In this article I'm going to teach the most common places where we can place AdSense ads in your blogger site. Here I mention how to put AdSense ads in different places of the blogger such as sidebar of your blog, Between your blog post, Under your blog header, Under your blog title, Under blog post footer, In the body of the post etc. If you like to learn amerzing tricks for blogger read these articles also.read

You can put AdSense code in sidebar in a very easy way. 

1. Go to you Layout the click on Add a Gadget link.
2. After add a Gadget link add an HTML/JavaScript widget with your ad code inside it.

Format: Recommended format 125x120, 120x600, 160x600, 300x600

02 How to Put AdSense ads between post
You can add AdSense ads between your blog post. In this case go to your Layout option and then Click Edit from below the blog post section.After Click on Edit, you have to check mark "Show Ads Between Posts option"

Format: Here you can change your ad unit format such as such as 468x60, 300x250, 336x 280 and color from given drop down list.

03 Put AdSense ads under the header

You can put your AdSense code under header by following method. At firs you have to convert your AdSense ad code.

1. Go to your blogger Dashboard 
2. Click on Template. 
3. Here you need to click on Edit Html button.
4. Press Ctrl+F key for finding the following code inside it.
5. <div id='header-wrapper'> 
6. Next paste the converted code right after above mention code.

Format: Recommended format 728x90 and 728x15

04 Put AdSense ads above the blog post

After converted the AdSense ad code find

<div id='main-wrapper'> 

Next, Paste the converted code right after above mention code.

Format: 460x68, 468x15, 336x280

05 Ads below post title

1. Go to your Dashboard 
2. Select Template tag and then go to Edit html.
3. Find the following code by using CTRL+F key

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>

Now put your converted code right after it.

Format: 468x68, 468x15

06 Ads below post title in blogger which will be visible only posts

After converted ad code

1. Go to your Dashboard
2. Then Template and Edit HTML
3. Search the following code in HTML code

<div class='post-header-line-1'/>
Past here converted ad code.Example:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<!-- Add here the code of your ad -->
</b:if>

Format: 468x68 and 468x15

07 How to Puts Adsense Ads in the Blogger Post footer
After converted AdSense ad code 

1. Go to Dashboard 
2. Then Template> Edit html
3. Search the following code using Ctrl+f

<p class='post-footer-line post-footer-line-3'/> 

Now paste your converted ad code right after it.

Format: 468x68, 468x15

08 Put Adsense ads in blogger posts body which will be visible on all pages

ad on post body

After Converting your AdSense Ads code and then Search the following code

<div class='post-body entry-content'>

Paste the converted code by following process

<div style='float:right'><!-- Add here the code of your ad -->
</div>

Format: 125x125, 180x150, 120x240, 200x200

09 Put Adsense in blogger post body which will be visible on post page Only
Convert Ads code and then go to Edit HTML option and search the following code

<div class='post-body entry-content'>

Paste your Ads code such as follows

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>

<div style='float:right'><!-- Add here the code of your ad -->
</div>

Format: 125x125, 180x150, 120x240, 200x200

10 How to put Adsense ads Between post and comment in Blogger
ad between post and comment
Convert your Ads code and the search the following code

</b:includable>

<b:includable id='postQuickEdit' var='post'>

Paste the converted ads code just above it

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><!-- Add here the code of your ad -->
</b:if>

Format: 468x60, 300x250, 336x280

Place Adsense Ads in Blogger footer
ad in blog footer
Convert ad code and search the following code

<div id='footer-wrapper'>

Paste the converted code right after it

Format: 728x90 and 728x15

Affiliates offers, sponsorships, and ads are going to bring in the majority of direct revenue for most bloggers. However, if you’re creative about it, there are several other monetization strategies to be found. The most common ones are subscriptions, donations, and merchandise sales.

Subscriptions and Membership Sites
Users are not exactly fond of paywalls, but if you attract a loyal following you can offer monthly subscriptions in exchange for some form of exclusivity. You could offer extra features to pro users (such as your articles in PDF and audio format), access to exclusive content that’s not available to your regular readers , or exclusive access to a useful resource.

WordPress users can look into plugins such as wp-Member and WishList Member to obtain membership site features for their blogs.12 Users of other  blogging systems may have to get creative to find similar features for their blogging platform or use third-party scripts or services. The risk of membership sites is alienating your user base and creating two classes of citizens among your readers (paying and non-paying).

Be careful if you decide to experiment with this monetization strategy. It has the potential either to generate plenty of income or to destroy your community, so tread lightly in terms of how you go about this approach. In particular, do not make your readers pay to read your blog posts. Doing so goes against the spirit of sharing your knowledge via blogging.

