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More and more blogs are created every day but some people still think that setting up a blog is difficult or that you need to have a lot of technical knowledge. This is a misconception and actually the opposite is true. Setting up a blog is easy.

If you want to set up a blog you should consider visiting Blogger.com. Blogger.com is a free blog platform, owned by Google, that let’s you set up your very own weblog within minutes.

Blogger.com is used by many beginners as it offers an easy to use platform. You can write posts easily and even change huge parts of your layout, which is not normal for a free blog.

Another reason why it is so popular is because of its tight integration with Google Adsense. Adsense is an advertisement serving program which let’s bloggers earn money by showing ads on their web site.

How Do I Set Up a Blogger.com Blog Visit Blogger.com Click on Create A Blog, this will lead you to a new page. Either log in to your Google Account or create a new account by entering the requested data. Click on Continue and once again you will be lead to a new page On the page, fill in the required data such as your blog title or the domain. Again click on Continue and you will be lead to a page where you can choose your blog template. A template is just the rough design of your blog. Choose one of the templates. Clicking on Continue will lead you to the last page on which it says that you successfully created a blog. You can now visit your blog under [yourdomain].blogspot.com

It wasn’t really hard was it?

Perhaps one of the easiest ways to monetize your blog is by adding Google AdSense. This type of advertising will work with almost any type of blog, and depending on the traffic your website receives this can be quite lucrative. One key thing is that you can not tell your readers to click on the ads.

Can you add HTML to your blog?

AdSense is also rather easy to use as long as you are able to modify the HTML code of your website. Most blogs that are self-hosted (meaning you installed or had someone install your blog) allow code modifications. After you sign up with Google AdSense all you do is insert a few lines of HTML code into your blog.

Is your blog content related?

If your blog has good content, then the ads will pick up keywords needed to ad related text ads. AdSense will then run ads relevant to the keywords on your website. Yet if your Fitness blog has a couple posts about your new kitten, the ads will not be related to your topic. This is another reason you want to make certain most of your posts are related to your actual topic.

How does AdSense work?

When visitors click on an advertisement you get paid. Since you are using keywords related to your niche, your ads are related. Thus the ads are interesting to your readers giving them a reason to click. Once you have signed up you can tract your earnings, daily, weekly, monthly or however you like. How do I sign up?

How do I sign up?

Go to http://adsense.com and fill out the forms. If you already use Google, then you can use it to get started. AdSense is free to use, but they do require tax information and report your earnings. It is easy to sign up and easy to get started, after you sign up, you can choose your ads.

What types of ads can I choose?

There are lots of choices for your ads. Skyscraper ads are the tall skinny ones. The banner ads are the standard wide and short ones. If you do not like those sizes, there others, smaller versions, square and such. You can also make the ads match the color of your blog.

Is there a reason not to use AdSense?

You can not tell your readers to click on the ads, nor can you. If Google suspects you of committing click fraud then you may be suspended from using AdSense. They may even tell you that your website can never have AdSense on it. You may be able to sell that ad space directly to an advertiser for more money, while other advertisers avoid sites that have it. Some bloggers find it hard to reach the minimum payment of $100.

Is AdSense for me?

You are the only one that can decide that. It is easy to get started, requiring very little work to get started, then copy and paste some code. By adding content you keep readers coming and give the ads more material to use to make relevant ads. Then again readers and advertiser may decide it cheapens your website. AdSense makes sense if your readers will accept it. For most bloggers it is a slow way to make money. Thus the final decision is yours.

There are many “SEO Gurus” that will tell you commenting on blogs can boost your pageranking a lot. These gurus are also the ones with page rank of 0. My blog is only one month old, and it is already PR 2. While there are people who claim they can get PR 4+ in less than a month, I am here to tell you what really works to increase your page rank FREE.

Your link to your site inside blog comments does not matter much to Google! It matters more to some search engines, but definitely not Google. It does not matter if the blog is DoFollow or NoFollow because Google is not looking into it seriously. I posted so many great comments in DoFollow blogs, and they did nothing to boost my page ranking. Trust me, I looked up DoFollow blog lists on Google, and commented on hundreds of blogs. If blog commenting mattered a lot to Google pageranking, wouldn’t a lot of people have high page ranks by now since there are quite a few of blogs that are DoFollow with 5+ page ranking.

You might be asking this question to yourself, “Why should I even bother with commenting then?” Because you want to get noticed! Posting comments like “nice post!” will not get you noticed. You want to add value into the discussion, and that will get the author of the blog to notice you. Ask good questions or let the author know about something that was missing in the post. Those two are just basic ideas.

What happens when you get noticed? The author might write a post base on your comment. The author might write a review post about your site. The author might write at the end of his post, “Check out this website (link), you can learn a lot from this guy about making money online”. The possibilities are endless. Basically, when someone writes about you or your website, they would generally add a backlink to your site inside the post. If the person did not add a backlink to your site, you can ask nicely to include one. You have a much better chance of getting noticed when your site has a similar niche as the author.

Although Google does not care much about links inside comments, Google cares about links INSIDE the posts. Get people to notice you, and they will eventually write about you and your site. Links inside posts are the best quality backlinks you can get. To sum it all up, always write great comments if you are going to write them, and you will be rewarded sooner or later.