Two Cheap Ways to Earn Money from (blog search) Home
No commentsBy Stephanie Foster
Many people who want to work from home are just about desperate for a way to do so. This is a big part of why so many scams thrive. People look for quick and easy and forget about keeping it realistic. They throw their money at anything that promises to be easy and cheap.
But surely there are some real ways to earn money from home that don’t cost a fortune to get started. Right?
Of course there are. You just can’t count on earning anything very quickly.
1. Work at home jobs.
These had better be free to start. Well, you might need a bit of your own equipment, such as a good noise cancelling headset if you want to do customer service, but the employer shouldn’t be charging you.
Finding the legitimate jobs is possible, but challenging.
Take data entry, for example. Many people look for data entry jobs to do from home, but most of what you will find will be people claiming that pay per click affiliate marketing and other opportunities are data entry, when in fact they are not. These people may be flat out scamming you or they may be “merely” pretending that a home business opportunity is a job.
Real jobs aren’t going to sell you an ebook telling you all about how to get started. You apply just as you would for any other job. The competition will probably be stiff, and it’s common to search for a number of months before you land a good, regular job. But if you have the qualifications and you’re persistent, working at home in a job is entirely possible.
2. Blogging.
This one’s hot right now, and yes you can start for either free or cheap. I’m talking under $20 for the first month cheap. Somewhere in the vicinity of $10 for the first year of a domain name, and $10 or thereabouts for each month of hosting. Wordpress, a popular blogging platform is free and easy to install.
If you’re going cheap, the startup time may well drive you up the wall. There’s a lot of competition out there. Getting your name out is tough. But if you comment a lot on relevant blogs with quality, relevant comments, you can start building your traffic for free.
Same for posting on forums. Or using Twitter. Or other kinds of social networking.
There are many more ways you can earn a living from home and not spend a ton of money. Just be prepared to work at it and understand that if you choose a home business things will very probably go faster if you can invest more in it. But there are ways to go more slowly and spend less money if that’s how your budget is going. That’s a reality for many.
But if you can reinvest in your business you will probably grow it much faster. Once you have your cheap start, consider investing in educational products that will help you to grow your business as well as in advertising. You can make the expenses pay off quite nicely if you know what you’re doing and are willing to take a chance.
Stephanie Foster runs http://www.homewiththekids.com/ for people looking for legitimate ways to work from home. Learn more about legitimate work at home jobs at her site.
5 Easy Ways to Market Your Blog
By Jinger Jarrett
Marketing your blog is really no different from marketing a traditional website. With a blog though, especially if you are building all of your websites using blog software, your site tends to rank higher in the search engines.
There are many ways to get traffic to your blog. To help you get traffic easily, here are five ways to get started:
1. Submit your sitemap to the major search engines.
If you are linked to other sites, the major search engines will eventually find you and index your blog. Do you want to wait months for this to happen though? Go ahead and submit your sitemap so the search engines start indexing your site.
2. Ping your blog.
When you ping your blog, you are notifying the blog services your blog has been updated. This can also help you to get your blog indexed by the search engines, as well as added to the major blog directories.
3. Use trackbacks to get your blog noticed.
A trackback is where you notify other blogs that you are talking about them. This is an easy way to start a “conversation”, and if you write enough about the blogs in your industry, it will get you noticed.
Don’t use this technique for the sake of getting noticed. Trackbacks actually kill two birds with one stone. First, it allows you to share valuable information from another blog with your readers. Second, it allows you to voice your opinion on a particular topic.
4. Comment on other blogs.
Some blogs have what is called the “no follow” tag. This means that even if you post your comment to the blog, the search engines won’t give you credit for having a backlink on that site.
This doesn’t mean that this is not an effective way to promote your blog. No disrespect to the search engines is intended. The truth is, search engines don’t buy anything. People do.
Commenting on other blogs in your topic is an easy way to demonstrate your knowledge on a topic. Even if the site does use the “no follow” tag, if the blog you are commenting on is important to your topic, comment anyway.
Write good comments. Share your opinion. Demonstrate you have read the post. It will give you chance to get more traffic.
5. Build backlinks to your blog.
Backlinks are still an effective way to raise your rankings in the search engines. Find the right software or service to help you build backlinks to your website and raise your rankings.
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