There are many ways to make a comfortable living online and many people have made a fortune by blogging from home. The following statistics, courtesy of “The West Program Blog” give you some idea of its popularity and of where it’s headed in the near future:
“There have been more than 133,000,000 blogs indexed by Technorati since 2002. According to Universal McCann 77% of Internet users read blogs. About half of all Bloggers are working on at least their second blog and 86% have been blogging for a year or more. 61% state that they blog in an effort to supplement their income.”
To get in on the blogging phenomenon as a home based business the first thing you need to do is set up a blog that’s targeted toward a specific audience. In other words, your blog’s topic should be directed at a niche market that’s hungry for the information you’re providing.
Research is very important at this stage because you need to know that your target market is willing to pay for the information they need to solve their problems or the advice they want to make their lives easier in some way. You should be able to accomplish this by discovering what they’re currently buying so you can monetize your website accordingly.
You should also examine the competition’s blogs to get an understanding of why they’re so popular and of how they’re making so much money. This information will give you a good idea of how to construct your web page so that it stands out from the crowd, so it’s monetized appropriately for your targeted niche and so it attracts the targeted traffic you need to make money right from the start.
There are many ways to monetize your home business blog including, but not limited to, promoting your own products, advertising affiliate products or other people’s merchandise, employing Google’s ad sense ads and making money when someone clicks on an advertisement on your blog or by promoting cost per action offers whereby you get paid every time one of your visitors performs a specific act such as filling out a form or an application for information.
After you’ve decided how you’re going to make money from your website you now need to buy an appropriate domain name from one of the many providers online. Next, you have to download the software you need to set up your blog either from WordPress or Blogger and finally you just have to do it.
Start writing articles containing keywords targeted toward your niche topic. Remember, content is king and the more you have on your home page the more targeted traffic you’ll drive to your home business blog. Updating your website by adding original content as often as possible will attract the major search engines attention and help you get ranked for searches related to your blog’s keywords.
Now that you have the basics in place your next step is to start driving as many people as possible from your niche to your blog so you’ll start making money online and you’ll begin to realize your dream of making a living from your home based business.
