Lately, more and more people are trying their hand at making money online with blogging. Generally, these new bloggers know someone who is successful at blogging and think that they could do the same thing with relative ease. After all, they have been writing for years.

In fact, they started writing in school as a child. Unforunately, they fail to realize that writing interesting articles for a blog is much different than writing a school term paper. Unfortunately, many new bloggers give up long before they have really given blogging a chance. They thought the money would just magically appear without ever giving it much thought where this money would be coming from.

Although there are many ways to monetize blogs, one of the least tried ways is selling advertising on it. Although it is a very popular way to monetize blogs and websites, I am not talking about Google Adsense accounts either. Popular bloggers can sell their own ad space to whomever they wish. The more popular the blog, the more money the blogger can get for their adspace.

But how does the average blogger know if they could sell their own adspace profitably? There are a few tools the blogger can use to find out if selling adspace on their blog is worthwhile or not to make money online.

First, Google has ranked every page with their own page rank. This rank is from 0 to 10 and the higher the number, the more importance google has placed on the site. Of course, Google.com is one of the few page rank 10 websites in the world since it is either first or second in terms of visitors. Popular blogs generally have a page rank of 5 or higher. Of course, some blogs have lower page rank, but generally the very popular ones start with a page rank of 5.

Although there are online sites where page rank can be checked, the easiest method to check page rank is to download the google toolbar. Once it is installed, the toolbar sits at the top of the browser and shows a linear graph depicting page rank. The more color that shows up in the page rank graph, the more popular the blog. One thing to keep in mind is that Google recently has de-valued page rank. According to them, page rank will probably be phased out in the years to come.

The second way to check the popularity of a website is with alexa.com. Alexa ranks online entities by the number of visitors the web site or blog has on a daily, monthy, and yearly basis. Although some people question the validity of alexa’s numbers, I have found them to be fairly accurate. If you list your site with alexa, they are really accurate. Register today to get your site listed on alexa.

Once you obtain a page rank of 5 or higher, coupled with a decent alexa ranking, you should be able to approach other sites about advertising on your site. If the other site could benefit from your visitors, many bloggers will try your service for awhile. If they see an increase in sales or visitors, you may have a long term business relationship that continues to put money in your pocket month after month. Good luck with whatever method you choose.

Is there any doubt that making money blogging is probably the easiest way to begin earning money from your Internet marketing efforts? Most people have the necessary skills to immediately begin blogging the day they decide to start earning money online.

But one of the biggest mistakes many new bloggers experience is they don’t have a plan on how to proceed. They simply start blogging one day without either a short term or a long term goal. Unforunately, this is a big mistake since many would-be bloggers quit within the first six months. If they would have had a step by step plan, most bloggers wouldn’t become frustrated so quickly and quit trying shortly there after.

In order for the new blogger to get off on the right foot, I have purchased Atomic Blogging and will review it. Atomic Blogging has been around for several years but is constantly updated to reflect the changing blogging scene. I am going to review it to see if it would help the new blogger get off to a great start.

Obviously, Atomic Blogging is geared to the new to intermediate experienced bloggers. It does mention that after reading Atomic Blogging a novice would be able to set up a new blog in about one hour. Since I have some experience with setting up blogs, I asked my husband to read it and then set up a blog within an hour. Luckily, Atomic Blogging virtually walked him through the entire process of setting up a blog step by step. He was easily able to accomplish that task in under an hour. In fact, if he could do it, I am sure nearly everyone could also do it. He is a technophobe of the highest order.

Another great thing about Atomic Blogging is the plugin given to all students to increase the search engine ranking of all their blogs.This plugin helps the blogs to become indexed into the major search engines and to often outrank more established sites within a short period of time. The plugin alone with worth the cost of Atomic Blogging.

One aspect of Atomic Blogging that was shocking to me was Atomic Blogging encouraged the readers to set up a blog network. It didn’t just focus on setting up one blog, but on many blogs. When setting up many blogs, each blog can earn just a few dollars a day, but the cumulative effect is outstanding. If the blogger made 100 or 1000 blogs which earned a paltry two dollars a day, they would earn $200 to $2000 dollars per day. Most other blogging guides just concentrate on creating one blog. Atomic Blogging wants its readers to push the envelope and make as many blogs as they can.

