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by Andrew Nielsen

Making money from a blog requires skill, luck and work. In this article we describe how it can be done.

Let’s first look at the sources of revenue which are available for blog authors.

by Art Luff

Apart from the chat rooms, instant messengers and electronic mails created for communication and dialogue beyond turf are the emerging innovations that help man build opportunities for interaction. The need for a personalized and human face aspect of building online communities is slowly changing the technological landscape of the Internet.

Blogs / “weblogs” or blogging are the newest gift of Internet technology to people all over the world. These are updated posts, crop up entries or personalized life snippets, of mundane or bizarre in nature. For most, a “blog” is a personal, unedited, and authentic journal meant to be shared in an online community. Blog site is a place where bloggers can publish anything; his thoughts, feelings, photos, special events, experiences, comments on issues and so on. It is more of an online diary with videos, links, documents, newsletters and opinions on just about any topics you are interested.

by Rose DesRochers

You’ve finally created a blog and you’ve made your first post. Now how do you get people to actually read what you’re blogging about?

Here are some tips on promoting your blog.

1. Quality Content - Interesting content will keep your readership returning. Update your blog regularly. Googlebot, which is Google’s web-crawling robot loves content. The more you update your blog, the more frequent the search engine spiders will return to it.
2. Take part in forums that are related to blogging. Ask other bloggers for their opinion on your blog and take their suggestions to heart.
3. Publish an RSS/Atom/XML feed. If you’re using Blogger, you can turn on RSS feed by clicking on settings in your dashboard and then clicking on site feed and make sure that your settings are set to yes.

by Lynette Chandler

1. Start a Community Blog. A community blog is just that, a community of like-minded people who contribute to a blog. One of the obvious advantages to this type of blog is that you don’t need to spend a lot of time posting yourself to be part of an active blog. If you have a community of three or more people and you each post at least twice a week then you will have a pretty active blog. Be sure to use an RSS feed and have all contributors post the feed on their sites to get the benefit of each sites visitors.

by clyde

PROBLOGGING: MAKING MONEY FROM BLOGS

A weblog (or simply blog) is a website that ‘publishes’ or features articles (which are called ‘blog posts’, ‘posts’, or ‘entries’), written by an individual or a group that make use of any or a combination of the following:

• Straight texts
• Photographs or images (photoblog)
• Video (videoblog) · Audio files (audioblog)
• Hyperlinks

Usually presented and arranged in reverse chronological order, blogs are essentially used for the following purposes:

• Online journal or a web diary
• Content managament system
• Online publishing platform

A typical blog has the following components:

• Post date -the date and time of the blog entry
• Category - the category that the blog belongs to
• Title - the title of the blog
• Main body - the main content of the blog
• RSS and trackback - links the blog back from other sites