Making Money Online

The promise of earning money without ever having to leave your home or the thought of receiving extra dollars while doing your present job sounds too good to be true. But the sound reverberates throughout the net, and it’s getting loud.

Blogging-for-dollars phenomenon is only in its infancy, but blog ad spending is already amassing quite a figure in number of dollars. As forecasted by industry experts, web advertising will grow by 50 percent to $23.6 billion in 2010, and it is certain that more and more ad dollars will land on blogs.

The monetization of blogging can trace its roots to late 2002, when Google created a revolutionary system that allowed anyone with a website to run ads. The technology, called AdSense, matched ads with a site’s content. Each time a visitor clicked on a linked ad, the site’s owner got paid (a model now referred to as ‘cost-per-click’ advertising).

A blog, for the information of the newbies, is a website where entries are written in chronological order and displayed in reverse chronological order (Wikkipedia).

An abrupt of the words Web log, a blog provides commentary or news on a particular subject and at times, functions as personal online diaries.

A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.

Because of its popularity, advertisers saw the potential of blogs to bring message across target market. This in turn gives way for bloggers (people who maintain blogs) to profit with no need for big sales forces that magazines, newspapers, and other traditional media employ.
While it is true that blogging requires no financial capital outlay, it is never an easy job. Creativity plays a big part since the site has to employ gimmicks to ensure traffic. So the only (perhaps) thing a-blogger-would-be may spend is time. In fact, a lot it. A blogger invests hours writing or coming up with interesting stuffs to ensure the success of that business.

But this is only natural. After all there is no known business without having to invest, at least one thing. (S)