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How To Make Money Blogging – 10 Step Solution

November 8th, 2009 Rob Robertson 2 comments

Firstly, we all want to know How to Make Money Online, and one of the best ways I have found is by creating blogs. In this post I intend to show you how you too can learn How to Make Money Blogging by telling you how combining the techniques I have gathered from across the web helps to make me $$$ every day. Secondly, I am not trying to sell you my latest “Get Rich Quick” scheme because I don’t have one. Each eBook you read will have a wealth of information within them which will, without a doubt help you to discover the secrets of How to Make Money Online. I am only going to tell you which ones out of the 100′s available you SHOULD read if you too want to make lots of money.

I use a 10 step guide to setting up and starting all of my blogs.

I will give you a list of the top 7  resources later that I use and recommend to everyone who is serious about making lots of money online. One of the vital aspects people seem to miss out when they first get into blogging is the fact that their blog must contain information that people want to read.

Many bloggers are looking through closed eyes in this regard and if you browse through 50 blogs you will notice that most will tell you they know How to Make Money with Blogs when really all they tell you is where they went on their vacation or how many cars they have.

Are you ready to learn How to Make Money Blogging?

If the answer is YES then read on and start to make money with your blog. I am not here to tell you how to write your blog, that’s up to you, but what I am about to tell you is the 10 things I use to make money on the internet. You can choose to use these techniques or not, that’s your prerogative.

Step 1 – Finding a Topic

Turn off your computer, grab a pen and some paper and sit somewhere you can relax but also stay focused (if you are just starting out this step can be a pain because we all want to know How to Make Money Online and we want to know how to make it NOW). Think of a topic you are interested in and write it down (this helps because you will be more committed to trying instead of giving up in a day or two) and also make sure it is something other people are interested in too. A couple of ways I use to think of a topic is by using MetaSpy to find out what people are searching for, Ask IQ to find what’s popular and VRE Toolbar to find out how many people search for the topic (this is also useful later on to get traffic). Write down your top five keywords, you will want to use them later in your blog.

Step 2 – Create Your Blog

Find and create your blog online. I like to use WordPress but other popular Blog platforms are Blogger and Movable Type. You can find all the help in the program you use to get information when setting up the blog. Create your content, make it original, and make it informative. This is one of the main keys to learn How to Make Money with Blogs. You need to include the keywords you wrote down in Step 1 in the content of your blog. Try not to overuse these as it sends out bad signals to the search engines, and this is 100% not what you want.

Step 3 – Go Google

Sign up for Google Adsense and insert the code in the margin of your blog. You can customize your ads in many ways, such as including text links or image links. I prefer the text links only, as they are easier to blend in with your blog and don’t take the focus away from the information. Google Adsense will probably not make you a millionaire but it is an instant way of generating a small amount of money.

If you want to track where your visitors are coming from with regards to direct hits or from search engine results then I would suggest you use Google Analytics and again you can get all the help you need setting that up from within the program.

You will also want to add your URL to Google’s index.

Step 4 – Find Something to Sell

If you don’t want to sell anything and are happy with the income Google Adsense is bringing in then you can skip this step. If you want to maximize your income and truly learn How to Make Money with Blogs you will want to find an affiliate program to join. A couple of affiliate programs I would suggest are ClickBank and Commission Junction. You can sell anything from office furniture, pet supplies, movies and clothing to PC games, Dieting tips and Audio software.

Step 5 – Social Bookmarking

There is no better advertising than word of mouth, but the next best thing is social bookmarking. You will want to make things easier for people to do this. Social bookmarking sites I use and recommend are OnlyWire and SocialMarker and they are used for people to share their bookmarks or websites that they have liked with other people in their online community.

I would not suggest you add your own links to these services, but provide visitors to your website the ability to do so.

