Technology Reports

about 9 months ago, I decided to start a blog with the specific aim of making some money from it. Now in order to have a blog to make money there were basically 2 business models that I thought I could take. I could opt for creating great content on a regular basis and display advertising and hope that some site visitors clicked thru or I could go about setting up a blog that accepted payed posts. I settled for option 2.

My blog was going to be a “review” blog, in which I would write a review about websites and in that review I would have a couple of targetted links to the site I was reviewing.

Step 1 was to go and register a domain and set up a blog on it. That was pretty straight forward and I chose to use wordpress for the blog engine. A simple clean theme and SEO url’s, set up the categories and I was ready to start.

The first thing I did was to write a couple of posts about some of my own sites and friends sites to get a bit of content happening. I also set up a few static pages making sure that I had a way for people to contact me and a bit about my services.

Now, I was ready for the initial stages of site promotion so that I could build the long-term value of my blog. My aim was to make a profit from the blog, so I had to make sure that it was valuable in itself. In order to kick things off and get started I did a few exchanges - I did a few free reviews in exchange for high PR links to my blog. I did this not only to get some good incoming links, but to also get a range of sites to blog about and further improve my writing skills.

After about 3 weeks I had a blog, I had set it up how I wanted it, I had some content on it, I had some incoming links to my site. The basics were in place ready for me to start making some money from it.

In Part II, I will go thru the steps and some of the places to seek out paying opportunities.