1. Set up your blog. You need to make decision what are you going to blog about. Find a nice theme and give a suitable name to your blog .There are numerous of free ways to set up a blog and host it for free. I recommend you go with Blogger.com for your first blog. The advantages of blogger are that it's free to set up your blog, you host it for free and it will automatically ping search engines once you have updated your blog. This mean that you will get spidered and found. Go to blogger.com and click on the front page labelled 'create your blog now' and follow the step by step instructions that Blogger provide.
2. Write your content. There has to be some information on your site and you have to make some entries. You can write some of these entries yourself and some can be quotes from sites of interest to your reader that you can post using the Google Toolbar.You can download it for free at toolbar.google.com. The toolbar contains a Blogger button. At the time you visit a site that has something of interest to your readers, you can highlight the appropriate text and thenclick the Blogger button. The content will then be added to your blog along with a link back to the site.
3. After you have some content, for example, a weeks worth of blogging with 1 or 2 entries for everyday, you can now apply for an adsense account. After you sign in to Blogger, you will see an invitation to join Adsense. Use this link and apply for an account.You can find out all about Adsense on the Adsense page. However, basically you get Google ads on your site and get paid if your visitor clicks them. Google will decide what to show on your site based on the content it finds inside. A caution must be taken that Google will reject your application if your site is not considered to have content. Nobody outside of Google knows the precise rules on this. Once you have been accepted you can get some javascript from Google to add to you site. Copy this and then log in to Blogger. Once you have logged into your blog, click the tabs across the top of the screen labelled 'Template'. You need to know a little bit of HTML to help you find the correct location to paste your Google code. After a few practices you will find the right place for you. I would suggest that the ads need to be seen when the site loads but should not be too obvious. You can view the example from my site.
4. Keep write more content. Push yourself with your content post at regular intervals as a number of directories will check on your site. Most visitors will visit on a schedule based on your update schedule. They will probably determine this in the hours after you first submit to them. Which is what we will do next.
5. Submit your site to Blog & RSS directories. Since you are hosting at Blogger, Weblogs.com will already be notified when you update your blog. You will need to submit your site to the various other directorie, some of which will require a link on your site to theirs. These links can be add by click your template below your Blogger logo.
A lot of free ways to make money but it will take time to get going. If you can follow this steps, you can make money online. At last, you can also write more interesting content. All you want is to have the people to come back again and again. Ideally, it's harder to get a new visitor than to keep existing visitors. So make it interesting until some of them tell their friends about it also.