Step 6 – Write an Article

Whether your blog is about a specific product, for example a certain MP3 Player you are promoting, or just about giving people information, I would suggest you to write an article or a review of it. Most article directories require articles of 500 words and over so I would use this as a rule when writing to ensure your article is published.

Submit your article to any of the 100′s which are out there. I personally use a few of the Top Article directories such as EzineArticles, Article Dashboard, Amazines.com, isnare and SearchWarp. I also use a nifty piece of software called Article Submitter which will submit your articles to over 600 article directories, which saves you lots of time and leaves you to focus on writing your blogs.

Step 7 – Ping The Heck Out Of It

Every time you add new information to your blog, you want to let the blog directories know about it, this is known as pinging. Some Blog providers automatically send out pings when you update, but to be on the safe side you will want to do this manually too. ONLY PING WHEN YOU UPDATE.

There are a couple of Ping sites I use which will send a ping to multiple blog directories at the same time. PingMyBlog would be my first port of call and then if for some reason that site is down I would use Ping-o-matic. Remember, to only ping when you update or you could get blacklisted, and that is bad.

Step 8 – Yahoo! Answers and Forums

One of the easiest ways to get targeted visitors to your blog is to make use of the people you want to target. I would suggest you sign up to at LEAST one forum in the topic you are writing about, and don’t just go straight in there and start posting comments for people to look at your blog, they won’t.

The secret is to add the link to your blog in your signature and actively become a member of the forum, posting relevant topics and starting debates within them. The more you post, the more your link will show, and if you provide someone with good info the chances are higher they will click your link.

Yahoo! Answers is along the same lines as forums but the beauty of this is it’s viewed by thousands of visitors each day. If you don’t already have a Yahoo! account get one and then login and search for questions relating to the topic of your blog and answer them well. You can then insert the link to your blog and as with the forums, if you answer well you may have not only earned yourself a point or two on Yahoo!, but also earned a visitor to your blog.

Step 9 – Update Your Blog

This can be by several means, one is to add new reviews or content to your blog, and if you are going to do this I suggest updating every couple of days. This helps to keep the search engines happy as they love to see new and original content.

Another way of updating your blog and keeping the content fresh is to add RSS feeds to it. Make sure the feeds are relevant to your blog and provide visitors with helpful information. Visitors to a World of Warcraft blog don’t want to read feeds about knitting, or do they?

Step 10 – More, More, More

Repeat steps 1 – 10, this is the only way How to Make Money Blogging.

Step 11 – A Bonus Step

If you have your own product or newsletter, give your visitors an easy way to sign up to receive updates or information. This helps you to contact the visitor again with more great info or products you wish to sell.

How to Make Money Online is easy if you follow the above steps.

Some important things to remember so you don’t get disheartened with your blog is the fact that you will not become a millionaire overnight, it takes hard work and a lot of effort. If you are really serious about learning How to Make Money with Blogs then stick with it and eventually you will have an Ah-Ha moment. This is when things start to work and you think to yourself Ah-Ha, that’s how they do it. Your moment could be sooner than you think.

My Top 7 resources I use and recommend are:

How To Blog For Money Blogging Software and SEO Training (Step by Step Instruction)

Make Money Blogging with these Article Creation and Submittal Software

 1. Magic Article Rewriter and Magic Article Submitter

2. Mass Article Control (Submitter and Creator)

Host Your Make Money Blog

1. blueHost – Hosting Solution

Make Money Blogging Coaching and Niche Marketing Ideas

1. Maverick Money Makers Club

Promote your Make Money Blog with Socal Bookmarking

1. Social Bookmarking Automation Software and Blog Comment Software

See Also:

10 Ways To Increase The Pageviews of Your Make Money Blog

How Can I ‘Really’ Make Money Online?

November 3rd, 2009 Rob Robertson No comments

This is the age old question. Funny to think that anything about the internet could be ‘age old’ but here it is.

Ever since there was an internet for us all to use, people have been trying to profit from it. Many people have succeed, many are still trying.

