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When you decide to start blogging for money you need to make or change your current Internet business plan, so it can focus on building a strong income stream that can support you for a short or long period of time, it all depends on what your goals are. There are many ways to turn the virtual real estate of your blog into an asset, but its needs to match your overall goals or you will set up your Internet business for failure.

Also, having a business plan will give you a road map to follow and keep your efforts focus on achieving your goals. But, your need to be flexible and be ready to change, because the Internet is a medium on evolution, which makes your Internet business plan an ever changing blueprint... You can call this one of the golden rules of monetization.

Let's take a look at the three elements for effectively applying your "blogging for money" efforts, that will build a successful online home business:

Content

I mention content as the number one of the three golden rules of making money blogging because without a good up to date content your blog is just another static site, which is OK for some things, but not for a these type of sites. People and search engines expect for a blog to be updated constantly.

To be successful you need to provide content that is of high quality, original, useful to others, and closely relevant to your targeted niche. Is true that some bloggers still mix their personal stuff with their niche content, but if you put yourself in your reader's shoes, why do think they visit your site for? To read what happen to you in the super market or to read what your blog tagline or slogan is promising. Remember that your content is why people go to your site, that's why having good information will generate targeted traffic if is relevant to your main topic.

Traffic

Many call traffic the Holy Grail to build a successful online business, which is true only if that traffic is highly targeted, if you try to get everyone to visit your website, eventually nobody will, because they know that you don't have the information they are looking for. So, make sure you get a lot of visitors to your site that are really interest in the topic or niche of your blog.

Use traffic sources that can send good quality visitors to your site, develop a good link building marketing campaign, focus on SEO strategies to get free search traffic, for faster results invest on PPC or Adwords (Note: Make sure you learn how to use PPC advertising right before using it, or will cost you a lot of money and you may get low responses), advertise on top relevant blogs to gain more exposure, use viral marketing to make your message spread fast, and don't forget to use the traffic power of social media or web 2.0 tools.

Income

You can't be blogging for money if you haven't set up a good income mechanism and sales process. You need have a good income source structure that will earn you passive revenue, you can set a few types of lucrative assets for your site, here is an example of the elements that can be monetize:

• Virtual real estate space.
• Specific words.
• RSS feeds.
• Blog posts or articles.
• List building.

You don't have to make money from each of these elements, in fact some blogs do just fine by monetizing one or two of those elements. Just test and track everything you do until you find the best profit centers for your site and your niche.

Now what's important is the type of income sources you decide to use for each or few of those profit centers. Remember that your visitors are your priority, so try to find quality sources of revenue without upsetting your readers. Some of the things you can do use are:

• Sponsor image ads.
• Sponsor links.
• Google Adsense or other type of contextual ads services.
• Affiliate programs (digital or physical products).
• Inline word ads.
• Paid reviews of products or merchants.
• Blog post sponsor links.
• And recommend your own products.

To successfully make your blogging for money effort worth while make sure each profit center in your site have monetization sources relevant to your main topic, this way your or sponsor conversion rates will be higher.

Make sure you apply the three golden rules to your blog with a good Internet marketing plan to boost your success factor.

Learning as much as you can about blogging for money can help you grow your income, this is why that's one of the main topics I write about at the Internet Marketing Tips blog.

About Author: Luis Galarza is a respectable Internet Marketing and Small Business Consultant in the area of Leominster and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. He had teach 100's of entrepreneurs how to make money online and offline using little or no money. More marketing tips visit: http://LuisGalarza.blogspot.com

In this article we are going to take a quick look at even more free ways to get free traffic to your blog. The simple truth of the matter is this: Most blogs (and the bloggers behind them) will NEVER make enough money from their efforts to buy their family ONE nice dinner at the local diner. For all their pomp, pontificating and circumstance, your favorite blogger is most likely broke! (Or at least relative to the income they derive from their favorite pastime) Let's look at why - and watch as I give you a few FREE and easy ways to make sure you aren't one of them.

Cast a Wide Net

The truth is, if you are reading this article, you are most likely someone who is trying to break into the blogging world as a professional endeavor. You want to turn your PASSION, into profit...rather than simply sharing a few trite thoughts about the world, and your place within it. That said - you need to grow a larger base of readers, and content. How do you do this? Simple. Leverage and Software!

Which Blog are YOU Stalking?

The easiest way to get the word out, and do it fast, is to use a simple free tool like bloglines to aggregate and collect all of the cool content, blogs, and feeds that are relevant to your industry. Load them all up, and every morning, as they updated, stop by and comment on the new posts. Or alternatively, have someone do it for you. As a tertiary option, use a free browser like FLOCK and the "blogthis" function to add THEIR content to YOUR blog, with a perfectly formatted and attributed link back to them in the footer of your post.

What does this do? Very simply - they will SEE incoming links coming from yours to theirs and be much more likely to read YOUR blog regularly, refer their readers to you, etc. Of course when you choose the first option, your comments would be linking to your blog anyway, which is the conventional, and super easy way of broadening your base and increasing your exposure in record, rapid fire turn around time.

Next we are going to talk about SOFTWARE, and how you can use simple and efficient Wordpress plug ins to aggregate content across your niche to your very own site, supercharging your blog building efforts with push button simplicity. So check back for Part 2 of this series for an even more powerful way of building a BIG buck blog....often overnight!

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