So you've decided to blog?

If you have decided to blog, or if you may blog and want to learn about monetization opportunities, continue reading this post...

If you're going to blog, and have never before or have no web/html experience, i recommend you start with blogger.[you probably have and thats how you got here]. I recommend blogger for the inexperienced because (a)all the tools,widgets,etc are here for you to use, simply edit the template (b) you dont have to install a blog on your own hosting service (c) you dont have to optimize your blog for search to the extent because blogger already gets hit with some traffic, and they offer a group to adverise on. (d) its basically a whole lot easier for just starting out.

It may not be as credible in the eyes of readers as it would to own your own ".com". but get some experience here then move on.

Anyway, now that you have a blogger blog, your going to want to monetize it. This can be done with google adsense. You have to first apply, after being accepted you log into your blog, go to the templates tab, and ad an adsense widget either on the sidebar,after a post, or at the footer.

What adsense is, is a service that will display ads relative to the info on your site. the ads come from others who own sites and blogs, they pay per click they get. so what adsense does is pays you a comission on that. For each time someone clicks an ad on your site, you get a portion of whatever the advertiser paid. It is a free service, it is basically other webmasters paying you in exchange for traffic from your site.

The amount you make per click varies drastically. It all depends on the keywords, and the competition for that topic.Chances are if you chose a niche with few sites to compete, the clicks may pay less simply because there are a ton of other sites out there like it.
There is a lot of strategy behind this seo, internet marketing business. Like I said in the last post, you wont get rich overnight, but if you stick with it, and gut it out doing something you enjoy, you will be rewarded.