How To Earn Money Writing Blogs

In recent years, especially after the end of the 20th Century, blogging has become an activity indulged by many. A blog is short for web and log as such it's not as static as a website. It is constantly updated like a diary.

How do you earn money from your diary?
Before you can even think about earning money from your blog, you must first learn how to set up your blog so that it will earn you money.

The product
The first step in eaning money writing blogs is to choose a product you want to promote. This product must help solve a problem for example, the problem of acne, back pain, high cholesterol and so on. There are basically three categories that are very profitable - health, hobby and self-improvement. People from these three categories are willing to spend money to help them solve their problems. Choose one product for one blog. Don't confuse your visitors with too many products. If you have more than one product, create another blog. Remember, one product, one blog.

The blog
At the start, make 10 posts about the product that you're promoting. You can write a review or related information about the product. Then you can write 3-5 posts a day. After 3 months at 5 posts a day, you will have 450 posts in your blog. Make sure your posts are 400-600 words long as this will make your posts deem to be quality posts. Every time you've made a new post, remember to ping the post. Use the free service from ping-o-matic or pingoat. Read How To Find The URL To Your Blog Posts if you don't know how to get the url to your posts.

Getting traffic to your posts

1. Create back links from sites with page rank 5 and above. Make sure that the sites are related in content to your blog or the link won't be significant. If your product is in the health niche, don't create a link from a movies niche. To determine the page rank of a site, install Google PR toolbar on your browser.
2. Participate in forums in your niche and leave links in your signature back to your blogs. Choose forums with PR5 and above.
3. Submit articles to article directories with PR5 and above and leave links in your resource box back to your blog. Your resource box is the money maker of your article so learn how to make money with your author resource box. The link in your resource box will create one-way link back to your blog. Below are article directories with PR5 and above

   
   1. ezinearticles.com PR6

   2. articlecity.com PR6

   3. goarticles.com PR5

   4. ideamarketers.com PR5

   5. articlesbase.com PR5

All the above activities will get your blog ranked in search engines. You want to be ranked on the first 2 pages at the top 20 positions. That is the ideal.

Once you get your blog set up and traffic coming in, you will start seeing some sales. Then you can move on to the next product and repeat the whole process. This is how to earn money writing blogs.