Make Money from Blogs - The Basics

After a year blogging and trying to make money online and somehow managing to get this blog up to a PR4, I have just found out that I have been doing a whole load of stuff wrong. I'm not totally surprised as despite the title of this blog it doesn't make much money, so I knew something was wrong somewhere along the line, I make more money from my other 'football' blog Free Online Sport

So how have I discovered what I have been doing wrong ? By finally stumbling across a blog that explains the basics of blogging in words of one syllable - hooray ! Where was this guy a year ago ? I don't know, but his blog is excellent, especially if you are using blogger, as it tells you how to set up blogger correctly, which boxes to tick and which to leave as they are etc... how to choose a blog title and description and no doubt a whole lot more that I haven't read yet. If you are using Wordpress there is a whole load of stuff that is relevant to blogging in general so you can skip the stuff about blogger. If you are a beginner and don't know whether you want to use Blogger or Wordpress, I strongly recommend Blogger, it is far easier to get started with and everything is totally free, you don't need to host anything anywhere, those nice people at Google take care of everything.

There's no point me repeating here what Mr Grizzly Brear says on his blog as that would just get me into a load of trouble with Adsense and it makes no sense as you are better off reading it from the horse's blog so to speak. So take a look at his blog here Bloggers Basics Making Money Online and I also recommend you read his article on backlinks here Scourge of Web 2.0

I will be working my way through his post to see what else I need to change.