Make Money Blogging

What is a blog?

The word Blog is an acronym for WeB LOG. blogs allow their writers the opportunity to write an online journal sharing their thoughts on everything and anything with an audience of millions. When blogs first hit the Internet they were basically online journals/diaries of individuals. The blogging sphere evolved and now it seems every one has a blog and many companies both big and small will have a blog sometimes written by a team.

What is the difference between a Website and a BLOG?

A blog is to all intent and purposes a website. The main difference is that a blog is geared up for easily publishing content on a particular subject and is therefore more regularly updated when compared to a website which is more static. Also the content is usually more bite size and opinionated when compared to the content of a website. A blog also allows for a two-way conversation as visitors to blogs are often allowed to respond to the blogs posts.

So Can You Make Money with a blog?

Most definitely! Pretty much the same way you can make money with a website and some more besides! There’s also some different ways you can market a blog and these are included in this section. How do I Start a Blog. The easiest and cheapest way is to use Google’s www.blogger.com, which hosts the site for free and is relatively easy for the newbie to get up and going. Also offering a similar service is www.wordpress.com that has a slightly steeper learning curve but is the Internet standard for blogging. Although the method of blogging is popular for newbie bloggers as it is free the people serious about blogging host their own site in their own registered domain. They download open source blogging software (for example from www.wordpress.com) and then upload their blog and subsequent posts.