Is there really a compelling reason to start a blog when you could be spending your time working on your website? Is a blog really as effective a marketing tool as a traditional website? It all depends.

Whether or not you should start your own blog depends largely on the use to which you blog will be put. Many bloggers are blogging for strictly social reasons; other use their blogs for productive purpose; and some bloggers manage to combine socializing and being productive in a single blog.

If your intention in starting a blog is to socialize, you will be most successful by creating your blog at one of the high-traffic social networking sites like MySpace and opening it up for comments so that you can begin a dialog with your readers.

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You can believe one of two things about making a significant income from Google AdSense.

1) If you believe the claims of those who are promoting AdSense with the products they are selling, then Google AdSense is the key to your early, as in nest year, retirement.

2) If you believe those who have spent the past year working with AdSense and received something in the neighborhood of $100 for their efforts, you will begin devising an alternative retirement strategy.

But is there a middle ground, a third option which will allow you to make a reasonable income from Google Adsense in return for a reasonable amount of works? There certainly is, if you don’t keep looking for the magic tricks and resign yourself to repeating the same R&D over and over again.

Keywords are at the heart of any successful Google AdSense campaign, and you need to find the right ones. The right keywords will be determined by your source of traffic.

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There is no limit to the kinds of blog you can build, just as there are no limits to your imagination. Many bloggers choose a general subject, like nutrition or travel, and post anything they find interesting on their general topic. Other bloggers concentrate on a narrower focus, like women’s nutrition, or singles vacations, in the hope of gaining a targeted audience.

If your primary interest is in monetizing your blog, a blog with a narrow focus, in terms of generating traffic, is more likely to generate clicks from your readers as well as actual sales.

Almost every blog will fall into one of eleven categories:  politics, religion, social networking, business, travel, science, physical or emotional health, sports and fitness, travel, gossip, or personal reflections.

And while blog directories, where you can post links to your blog, may have other names for their classifications, you will have no trouble picking the ones which are the best fit for your blog’s contents.

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The big positive about affiliate marketing is that it allows you to earn an income without actually having to create and advertise your own product. By becoming an affiliate marketer, you can collect a commission every time someone follows your affiliate link to the site of the actual product seller and makes a purchase.

The size of your commission will vary depending on the product for which you are an affiliate, and your methods of promoting it, but they can run as high as 75%.

If you have a blog and would like to start monetizing it by becoming an affiliate, there is a trio of affiliate program providers which you should investigate. They are Commission Junction, Click Bank, and Link Share.

In order to maximize the percentage of the commissions you receive, you should sign up with either Click Bank or Commission Junction, which set up affiliate programs for all the big membership websites and vendors of informational products, and those programs are usually the most lucrative. Standard commissions range from 25% to 75%.

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There’s a term now applied to blogs which are actually making an income for their owners: They’ve been “monetized.” 

Sounds a bit like sanitized, but it’s closer in spirit to “commercialized” and what it really means is that someone is actually paying to have links to their businesses posted on those blogs, or in some cases paying to have reviews of their products and services posted there.

That’s right, you can actually get paid for placing someone’s link on your blog or for giving your opinion about whatever they are selling.

It sounds simple, but there is one caveats involved, especially concerning the paid links. Once you have figured out how to get around it, you’ll be ready to monetize.

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