There are plenty of scams out there promising you instant riches for only $137. The seller of this scam will show you proof that his method works by revealing his bank account. Of course this works for him, he’s selling the scam. His bank account is not proof that his ideas will make you rich. It is only proof that he is willing to cheat you out of your money. Why wouldn’t he be rich, he is collecting $137 a pop to tell his story.

What is his story? Probably something like, create an ebook, market it and watch the money grow. He will tell you that in order for you to create your ebook, you will need his $97 ebook software program. To market your ebook, you will have to buy his $197 marketing plan. It’s as simple as that. Wow, are you rich yet. No, but he sure is!

This is very much like the old mail order scams about stuffing envelopes. How many people fell for that trick? How does that scam work? Well you pay someone $24.95 for their informative booklet on mail order profits. When you get the booklet, you find out that in order for you to make money in mail order, you have to get people to send you $24.95 for your informative booklet on mail order profits. Sound familiar?

The only difference between that old scam and the new internet scams is the price. The idea is the same, it just costs you a lot more to get ripped off online.

So is there really any way for an honest person to make a legitimate income online?

Yes there is!  Google Sniper

It won’t be overnight and it won’t be effortless. It takes time and work to build a business anywhere. Why would the internet be any different? If anyone tries to tell you different they are lying to you. They are just trying to get you to buy their informative booklet, translated = ebook.

If you want to build a business, you will have to be willing to work, research and be patient. Nothing happens instantly and no one is going to hand you the silver tablet with all the answers.

There is a lot of writing that goes into an online business. You have to write website content. You have to write a newsletter or ezine. You have to write articles. If you hate to write, you are looking into the wrong business.

Yes, you will find people who will sell you the special program that will allow you to get rich without any writing. The problem is, how did you find out about that program? The seller wrote a sales letter. Hmm… sounds like writing to me. And remember what we already talked about? There is no super software that will make you rich overnight. If someone were to create such a program, do you think you would be able to buy it for one hundred and thirty seven dollars? Hardly.

Let’s stay on track here.

To build an online business, you will have to own a website. To create this website, you will have to research a topic and write about it. You will have to buy a domain name, (this is cheap and you only pay once a year). You will need to find a good hosting company to host your site. This can be pretty inexpensive if you look around. This is a monthly expense that you will have to be able to afford before you even consider building a website.

Once you have your site built and online, your next job will be to let the world know you are there. This is the biggest job there is. It is a never ending task. No one will even know your site exists if you don’t work on promoting it. Many people will try to sell you information on marketing too. There is plenty of free information out there all you have to do is look for it.

Finally, once you have your site up and running, you have people coming to your site, you will need a product or products to sell or what was the point? The easiest way to get products is through affiliate programs. These programs will allow you to sell someone else’s product and make commission off your sales. You don’t have to stock anything, you don’t have to collect money and you don’t have to deal with shipping.

There are many good companies out there that offer nice commissions on their products. It really doesn’t matter what you decide to create your website about. You will find someone selling something that will compliment your site.

So, back to the original question. How can I ‘really’ make money online? The answer is by working at it. Put your pie in the sky dreams away and start writing. 

Want a legimate jump start?  Google Sniper

Make Money Blogging;Google Sniper, Zero to 6 Figures

November 2nd, 2009 Rob Robertson 1 comment

You Can Be Blogging To Make Money with Google Sniper

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Making Money Blog;What Value Do You Put On Education

October 29th, 2009 Rob Robertson 1 comment

What Is Your Budget For Earning Money Online?

I have become amazed even more lately at the people that want to make money online but think they can do it fast and also think they can do it for FREE! I can tell them with all honestly that the simple answer is You Can’t!

So, I have to ask the question. What value do you put on your education. Do you look at a product and while thinking it might help, discard it to find something FREE or cheaper. People spend thousands of dollars going to colleges, seminars and who knows what else so why short change yourself and your education.

