I need some good advice

[sensi304]

Alrighty I am new and very dumb I reckon lol...But neway my problem is I wanna try and make some money online without having to spend money..If anybody can help me I need some advice on a site to start a blog for free and how I would make money for this blog>> I guess I really just dont understand the whole concept about everything I read on blogging because I hear about affiliate blogging and such..I just wana be able to start a blog and write about stuff I know and help people and make a little cash at the same time...Id appreciate the help and thank you in advance for whoever leaves a reply...

[blogaboutnothin]

You need some patience. Learn the basics of SEO, article marketing techniques, etc. There is a lot to learn and there are no overnight successes.

[Nathan]

If you don't put any money down expect a year or so of hard work before you are able to start making money.

Blogging is not a quick road to riches.

[Monkeyman09]

Originally Posted by sensi304

Alrighty I am new and very dumb I reckon lol...But neway my problem is I wanna try and make some money online without having to spend money..If anybody can help me I need some advice on a site to start a blog for free and how I would make money for this blog>> I guess I really just dont understand the whole concept about everything I read on blogging because I hear about affiliate blogging and such..I just wana be able to start a blog and write about stuff I know and help people and make a little cash at the same time...Id appreciate the help and thank you in advance for whoever leaves a reply...

-Alright, if you would like to start a free blogging website, check out WordPress.com Get a Free Blog Here or https://www.blogger.com/start. They are both free and you can put ads on Blogger, but I cannot remember if you are allowed to put ads on wordpress.com. If you host your own web server with Wordpress, then you can put ads on there.

-Blogging, to me, in the beginning, is a few simple things. I'm still learning myself by the way, so there's a lot more to blogging then just this stuff.
1.Website, you need one of those. SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is pretty much when a search engine such as google, has robots to scan your site. They look for keywords and when they put your website in their engines. (I suggest reading more about it.)
2. Design your own theme for your blog and have a logo. As long as everything fits your style and it isn't offensive to look at, then you should be good. (Learn about HTML, CSS, and the coding script that you would one day host your own blogging platform on. I host wordpress and I needed to learn about PHP.)
3. A successful niche of a blog (or goal of your site) is where you constantly post about that topic. I do gadgets, I post twice a day about gadgets, but that's just to keep up with the news. Some people post like once a day, for 3 days a week. You write about something you are passionate about or know a lot about. For me, I take a news article and report what is in the article while putting my own opinion. Blogs are all about your own opinion, otherwise people will go somewhere else for an opinion or read the article themselves.

-To make money off of your blog you'll need ads. You say you don't understand different types of blogs. My blog is about gadgets, so you'd call it a gadget blog. If yours is about marketing, I would call it a marketing blog. If someone had a blog about clowns that wear high heels while forming a conga line, then I would call that person nuts. Aha, but seriously, I don't know what I'd call it. Maybe a "you have to see this for yourself" blog?

I'm just branching off from a few things of what the previous posters said. They're right when saying that blogging isn't a quick road to riches because, unless you are a celebrity with a huge following, or someone famous, then you need to build your traffic.

Post here, post comments on blogs similar to yours, write reviews for other people. Make sure you reread your articles before posting them so they are coherent. Grammar, spelling and make sense!

Make sure do some SEO in your articles. There's so much more. I need to go write my articles though Good luck!

[Mkcoy]

Hi sensi. I started off like you. I wanted to make money online and have it cost me nothing. There are ways of achieving that. Monkeyman09 covered some good points in his reply.

To start with you will need a blog or a website. I'd suggest sticking with a blog. blogger.com being the best for a complete newbie to start off with. (IMO)

It is free and you will have no costs at all. Of course you may want to purchase your own domain name and use that with blogger instead of having a .blogger.com domain. Also it is a good idea to have your own domain name right from the start.

If you want to make money online. Have a look at the blog I started about a year ago (I stoppped and recently started again) but it was my intention (just like yours) to make FREE money online and to show other people how to do the exact same thing.

