Blogging: A simplest way to make money online

Today is an information age, Since last two decade number of internet users have grown exponentially. According to an estimation about 30% of world’s population is using internet today. There are thousands of ways for making money over internet, Out of which blogging is one of the best way to make money online because its gives you that flexibility which a traditional job can never give you. You can do Blogging according to your convenient in your spare time, Also I have seen many people over internet who does Blogging as their full time profession.

Lately people around the world have realized the importance of blogging as a result it become popular within last few years.

Let’s see the importance of Blogging.

• It do not require any huge investment, you can start your online blogging business with just few dollars or with few hundreds of rupees. All you need to have is a computer and an internet connection.
• In this business you have a flexibility to work at your convenient  time, unlike other traditional business. Your income will keep flowing even on those days when you are not working.
• As everything is online, you get more number of audiences with mutual interests. There is no geographical limit to it; you can get your readers across the globe. Soon you may come to know about your audiences by looking at the comments they write.
• You have the freedom to choose your topic in which you have passion. You can turn your hobbies into your profession. This may be the best option after retirement.
• And the most important feature of blogging is, it creates a passive income source i.e. you have to do the effort just for one time. Once your blog is able to create huge number of traffic, cash will flow through your bank account without any more effort for rest of the life.
• Also if your blog has huge number of traffic, apart from ads business you can sell others products through affiliate marketing like ClickBank.com,Amazon affiliate program etc.

How to start blogging?

So now you got the importance of blogging, now let’s see how to start blogging. It’s very simple there are several ways to set up a blog online. You could use WordPress, Blogger, or another free site that hosts your blog for you; or alternatively you can set up your own blog under your own domain name. The most popular is blogger.com, You can create your free account and start blogging. Once your blog is set you can choose any good theme and layout that you desire.

What you are going to blog about?

Now you know how to start blogging, the most important question may arise in your mind is, what topic do I choose? Well ask this question to yourself. The best answer can be given by you yourself. Some people write about their lifestyle in general, some about their Job or Hobbies, Some about their friends / family, Some write reviews of books, movies, gadgets etc. The whole world is yours just choose a topic something you are passionate about because you will be writing about this topic several times a week or even a day. For example I am software engineer every day I deal with number of errors and exceptions in my work so I have created a blog http://simpleandeasycodes.blogspot.com/ which I use to post those exceptions / solutions, programs etc.

Mr Amitabh Bachchan has created a blog http://bigb.bigadda.com/ in which he writes about his day to day activity. And you won't believe it this blog may cost millions of dollars because Mr Bachchan himself created it, he has a millions of fans around the world and the blog may get thousands of clicks per minute. Mr Bachchan have created an assets out of nothing and earns millions of rupees every year by just blogging.

How to monetize your blog?

So now you got the blog started and have topic to write about. Now you may ask how do I monetize my blog. There are many affiliated programs which generated ads on the blogs. The most popular one is Google Adsense. Also there are other good advertisers like InfoLinks, Adbrite, Clicksor, Chitika, Bidvertiser, Kontera etc. You can sign up with those programs and earn money.

Also apart from monetization, you can sell your blog once it  has plenty of revenue and traffic, you can usually sell it for more than ten times its monthly revenue.

So friends now you got all basic idea of Blogging, what are you waiting for! Try it out yourself.