Blogging is a very effective marketing process and can be a very profitable tool if used in the right manner. Making money online from a blog is just a matter of seducing the attention of a prospect or audience without directly selling to them. By following these steps to blogging you will begin to see results over a 4-6 month period.

1) What is the best starting point?

There are a number of free blog hosts and blog platforms available online today, Google offers possibly the largest of all platforms with it’s popular Blogger Service.  The aim of a blog is to create a body of work using words, pictures and videos to entertain, educate, inform of seduce your audience so the platform is quite important.

I always opt for WordPress, independently hosted with Bluehost as I always like to remain in control of my destiny, at least more so than the hosted versions of Blogger and WordPress offer.  A wrong word or a slip of the proverbial tingue can result in your blog being de-listed by Google Blogger or WordPress, so the moral of lesson one is “take control of your blogging destiny”

“Make Money with the Long Tail…”

The long tail was not effectively put into action until a few years ago. When the idea of effectively targeting consumers for smaller niches all of the sudden became very feasible and extremely profitable.

So why is the long tail so effective? Years ago, if you typed in the search term, online automobile insurance quote, you would probably not get what you were looking for. The long tail is so effective because there are millions of niche topics out there that are not targeted by marketers. The search term, Nike shoes, will return thousands and thousands of targeted results. The search term, Nike shoe retailer in Indiana, may result in thousands of results as well but very few will be targeted relevant results.

So, why is this important? The main search terms have a lot of competition. The niche topics have fewer visitors but a lot less competition. This means that if you can create one site for a certain niche, you can make a few dollars a day. If you can make 100 sites that make five dollars a day you have five hundred dollars a day. Replicate this process more and more and you will find yourself making loads of money online.

Many people are making money online because they are targeting these niche topics. A lot of the money that is being made comes from several small websites composed of a few good articles will information on that niche. Once the small site is created, google ads are placed on the page along with affiliate links to monetize the site. Once the site is setup and ready to make money an article is written everyday and submitted to well known article directories. The more articles you can write and submit, the more visitors come to the site. The more visitors you get to your site, the more money you make.

There are several tools you can use to speed up the process and many tricks of the trade that will make the process for efficient but now you know the basics. You can start making money online with the long tail promoting niche topics from the knowledge you have obtained from this article. It is not rocket science but it does take discipline to keep going. Anyone can do it but many do not. Those that choose to go through with it are becoming very wealthy making money online through long tail marketing.