13-steps-to-make-money-onlineStep 1 – Choose a niche topic that you can write about in your blog.

Step 2 – Research on the popularity, competition and profitability of your chosen topic and decide whether you should continue with the topic or not. I would recommend you to use Adwords Keywords Research Tool.

If lets say your topic is not in demand or perhaps there are many competitors providing the same information about this topic, you should go back to Step 1 and think again for another niche topic.

Step 3 – Purchase a domain name and hosting space. I would recommend Lonex Web Hosting, offering package as low as 4.95 per month.

Step 4Install a Blog. I would recommend Wordpress.

Step 5 – Choose the most suitable theme for your blog.

Step 6 – Research what plugins are required and install all of them that suit your needs.

Step 7 – Create an email subscription form for readers to subsribe to you. You can either use feedburner or some other email subscription plugins. Why do you need this? You can always keep track of your readers once they have subscribe to you, and you can also promote your product or affiliate’s product regularly via your email list.

Step 8 – Create appropriate pages such as about page, contact page, archive page and sitemap. Your first post of your blog is also very important. Read How to Write Your First Blog Post or About Page.

Step 9 – Start writing contents.

Step 10 – After you have written 10 posts, you can start monetize your blog, by PPC such as Google Adsense, affiliate programs such as ClickBank, or other ways of monetizing your blog.

Step 11 – Key step to success! – Market your blog. Promote your blog. Drive traffic to your blog. There are hundreds or even thousands of ways to market your blog. Basically bloggers promote their blogs through social bookmarking, link exchanging, leaving comments in other blogs, forum posting, search engine optimization and many others. The strategies mentioned above are all free. If you willing to pay, there are many ways to buy traffic such as using Google Adwords. There is no 100% guidelines to this step. Some bloggers may even have their own secrets in generating traffics. It’s the key to win your competitors.

Step 12 – Once you have sufficient traffic, test your monetization with all types of ways that can make you money. Try all PPC(Pay Per Click) programs, affiliate programs and direct ad sales and observe which give you the highest profit. You can run PPC programs and affiliate programs together in your blog, but make sure you have read their Program Policies. For instance, Using Adsense with ClickBank will not be a problem as long as their ads do not look similar to each other.

Step 13 – Your passion of blogging! – MAINTAIN, maintain and maintain. Keep writing useful articles in your blog. Be creative and unique in both writing and marketing your blog. Find new ways to generate more traffics. To make money effectively and efficiently, always test your blog with latest monetization programs.

This is what I do to make money online. If all the steps are followed properly, I can guarantee you that the first thousand dollars will be soon falling into your pocket.

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