I can honestly say that the products I advertise here, I own. I can also say that I picked up new tips and techniques with every one of them.  Afterall, isn’t education ongoing for our entire lives!

So, if I spent a few hundred bucks over time to educate myself, was it worth it. Or better yet, am Iworth it?  The answer is ABSOSULTELY!  You see I believe if we quit learning, we die.  Now I don’t advocate getting in huge debt just to create a money making blog, but I do endorse the products here.  I just bought Gsniper for $77 to learn how to enhance my existing make money blogs, but I also want to learn how to create more of them.  Presto, Gsniper delivers in educating me and it and I was worth it.  Will it be easy?  Heck no!!  Do I know a heck of a lot more than I knew last week?  Heck YES! 

So, I have to ask.  What value do you put on your education!

A note to the wise:  When you buy a product from the good guys, you will always end up with some FREE stuff too!

Make Money Blogging With 6 Red Hot Tips To Get Your Articles Read

October 27th, 2009 Rob Robertson No comments

Blogging To Make Money and Drive Traffic with Article Creation and Submittal

There are many people who dread having to write papers or articles. Many just feel like it seems to be too much work and it all just goes to waste when no one reads the. To some people, reading articles seems like work to, especially if the article is boring and very bland. Well, articles are supposed to be read, that’s their purpose to impart your message and information. If it is not read then it is a waste of time and effort.

But all the same, articles have to be written to be read. It’s just a matter of making them good. Making a good article doesn’t have to be strenuous and straining. There are just some points needed to be reminded of, and some guides to follow. Once you get the hang of it, writing articles could be fun, as well as profitable for you and your site.

Of course, writing articles must be about something you know about, that’s why if you own a site, you probably is knowledgeable about that certain topic and theme. When you write about it, you won’t have a hard time because you already know what it is and what it’s about. It’s just a matter of making your articles creative and interesting.

To make sure that your articles get read,enjoyed and traffic delived to your make money blog, here are six red hot tips to get your articles read. These tips will make your articles readable and interesting.

Note:  The blog posts on your Making Money Blog should also incorporate many of these tips.

1) Use short paragraphs. When the paragraph are very long, the words get jumbled in the mind of the reader just looking at it It can get quite confusing and too much of a hard work to read. The reader will just quickly disregard the paragraph and move on to much easier reading articles that are good to look at as well as read. Paragraphs can be a single sentence, sometimes even a single word!

2) Make use of numbers or bullets. As each point is stressed out, numbers and bullets can quickly make the point easy to remember and digest. As each point, tip, guide or method is started with a bullet or point, readers will know that this is where the tips start and getting stressed. Format you bullets and numbers with indentations so that your article won’t look like a single block of square paragraphs. Add a little bit of flair and pizzazz to your articles shape.

3) Use Sub-headings to sub-divide your paragraphs in the page. Doing this will break each point into sections but still would be incorporated into one whole article. It would also be easy for the reader to move on from one point to another; the transition would be smooth and easy. You will never lose your readers attention as well as the point and direction to where the article is pointing.

4) Provide a good attention-grabbing title or header. If your title can entice a person’s curiosity you’re already halfway in getting a person to read your article. Use statements and questions that utilize keywords that people are looking for. Provide titles or headers that describe your articles content but should also be short and concise.

Use titles like, “Tips on making her want you more”, or “How to make her swoon and blush” .You could also use titles that can command people, for example, “Make her yours in six easy Ways”. These types of titles reach out to a persons’ emotions and makes them interested.

5) Keep them interested from the start to the finish. From your opening paragraph, use real life situations that can be adopted by the reader. Use good descriptions and metaphors to drive in your point, just don’t over do it. Driving your examples with graphic metaphors and similes would make it easy for them to imagine what you are talking about. Making the experience pleasurable and enjoyable for them.

