Freelancing: How to start a Web Designer Gig

Laid off? Can Not find a job?

I have a good friend, who lost his job in dot com bust in silicon valley and then again in 2009 down economy. Steve is great at technical stuff and overall smart and hardworking guy in real life like many who got laid off around that time.

No matter how hard he worked to send resumes and phone interviews, he was unlucky to find a job. He was simply unlucky, after 3 months of not having an income , he was bored and frustrated to say the least.

Steve designed a website for me in his free time and he did a great job that other people started to like these simple jobs and now he is working from home, making websites and web designs for others. When you have driven past Steve’s apartment, the last few months, you may have noticed that his Honda Civic is usually in the driveway. That is because Steve now works at home with some of his friends and they are freelancer for anyone who may need web design work, logo work and so on.

How to be a Web Designer Freelancer

If you love web design and are technical savvy, you might just be perfect for web designer jobs at big companies as a staff designer like many people. However, if you like to be your own boss or not finding a job like my friend, you may want to look in to freelancing web design jobs.

Now with web presence for everything, web design is key ingredient for many big, small business to have a web presence. It is not only lucrative, but it also gives you freedom of starting your own small web design business. I am simply not good at web design, creating custom logo, coding css and html codes, I know little stuff but when it comes to big issues, I call my friend to help me. Two of my sites are designed by him and you can check out his company with his other friends at .

There are a few Benefits of Web Designer Freelancing

Freedom to work from home
Freedom to work anytime, as web design can be done at anytime.
You can be your own boss or work for big Company as a web designer.
Once you make name for yourself, business will be word of mouth and keep coming
You can set your own rate for charging the web design fees as long as they are reasonable.
Flexible work hours, waking up late can be okay

Possible downside of Freelancing:

Until you established your self there might be no income coming in
Even if you get a project, it might not be steady income
Sometimes you need to do rush project, working 80 hours a week
Self discipline is needed to be motivated when working from home.
Social life can be lonely being working from home

What are Available Resources for Web Designer Freelancing?

So, if you decided that you want to start a freelancing job, what are the resources available to you? Some sites can bring you lot of potential clients and opportunities.

Some of the best sites you can find potential clients and advertise your services are;

elance.com

freelancer.com

Some sites may charge to place your ads in it, some are free. I have not tried it but I see some advertisement on craigslist.com for web designer, so you may want to look in to it.

When is a good time to start?

Good time to get started is now, the sooner you will start, the sooner it will start to work for you. Remember Rome was not build in a day so do not expect immediate success right away. As a freelancer writer I know it takes time. Good luck.

How Many Types Of Paid Surveys Can You Make Money From?

When I tell people about making money through paid surveys, there are often many questions, one of the most asked question is always what type of paid surveys are there? and Can you really make money from it? Let me tell you, you will not become millionaire with paid surveys, but you can make side change or nice side income for surely with paid surveys. Below is more details about types of paid surveys you can do to make chunk of money.

Types of Paid Surveys

Statistical Surveys:

These surveys are used to collect information about the population. These surveys are used to measure political polls, for governmental use, health, social activities, and marketing research. The surveys will focus on facts or opinions, depending on the type of the information the company or institution is looking for.

The questions on this type of survey are standard and structured. Questions are offered in an order that will not influence a response to questions that came after. They are standardized so that the questions remain general and reliable. Every person receiving the survey will receive the exact same questions.

Serial Surveys:

These surveys repeat the same questions at different times to track changes in opinion. There are two types of serial surveys. Cross– Sectional Surveys are given to a variety of different people at the same time, and Longitudinal Surveys are given to the same person at different intervals of time.

Delivering Surveys to the Public:

Telephone Surveys– Are a popular way to get public opinion and are low in cost. This type of survey is limited in capacity because the responder is not able to view, smell, or touch the product. An oral representation of the survey is represented.

Mail Surveys– The survey is mailed to the respondent and are returned in the same manner. When bought in bulk, postage is usually quite reasonable, making this type of delivery cost effective. The biggest drawback to this type of survey delivery is the long wait to receive all of the responses, sometimes several months.

