Blogs are here to stay, and many Wahms are taking advantage of the trend. For many work at home moms making money with blogs is a populair choice. It is easy to set up a blog, they are also relatively easy to update. When you compare blogs to other types of websites this is especially true. Within just a few minutes, you can set up a professional looking blog for free and start your Wahm blogging business.
A blog is a website that looks sort of like a journal and is easy to update. Entries are made at a minimum of each week, and the newest entries appear at the top. Normally entries are short articles of 200 to 500 words. Readers use a blog reading program to visit the blog or read new entries. Readers can also comment on entries and provide links between their own blogs and your blog.
With blogs, the opportunities are wide open. Looking at your own life for inspiration makes choosing a blog topic easy. There are blogs about everything from celebrity news to bathroom cleaning tips. Before you start a blog, use the Internet to research if people are interested in your possible blog topic. It is not necessary to have a populair topic, but you have to have a dedicated group of people who are interested in your topic.
When you pick a topic, make sure to stay within a fairly small “niche.” The term niche is used to describe a group of people who have a similar interest. There are big niches – like working at home – and small niches – like tips for training your cat to sit on the toilet. Try to find a happy medium between a popular topic and a niche interest so your blog has plenty of readers. There are some topics that are too broad, like working at home or parenting. They have too much competition for readers.
To set up your blog, use a free blogging platform, like www.blogger.com or www.wordpress.com. You have a half dozen others to choose from. To make your first entry into your blog, the blogging platform will walk you through it.
It’s time to monetize your blog when you’ve made a few entries into your blog. This means you’ll be making specific changes to your blog in order to make money. Use Google Adsense or Chitika, contextual advertising programs, it is one of the most populair ways to gain income from a blog. Contextual advertising pays you for each time a reader clicks on one of the advertising links on your page. The advertising program will scan your blog entries for keywords, and then place advertising on your page that relates to your page content.
For example, if you have a blog on children’s television and write an article about Sesame Street, the ads appearing next to that article will have to do with that program. They might be links to shopping for Sesame Street items, or an ad for vintage Sesame Street collectables selling on ebay.
