The blog or personal journal has been around for sometime now and is widely used by people the world over as a platform to share information on the Internet.
These days though the blog has become the number one tool within the online marketing and advertising sector. People are now using simple blogs to make amazing amounts of money from well written and keyword rich articles about there own information, products and services or other peoples products or services.
These blogs target there energies around a niche in the market place and provide search engines with a wealth of focused keyword rich content and in return the search engines provide an enormous amount of visitor traffic to the blog, each visitor to that blog becomes a potential customer and through well written content, visible advertising and leads the blog master makes money.

If you already have a blog then consider your blog carefully is it for example focused. A blog about your hobby Fishing should not have content relating to dogs unless it's about your dog fishing. Think of your visitors if they are interested in fishing then they will have a need for fishing gear so monetize your blog by placing advertising relevant to the subject of your blog. By focusing your blog you are able to target the advertising and be be more likely to make money.

Outlined below are the key steps that you will need to follow to successfully make money with your blog.

1. Advertise on Your Blog. Adding Google Adsense on your blog is one of the easiest ways to make money with your blog. All you will need to do is to get a Google Adsense account, and Google will place adverts that relate to your blog topic. If your blog visitors visit any of these adverts on your blog, you can earn some money.
2. Create your own products for selling or offer some services. You can sell your own products or services on your blog. By blogging regularly, your blog get indexed on search engines, which drives traffic to your blog. The more traffic you have, the more sales you make. It is important that you use your keywords in your blogs. By adding keywords and phrases that relate to your niche to your blog posts, you increase your site's ranking on search engines, which will drive traffic to your blog where people will buy your products or services.
3. Selling affiliate products is one of the best ways to make your blog profitable. All you need to do is to pick the affiliate products or programs that relate to your niche and add your affiliate links on your blog. By selling affiliate products on your blog, you can earn commissions of about 30%-70% on each product you sell on your website.

Although blogging is quite easy, not everyone is able to make money, it takes time and a determination with plenty of traffic so once you have placed advertising and monetizied your blog don't think for one second you will start to make money. You might make a little but in reality you are only half way there. You need to let the search engines know about your content by advertising your blog.

There are several different places where you can advertise your blog. Some will cost a small amount and others won’t cost you a penny. Start with the free options and as you begin to see a return on your investment of time, you can invest some profits back into marketing your blog with paid options.

Free
1.Join message board/forum communities. This is a simple way to advertise your blog. Interact with your fellow users and advertise your blog in your signature line, if it’s allowed. If it’s not allowed, there’s usually a folder available within that forum that does allow you to advertise your sites. Use them.
2.Join a social networking site. These sites are a good way to network with like-minded people who are interested in the same subject your blog is about. Join the community and get to know the other members and then you can supply them with a link to your blog. Many in social networking circles provide cross-promotions, so you’ll probably accumulate a lot of valuable backlinks to your blog.
3.Utilize social bookmarking sites. Write a great thought provoking post on your blog and submit it to sites like Digg.com or del.icio.us. There are hundreds of people who spend hours at these sites searching for good websites to check out. Your blog can get a surge of traffic through this strategic and viral sharing method.
4.Join a blogging community like Blog Explosion. This offers you a way of connecting with other bloggers who may do a review of your blog on theirs, which would help drive more traffic to your site.
5. Join the Free Traffic System. This offers a way to get quality backlinks to your site for free and an unlimited amount of one way links. These one way links help site owners to improve SEO value of their sites and get good positions in search engines. Download the free Smart and Safe Backlink Building Guide to learn more

Paid
1.Use advertising campaigns like Google AdWords. Place an ad on the search engine result pages and pay only when someone clicks on the link. Make sure you use the best keywords to get the ad noticed, so that you can drive more traffic to your blog.
2.Use text link advertising. Contact some of the more popular blogs in your niche and see if they would be willing to sell you some advertising space through text links. If the price is right, take the chance to have traffic driven to your site from theirs. Not all sites will be willing to do this, so keep trying different ones until you get one to say yes.

These are just a few ways to monetize and advertise your blog. Remenber you can have the best content in the world on your site but if the search engines never visit who will and if you have good rankings, plenty of visits but nothing to sell or advertise, then you might as well be blogging for fun.

Make a plan of action, take stock of what you have and utilize every aspect of your blog to it's full potential.

If you are a new blogger with very little experience struggling to understand the process of making money with your blog then please consider the following guides and resources.

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I hope that has helped you monetize and advertise your blog and wish you all the best with making money.

Regards
The Money Making Guru

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