Most blog for fun or passion without realizing they can do something they love and generate an income. With a few simple tweaks, some tools and techniques, any blog can start making money. All you need to do is tweak the content you’re publishing to make it search engine friendly, promote affiliate programs related to your blog, and use web 2.0 tools and methodologies. Let’s get down to business implementing a few things that all work together and turn the Blog into a profitable website.

Think of a blog as a platform delivering product people want and you open a door of possibilities to monetize that product. You posts ARE your product. Enhance that product by extending a percentage into articles, about 300 to 500 words, with useful information. Your tweak is to write with your keywords in mind. Make sure the keywords appear in the title of the post and within the article. This simple tweak is a foundation for all SEO.

Google loves blogs because blogs are content rich, so feed it what it wants–content. Be sure to use the same keywords over and over again across all your posts and articles. Now you have something that people want, AND it’s Google friendly. The next step is to hook into Web 2.0 tools and techniques to start driving traffic.

If content is king then traffic is your life’s blood. In our simple steps there are only 2 things you need to know about generating traffic: lots of content with the same keywords and lots of links to your site. We took care of the first half now let’s deal with the second. You can, and should, link within your own site, but how do you get other sites to link to you? Simple, you leverage all that work in turning posts into articles and let them work for you by submitting them to article directories, and taking advantage of social bookmarking.

Basically, if 10 sites use the content you submitted to article directories, you’re in the position receive traffic from those 10 sites. Also you have a link back to your site in the bio. In the worst case every post you submit to an article directory creates 1 link back to your site.

The next trick is to add bookmarking to your site. For Wordpress it’s easy. Install a bookmarking plug-in like BookmarkMe, ShareThis, wp-notable, there are others, and put a bit of code in you index template. Every time someone bookmarks your site they create a link back to your site.

Now that you’ve put the blog in a position to get traffic, monetizing that traffic isn’t as hard as you think.

Here is the simplest technique to get the cash flowing after you tweak the content and get the traffic flowing: Adsense. Take a look and you’ll see it all over the web. It’s easy. It’s free and it gives you money based on views and clicks. Here’s how to get an account on the first try.

Now that your content has keywords, Google’s Adsence can generate targeted ads. This is great because not only are you getting people who are looking for what you have to say (remember, your content is your product) but they get links to MORE of the same.

The next monetizing step is to put links to affiliate products related to the blog. I’m not talking about “selling.” Let’s say your blog is about basket weaving and you writing a post on the first thing you need to get started. Somewhere in the post you put your affiliate link to a store where they can buy the stuff or to a DVD you like. All you’re doing is recommending and referring.

There you have it, the simplest way to get you blogging for money making website. By expending a little more effort when you sit down to post your passions or ramblings, then leveraging that effort via Web 2.0, and slapping a bit of code on your site, you’ve are starting a process that transforms you from a blogger to the owner of a money making website.

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