative, useful posts per week than it is to write a bunch of worthless posts every day just for the sake of doing it.

Just think about how much less stressful your life would be if you weren’t constantly thinking about how you need to write a new blog post or trying to think of something to say. Write higher quality posts less often and you will actually be doing yourself and your readers a favor. Heck you will probably even gain more readers by doing this.

Remember quality is always better than quantity!

Dedicated to your blogging success,
Trent Brownrigg
Owner of the top home business website and a popular work at home blog.

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Everyone wants to know how to make money online and most people like to write about it in their blogs even though they don’t actually make money online themselves. Then there are those people brand new to all of this who want to know how to make money online for beginners. Of course, there are many ways to to go about learning how to make money online, but most of them will fail.

So this is a post about how to make money online, NOT!

First of all, go read all the so-called A-lister’s blogs, you know the ones, like John Chow, Yaro, Shoemoney, Problogger, Gary Conn, etc and learn everything they have to teach you about building a great Make Money Online blog and attracting thousands of feed readers and social traffic from Stumbleupon, Digg and Twitter etc, then put up a load of ads so all those visitors will click on them and you’ll make a ton of money.

Well with high expectations and the promise of all that money falling out of the sky into your lap you get started in earnest. Check out all the eBooks in the sidebars of the A-list gurus because they’re sure to show you even more great secrets on how to make money online that you may have missed and keep reading the top people’s blogs for more great info.

Then stumble on some foul mouthed Puerto Rican in an ugly looking blog called BloggerUnleashed who tells you that everything you’ve just learned is crap. But you should ignore him because he uses the F word a little too often and what can he know about how to make money online anyway? Why he had the audacity to call your best mate Gary Conn a scammer. And he takes the piss out of John Chow all the time. Sheesh, what does he know! Hell, write a post in your blog and call out that lying SOB. You could even challenge him to a contest to see who can really generate the most traffic. Why I bet you could easily take ten grand off him for getting more Google traffic to your great up and coming soon to be A-list blog! Be a cinch!

And look at the dross of society that hang out with him!

Some Canadian who calls himself Grizzly or something and he’s supposed to teach you how to make money with a crappy looking free blogger blog? Come on, these people must be so stupid to take any notice of an obvious liar like that hahaha.

And then there’s some guy who looks like a funny parrot who writes a reviews blog and another one who wants to show you how to make money the “Honest Way”. I ask you, who in their right mind would trust someone who blatantly called themselves honest?

So you get back to your feed building and get ever more social traffic to your great MMO blog. Hey, you aren’t seeing a lot of clicks on all those great looking ads you have in your sidebar yet, but the gurus promise that it will come in time, so you redouble your efforts and post comments in ever more social blogs and make ever more friends in MyBlogLog and BlogCatalog and spend a good three or four hours a day messaging them all because its so important to keep them interested in you and your MMO blog.

Then after you’ve been doing that for like two years and the bank are just about to foreclose on your mortgage, your spouse is packing their bags to leave you for good and you’re credit cards are all maxed out because you bought every eBook you could get your hands on and signed up for every mentoring school by all the best gurus to show you how to make a thousand dollars a day… face it, you’re broke and you failed.

What can you possibly do to turn things around?

You barely made enough in all that time from all those ads to cover the cost of your hosting. Oh, wait a minute, no you didn’t… your premium MMO blog doesn’t seem to be displaying in your browser any more. I guess your hosting company didn’t get their last monthly payment from your now empty PayPal account.

It looks like there’s only one thing left to do

Go and get a JOB!

…

…Six months later…

You’re on Google and you happen to search on “How to Make Money Online” and of the 10  million or so competing pages, right there at the top is that crappy free blogger blog by that Grizzly guy. No, surely… he can’t possibly be…

Terry Didcott
Author of Blogging Web 2.0

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I am constantly amazed at how people perceive the make money online industry. Most think that for some reasons you have to be nasty, deceiving and cruel to make an honest living online. In fact, if you believe this to be true, think again. If a 17 year old kid can build traffic and make money with his entrepreneur blog, then so can you.

Who am I talking about? The guy I’m referring to is a young kid by the name of Jason Pereira. He is currently living in Dubai and studies on the Australian University there. His entrepreneur blog is his vehicle to make money online while supporting a great lifestyle no doubt.

I was impressed by the way Jason projects a sound business mind while pursuing his dreams. He manages to earn a decent income online which is unheard off for most who try.

Many get sidetracked and eventually give up, but Jason and his entrepreneur blog just keep powering on. His blog The University Kid is an entrepreneur blog through.

I really can’t help admiring this guy and wish that I was that smart at his age. But I wasn’t. And what seems to come totally natural to Jason at only 17 (and younger) took a lot of hard work at my end.

hats off to this guy. I can see him going a long way further and his entrepreneur blog will help him to do so.

Now, if you are wondering why I’m linking to this guy like a mad idiot, there is actually a reason for this insanity. Jason is going to give away one of his secret to making at least $50 a day on August 12th if you do what I just did.

Since I’m a sucker for secrets (especially if they result in additional income) I figured why not. Therefore, this is the fifth link Jason requires for his entrepreneur blog to hand me his secret.

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Squidoo is probably better known than Hubpages - but for my money - Hubpages is the better bet for not only developing back links but also getting qualified traffic, and the potential to develop your hubpage home page with a good PR, a number of the better hubs have PR4 on their home page now. Oh and you can add as many links as you like on your home page!

What I like about hubpags includes:

• easy to add videos and pictures to break up the text: and get a bit of traffic from image searches;
• simple to use, no HTML is allowed and the capsules are more limited than squidoo’s but this makes it quick and easy to create an hub;
• use news feeds and/or eBay capsules for automatic updates for your hubs;
• limit to only 2 “self-serving” links per a hub keeps the spam level relatively low.

There are a couple of quirks with Hub Page that those who want to use hubpages for internet marketing purposes should know.

Hubpages Forum’s Ambiance
A number of the active community on the forums are primarily writers rather than online business people. There is a strong feeling that writing is important. Commercial hubs are tolerated - but anyone naively coming to the forums and asking what the community thinks of their very first hub: “How to Make Money Fast Online” will get short shrift - and probably get their hub flagged as inappropriate. Yes that’s right a lot of hubs which are flagged are done by community, so be respectful!

Hubscore Matters

Every hubber has an overall hubscore, and every hub as an individual hubscore. The two are somewhat related and both reflect traffic, particularly from outside hubpages, length of hub, and, in the case of the hubber’s hubscore, in activity such as rating other hubs, commenting and forum posting. And unless your hubscore is 75 your hub’s links will be tagged as “no follow” - a hub every month or so should see you easily maintain that score. This is the single most important feature of hubpages, in my opinion, because it keeps the spammers out.

Hubpages has never suffered from the fall from favour that squidoo has had. Most hubs are indexed within a few hours.

Hubpages appears to have a strong nternal linking strategy - with each home page have links to latest, hot and best hubs. Certain tags are routinely featured on the front page: make sure you include any that are relevant in your hubs: entertainment, how to, money, business, family are commonly featured. Tags are keywords and you should add a good number to your hub to improve your internal backlinks

Elisabeth Sowerbutts is an active hubpages author and wrote Hubpages and Internet Marketing for those who want to use Hubpages for internet marketing to best effect.

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