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Blogging is an enjoying past time but then at this time, blogging is also used as a term of a job. I got to clearify that there’s 2 type of blogger, one is for fun, for share, not for money and another one is for making money. I am on the 2 sides, though I have some advice to all those new bloggers out there.

Take a look at Engadget, and other popular tech news site, those are blog and writers behind them are called tech blogger. These tech bloggers are real blogger who are making money online by blogging. Besides that, people who have advertisement on their content-filled blog is also making money online.

I have been seeing a lot of friends poping up in the blogosphere. A lot ask for my advice on which Internet advertisement service to use, Nuffnang, Google AdSense, LinkXL, Advertlets, LinkWorth and so on. Then they started adding advertisement box into their little new blog with some content.

Eventually, advertisement > content + visitors.

What they are doing are actually very wrong. Never think of easy money comes to you. You need to work hard in order get your first payout and a lot of research. There’s not an free apple that will drop from the sky in any time.

Usually, blogger starts to add in advertisement when he feels that the daily visitors number is ready like > 500. If your daily visitors is just your friends and family, then you will not make money. Advertiser would never want to advertise to the same person again and again. You need to have a lot of unique visitors.

If you have just started a blog and you insisted to place advertisement, place one or two is enough. Do not spam your blog’s sidebar, header bar or any where with advertisement.

Ideal placing of the advertisement will let your reader feels comfortable and not annoying. You wouldn’t want to see a colourful advertisement after a few rows of reading and the same thing again. I’m sure that you will on click the X button.

Google Adsense is not for everyone and new blogger. After placing it for some times, I only realise that you need to work out on something only you can make money with it. You wouldn’t want to try it. It will just make your reader feel annoying if you place it at a wrong place and you will screaming “Why I earn $0.01 only?!”. If you have a lot of unique foreign visitors, you only then have the greenlight for Google Adsense.

Never ask people or yourself to click on your ads. I hate it when friends ask me to click on the ads on their blog. They didn’t know that it’s violating the regulation of the advertising service and they are clicking on their own ads as if it’s a clicking competition.

Some of my friends were blogging happily on other blogging platform etc. Wretch, Yahoo 360, MSN Spaces, LiveJournal and others more. They then switched to Blogger and said that they want to start making money online. Then the problem comes when they got no idea how the ads placing works, how to tweak the HTML and it’s getting ugly. Stick with your blogging hobby and don let make money online screw your hobby and your readers away.

Visitor and reader are very important, when you got a lot of visitor to your blog, I am sure making money online will be easy for you. Although you may start a blogging business first, but don’t let the money mind ruin you, content and reader first, money second.