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I just came across this video that nicely outlines how to start a blog for profit. No hype – just the facts on how anyone can quickly and easily make money blogging. You can do it on a shoestring budget and in your spare time. If you can stick it out, there’s no doubt that you’ll start to see profits in a short time, and have a nice secondary income in about 4 – 6 months when done correctly.

Of course if you already know what you’re doing, then you know a six-figure business in 2-3 months with little effort.

How to Start a Blog for Profit…

Make Serious Cash With Blogging to The Bank

If you’re looking for a way to make quick money online, you’ve probably come across the idea of creating automated blog content. For those who don’t know, there are software programs and Wordpress plugins that will allow you to build a blog and have it automatically populated with content. You can create the settings so it publishes a new post 20 times a day if you want, and even have it hyperlink particular keywords that appear with your affiliate link.

The idea behind this is that if you create thousands of blog pages, you’ll be able to dominate the search engines for long-tail keywords and get tons of traffic. You build your blog, throw up some AdSense ads, turn on the switch, and in a couple months you’ll start seeing traffic. The idea is that as more and more content publishes, your traffic will increase as well.

Where does the content come from? You can set it up your auto blog to pull content from article sites, popular news sites, and you can even scrape it from other blogs. I’ve even seen automated blog software programs that will take the content and rewrite it so that it appears as purely original content.

What’s the Problem with Automated Blog Content?

While it might work now, it won’t last forever. Google’s primary goal is to filter out spam, and this most definitely classifies as spam. In fact, it’s probably copyright theft as well, in which case Google can block your site from being listed as well.

I’m sure Google has already figured out a way to detect these automated blog or will soon.

The bottom line is if this is your business model, you can be sure to fail. It might work for you for another 6 months or even a year. But eventually your blogs will disappear and your income will drop to $0.

Here’s another thing… building an auto blog is not marketing. If you want to make serious money in this business, you have to develop your ability to market online. There have been many easy ways to make money by “gaming the system,” but they always come to an end. If you used your time developing skills rather than trying to take advantage of short-term, minute profits, you may actually be able to make serious amounts of money. Not your pitiful $100,000 a year.

If you must pollute the Internet with garbage (and I’m not saying that I didn’t use these money-making methods when I first started), do so in conjunction of building a real business. And do so knowing that your site will get banned, and possibly your web hosting ip. That means anything other site you start that is someone linked to you will also be banned.

The great thing about making money online is that it can be done without spending a dime. If you’re looking for the best free blog platform, for instance, you have many options to choose from. By the beauty of open source software, there are many people much, much smarter than me that like to create useful programs for the world to enjoy.

Because of these open source programs, everyday people who have little to no technical know-how can start a website in a matter of minutes. That, I suppose, is a good thing and a bad thing. Because anyone can start their own websites in a matter of minutes, there Internet is full of spam and junky websites. But, I guess it’s the search engine’s job to filter those out and put valuable content accessible.

If you have something interesting to share with the world and you’re ready to start profiting from your very own website, a blog is the easiest and arguable the best way to do that. Even if you don’t plan on “blogging” per say, the blog platform for your website is often an ideal solution. It’s user friendly, easy to use, and search engines love them.

As far as options go, there is always Blogger and Wordpress for free sites. If, though, you plan on taking your new website seriously, you’ll want to have your very own website. You can still get the software for free, but you’ll have to pay about $5 a month for web hosting. But that way you completely own the content, you have more control, and you can make money any way you like.

The self-hosted version of Wordpress, in this case, is the most popular and favorable option. It is very user friendly and has thousands of templates/themes for you to choose from for free, so you can pick the design you want at the click of a button. Also, if your hosting company provides Fantastico with your hosting package, like HostGator does, you can have your new website up and running in less than an hour. I showed you in a previous post how I did it in less than 15 minutes.

All you have to do is log in to your hosting account, click the Fantstico button, and enter some information about what you want to call your blog. Push install, and BAM – it’s installed. From there you just log in and start typing away to fill up your blog with new content and get that puppy indexed by Google.