6) Utilize figures when necessary and not just ordinary and insipid statements. Using specific facts and figures can heighten your article because it makes it authoritative. But do not make it too formal, it should be light and easy in them and flow. Like a friendly teacher having a little chat with an eager student.

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Blog To Make Money-It’s All The Same Only Different

October 16th, 2009 Rob Robertson 3 comments

How To Make Money Blogging

Have you bought other make money or how to make money from your blog products trying to figure out how to make this happen?

Let’s summarize what all  the products and experts say about how to make money online.

  • You either need a product or find a niche and related affiliate product(s).
  • You need a make money blog or website.
  • You need to market and drive traffic ( this is one place that the same things are said but in many differnet ways).  I am a huge advocate of article marketing.  All the ‘experts’ agree with this.
  • You need to build a list.

What steps are you taking to fulfill these steps?

Here is how I take care or plan to take care of these steps.

  • I use Blogging to the Bank 3.0 to build my blogs.  I currently have two that I created using Blogging to the Bank 3.0.  One is Blog To Make Money and the other is Money Savings Advice.  This allows me to create the blog I need with the URL that the search engines love using blueHost to host my blogs.
  • I use Clickbank and RoiRocket to find the products I want to market.
  • I use Mass Article Control for article marketing and content in my blog (also using the hundreds of articles from Mass Article Control) to drive traffic to my blog.
  • Now the next step is to build a list.   The consensus is to offer a free report or product and ask for an email address to receive it.   You will also need to use and auto responder to create the offer page and email capture.  Check out  aweber.com for an example of an auto responder.  You can also check out Master Resale Rights website for products you can offer for list building.

There are a couple other products I use to assist me with my efforts.

One is Keyword Elite which really helps me with keyword research.

The second is Maverick Money Makers Club which gives me ongoing support and ideas for new niche ideas and how to tips. 

Note:  I am having success without a list because of the article marketing and blogging I am doing but list building is my next step.

Affiliate Marketing; What It Takes

October 14th, 2009 Rob Robertson No comments

Blog To Make Money With Affiliate Marketing

Each of us has its own interest or has a hobby. Some love all kinds of books, music, and movies while others are into sports and traveling. There are also people who love to grow flowers and loves pets. These things help us to relax and forget our everyday problems and troubles and these things are common to people. But not everyone has a hobby that makes money for him/her except if you love your job.

Money making hobby could let you treat your family and friends with the extra cash or you can even quit your current job that you almost certainly hate. That is why many of us today go online to start a business; their reasons are either to supplement their income or to gradually replace their offline income from their job. Affiliate marketing is a great way to start in making money online.

Affiliate marketing is a revenue sharing partnership between a web merchant and one or more affiliates. The affiliate is paid a commission for referring clicks, leads or most often sales to the merchant. An affiliate’s advantage is that he can make money in a business where he doesn’t have the upfront costs of creating his own product, and he doesn’t have to worry about e-commerce, bookkeeping, or even customer support for it is the merchant’s responsibility.

Now, for sure you want to be an affiliate marketer with all that benefits an affiliate could get. But, do you have what it takes to be an affiliate marketer? Before you begin your venture into affiliate marketing, you need to decide first which area interest you. What products do you know the most and which products you could do the best job of selling? Once you discover your specialty, perseverance, patience, determination comes next. These are the qualities you should possessed to be a good affiliate marketer.

Too many online business prospectors lose out because they become impatient. You also have to know what your strengths are, the things in which you are good at and your capabilities and abilities related to your chosen streak. And the most important thing is you have to have a strong desire to succeed in affiliate marketing.

To be an affiliate marketer is not an easy task. You have to learn the techniques of marketing your product or service. You shouldn’t be looking at every chance because marketing is all about attracting you to look at this or that particular opportunity. To be a successful affiliate marketer, you should learn how to listen and to be taught because in life we need to learn skills to get by.

