Blogs: Find a Blog to Read or Create Your Own
Think of the Internet as your personal publishing house. On it you can choose from a million self-published journals and diaries known as blogs, and keep current on all the topics that interest you, as well as create your own blog, adding your voice to the buzz of the blogosphere.
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The more effort you spend on your blog, the more you might be thinking "I ought to get paid for this." Fortunately, you can—no job application necessary. Explore the sites in this section to learn how you can make money blogging.
- Registering your blog on social bookmarking sites such as Delicious or Digg is one of the easiest ways to increase your blog traffic. Check out the "Blog directories and blog search tools" section of this guide for more on these sites.
- To make it easier for readers to keep current with your blog, make it available for syndication through services such as RSS or Atom. For more information on syndication, see the "Blog feeds and news aggregators" section of this guide.
- While adding advertisements or tip jars to your own blog is the quickest way to start making money through blogging, there are also many paid positions available for bloggers with good writing skills. Many companies and publications hire professional bloggers for their Web sites, or even to write internal news for their employees.
To increase your blog's popularity and blog for profit ...
Zookoda
lets you keep your readers informed even if they don't check your blog obsessively. This free service will help you generate, send, and manage e-mail newsletter summaries of your blog to your (hopefully) expanding reader base.
A List Apart Magazine
shares with you this non-technical, authorly advice to making your blog readable, engaging, and relevant.
Problogger
's massive archives make it more of an encyclopedia on for-profit blogging than the self-proclaimed blog that it is. You'll find posts, tips, interviews, and links on all blog-related topics, with particular emphasis on how to make your blog popular and profitable.
How to Blog for Fun and Profit
, though not always eloquently written, has a great deal of information, advice, and video tutorials on blogging successfully.
To advertise on your blog ...
Google Advertising
lets you easily put ads on your blog. You can earn money both on a per-click basis (getting paid every time a user clicks on an ad) or a per-impression basis (getting paid each time your site is seen). Their step-by-step guide helps lift some of the confusion for first-time users.
Yahoo
's advertising system is similar to Google's, but works only on a per-click basis. Along with ads, Yahoo provides some tools to help increase traffic to your site, making it more popular and more profitable.
To get paid for blogging ...
PayU2Blog
lets you take a more active role in making money. Once your blog is accepted into the system, this company will pay you to write posts on their client companies and products, turning you into an armchair advertiser in no time.
PayPerPost
works almost exactly like PayU2Blog, but also includes money-making opportunities with simpler assignments such as linking to a site or placing a product image in one of your posts.
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