In my opinion, Atomic Blogging is the whole blogging solution at a very fair price. It includes a website template, wordpress plugin, videos, and a lenghty e-book detailing exactly how everything should work together. It encourages the reader to make multiple sites in order to help spread the risk and reward of blogging.

Buy it today if you want to be part of the one stop blogging solution.

With the recent economic crisis throughout much of the world, many people are beginning to look online as a way to make money. Although there is a wide variety of ways to make money online, blogging is one of the easiest ways.

Of course, as with all businesses, you must have a road map to guide you in your journey into blogging. These five points will help get you going in the correct direction.

First, there is one thing to understand about blogging: Content is king. The more relevant your content is to your visitor’s interests, the more likely they are to return to your blog. In other words, your blog needs to have up to date and fresh content on a daily basis. If you content is stale or uninteresting, your visitors will not return. Without visitors, your blog will not make you any money, so keep posting interesting content often.

Second, blogging is hard work. Blogging is not a get rich scheme to incredible wealth. Although many people think there are blogging short cuts, there really isn’t. You need to think of blogging as a long term investment in yourself.

Third, you need to get an Adsense account. When you start to see visitors coming to your site on a daily basis, some people will begin to click the Adsense Ads Google serves up to your block. Every time a person clicks on one of your ads, you earn money. As your site becomes more popular, clicks will increase until your making a nice amount of money daily.

Fourth, write about things you know or are passionate about. If your passionate about your subject matter that will come out in your articles. Readers can quickly tell if you are knowledgable, passionate, and care about what your writing.

Fifth, have fun. Don’t see blogging as something you have to do, but rather something you enjoy doing. If your not having fun writing for your blog, you need to sit down and figure out why. If the subject matter no longer excites you, start a different blog about an entirely new subject. Just have fun.

There is a lot of myths concerning making money blogging. Some are outrageous claims while a few are closer to the truth. I am sure many bloggers have heard most of these myths, but I would like to tackle three of the more prevalant ones.

First, many people believe or have heard that it is impossible to make money blogging. This is just simply not true. Many people make money blogging every single day and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. As is often repeated, content is king in the blogging world. If your blog has great content, a decent layout, and some advertising, bloggers can make a profit quite quickly.

So why is this myth always told and re-told? Because many people have half-heartedly given blogging a chance with little success and quickly quit after starting when the money fails to fall from the heavens. In other words, some people incorrectly believe blogging will make them rich in a short amount of time. Unforunately, blogging will make you a steady income but rarely make you rich. Blogging has never been a get rich quick scheme. The bloggers that understand it takes time to build your blog into a must read entity are the bloggers who make the majority of the money in the long term. Short term bloggers rarely make any money because of that mind set.

Second, many people believe making money blogging is easy. They have heard of one or two people who started a blog six months ago and it was quickly bought for an unbelievable sum either by google or one of the other huge online businesses. Once again, this is simply not true in most circumstances, but it does occasionally happen. Making money blogging is hard work day in and day out for the most bloggers. When a blogger finally gets popular with a lot of readers, they will start to make a decent living.

Of course, this often takes years of hard work and dedication. People with unreasonable expectations about blogging spread this myth constantly. If the new blogger had a plan of action when they started, many bloggers would succeed before quitting. But since many have this unreasonable expectation, they give up at the first bump in the blogging road. You need to come in with a plan when you start your online money making blogging business, just as you would with any other type of business. Would you purchase a retail store without a business plan? Of course, you wouldn’t. Blogging is a business also and needs to be treated as such.

Third, many people believe there are short cuts to making money blogging online. Many people have wasted time and money setting up autoblogs. These autoblogs scrape content from around the web then posts it on the autobloggers site. Generally, most major search engines will ignore autoblogs completely. Many are de-indexed in a short time and never make a cent. If you want to make money blogging, just remember you must not take short cuts. Hard work is the only way to make a successful blog. Although you may get away with it for a while, you will be caught and your business could collapse overnight.

Although this just touches on a few of the myths surrounding blogging, these three are the most prevelant. It just seems these have withstood the test of time because many people are looking for an easy and fast way to make money online. Unfortunately, hard work and dedication are more often than not, the only way to make a decent living online.