Online Surveys– Web surveys are sometimes preferred over email because the response rate is instantly available. Online surveys can be lower in cost to the company, and more convenient for the person filling them out because they are automated.

In-Home Surveys– People are interviewed at their door or in their home. These surveys are very high in cost and the company will get about a 40 to 50% response.

Man-on-the Street Surveys– Surveys taken by those encountered outdoors. Many times a booth is set up with an interviewer. The questions can be asked orally, or the respondent may be asked to fill out a written survey.

Make Money With Paid Surveys

HOW PAID SURVEYS WORK

Once you register with a paid survey site, you will receive surveys in your email. It is up to you which surveys you choose to participate in. You will be paid for each survey you complete, following the price per survey the site offers. Most of the time, these surveys will take you about 5 to 15 minutes of your time to fill out, and usually offer a payment of $10 to $75 for each. Focus groups pay quite a bit more per survey, usually up to $250.

The amount of money you make will depend on how many sites you join and how many emails you receive in a day, you could make several hundred dollars daily. Look at it this way, if you receive and complete at least 25 paid surveys a day at $10 to $15 each, you would be making anywhere from $250–$375 per day. At 5 to 15 minutes per survey you would be working anywhere from 2 1/2 hours, to a bit over 6 hours every day. If all of these surveys were from focus groups paying $75 each, you would have the potential to realize a whopping $1875 per day. You can see the potential to make a good deal of money participating in paid surveys.

Why Would Anyone Pay For Your Opinion ?

As a consumer, your opinion is important to companies before they introduce a new product or service to the market. Paying to have a consumer fill out surveys is a much more cost effective way to perform research, as the company cannot afford to introduce a new product or service that nobody will buy.

It is well worth it for a company to pay a consumer to fill out a survey, participate in an online focus group, or pay to watch a new movie trailer and give their opinion. This way they will get consumer opinions, good or bad, before they put any money into production.

How To Make Passive Income With Real Estate

One of the best way to set up passive income or alternative income is put your income eggs on different baskets, so no matter how market turns, you will have some income coming from various streams of investment. I am strong believer in diversifying my income, no matter how small or big the amount may be at the first.

One of the sound investment is real estate or have a rental property. Yes, even with bad real estate market in last few years and crazy foreclosures, prices for many real estate property is low and interest rate is down for many investing opportunity.

Few Key Point to Consider before investing in real estate:

Invest in small or fixer upper property
Never take more loans then you need
Pay cash whenever possible
Invest with friends or other people who knows different things
Hire trusted property manager or do work yourself to save money
It is not 100% passive income as work is required but it is not 8 hours a day job
Always make sure tax liens, and other debt issue before investing

How to Find Affordable Timeshares at EBay

With the increasing demand for timeshare properties,
where one has versatile options on how to use it, it
has become one of the most popular ways on which one
will buy a certain unit for vacation purposes. But
then again, with its astronomical prices, people now
prefer to purchase timeshare properties in the resell
market rather than buying a new one at a steeper
price. Also, people can get to critique and find some
considerations from the selling party to get the best
deal possible.

Find One at EBay!

Of course, you may find one with your extensive
connections on finding a reseller of timeshares but
you may also opt for the best reselling website right
now, which is Ebay. Not only you may find an extensive
list of people who are selling timeshares, it is also
one of the best and most reliable companies that are
selling them. Also, they give big discounts on these
kinds of properties. So not only do you have a lot of
options in Ebay, you can avail of it at a better price
than anywhere else in the market.

Today, the firm has an estimated 1400 timeshares which
are placed from the west coast to the east coast, from
Hawaii to Manhattan. With that list in place, you are
assured that you can find the best place that is
suited to your lifestyle and needs. If you luck out,
sometimes you’ll get a substantial discount of 75%.
Sometimes, you may even get a property for an
unbelievable $105. But when you think about it, the
maintenance costs aren’t cut, so it’s likely that
you’ll get around $650 as bill for maintenance and a
rather funny one that costs only $105 for the
property.