For an affiliate marketer, you should know how to market your make money blog effectively, which  will enable you to get thousands of visitors coming to your site which transforms into more sales. This only means that the faster you set up your make money blog, the bigger your chances of making money online faster. You should avoid the same mistakes some affiliates make everyday, they are only building a short-term business where they just make a small sale. Make sure you do understand that you should be building a long-term affiliate business and not just something that makes you a few dollars on one sale. 

It is also better to have knowledge on how to upsell your visitors for expensive services. This will in turn make you become recognized as an expert in your field and making money will be easier. There are some people that think just by having affiliate links on their website will bring them good profits. This can have some truth to it, but then most successful affiliates still believe that making use of strong marketing campaigns for their affiliate programs is still important. But affiliate marketers become much more successful when they treat their customers or online visitors as friends. Make a commitment to establish relationships with your customers and especially with visitors to your site. It is very important for an affiliate marketer to have a good business relationship with customers or visitors.

All the tools you need to be a successful affiliate marketer can be found on this make money blog.  Check out the tools offered here and you will see it has what you need to get up and running quickly and with support added!!

Make Money Blog-Grow Your Business With Keyword Elite

October 12th, 2009 Rob Robertson 1 comment

How To Make Money Blogging Just Got Easier By Driving Traffic With Keyword Elite

Note: This tool was made to make you money and grow your business to levels you never thought were possible. So, I’ll skip the “product feature” mumbo jumbo and tell you in simple terms what this will do for you. You’ll…

Dominate Niche Marketing: Know what the “money keywords” are. The keywords that BUYERS are searching for! Use these keywords and easily quadruple your sales. Nothing else will show you these.

Dominate Google Adwords: Instantly… Yes,  instantly, AND with very little money by seeing who is already running a profitable Adwords campaign AND then “borrow” their entire Adwords marketing strategy shown by the software to guarantee you make money too!

If you don’t understand Google Adwords, it doesn’t matter. The software is Fool Proof. It had to be if we were going to use it!

Dominate The Search Engines: Virtually guarantee that YOU get 10x the amount of traffic to your site that you’re getting now, WITHOUT paying a dime.

If you really want to make mony online with your money blog, Keyword Elite WILL help jumpstart your business.   Let’s face it, writing blog posts and articles to drive targeted traffic to your money blog, it’s critical that you write keyword rich content.  You need to know what keywords can help with your niche product. 

Traffic is NOT necessarily the key to online success?

That’s right… Traffic is NOT the key to making money on the internet. You have to have the RIGHT traffic. Traffic that is full of “buyers”… I’m sure you would agree that there is a HUGE difference between a browser and a buyer.

98% of people THINK they’re getting the right kind of traffic, which leaves 2%. Of those 2%, 1% get’s only a small portion of the right kind of traffic, and … and THAT is what the Keyword Elite software program is all about!

How To Make Money Blogging-5 Ways to Create Content to Drive Traffic to Your Site

October 9th, 2009 Rob Robertson 1 comment

How To Make Money Blogging By Increasing Traffic

There are many ways to promote your business online. The difference between online marketing and offline marketing though is profound.

Although advertising can be very effective offline, it isn’t nearly so effective online. The reason why is that most people surf the internet looking for information. They aren’t usually interested in advertising unless the product or service in question can solve their problems.

There are five strategies that you can implement in your business that will not only create a content strategy for you but will also create a very effective marketing strategy. This strategy will only require a few hours of your time each week.

1. Articles
For those who have read my work, you know that articles not only brand you as an expert but are also a way to create quality content for your site, and search engines love content.

If you don’t like writing, or don’t write, you can find quality articles to post on your site. The larger your site, the more likely you will be found in the search engines.

Here are a few article directories you can use:

http://www.ezinearticles.com

http://www.isnare.com

http://www.goarticles.com

2. Blogs/RSS
Blogging is another way to create content for your website, and by using RSS, you can easily distribute your content.

Most don’t understand what RSS really is, or how it can most effectively be used to drive traffic to their sites.

