Have something on your head, love to write, love to tell story to other and intend to share information? You must have a blog! Today, blog become alternative for people communicate each other and share information over the internet. Not just that, blog can also make money for you. Most of successful blogger become rich just for blogging. The main idea make money from blogging is selling advertise spot on your blog. People love to advertise on your blog if your blog have lots of visitor.

I will show you step by step how to build a blog and make money from it. But before that, I want you to choose which one fit you. “I want to create personal blog” or “I want to create personal blog that’s make money”. If you choose “I want to create personal blog”, you can use free service like blogger.com or Wordpress.com for your blog. Just sign up and follow step from them and your blog will be ready in just a minute. But if you choose “I want to create personal blog that’s make money”, I will show you full guide how to make money from blogging. You can either make money from free blog or spent small investment to start your own blog. To make your own blog you need a domain and hosting to rent. Domain is your blog name and hosting is a server to place your blog file. How much it will cost? Domain will cost you around $5-$10 a year and hosting will cost you $5-$10 a month. This small investment is worthless if you can manage to get income $100-$10.000 per month from your blog.

I will show you 8 Step how to make money from blogging.

1. Choose Your Niche

Before you start creating your blog, first you need to choose a niche for your blog. What is niche? Niche is a topic that’s you manage for your blog and gain money from your blog. If your blog has a good niche, it’s possible for you to attract advertisers to put their advertise on your blog and that’s meant money will comes to your pocket

Read more about Finding Best Niche to Make Money from Blogging here.

2. Buy Domain and Hosting

Your blog must have a unique name for your blog. Domain name can be your blog niche or your own name. I use www.tipscollections.com for domain name, it represent my niche blog and my blog content. After you decide which domain name you want to use, I suggest you to buy cheap domain name at www.ixwebhosting.com. They have lot of domain name option like .com,.org,.info,.biz and etc. Once your domain ready, you need hosting to put your blog file. www.ixwebhosting.com also provides cheap and affordable hosting with different packages.

3. Download Latest Wordpress

In order to optimize and monetize your blog, I recommend you to use Wordpress as your blog. These free scripts are provided by Wordpress.org and you can download the latest Wordpress script here.

4. Installing Wordpress

After you download latest Wordpress file, you need to upload it to your new hosting server. Step by step how to install Wordpress can be found here.

5. Optimize Your Blog

Once your Wordpress installed, you need to optimize you blog to make it easier to use. First thing you have to do is change your default theme. I will show you where to look for free Wordpress theme. When you have your own theme, you need plugin to help you optimize your blog. Check this Wordpress plugin you must have to optimize your blog. Final step is using my 7 way tip to improve your blog performance and your blog will be ready to roll.

6. Monetize Your Blog

To monetize your blog, first you need to know which money maker that can makes money. You may found money maker list here. Once you sign up my recommended money maker list, second step is you need to learn about 4 things you need to know about your blog ads spot to improve your ads spot management. Monetizing your blog is the important thing to do, so be careful with this one or you won’t make any money from your blog.

7. Generate Content

Before you create some content for your blog, remember to make your own posting schedule. These posting schedules are important to keep your blog growth. Creating content is not just making article for your blog, you need to learn which content that worth money for your blog. My advice for you when you start generating content, don’t go to rush or you will run out your post material. When this happen, you may consider my tips on where to look where you have no idea to post.

8. Promote Your Blog

Promoting blog is the hard part and need lots of effort to do. First job you need to do is getting your blog indexed fast. Read my previous article about how to get indexed fast by Google. This step will make your blog indexed by search engine faster. Once your blog get indexed, you need to setup ping service on your blog. I will show you blog and ping basic here. Here comes the hard part, promoting your blog really need time and effort. I have compiled few lists how to get free traffic for your blog. You may used the entire list or choose pick the easy one.

Free Traffic from Social Book Marks

Free Traffic and Backlink from Blog Directories

Free Traffic from Article Directories

Directories List for Free Traffic

High Traffic Classified Websites List

Get Free Traffic from Press Releases

Participation in Link Programs Increase Backlink

Once you have managed your own promotion way, I think you should use my favorite tips on how to get free traffic by creating free stuff. With this method, not only your blog have a lot visitor but also you will gain lot of backlink from this method.

Eight step above not only helping you how to create a blog, but teach you how to make money from your blog. If you find this article useful, please share this info to all your friend and family. Don’t forget to check latest update for this article on my blog. Good luck and happy blogging

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