With the phenomenal costs of maintenance on hand, you
also have to watch out for other costs you may incur.
For instance, a property that costs around $120 may
also have $700, $350 and $100 in maintenance, closing
and resort transfer fees, respectively. So all in all,
you have to pay around $1280 for the first year.

Other Benefits

The most wonderful benefit that you can get for
purchasing timeshares in Ebay is that you’re free from
convoluted timeshare contracts. But what you have to
know, however, is the state policies that come with
the timeshare; meaning, you have to know where the
location of your unit is. You should know them because
it will help you escape big trouble in the long run.
It would be great if you can get help from a good
lawyer. Check it out properly, taking notice of the
fees, taxes and restrictions that come with the
timeshare property. You also have to remember that you
must avoid freaky scams and only entertain EBay fees,
nothing more, nothing less.

Conclusion

With all the conveniences and benefits that come along
with purchasing a timeshare property in EBay, the site
is definitely for keeps. It screens the system every
now and then to find out who is a known malicious
seller or not. But then, don’t forget of the overhead
and maintenance costs that come with the timeshare.
These are not discounted like the property price, and
it is very likely that these fees may cost around
three or even eight times the property. Lastly, you
have to watch out for the policies that come with
specific timeshares. So that not only will your
vacation will be safe, it will be hassle-free and
inexpensive as well.

How To Set Up Blog Guide and Series

In 2008 when US economy went down and many people’s job were lost or in jeopardy. I was one of the person who felt I needed to have an alternative ways to make money to make sure that me and my family can survive in tough time. I started searching for many business ideas and work from home schemes to make extra monies. Sad to say, many things I found were not legitimate and one have to spend money in order to get started. I was in search for a make money home plan that did not involve spending much money up front. I came across making money online as a viable home business ideas for me.

I have been blogging for over 3.5 years and start to make a about $300 a month now. Now, this is not get rich quickly ideas, as most make money quick are fraud and scams. Starting a blog is one of the easy way one can make money from home, for someone who is in between job or someone who wants to make more money from side or even great for stay at home mom to start a blog.

I have created a series of articles to show you what I learned over the years and most of it is free or cheap enough for you get started out in. You can search this home business ideas blog to find the series, or I have made it easier for you and put all articles in one post so you do not have to go searching for it.

Some great posts to see how I got started:

About Us and our Journey

Step by Step guide to Get Started in Blogging

How To Set Up Blog Series (10 Article series)

How to Set Up Blog: Part 1 -Start a Free Blog

How to Set Up Blog: Part 2- How to Write Content

How to Set Up Blog: Part 3: Where to Find Writing Ideas

How to Set Up Blog: Part 4: On Page SEO

How to Set Up Blog: Part 5- Off Page SEO Part 1

How to Set Up Blog: Part 6- Off Page SEO 2 and Pagerank

How to Set Up Blog: Part 7- Get Traffic to Your Blog

How to Set Up Blog: Part 8- How To Monetize Your Blog

How to Set Up Blog: Part 9: More monetizing Blog Ideas and Tips

How to Set Up Blog: Part 10: Build Relationship for Success

Hope you enjoy this series and get started on making money online from home a reality for you today.

Also,You can learn more about favorite blogging resources and tools reviews for further details.

There are also reasonably priced web design,template and blog transfer services, if you are interested, you can use them as they have done great job with out web design.

How To Set Up Blog: Part 10- Build Relationship

In part 1 of the series,we learned how to set up a blog,in part 2 of the series,we looked at how to write to attract readers,in part 3 of the series,we looked at where and how to get ideas for what to write on your blog,part 4 of the series we looked at how to optimize on page SEO to attract traffic to your blog. In Part 5 of the series, we looked at how to optimized off page (outside your blog SEO for increasing traffic to your blog). In part 6 of the series, we looked at how to set up an off page SEO and Google Page rank. In part 7 of the series, we saw on how to get more traffic to your blog website. In part 8 of the series, we looked at two popular ways to monetize your blog. In part 9, we looked at more ways to monetize your website, blog and make money from it. In last part of the how to set up blog series, we will learn how to set up relationship with bloggers and readers for continuation of your blog success.

