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Starting your own blog is a superb way to not just generate brand awareness regarding your product, but it is also a great way to generate money with affiliate programs and Adsense. Still, not that many people are able to successfully start and monetize a blog. Continue reading to find out several simple methods of creating a blog and driving traffic.



When it has to do with trying to make money from a blog, you actually have a couple of choices. One alternative is to purchase a domain name and put up the blog on a website that belongs to you. Your other alternative is to get a free account on blogger.com, as they will let you add Adsense and promote affiliate programs from this blog. But then, do not create a free blog at Wordpress.com if you hope to make money from affiliate products since they will cancel your account. But as I stated before, you will be able to set up a WordPress blog on your own domain, if that is the way you would like to go.



If you choose to purchase a domain, you can easily set up a WordPress blog with a pushbutton option in your cPanel web hosting account. This is truly the desired method because you will be advertising your own web site instead of one that is a property of Google. Nonetheless, you may want to use the free blogger.com option initially if you don't have the needed money to spend on web hosting and a domain name.



After you decide how you want to begin, you will then be able to add Adsense to your blog and begin blogging about various affiliate programs. Keep in mind that it's better to create blogs about themes that interest you because this will help you keep going for the long term. This will be helpful in getting top rankings in the search engines. Another thing to bear in mind is to soft sell when you advertise affiliate products. Let visitors know how the product will help them and provide a link for their convenience but don't try to hard-sell them or they will never come back to your blog.



It's crucial that you promote each and every blog post too. A great method of doing this is with article marketing by building links to individual blog entries, or you can use social bookmarking to do your linking. Eventually, you will be known as an expert in your particular niche which will give you needed credibility when it involves affiliate promotions. Just follow these simple steps and you will be a winning, profitable blog owner before you know it.