Work at Home Moms, how to blog
Blogs are here to stay, and many Wahms (Work At Home Moms) are taking advantage of the trend. Making money with blogs is a popular choice for many work at home moms. Blogs are simple to set up, and relatively easy to update. This is especially true when you compare blogs to other types of websites. Within just a few minutes, you can set up a professional looking blog for free and start your Wahm blogging business.
A blog is an easy to update website that looks sort of like a journal. Entries are made at a minimum of each week, and the newest entries appear at the top. Usually entries are short articles containing 200 to 500 words. Readers use a blog reading program to visit the blog or read new entries. Readers can also comment on entries and provide links between their own blogs and your blog.
With blogs, the opportunities are wide open. Looking at your own life for inspiration makes choosing a blog topic easy. There are blogs about every topic, from gardening to make-up to celebrity news. Before you start a blog, do some research on the Internet to see if people are interested in your possible blog topic. If you have a dedicated group of people who are interested in your topic, it doesn’t have to be a popular one.
When you pick a topic, make sure to stay within a fairly small “niche.” The term niche is used to describe a group of people who have a similar interest. There are big niches – like working at home – and small niches – like tips for training your cat to sit on the toilet. Try to find a happy medium between a popular topic and a niche interest so your blog has plenty of readers. Some topics, like working at home or parenting, are too broad and have too much competition for readers.
You can use a free blogging platform like www.blogger.com to set up your blog or www.wordpress.com. You have dozen others to choose from. To make your first entry into your blog, the blogging platform will walk you through it.
After you’ve made a few entries into your blog, it’s time to monetize your blog. This means you’ll be making specific changes to your blog in order to make money. To gain income from a blog you can use a contextual advertising program, like Google Adsense or Chitika, it is one of the most popular ways. Contextual advertising pays you for each time a reader clicks on one of the advertising links on your page. To place advertising on your page that relates to your page content, the advertising program will scan your blog entries for keywords.
For instance, the ads next to the article will have to do with Sesame street if you are writing an article about the program because you have a blog on children’s television. They might be links to shopping for Sesame Street items, or an ad for vintage Sesame Street collectables selling on ebay.
Start today your own money making blog!
-Albert-




