First Setup Your Blog

The first step to Make Money Online Blogging is to setup your blog. Even if you already have an active blog, I recommend reading this section, as I’ll talk about specific options to setup for the best results. If you’ve never setup a blog, or a WordPress account, this will give you a good idea what’s involved.

First of all, if you don’t have a domain name and a web blog already, then you need to buy a domain name and web hosting. I don’t recommend using a free host, because they are not reliable web hosting services. I really recommend HostGator Baby Plan Web Hosting it allows you to host all your domains within one account. It costs $9.95/mo. and yes you can pay your hosting bills monthly, no annual contract or setup fees. Want to try HostGator? You can sign up for one month of HostGator Web Hosting for just 1 Cent, with no obligation using the coupon code “JURY” with no quotes.

You’ll need a domain as well. I really recommend GoDaddy as your domain name registrar, since they’re ICANN certified, and have great prices. Plus they’ve got a great interface to sell your domain in an auction format. This is a good strategy if you don’t have the energy to keep posting and growing your blog, since once we get monster traffic for a short period of time, the domain will be much more desirable to buy, and you should be able to make a good profit (in addition to all the affiliate commissions you’re going to make). Or you can go for a cheap $1.99 Domain Name from Yahoo! Domains or get a $4.95 Domain Name from Netfirms.

If you do sign up for HostGator, then you can use the feature called Fantastico that will automatically install a variety of different programs on your site. It enables you to setup your WordPress blog in few clicks. All you have to do is click install, fill out a few fields of info about your blog, and it do the rest for you.

Once you’ve got your site set up, there are a few things to do to make sure you’re ready for tons of traffic:

1. Install a good looking theme (Get a WordPress Theme)

2. Delete the default Blogroll links, post, and comments

3. Install the WordPress plugin Sociable

4. Setup your permalink structure as custom and enter this in the field: /%postname%/

Now your blog is ready to go, the next step is to sign up as an affiliate that I’ll discuss in the next part of this article.

What makes a good web page What makes a bad web page? Here are some guidelines to design a better web page:

You Should Have A Theme

Define your theme clearly and make sure that your web pages, graphics and text all focus on that theme. So that the web page looks useful for the visitor or customer.

Don’t Add Images Unnecessarily

Make sure that the graphics used in your web page are small in size so that it loads quickly. Reduce the size of each file as much possible as you can. Use GIF format for your images as it loads faster than JPEG files.

Your Web Page Should Load Fast

Make sure that all your web pages are less than 50 KB in size including all animations, images, navigation and text.

Use HTML To Build Your Web Pages

Use HTML as far as possible and never use java, DHTML or similar codes which require your visitor’s browser setup correctly to show your page.

Respect Search Engines

You must respect search engines if you want traffic from search engines like Google, Live Search, and Yahoo. So read the webmaster guide lines of popular search engines before you design your website. Use the following link to read the guidelines of major search engines.

Google Webmaster Guidelines

Live Search Site Owner Help

Yahoo! Search Content Quality Guidelines

Love Your Surfers and Visitors

Design your web site so that surfers using a slow internet connection can also download and use your website easily.

No Horizontal Scrolling For Your Web Pages

Design your web pages so that you never force your surfers to scroll left or right regardless of their screen resolution.

Know Your Traffic

Use a good traffic analysis program which gives detailed information about the visitors to your web site. This information helps you to analyze the nature of your visitors. Use the traffic analysis programs Google Analytics & AWStats.

Google AdSense earnings calculator is a tool developed by SEOChat which allows you (Google AdSense Affiliate) to estimate your earnings from Google AdSense. You can try this tool by experimenting with different values.

The Google AdSense calculator is designed only to estimate your earnings and it doesn’t help you to increase your earnings from AdSense. It gives an estimate of how much impressions you should generate in order to achieve your target.

It predicts the changes in your earnings from Google AdSense depending upon your Page Impressions, Click Through Rate and Cost Per Click. Suppose your current traffic is 1000 page views a day then Google AdSense Calculator helps you to estimate your future earnings using your current Click Through Rate (CTR) and Cost Per Click (CPC).

Daily Page Impressions
Daily page impressions indicate how many times ads are shown per page. You can use your average, anticipated, or current daily page impressions for this

Click Through Rate (CTR)
This figure represents how many visitors actually click your advertisements. You can find this easily on your Google AdSense stats page labeled “CTR.” The average rate is estimated to be about 1.5%.

Cost Per Click (CPC)
Your CPC is the average of how much you get paid for someone clicking one of your advertisements. To find your average CPC take you’re the amount of money you have earned from AdSense (daily, monthly, or all time) and divide it by your total clicks (daily, monthly, or all time).

You may also try Google AdSense Calculator by AdsenseCalculator.com.