See previous post in how to set up blog series: How to Set Up Blog:Part 9:More monetizing Blog Ideas and Tips

Part 10 – Interactions Between Blogs

As your blog’s content increase, people in your niche will definitely mention you for intelligent or interesting discussions. This is, in a sense, an initiation of an interaction. When people speak of you, you should thank them for the mention and build up the interaction!

When you use a traffic tracking script such as the free www.statcounter.com, you can see where traffic comes from. If a large number of visitors come from a certain blog, you can be sure they have mentioned you in their latest post or linked to you from their sidebar or links page. What you should do is pay them a visit, leave constructive comments on their posts and build up a conversation!

Build Relationship:

As you continue doing this, you will start to gather a lot of friends in your niche. This is helpful later on when you decide to do collaborations such as interviews. In fact, when you’re out of ideas for writing on your blog, you can interview other blog owners in your niche! Human beings are curious creatures, so naturally they would like to know more about a person whose writings they read so often.

If you’re using WordPress, Textpattern, MovableType or any other advanced blog engines, you can also post trackback links on your posts. This means you can post an article about what other people have posted! Your particular post will then appear as a link on that post you have written about. This is definitely a great way to get traffic if you post brilliant insights about a post on a very famous blog. Since the famous blog already has a per-existing pool of readers, this is like a shortcut to hog their visitors! The only thing you would want to observe is to keep your posts sensible and insightful, or you’ll be viewed as a spammer.

On the other hand, if you’re using Blogger, you would not be able to use trackback links. However, you can post insightful comments on other people’s blogs and subtly include a link back to your blog. You can make it seem like you’re pointing to your blog as an extra reference to the subject of discussion. Of course, this technique is not only limited to Blogger users and users of other blog engines can employ this strategy as an additional traffic source.

Linking and Trackbacks:

Trackbacks and pingbacks help you gain backlinks and traffic to your blog from other sources. You should also link to good blog posts from your blog friend or other related niche sites as a professional blogger who wants to make sure that readers get the great information. Believe me, in my blogging experience, when I have stopped being selfish and wanted to genuinely help others, I had started to make money and you will too.

Get Started To Blog Right Way:

Now you have learned in this 10 part series of How to set up a blog properly, what to write, how to write, how to do on page and off page SEO (search engine optimization), how to monetize your blog and build a relationship to continue your success from working from home and making money with your blog. Good luck!

To See all How to Set up Blog Series Click here: How to Set up Blog articles

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What You Need To Know About Taxes and Online Business

Taxes: They’ll Catch Up On You

This is part of tax series, when you have a online business and not paying taxes can be a blow for you and your LLC or Corporation. What do you need to know about paying taxes for your online business?
Doing business online is starting to be a much
preferred way of transacting business both by the
sellers and the buyers not only because it is way more
hassle-free than real shopping but also because it
provides a chance for a tax-free business transaction
to transpire.

However, the happy days of transacting business
without worrying about the taxes that come along with
it will soon be over because on July 1, 2008,
Washington will be joining 18 other states in America
that oblige certain online or e-commerce businesses to
pay and collect sale taxes.

If you have an online business or if you are planning
to start one, then you will also be required to
collect taxes from your consumers or costumers if ever
you are residing in a state that requires you to pay
taxes.

A State Law Passed In 2007

The changes to be implemented on July 1 are the result
of a state law passed in 2007. The certain state law
changes the way the taxes are calculated – a major
alteration that spurs some headaches and confusion
among all online retailers.

Take this situation for example: if you decide to shop
and purchase in a shop or store, you are obliged to
pay the tax rate depending on where the store is
located. However, if you decide to have the stuffs
that you purchased delivered to your doorstep, you are
obliged to pay for the tax rate of your state.

