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Simple Steps to Start a Profitable Blog and Make Money Online

Filed Under (blog, Making Money Online) by kimloon on 18-04-2009

I was going through again the notes from Alvin Phang, creator of Atomic Blogging. He has a profitable blog site on make money online.

I learned from him about the basic steps on setting up a profitable blog:

Finding Hot Profitable Niches

Before even start blogging, it is to find a niche market

where there are people would are searching information on
where there are products readily available to sell

In this process, we need to research the keywords the people used to look for information in this market.

Setting Up a Blog

There are free blogging hosting out there. But it is recommended to buy a domain and a hosting plan. There are constrains in those free hosting sites, and most do not allow a business blog. On top of these, we can have many sites hosted on a single hosting plan. This means that we can have lead page or even providing hosting to other sites with only a single plan. There are many suitable hosting plans in this link.

Once we get the domain and hosting plan done, it is to go to the actual work of setting up a blog. WordPress is the recommended by most internet marketers. There are many widgets and plug-in available to optimize the blog for performance. The best part is, most of these are free.

Monetize from the Blog

There are many ways to make money using a blog. The general methods are as follows:

Pay-Per-Click
Pay-Per-Sale
Pay-Per-Lead
Pay-Per-Play
Pay-Per-Review

Building Up Content and Traffic

The he amount of traffic driven to it. As such, it will be a daily work to post keywords loaded and relevant articles frequently and drive Traffic to the Blog.

This is the summary of the basic steps on how to create a profitable blog and make money online. There are still much more to find out on each individual step.

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