8 Steps To Profits From Your Blog

Can you make a decent living online?
Yes, absolutely. But do you know 99% of people fail too? Because they don't have a plan and they do it blindly.

We have seen a lot of success proof of people earning more than $100/day from their own blog, not mentioning their websites also. For example, see http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog and www.problogger.net . To earn profits from your blog, It requires only 2 things--Traffics+Adsense. A blog starter should always focus on building traffic first before optimizing their ads program. In blogging, I choose google adsense as the ads because they have a huge search engine, and most of the successful website marketers have given a good feedback about adsense.

Here are 8 steps which you can follow as a guide:
1. First, get a small booklet from your nearby bookshop. (To keep track your result and recording.)

1. Start setting and writting down exactly how much you want to earn PER DAY from your ads program. This is to help you visualise with a goal. We have seen lots of people doing blindly with nothing to aspect and at the end fed up with making money online. And by setting exactly what you want, after achieving it, you build confidence in yourself, and help you setting a higher target in future. Remember, setting a realistic and achievable goal is important.

2. Set a time frame (such as 3 months) to achieve your goal. Ask yourself how are you going to make the $100/day you set for yourself? What do you need to do or learn to achieve it. For begginer, becoming web savvy is important in making money from blog. You need to know HTML code,blog publishing software,RSS/syndication, search engine optimization (SEO) etc. I recommend you to subscribe Darren Rowse's Problogger blog.

3. Remember that I said Traffic+Adsense. Dealing with Traffic is a headache for all, even webmaster. To attract traffics, it includes your choice on the keyword, your content and search engine optimization. Doing right things help you attract lots of traffic from search engines. I would recommend you to choose writting topics that you understand a lot. Start writting on things you like and not because of some high-paying keywords. 5 topics a week in blog is considered suitable, and write informational stuff.

4. Choosing right keyword is important. After choosing a topic to write about, list down in your small booklet all those keywords that relate to your topic. Then do a study on those keywords. Pick up those that has less competition yet many people(at least 100 for last 24 hour) searching.

5. As chinese famous strategist Sun-Zi said, "Knowing yourself and your enemy, you will win every hundred wars". Know and understand your competitors. Find out what they are doing correct, site that are linking to them(backlink). Copy those correct one, or/and improve what they'd done wrong.

7.Doing SEO is just half task finish in our road making money. The real money comes in only when people click on the ads, always remember this. People don't click ads to help you, they click because they want to know more about the topics you have aroused their interest. Doing some testing on adsense ads placement helps. But keep on testing until you get what you want.

8.Lastly, Review. Write down what you have done right. Find a day in a week to review what you did.

To understand more about SEO, I recommend you to go http://www.seochat.com . SEO by itself is a huge topics which require more studies.