In technical terms, the tax system will be changed
from origin-based to destination-based.

The Tax Is Not Levied On The Business

Yes, you read that right – the tax is not levied on
the business, instead, it is levied on the part of the
consumer. It is the obligation of online businesses to
collect tax from its consumers and remit it to the
state.

The government is strictly issuing penalties for
businesses that fail to adhere to the law.

Online businesses are not excused from this law, in
fact, more law enforcers and agents are being sent to
check on the legality of online stores and businesses.

One common Internet myth is that the Internet Tax
Freedom Act allows online businesses from being
exempted from collecting sales tax from their
consumers. It is truly considered as one big myth
because in reality, it does not actually stop the
states from collecting sales tax on online businesses
and other e-commerce.

Sure, the Internet Tax Freedom Act does not impose
sales tax on Internet access fees but aside from that,
taxes are already imposed.

When You Make Money Online, You Have To Pay Taxes When
you earn, you really have to pay taxes; it’s a known
fact and perhaps what we can call a bittersweet
reality. Sure, it may be a bit difficult on our part
to surrender a part of our hard-earned money for tax
dues but the truth is, everyone is doing so.

Taxes and Your Online Business

Taxes: Do You Have to Pay when You Blogging?

One of the confusing thing for new blogger is do they have to pay taxes even if they make a little money only. While I am not a tax expert, I know thing or two from owning a business and having my own financial person to help me with taxes. See also: What Do You Need To Know About Blog Business taxes?

If you are a neophyte in realm of online business, then perhaps you have a lot of questions that are
plaguing your mind and one of them may be all about whether you are obliged to pay taxes for your online
business or not.

Calculating and paying your duly taxes alone is already one confusing ride, and surely it will get
more confusing if it will be mixed with an online business.

However, as they say, there’s no problem that cannot be solved. With just a few tips and guides, you can
find out how to pay taxes for your online business without any hassles or problems along the way.

The Charm Of Online Business

Before we talk about taxes and your online business,
let’s discuss first why more and more people are
getting attracted to starting their own online
business.

Well, first of all, it is very hassle-free compared to
having a business in the non-virtual world. You see,
in online business, you only have to type and click
for your business to boom.

Very minimal manual labor is needed in an online
business and one can even get to work at home in their
pajamas while managing their online business.

Now the question is: are online businessmen or
entrepreneurs exempted from paying taxes? The answer
is no. All individuals who are earning money online
are required to pay taxes.

Sure, the government can’t possibly keep track of how
much money each person generates online but then
again, it’s one of the citizens’ responsibilities to
go ahead and be responsible enough to pay for their
taxes.

The Real Deal About Most Online Businesses

The truth is, not everybody who does business online
is honestly paying their due taxes. Most online
businesses include shopping and it’s a known fact that
most if not all shoppers despise paying sales tax and
adore a bargain that is luxuriously tax-free.

The Internet is actually considered to be a great
venue for tax-free shopping which lures more and more
customers each day. Online retailers have been using a
no-tax shopping tag line to attract more online
shoppers to their business.

Sounds like a win-win situation, right? Online
shoppers enjoy numerous tax-free shopping sprees and
online retailers don’t pay their taxes. Most people
probably think that doing business through the
Internet is considered to be tax-free.

However, the fact is, some Internet sales are actually
subject to what we know as “sales tax” and online
consumers are the ones often responsible to remit any
unpaid sales tax on whatever online products they have
purchased.

They can actually remit it directly to their state
come tax-paying time.

Collecting Sales Tax The process of determining
whether you should pay taxes for your online business
or not may be quite confusing and overwhelming –
especially if it’s your first time to get involved in
online business.

However, here are just some few tips you should
remember: the obligation to pay the so-called “Sales
Tax” can be determined by the location of the
customers, and not the seller.

If a business does not actually have a physical
presence in a particular state (an example of this
would be your online store or business), it is not
required to collect sales tax from costumers in that
certain state.

