Why Free Blogs Are A Bad Business Idea
When you work in the Internet marketing field as much as I do you tend to view everything from a business point of view. This is certainly true as it pertains to blogging.
However many people do not blog for profit. If you are the type of person who would just like to set up a free blog, and have some fun with it, the there is certainly nothing wrong with this.
Three of the best free blogging platforms are:
1. Blogger.com
2. WordPress.org
3. Drupal.org
I encourage anyone to set up a free blog and have some fun with it. As you begin to get the hang of blogging you may find that you want to try it as an Internet business.
At this point you certainly do not want to use the free blogging platforms. Here is the primary reason this is true.
When you have your blogs hosted by someone else you lose control over it. Your blog can be canceled at any time without notice.
I have personally had several Blogger.com blog's canceled. It actually is a sickening feeling to login to your account and find out a blog you have been building up is no longer online.
Here is a key point regarding keeping control of your blogs.
Domain names are cheap. You can buy a .org, .net, or .com domain for around $10 a year depending on where you purchase at.
Website hosting as cheap as well. You can get 1 account with Host Gator for $10 a month. This gives you unlimited hosting no matter how many domains you host there.
So when you initially start out you're looking at purchasing a domain for $10 and paying $10 a month for hosting. Hopefully you are choosing a blog theme that will allow you to a least earn $1 a day.
Using affiliate marketing products and programs is very easy to do. This is why you see so many blogs monetized with Google Adsense, Amazon, ClickBank and Commissions Junction products.
All of these affiliate programs are free to join. This give you a broad range of affiliate products to promote.
With Google Adsense you get paid by the click. They are the largest search engine in the world and have plenty of advertisers to match the theme of your blog.
Amazon is an excellent source of physical products. They are the largest online retailer in the world.
ClickBank is a digital information provider. People love to pay for information that solves problems and ClickBank has thousands of products you can promote with one I.D. number.
Commission Junction is a good source of cost per action programs. Getting paid by the lead is a very easy way to make money.
If you are going to do to the work of setting up a business blog you do not one to use the free blogging platforms. This is especially true now that it is very inexpensive to start a blog and the monetary rewards can be so good.
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How To Be A Successful Blogger.
This post will be very useful for those who want to make a website that will attract visitors and become popular. From my own experience the easiest way to start is a blog. Blogs are easy to manage and update. It is the ideal choice for the newbies. You can make your own free blog on the blogger, blogspot or wordpress sites.
Select a nice looking theme for your blog. It is very important to match the colors so that your readers feel comfortable. There are many color suggestions though the classic black and white was never out of fashion. Make a decision about the layout, you may want to locate a menu of your blog on the upper part of the page and leave the place for the ads.
Though the outlook plays the important part in your blog’s success, the main part is the content. In order to make your blog popular you need to make it interesting for your readers. You have to include a good content to your blog. Usually it is done by posting the articles. You can either write the articles yourself or pay for them. If you find the way to provide your audience with a unique and good information that none of other sources provides, the success of your blog is guaranteed.
Create a community in your blog. Let your visitors comment on the posts and discuss the problems raised in them. You can also participate in the discussions, it make the users closer to the posts’ author and they will want to read the blog more often. The good and friendly atmosphere of the blog will help you create the circle of readers and your audience may want to subscribe to your blog’s RSS feeds and bookmark the blog.
There is a big competition on the internet with a lot of similar blogs that are targeted for gaining the maximum readers. If you are one of them, so you must do your most to make your blog stand out of the crowd. Blogging is one of the most popular ways to earn extra money in the internet. And in order to make money you need traffic. Thus 70% of the webmasters’ and blog owners’ time is devoted to the gaining traffic to their blogs.
If you are searching for the making money ideas we can give you some recommendations how to monetize the blog. The widely used way is the google adsence where you can add the ads to the pages of your blog and get commissions when someone clicks on these ads. Placing the affiliate programs’ links or banners to your blog will also help you make quick money online. The most important thing is to make your blog look friendly and be useful for the visitors so that they would want to visit it again and again.
