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Putting up your very own blog is a fantastic way to pull in money through AdSense or affiliate programs and can also be a fantastic choice for branding your own business products. Even so, most people are unfamiliar with the process of putting up a blog and monetizing it successfully. This article will show you how to easily set up a blog and get started on driving traffic to it.



When it involves trying to earn money from a blog, you actually have two options. Your first alternative is to purchase a domain name and install a blog on your own hosting. Your second choice is to create a free account on blogger.com, since they will permit you to add Adsense and promote affiliate programs from this blog. But make sure not to use a free WordPress blog since they will delete your account if you use affiliate promotions. However, you can always set up a WordPress blog directly on your own domain if you like that choice.



If you decide to get a domain, you can easily set up a WordPress blog with a pushbutton option in your cPanel web hosting account. This choice is preferable so that you build up your individual site and not something that is owned and controlled by Google. But you can, of course, use the free blog if you wish to get going without spending the few dollars a month for your own web hosting account and domain name.



As sson as you decide how you want to start, you will then be able to add Adsense to your blog and start blogging about many affiliate programs. Try to begin blogs that deal with topics you like so you will not have any problems adding posts every day. This is actually essential to improving your search engine ranking for that web log. One important thing you should do when advertising affiliate programs is never go for the hard sell. Tell visitors what the product can do for them and leave a link for the product, but never, ever try to push people into buying as you will end up turning them off.



Additionally, you should promote every blog posting on your blog. A great method of doing this is with article marketing by creating links to individual posts, or you can use social bookmarking to do your linking. Over time, people will see that you are a niche expert and they will be willing to purchase products you advertise. You will shortly have your very own profitable blog if you take the time to carry out these simple steps.