How To Set Up a Blog: Part 9 – More Monetizing Tips

This article is part 9 in series of how to set up a blog series. In part 1 of the series,we learned how to set up a blog,in part 2 of the series,we looked at how to write to attract readers,in part 3 of the series,we looked at where and how to get ideas for what to write on your blog,part 4 of the series we looked at how to optimize on page SEO to attract traffic to your blog. In Part 5 of the series, we looked at how to optimized off page (outside your blog SEO for increasing traffic to your blog). In part 6 of the series, we looked at how to set up an off page SEO and Google Page rank. In part 7 of the series, we saw on how to get more traffic to your blog website. In part 8 of the series, we looked at two popular ways to monetize your blog. In part 9, we will look at more ways to monetize your website, blog and make money from it.

See previous post on how to set up blog series: How to Set Up Blog:Part 8- How To Monetize Your Blog

Part 9 – More Monetizing Options

We’ve discussed about using Google Adsense program and other merchants’ affiliate programs to generate profits from your blog. However, we have a lot of other options of monetize your blog, so we’re going to look into that today. Here are a few more ways to monetize your blog and make money from home.

Chitika Program

The first option we’ll be looking at is Chitika (www.chitika.com). Chitika is a very innovative contextual advertising program because it can serve very detailed advertisements. For example, on your technological gadget blog, Chitika will show advertisements for tech gadgets such as iPods. The way they show it is in different tabs: one for “Best deals”, another for “details”, another for “reviews” and so on. This way, it is more of an informational section for your visitor rather than an advertisement, and naturally the click-through will be higher. You can apply here: https://chitika.com/application.php?type=mm

Amazon Affiliate Program:

You can also be an affiliate for Amazon.com. Amazon offers a wide range of products but its predominant domain is in books. Whatever your niche is about, you can probably find a book about it on Amazon.com. Join their Associate programme here: https://associates.amazon.com/gp/flex/associates/apply-login.html/

Once you join them, you can refer visitors to them and earn up to 8% commission. It’s not a lot but if you can manage to refer big volumes of visitors, Amazon is for you. This program really shines when it comes to the ways you can refer visitors: you can use their predefined templates to pull up recent items that match a certain criteria you set, you can target your ad to show a specific item on sale or you can just simply weave your referral links into your blog posts.

Sell Ad Space on Your Blog:

Last but definitely not least, you can sell advertising space on your blog if your blog is truly popular. Just take a look at any popular blog with high page rank and traffic.Any blog that receives over 10,000 page views every day and naturally merchants will want to strike a deal with the blog’s owner to post their advertisements there. If you manage to pull in huge amounts of traffic like that blog, you can definitely get people to buy ad space on your blog for prices from $150/month upwards, depending on your blog popularity.

How to Know Your Pageviews and Visitors:

One way to know your page view and daily traffic is through free tool, called Google Analytic at http://www.google.com/analytics/. Sign up with your Google account and add your site to it. Another way to gauge how much pageviews and visitors you get everyday, just use the free tool available at www.statcounter.com. They have a very detailed setup guide there so I won’t go into it.

If your blog has not acquired large amount of visitors yet, you can still sell ad space on your blog on a per click or per impression basis. Just visit sites like www.adbrite.com. For a complete list of these sites, visit http://performancing.com/node/60.

Hopefully, that will help you maximize earnings and profits from your blog! Keep working and with time, your blog will be making money in every day consistently.

Stay tuned for next and last in How to set up a blog series: How to Set Up Blog:Part 10:Build Relationship for Success

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How To Set Up a Blog: Part 8 – Monetize Your Blog

This article is part 5 in series of how to set up a blog series. In part 1 of the series,we learned how to set up a blog,in part 2 of the series,we looked at how to write to attract readers,in part 3 of the series,we looked at where and how to get ideas for what to write on your blog,part 4 of the series we looked at how to optimize on page SEO to attract traffic to your blog. In Part 5 of the series, we looked at how to optimized off page (outside your blog SEO for increasing traffic to your blog). In part 6 of the series, we looked at how to set up an off page SEO and Google Page rank. In part 7 of the series, we saw on how to get more traffic to your blog website. In part 8, we will look at how to monetize your site to make money from your blog, writing and visitors.

