I have people ask me how to get into blogging. Here are some insights that I aquired over time.

Blogging is cheap to get into and take part. Blogging has turned me into entrepreneur. With blogging you will learning and expand your knowledge in many subjects.

A. Learn the basics of blogging by using a free platform such as WordPress.com or Blogger.com. This is very easy to setup and start, all you need is an email. A free blog account has limitations with how you can monetize a site(place ads). If you want to be a serious blogger you will need to get a domain and web hosting service. Pick a domain with a keyword of what your blog will be about. Hosting services has become very cheap and offer good service.

B. Register your own domain and sign up with a cheap blog hosting plan. This will give you the freedom as a blogger to monetize your site fully will benefit you by using a solid and cheap hosting provider. I have noticed that there are many places to get cheap domain registration and blog hosting.

C. Download and set up the WordPress application in your hosted environment. Your web host provider can assist you with install wordpress blogging software. Then go to google search and search for a blog theme by color or keyword. Pick many themes and test them out to get the look you want for your blog. You can get professional made themes for under $100. Suggest go free until you make some money

Start off small and be patient as you get used to how blogging works and read/learn everything you can get your hands on dealing with blogging.

MySpace is one of the largest a social networking website with an interactive user-submitted network of friends, personal profiles, blogs, groups, photos, music, and latest with MySpace videos for teenagers and adults.

One should develop MySpace social site and use the site to drive traffic to your blog. MySpace being a social network that sees very heavy daily visitor traffic from millions of users has been the focus many internet maketers and all entrepreneurs. The traffic you get from MySpace and others can be transformed into profit through various monetization methods. Direct all MySpace traffic to your affiliate links page on your blog or products for sell page. By working on increased traffic, your visitors will create for you another source of getting online income.

Facebook is one of the most popular social network on the entire planet. There is no secret there. But, did you know that Facebook is the 5th most visited website on the entire internet every single day? The social networking site Facebook has a huge active community. It is reported that of the 200+ million active users, about half of them can be logged in each day. Facebook is a free-access social networking website that allows users to join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and even the region you live in to connect and interact with other people. You can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.

Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg founded with his fellow Harvard University computer science major students and his roommates Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. Their initial website was a membership site limited to students of Harvard, then expanded to other Ivy league schools, working its way down through high school students that were 13 and over.

Facebooks’s name refers to the paper facebooks depicting members of a campus community that most colleges and preparatory schools give to incoming students, faculty, and staff as a way to get to know other people on campus. Mine at one time was put in a book form and given out to all students.

Now for the Making money on Face book part.
The good thing about Facebook Marketplace is you can selling unwanted items or your affiliate products in this Facebook area. The Facebook’s marketplace is where your items can be listed and viewed locally or international. Facebook’s marketplace is a virtual locality that will attract others of a common interests. Listing items that you list in the marketplace is of no cost to you. Cool, me like free. The items you are selling can be seen by others in your profile. Capitalize on Facebook’s unique advantages over the others. Now is the time to Start. The larger Facebook gets, you could become the Facebook equivalent of the eBay pioneer traders who made millions of dollars just by getting in early and before the competition.

Look for ebooks coming soon on Making Money with Facebook.

This is an overview of Twitter which in time will be an up and coming place to make money for you blog, it now drives traffic to your sites. There are a few money making opportunities now on Twitter. These will be covered in another post.

Twitter is the one of the monsters of social networking. You post in a 140 character box of what is on your mind or other things that is happening to you right this second. Twitter is having huge user growth spurts over the last year adding hundreds of thousands of folks that want to social network like me and you. I have been using twitter for more that six months with several projects. It becomes addictive once you get used to the 140 character limits it puts on you.

Twitter is an online service that enables you to broadcast 140 character messages to your friends or family. Along the way you will meet new people that find you or you find them and will mix together your conversations. Twitter also lets you specify which Twitter users you want to follow so you can read their messages in one place. There are may famous people on twitter. You can use Twitter search to check if your favorite personality is on twitter.

Twitter is also designed to work on your mobile phone as well as on a computer. All Twitter messages are limited to 140 characters, so each message can be sent as a single SMS alert. This is where some of your text messaging skills come into play. It becomes more and more addictive as you take part. Twitter is a free message pushing service. .

How do you get started on Twitter.

Go to Twitter.com and click “Join for free.” For best results, use your real name when signing up. Twitter will ask you for your Full Name, Username, password and email. The user name is key, it post with everypost you do. This should be your name of the domain of your website, helps increase your find-ability in search engines. You will need to go settings and fill out as much information as possible including your website domain. It’s also helpful to upload a picture, will make you more visually findable. If you select the “Protect my updates” box, people will not be able to read your Twitters unless you authorize them to. Otherwise everyone on twitter can see your posts.

