How I Make Money Online for FREE Part 1 (Blogs)
You can make money from home with out investing any money. It will take time and work but definetly doable. This post will be the first of many outlining the different avenues a utilize to generate income online. Some of these will be a good fit for you and others will not. But ultimately nothing will be costing you any money, that I can guarantee you.
You will not see any get rich quick schemes or programs. You will also not see any type of selling of products. Everything I will be outlining you can do with just your brain and a computer with internet access.
I thought it would be appropiate to have the first part of this series to be about making money blogging, since that is what I am doing right now. There are many free blogging platforms that you can use. The free platform I am using is blog.com but there are many other good ones like wordpress.com and blogger.com. It is ultimately up to you. They are all free and have pretty much the same functionality.
The very first thing you need to do is start blogging. Realistically for a blog to generate income you need to get people reading it. The easiest and free way to gain those visitors is blogging on a consistent basis (3 to 4 times a week) about a topic you enjoy. The fun part is that it can be about whhatever you want. It is important that it be a topic you are interested in because you need to keep producing content. If you consistently post, in about 2 to 3 months you will see that you will begin to gain significant visitors (traffic) from serach engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN). (You can find out more about marketing a blog by clicking here.)
The hardest part is over. You've blogged and blogged for months without making a dime and are finally getting traffic. Now it is time to monetize your traffic. What does that mean? Start making money from the people coming to your site. I'm going to recommend two ways. These two strategies are the basics and all the other options out there are variations on these two.
The very first way is through something like Google Adsense or Yahoo. These are programs that pay you every time one of your visitors clicks the ads posted on your site. I have been using Google for years and make significant income every month from ad revenue. Some people like Yahoo but ultimately it is up to you. Both are free to join and good programs. You can learn more about Google adwords by clicking below.
I hope you find this first installment of how to make money for free online helpful. Please keep an eye out for part 2 in the next few days. As you can see from above you can make money with out spending any of your money but it will take work. I you really want to make money I encourage you to keep reading. You can learn even more about legitimate work from home by clicking here. If you are looking for get rich quick schemes, this is probably not the place for you.
