How To Setup A Blog And Monetize It
How to setup a blog and monetize it. According to Wikipedia a blog is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. It is simply a diary page where people could post about their daily lives.
To setup a blog you will need to have two things;
A Domain Name
Hosting Account
A domain name is simply what people type into their web browser to see your website or blog while the hosting account is what links your blog or website to your domain name on the internet. When choosing domain name make sure you choose a dot com extension. Also make the name directly related to the niche you are going to blog on. If you are going to use your blog as a place to teach people about blogging tips and secrets, you can register URL that has blogging attached to it. Before selecting a URL make sure you have done a proper research to make sure your selected niche will draw people’s attention. After the registration look for a good hosting company to link your domain name to. But when choosing a hosting company make sure they have Fantastico installed.
Your next step is to select the platform you will use to flag up your blogging business. There are two platform you can choose from;
Blogger.com
WordPress
I will not like to waste your time here, just go for WordPress blog. I mean the WordPress blog you will setup from your hosting account through the Fantastico I mentioned above.
How To Setup A Blog:To set up WordPress blog log into your cpanel with your username and password. In your cpanel locate Fantastico and click on it. Then click on WordPress under the Blog section. When you come to New Installation click on it. Next is for you to choose to install your blog on domain or in Directory. Under Admin access data enter your username and your password. Under Base configuration enter your admin nickname, email address, website URL, Website Description. Under E-mail account configuration enter your email account username and password. After that click ‘Install WordPress’ ones to install your WordPress blog. The next stage that will appear click on Finish installation to complete your installation.
Setting Up Your WordPress Theme:Log in to your WordPress dashboard with the admin username and password you created when installing your blog. Under Appearance click on Themes. If you have your own themes you should upload it from this section or you may select any of the themes that are preinstalled in your dashboard. After choosing your theme you can start posting articles to your blog.
For you to start making money from your newly setup blog, you will need to monetize it. To monetize a blog simply means to start selling affiliate product on your blog. You can get a good affiliate product to promote by going to Clickbank or Amazon. The idea is that when people visit your blog and buy any of the affiliate product you are selling on your site, you get paid by your affiliate network. If the product is sold for $40 and your commission for selling it is 50%; this means your commission will be $20. To make $2000 monthly you will need to sell to 100 people monthly. This is one form of blog monetization.
Google Adsense: This is another way of monetizing a blog. Go to www.google.com/adsense and register with the adsense program. You will follow simple steps to generate adsense code which you will insert into the Text Widget of your blog or you can install adsense Manager plugin. For every click on the Google adverts showing on your blog you will earn a commission from Google.
I have shown you from this article how you can setup a blog and monetize it with Affiliate programs and Adsense but you will need to start sending viral traffic to your blog for you to start seeing the money.