Basically, RSS is a form of code that’s very search engine friendly. With RSS feeds, which you can add to your website or blog, you can create content that updates itself. Because of this self updating, the search engines will spider your site more often, raising your rankings.

Once you’ve built your blog and added several entries, you need to “ping” it to get it listed. Here are two tools you can use:

http://www.pingoat.com

http://www.pingomatic.com

3. Press Releases
Press releases are news about your business. Press releases are also an excellent way to get high rankings for your site because you can create content rich press releases and submit them to press release directories. Many of these directories are high traffic.

Here are several sites that accept press releases:

http://www.press-world.com

http://www.free-press-release.com

http://www.prbase.com

http://www.click2newsites.com/

http://www.prweb.com

4. Search Engine Optimization

Optimizing your site for the search engines means creating keyword rich content, exchanging links with other sites, submitting your site to directories, which create backlinks pointing to your site.

You can use tools like Web CEO, http://www.webceo.com, to help you optimize your pages.

Although submitting the search engines is often unecessary, since most search engines will spider through to your site from another site, you still need at least one link pointing back to your site so that your site gets spidered. 

Submit your site to Alexa, http://www.alexa.com. Not only will this make sure that your site gets spidered, you’ll be able to compare your site to other sites, as well as get statistics on traffic to your site.

5. Free Ebooks and Reports
By writing and giving away free ebooks and reports, you give visitors an incentive to visit your website.

You can also submit your ebooks and reports to ebook directories for free.

http://www.ebookdirectory.com

http://www.ebookpalace.com

http://www.ebookjungle.com/

http://www.ebooksnbytes.com/

If you make your ebook brandable, which means others can place their links inside your ebook, your ebook becomes viral. You give others an incentive to share your ebook and spread it across the internet.

Once you implement these content strategies on your site, add streams of revenue to your site like Adsense and Virtual Portals. These sites will allow you to monetize your site.

http://www.google.com/ads/

http://www.virtual-portals.com

Although adveritising, like pay per clicks, can be effective in promoting your website, it can quickly become expensive. By focusing on creating quality content for your make money blog, and then promoting that content, you can continue to drive traffic to your website for years to come.

What You Should Look For in a Web Hosting Service

October 8th, 2009 Rob Robertson 1 comment

How To Make Money Blogging – Choose Your Hosting Platform Wisely

If you are thinking up putting up your own website, the most important thing you should consider is the type of web hosting service you’d like to avail of. There are a lot of web hosting services in the internet today. Some of them are even offered free of charge.

Web hosting services vary greatly in the features that company provides. And when it comes to web hosting the following features are the things you should check first:

The image below is a partial view of the cPanel user area for blueHost, our choice for a hosting the tool most recommened by WordPress users.  This blog and Money Savings Advice are bloth hosted on one blueHost account.
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1. Total web space provided.
Web space corresponds to the amount of files you can upload to the server. Of course, the bigger the web space provided, the more sites and sub-domains you can host. You can also install many applications, as space is not going to be a problem.

2. Total amount of traffic allowed.
Some web hosting services measures the traffic a certain website get. When it comes to this aspect, unlimited traffic is best. If there’s a limit to the monthly traffic delegated to your site, chances are, your website won’t display on the browsers of the visitors who are above the limit. This won’t make your site look good.

3. Server uptime.
You want your website up 100% of the time, if possible. This feature is usually dependent on the servers of your web-hosting provider. You have to make sure that you go with the company that is totally reliable.

4. Software, applications and bundles included.
This is where the freebies come in. There are a lot of web hosting services that offer application installation support. The most common web hosting scripts and programs today are Java, Php, and Frontpage. Try to find out which of these are supported by your web hosting provider to determine if your web page will work for them or not.

The performance of your website relies on your web hosting service. Make sure you trust your website only to the experts. Go with the company that understands the needs of their clients when it comes to uptime and functionality.