Blogging

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blogging can’t serve as a useful platform from which you can earn money online. Many people are earning over 5 figures a month “just blogging”, by combining it with things like affiliate sales, ad networks, and paid reviews.
Go to the last chapter of this post to see all of the blogger income reports I have collected. There are thousands of blogs started every day and most of them die off over the course of a few months/years.
From personal experience, I think it is best to start a blog with a purpose/passion – aside from making money. This will help you to be successful in the long run, as it is normal to spend many months blogging without earning anything. Here are some of the best blogging sites you can use to get started.
How To Start A Blog - a post I wrote that will get you up and be blogging in a matter of minutes.
Livejournal - A service for journals and blogs, that also offers privacy controls, photo storage, publishing tools, style templates, and online communities for many interests.
Tumblr - Post anything (from anywhere!), customize everything, and find and follow what you love.
WordPress.com - Free blogs managed by the developers of the WordPress software. Includes custom design templates, integrated statistics, automatic spam protection. Your domain will look like yourdomain.wordpress.com It's different from Word Press.org.
WordPress.org - A web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog using fully customized WordPress themes, with your own domain name.
***Additionally if you want to start a blog you are going to need hosting***
I use a few different hosts for my blogs. I cannot say they are the BEST hosting around. There are thousands of hosts. I can say that they work, they are reliable/dependable, the sites go relatively fast and the support is relatively good. There may be better options out there, but these are certainly sufficient.
WPXHostingWPXHosting: This is what we are currently using for the NinjaOutreach.
HostGator-logoHostGator: This is what I use for the majority of my websites. Their shared hosting plan is solid and they have decent support.
logo_siteground_topSiteGround: This is what Vicky uses for AvocadoPesto, and I think the support is top notch.
1.2 Blog/Website Monetization
If you have a blog or a website with content and a following, I'm going to discuss a few ways you can monetize it through advertising and information products. Concerning the latter, you certainly don't need a blog to pull it off.
Anyone can sell an ebook, for example. But it is just so typical for bloggers to do these things, because they tend to be more successful when you have an audience, that I decided to include them in this section.
Still, if you don't have a blog, you just need to think of another way to reach your target audience (like a forum, or a simple landing page).

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