Now that you have a Twitter account and become part of Twitter World, email your friends your username or send them the link to your Twitter page. (Example: http://twitter.com/blogprofit). You will have your own page.

Twitter will also allow you to Hook up your mobile phone and IM account

The Twitter network works for you even if you’re not at your computer or browsing the Web. Once you are registered, you can connect your mobile phone and instant messenger account. Go to Settings > Phone and IM. Connecting your phone and IM programs to your Twitter account is a straightforward process. Note that messages you view on a phone or an IM program also are readable on your personal Twitter Web page.

Sending Twitter messages, or “Tweets”. You can send a Twitter message, or “Tweet,” from any of your registered devices, web, phone or IM.

1). From the Web page, enter a message in the entry window at the top of the page.
2). From a mobile phone, send an SMS message to 40404. Your phone’s caller ID is attached to your Twitter account, so the system will know it’s from you.
3). From IM, message TwitterIM if you’re on AOL, or twitter@twitter.com if you’re on Jabber/GTalk.
Your “followers” will see your message on their own Twitter pages and possibly on their mobile devices as well.

Using Twitter on the Web:
Add a friend – log into your account. Go to your friends Twitter page and press the “Add” link in the “Actions” box. To find a user page, use the search box on your own Twitter page. Once you click “Add,” you’ll start to see his or her Tweets on your page if his or her account is set for public access. If the account is private, the system will send you a “friend” request that must be approved before you start to see updates. You also can see who your friends are following by hovering your mouse pointer over the pictures in the sidebar on your friends’ pages. Those pictures are of their friends, the ones they are following. You can see all the Tweets from any Twitters friends by clicking the “With Friends” tab above his or her message window.

On the phone or IM: send the command follow username to register your phone or IM account to receive public Tweets from a user. You also can invite people based on a phone number: SMS add phonenumber to 40404, and you’ll start following the user at that number. Interesting in the marketing of Twitter. If the phone user at that number is not a Twitter user, they will get an invitation to join Twitter.
Using direct Twitter commands

You will be able to send a Twitter message directly to another Twitter user with the Direct command. Enter d username message, and users will get your ping, only if that person is following you. The problem I have with this, if you are following someone and they send you a direct message you are unable to respond back with a direct message. Take note Twitter, this should be an automatic turn on of direct message to one who gets the message to enable you to respond back to them. This would make them one of your followers, this ok I can live it. Should be the price to pay for sending a direct message. If you enter a Tweet with @username at the beginning of it, your message is understood as being intended for that particular person, this is called a ReTwit.

Some use twitter as a push message or outgoing message to everyone that wants to get updates. Others use twitter a marketing/message board for themselves or their business. Twitter is useful for close-knit groups, you are able to make your posts private and only enable those you want to view your posts. If you follow your friends, and they follow each other, you can quickly communicate large groups of followers. If someone is a popular celebrity, their followers will go up very quickly, some even hundreds of thousands in just a few short months.

You can use Twitter Search to find out who is on Twitter.

Twitter also will put your posts in the search engines, I have seen them in Google as quick as 9 minutes, no joke in 9 minutes from the time I posted on twitter. So Twitter will produce some SEO for you also. So sign up and post with enjoyment. Becareful Twitter is addictive.

One of the blog profit tips that everyone on the planet is Googles Adsense has made many millions of dollars in income by putting Adsense code on their blogs. G’s Adsense is the gorilla of all of the advertising networks on the market. Most of us have seen the $130,000 adsense check. Google AdSense and other advertising network ad units right beside your posts and on top or bottom of your single post content so that the ad block will appear wrapped and floated inline the blog text. Put some adsense on your blog, but do not over do it.

NEVER: Never click on your own Adsense links, Google will ban you. Start making too much money with adsense, Google will ban you.

With many years of history, the left side closest to title, is the most clicked on. You will have more chances for the ads to be clicked in the blog posts than on the sidebars.

Another tool to making money with your blog can be the use of ClickBank. Clickbanka leader in online retail of high-converting, digitally downloadable products and has been paying clients for over 10 years. That is a long time the history of the internet. The Clickbank website shows they have paid client earnings over $1,259,303,000+, cool over a billion and some change. They give you access to sell products, promote products and buy products. As an affiliate you access to over 12,000 digital product vendors. You can sell clickbank products in over 200 countries. I would suggest to use along with your other affiliate programs.

Clickbank functions as a virtual business network facilitating transactions of buyers, sellers and affiliates, along with providing tracking of sales,  fraud protection on a secure platform. ClickBank’s platform allows you to  transact business in English, Spanish, German and French in 13 international currencies. That should cover about half of my sales

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Updated November 30, 2009