Brenda Moody asked:


There are key points that need to be utilized in order to make money with a blog. The great thing is that many of the methods that will help you make money don't cost you anything but time. Blog income is one of the best ways to make and continue to increase your income online. With any worthwhile endeavor, you need to keep working at it and keep your expectations realistic. You won't make instant riches but, if you continue to work at it, you will make money. The longer and more you put into your efforts, the more you will make.

First the technical details must be dealt with. These are the things you must have in the template of your blog:

First of all, keywords are essential. These are words that relate to the content of your blog. When a search engine reads your blog, you want keywords to be in the template.

In your template you will have your blog name:



Under that section you will need to input your keywords in the following manner:



You also want your content followed by search engines. Make sure you have this in your template:



After you become familiar with the template, don't be afraid to play with the areas in which you can place advertisements. You can always preview it and clear it if you don't like the location.

After you have finished your template adjustments, you need to create traffic. How do you get traffic without paying for it? There are several key elements to work on:

Content:

Create quality content on a consistant basis. Make sure you submit your content to article sites. You will get your blog url mentioned in either the resource box or biography box. This will create traffic to your blog. The more you put out, the more traffic you will get.

Pings:

After you have created new content, make sure you ping the major search engines. There are many free ping services available on the Internet such as Pingomatic. Do not ping if you have not created new content or you are in jepordy of being labled a spam site.

Links:

Submit your blog url to link sites. There are many free link submission sites that allow you to place your site when you place a reciprocal link on your blog. The links don't stay forever, you need to keep submitting to continue the links. Do this every other month. If you would rather spend some money and have your link submitted for you, there are many good paid link submission services on the Internet to choose from.

Advertising:

Google Adsense is a great, no cost way to make money. You must set up an account with Google and follow the instructions. Blogger provides an easy way to add adsense but you can also insert your code into the template to customize your page.

With all of these elements in place, you are ready to start the process of making money online at no cost. All it takes is time to become established and develop your site as it grows. After six months of consistantly following a system of content, pinks and links, you should see a growth in traffic and therefore, income.