Finally I am back to blogging again. I have been working all day long. It is hard to squeeze some of my time to blog.

Now, let me account for April hits report. Well, I did not do much these days and so the only earnings I have made is adsense.

Here is what I got for April.

Estimated Google Adsense: US$1.80

Overall Estimated Google Adsense: US$51.76

It is still not bad that every month I am still able to make money from adsense. I am pretty happy.

Recently some of my friends asked me about what I am doing online and what that eBook is about. So I told them that I am working on internet marketing and making money online. This is the path which I believe I can be richer than what I am now. As for the eBook, which you can see it above, I am still writing and typing into word document.

The eBook is about how to get traffic to you. I am sure you do know how to get traffic by doing research. What I am doing is to gather most of the info and put them into an eBook. I will also include some of my own thinking and ways to get traffic. I will try to get the eBook done by this week. Latest may be next week.

Do stay tune and look out for my eBook. I will be launching anytime.

Today I would like to share on how you can make money online just by doing reviews on website hosting. Let me tell you that this is not a scam because I have tried it and made some money out from it.

So how you can make money online by reviewing website hosting?

Go to hostingselector.com. This is not an affiliate link, it is a direct link.

Choose any website hosting that you would like to review. Unfortunately, you can only give one review on one website hosting. Currently, there are 10 website hosting available for you to review. These are the top 10 website hosting on hostingselector.com.

For the review, you will need to write a minimum of 100 words. Write it in a personal way to show that you really did review the website hosting. You also need to make sure there are no grammatical and vocabulary mistakes. If you are not confident with your English grammar and vocabulary, you can always ask someone or your friends to vet through your review before submitting it.

For each successful review, it will be display on the hostingselector.com. In return, you will also earn $5.  The payment will be paid to you through PayPal so you need to have a valid and verified PayPal account.

I had already written 2 reviews and have made a total of $10. Even though, it is not a huge sum of money, it is better than nothing.

Here is a screenshot of my payment proof . Circled in red are the amount of money I earned.

So, this is just one of the ways how I make money online. If you do have other ways of making money online, simply leave a comment.

I can still remember the first time I made my first cheque online was when I was still studying for my diploma. The first cheque I had received back then was fifty Singapore dollars, after participating in online surveys. I was very happy because that was my first time making money online. I had never thought that I could actually earn money through the internet.

When I was in my first year in polytechnic, I had a small financial problem and I wondered if there was to make money. Studying a diploma in information technology required me to spend a lot of time on the computer, surfing the internet to look for information. I considered a possibility of making money through the internet to increase my own pocket money. I did a search on the internet which led me to websites on making money through the internet. However most of them required payment for their services or products. I could not afford to buy any services or products back then so I did further searches on making free money through the internet.

Some people might think that there are lots of scams when making money online. This is because they may have been scammed or cheated before and hence do not really trust making money online. I was hesitant upon seeing those websites talking about scams but I could not give up because I was in desperate of money. Eventually, I chanced upon a website from Singapore. Being Singaporean myself, I gave my full trust to that website. The company which set up that website is still functioning.

The website was about getting paid for doing online surveys. So I gave it a try. I signed up for a free account and did the profile surveys. After sometime, I received more surveys to do. The more surveys I did the more points I got. Soon, I ended up doing many surveys. At one instant, I wanted to take a look at the amount of points I earned and if they could be exchanged for cash. I was surprised to see that I could exchange my points for twenty five Singapore dollars. Unfortunately, I could not withdraw it because there was a minimum requirement of fifty dollars which had to be met first. It took some time but I managed to build up sufficient points in my account to meet the requirement. After exchanging the points, I requested for a withdrawal of fifty dollars.

I only received the cheque after a couple of days but I did not bank it in. Instead, I kept it in a file and brought it to show my friends. When I recounted the money making process, most of them did not want to listen and most did not believe me.

From that day on, I strongly believe that making money through the internet is possible. I have attended a few classes on internet marketing as well. I cannot say that I know everything, though, because technology and the internet keep changing so I have to keep myself up to date and continue to educate myself more.