By Mark Knowles

Although there are a lot of blogs and bloggers on the Internet, most of them are not really making much salary, if any. If you want to be one of the few who really does make wages blogging, you'll need to work hard at it. Here are a few things you need to do if you want your blog to be profitable.

Choose a sucessfull niche. Some topics are more likely to make money than others. You can get a good idea of what is most likely to be profitable by paying attention to the ads you see, whether on the Internet or on television. For example, you see a lot of weight loss ads. There's a reason for that. There's money to be made selling weight loss products.

The second tip is to write a lot. You need a lot of content on your blog to increase the chances that something you write will get ranked high enough in the search engines to start bringing you traffic. You will be working on getting traffic in other ways as well, but you really need to get ranked in the search engines.

Third, your blog must be search-engine friendly. We don't need to get into any major search engine optimization here. The most important thing is to make sure that the titles of your posts show up in the URLs instead of a bunch of random numbers, letters or dates. This will help your posts rank better in the search engines.

Of course, you have to monetize your blog if you want to make money blogging. One way to do this is by running ads, such as Google Adsense, on your blog. You can also sell affiliate products or create a product of your own and sell it. You won't make any salary at all if you skip this step, no matter how many people read your blog.

The most important thing you need to do is promote your blog. You can start by telling everyone you know about it, but that's not nearly enough. Comment on other blogs in the same niche to get backlinks, but make the comments useful and relevant to the post so they don't get deleted. You can also comment in forums and link to your blog in your signature. Writing articles and submitting them to article directories can also get you some traffic. Make sure you put the link to your blog in the resource box. If you follow these tips, you will be on your way to making income blogging.

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