Make Money Online from Home - A Beginners’ Guide Times are hard! But as those wise old philosophers in the US of A say “when the going gets tough, the tough get blogging!” So, you have decided to make money online blogging . You figure how difficult can it be? A bunch of other loonies are doing it so why not me? You just create a blog (free with Blogger). Sign up for AdSense (free). Stick the AdSense ads on your free blog. Write some stuff. Then check your AdSense account ten times a day to count the money rolling in! Easy peasy! The bad news is, it ain’t that easy, but the good news is - it is possible! So before we get cracking here is a little poem I wrote, I call it - “I’m Blogging for Money, Honey” (Nervous cough) Making money blogging Has got to be easier than logging No more hard work slogging Chopping up that wood No more hunting beaver With your dirty cleaver Now you’re a high achiever Beaver likes you good I think that about sums it up. Become a celebrated blogger, make a pile of dosh and those pesky beavers will take care of themselves. Beavers have apparently already invaded cyber space, gnawing away at cyber logs with their little teeth, hypnotizing law-abiding citizens by fluttering their cute beaver eyelashes and generally creating havoc. But fear not, with your new-found beaver trapping skills you will soon have them eating out of your hand. Do beavers eat wood? Who knows? But that’s something for you to Google (later! - pay attention I’m just getting to the important bit). Right now we’ve got to trap the smelly little critters. So, here goes. To make money blogging there are basically two methods, which I have very considerately numbered 1 and 2 to make them easier to follow. Two Ways to Make Money Blogging 1. Copy what other successful billionaire bloggers do. 2. Do something totally unique i.e. something that no-one else has ever done. If you would like to follow route no. 2 that’s fine, you just need a unique (and interesting) idea - like those guys who created that cute cat can i haz cheezeburger site, which just took off and made them a pile of money. Your great unique idea gets a viral infection and a million visitors a day fall about laughing at cats (I was going to say pussies but I don’t want people thinking I’m crude) and you make pots of money. Good luck. If you don’t fancy the route 1 way to making money blogging, then you need to follow good old route 2 i..e. copy what other blogging trailblazers have done. We ain’t proud. Now this is where it gets complicated, so I will now subdivide this route no. 1 into two further sections will I shall call 1A. and 1B. My night at a swanky dog food restaurant - Chez Woof In method 1A. you follow the route of the famous ‘A’ list money-making zillionaire blogger ‘gurus’ e.g Mr Problogger, Mr John Chow, Mr Shoemoney, Mr Dosh Dosh, Mr BigFat Money Maker etc… and others who all write the same ‘wonderful content’ (wonderful if you can’t get to sleep that is) - haven’t you heard ‘content is king’ ha ha - you write wonderful content about how to catch your beaver by enticing it in to your lair with an old sock or was it an old sack ? hmmmm I must check that out again, maybe I got it wrong ? - they all have wonderful sites (usually on Worpdress) and thousands of adoring beaver fans who religiously dissect the entrails of their blogs every day, click on their ads. and buy all that stuff they advertise down the sides and on the top. Thus making the gurus a whole pile of dosh, but not making the disciples a cent. They make their money from promoting or selling stuff which the disciples buy. That surely is one way of trapping those beavers. Like Mr John Chow once said “I make money by telling people how much money I make.” These sites do work, apparently (let’s face it I ain’t got access to their bank accounts so I gotta take what they and others say on trust) - but they have largely cornered that particular beaver market and so you would have to be some sort of genius brain surgeon rocket scientist smelly nerd ubergeek to get a piece of that action. But once you’ve cracked it, it don’t matter how disgusting you look, those beavers will find you irresistible ! Can it be done? Maybe. Good luck. But, bear this in mind, one guy who had a site that looked very much like these guru sites and who had lots of readers and adoring fans leaving multiple comments along the lines of “gee thanks Garry for the great post” ! (despite the fact that you can read the same posts on any and every blogging site) recently said it was all a crock of beaver poo. In spite of the fact that he had a great looking site and lots of fans and readers, he wasn’t making any money ! How do we know this? Am I guessing ? Have I hacked his bank account ? No, that was not necessary, because in an admirable display of honesty he wrote a post explaining how his blog made NO MONEY and never would and how “social networks are stupid” and how they have provided “absolutely ZERO help towards the growth of this blog”. Way to go Garry! It takes courage to do that, and Garry Conn had (and still has) a good-looking blog going. You can Google him too (later !) - I ain’t puting a link up, ’cause although he told it like it was he still don’t deserve one of my PR0 links ! So, that’s enough of make money blogging method 1a. - I could go on, but you get the picture - nice-looking blogs are fine and may make you some friends, and may make money for the A list bloggers, but in these harsh economic times you will need to be good to make money doing what they do (and catching those furry wriggly little beavers of course!). So now we come to method 1B. - much less glamorous, but more effective. And also more logical. Method 1a always appeared illogical to me and I thank Garry for confirming my belief. But for method 1b I have to thank a certain Mr Grizzly, who explained how a beginner should go about making money blogging. If you want to learn about Blogging to make money you are definitely at the right place. Blogging to make money is so famous these days that almost all internet marketers are doing it. Visit the site to learn more about Blogging to make money now.