There are quite a few things you can do. But you will learn these over time. I suggest keeping it simple at first. Start a simple blog based on a certain "niche" and add some great informative posts to it.

Keep blogging and adding daily posts and you will soon start seeing search engine traffic coming. Build up backlinks with other sites. (Good for PR) and then introduce some ads on it. Get a Google Adsense account if you havent already.

Also there are others you can use. Bidvertiser, AdBright etc etc.
Also you can sell advertising spots on your blog to people but you will probably need a half decent blog to get any takers.

Hope that this helps you a little

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by sensi304

Alrighty I am new and very dumb I reckon lol...But neway my problem is I wanna try and make some money online without having to spend money..If anybody can help me I need some advice on a site to start a blog for free and how I would make money for this blog>> I guess I really just dont understand the whole concept about everything I read on blogging because I hear about affiliate blogging and such..I just wana be able to start a blog and write about stuff I know and help people and make a little cash at the same time...Id appreciate the help and thank you in advance for whoever leaves a reply...

Making money without spending money is now pretty difficult

if you get a free hosted blog like blogger or wordpress hosted i.e. makemoney.wordpress.com then you run into an immediate problem - the free hosted blogs are for non-commercial use - try and make some money and they'll take the lot down without any warning

I build lots of wordpress blogs - my latest: Buy Stocks
try and build something like that on free hosting and see how long it stays online!

for 10 dollars a month - paid monthly you can get add-on domain hosting - where you can keep adding wordpress blogs to your account - till things slow down too much to add any more - in theory you could have 100 wordpress blogs running - depending on the plugins you use - they all are resource hungry and slow things down

the only other unavoidable cost is the domain names - about 10 dollars a year each

other than that you're limited to revenue sharing squidoo lenses or hubpages - you'll only get paid a few cents on each one - I tried it and gave it up pretty quickly

a really cheap way is to register a "generic" domain name like "goodstuff.com"
then use sub domains like creditcards.goodstuff.com makemoney.goodstuff.com etc. - but you still have the 10 dollars a year for the domain and 10 dollars a month hosting - but hosting drops to about 8 dollars a month if you pay a couple of years in advance

free hosting is too much of a gamble even if used to host your own domains - the hosting and your site on it can disappear at any time - and without warning

[Mkcoy]

Originally Posted by stephen todd

the hosting and your site on it can disappear at any time - and without warning

That is a scary thought!

[LennyP]

Originally Posted by stephen todd

other than that you're limited to revenue sharing squidoo lenses or hubpages - you'll only get paid a few cents on each one - I tried it and gave it up pretty quickly

I disagree that Hubpages are a bad way to make money. For people able to get traffic and rankings on their own having your own domain and hosting is best. Some people can't do this on their own though and the built in traffic and seo from Hubpages is really strong.

Used properly they also make you much more than a few pennies. There are members there making hundreds, even thousands of dollars a month. Even if you have your own site already, Hubpages is a great way to get backlinks and drive traffic to it.

[stephen todd]

Originally Posted by LennyP

I disagree that Hubpages are a bad way to make money. For people able to get traffic and rankings on their own having your own domain and hosting is best. Some people can't do this on their own though and the built in traffic and seo from Hubpages is really strong.

Used properly they also make you much more than a few pennies. There are members there making hundreds, even thousands of dollars a month. Even if you have your own site already, Hubpages is a great way to get backlinks and drive traffic to it.

I built 9 hub pages about a year ago

total views per page: 125 to 585
pages currently scoring: 57 to 68


these are sending the majority of visitors:
google.com 895 total
search.yahoo.com 886 total
hubpages.com 383 total


I have 236 Articles on ezinearticles.com (Stephen Todd - EzineArticles.com Expert Author Bio) and the pageviews per year are similar - usually in the range of 100 to 700 per article per year


my feeling is that its only worth the effort to write articles, build squidoo or hub pages, etc. if you are syphoning off visitors to your own sites - and not trying to make money from the pages directly

I'm currently experimenting with wordpress plugins that echo your wordpress posts to the social networking sites - I feel this is a better use of my time