See previous post in how to set up blog series: How to Set Up Blog:Part 7- Get Traffic to Your Blog

Part 8 – Monetizing Your Blog

Now that you have great content that readers likes and traffic to your site, it is time to monetize your blog so that you can make money from it. You can monetize your site from before, but it will be futile as you will have little content and little traffic to make any impact. However it is personal choice. Whenever you are ready to monetize, here are some great tips that I have learned.

You have been working hard to produce good-quality, original content on your blog and you have attracted a decent amount of traffic by doing so. However, money is not going to appear out of thin air just because you have traffic. You have to turn your traffic into money.

Make Money With Google Adsense:

There are several ways to generate profits from the visitors of your blog, and Google’s Adsense program allows you to do so with ultimate ease. First, visit their website at http://adsense.google.com/. You’ll find out more about their advertising program there, but here are some extra bits I’d like to tell you.

First, Google’s Adsense program is a really useful way to monetize your blog because when users finish reading your newest post, chances are they want to leave your blog because they have nothing else to do on your blog. If your Adsense advertisement block is visible on your blog, they might see advertisements relevant to them and click on them to exit your blog. Ka-ching! You’ve just cashed in on your first virtual cents!

But yes, your profits will only be cents if you don’t “do it right”. This involves placing your Google ads in the right places and ensuring they blend in to your site so that they appear more like links rather than advertisements to your visitors. Consult the page https://www.google.com/support/adsense/bin/static.py?page=tips.html to see the “heat map” of your blog. The “hotter” a certain area, the greater the chances of someone looking at your blog.

Once you get a Google Adsense account, you can change the color of your advertisement text and links. You will want them to match the colors on your blog. If your blog’s text is black and the links are red, do the same for the ad blocks too! It’s that simple. One thing to keep in mind that some keyword will pay higher compared to other so, make sure you do your search on free keyword tool to know if your niche is profitable or not.

One thing that most blogger like about adsense is, people do not have to buy a product, if they simply clicked on product links, you will make some money. However, Google is notorious for canceling the fraud links so make sure you do not click on your own ads or ask your family or friends to do it, according to Adseense TOS or you will risk losing your adsense account.

Make Money With An Affiliate Products:

Another way to earn profits from your blog is to recommend products to your readers. When your visitors buy from the merchants you recommend, you get to keep a little commission too. This is known as affiliate marketing and it is very easy to start because you don’t have to create your own products or services.

Anyway, let’s refer back to our technological gadgets blog example. Let’s say you discover this Gadget X on a merchant’s website, and they offer an affiliate program. What you would do is to create a post in your blog and do a mini-review on this Gadget X. Rip it apart and point out its benefits and bad points, if any, and include a link (which is given by the merchant) for the visitor to purchase the Gadget X online.

If your visitor clicks and purchases the gadget, the merchant will track from the link that the purchase is referred by you, so they will send you your share of the profits. Imagine if 1 out of every 100 visitors you get purchases this product, and you earn $27.00 commission from each purchase! If you get 10,000 visitors in a month that would be a $2,700.00 pay check for you just for writing about ONE product.

How to Find Affiliate Program for Your Blog Niche:

Now, affiliate programs are very nice ways to generate profit, but how do you find affiliate programs that are related to your blog’s theme? Easy, just go to Google and search for <your niche> +”affiliate programs”. Another slightly better way is to go to http://www.associateprograms.com/search to look for affiliate programs in your niche.

The two ways mentioned above are basic ways to generate profits from your blog. We’ll be discussing other great, profitable ways, so keep your eyes peeled!

Stay tuned for next part in How to Set up a Blog Part 9 : How to Set Up Blog:Part 9:More monetizing Blog Ideas and Tips

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