Donations
Receiving donations is much simpler than adding premium membership features to your site. You simply add a payment processor button (e.g., PayPal) and invite readers to donate. You can make it cuter and ask for a specific amount that would pay for a coffee, beer, or slice of pizza rather than having this approach come across as out-and-out panhandling. Add a nice coffeecup icon next to your call to action, and you may get a few donations here and there.

In my experience, donations are not a particularly lucrative approach to monetizing your blog. To make them work and be sustainable for you, you’ll need a particularly large audience of very loyal readers. Furthermore, you may have to motivate such users by recognizing them in a page on your blog. Another problem with donations is that if you try to earn money from your blog with ads, sponsorships, and affiliate offers, very few readers will feel like donating to you. And if you get rid of those revenue channels, you generally won’t be able to make up for them with donations alone.

I have tried a variety of donation-related approaches, including accepting Bitcoins and receiving micropayments via Flattr and Readability.13 Earnings were abysmal when compared to other revenue sources. One donation approach that I have seen work many times is having infrequent fund-raising posts,14 in which the blogger outlines the expenses and time commitment required to keep up the blog and requests (perhaps once a year) that readers to chip in to reach a specific amount of money.

For genuinely useful blogs with a loyal readership, such donation drives can quickly bring in a few thousand dollars in a matter of days or even hours. One such drive allowed Jason Kottke,15 a pioneer blogger, to switch to fulltime blogging back in 2005. But the model hasn’t been sustainable and his blog is now ad-supported (via The Deck). Keep this tool in your belt for when things are not going well economically. (Should you ever find yourself in extreme dire straits, remember also that your blog is essentially a virtual real estate asset and can, if worse comes to worst, even be sold on sites such as Flippa.

Sell Merchandise
Merchandise sales can quickly add up and, unlike the early days of the Web, you don’t have to ship products out of your garage. Using services such as CafePress, Spread Shirt, and Zazzle,17 all you really need is a nice design. If you did a good job in terms of branding and ensuring that your readers feel a part of a community, you may end up selling quite a few T-shirts and other types of merchandise with your logo on it. If you have a cute mascot like Reddit or Hipmunk both do,18 selling will be even easier.

Keep in mind that you don’t have to limit merchandise to your logo or mascot. With the help of a good designer, you can very easily create cute, fun, witty T-shirts and other gift shop-like items that are relevant to your niche and make some extra money via that route.

For example, I could add another source of revenue to my math blog by simply creating a series of math-related T-shirts designs that I sold for a markup over the base price I was charged by a third-party service. So far, I have not tested my hypothesis on Math-Blog, but I suspect it might work well. Much of what you’ll learn in the next chapter, when we discuss techniques to help sell your own products, can be applied to merchandise as well. Keep this monetization strategy as something worth exploring later in your life as a blogger, perhaps a year or two after having established your blog.

Head over to affiliate program.amazon.com and apply for the program. You can sign up even if you’re not a US resident. You’ll be asked about a series of things, including payment information and details about your blog. The overwhelming majority of people who apply are accepted.

Note that once you are approved, you’ll be able to use Amazon affiliate links on a variety of sites you may own and not just the one you applied for. Remember to use disclaimers everywhere you use affiliate offers.

 

Amazon has several associates programs, depending on the locale of the store you are targeting. Currently, there is a program for the American store (Amazon.com) and one for each of the Canadian, British, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese stores. Again, you don’t have to reside in one of these countries to sign up for any of their respective affiliate programs.

using the drop-down menu in the top right corner of the Amazon Associates login page.

Register for each of the programs according to the demographics of your traffic and your blog’s language. For example, if most of your traffic arrives from the States, the UK, and Canada, then apply for each of those three Associates programs. (You’ll be applying three times.) You can select the locale

Amazon.com is a great place to earn money to bloggers but unfortunately, due to sales tax disputes with several states, the Amazon Associates program for Amazon.com is currently unavailable to residents of Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Check the complete, up to date list in the operating agreement, which you may want to read in its entirety. Amazon Associates was one of the earliest and most popular affiliate programs on the Web.8 Every time you refer a customer to a given Amazon site (e.g., Amazon.com) with your tracking ID, you’ll receive a small percentage of the total cost of whatever that person purchases during the next twenty-four hours.

Some affiliate marketers and bloggers greatly underestimate the earning potential of Amazon Associates on the basis of the tiny cookie duration (only twenty-four hours, instead of, say, sixty days) and the small commissions (usually between 4 and 8.50 percent, depending on your monthly sales volume, instead of the 30 to 75 percent commissions that are common for digital goods
elsewhere). While both counts are true, there are many benefits to Amazon that make it a very worthwhile program for reputable bloggers.

• Virtually everyone knows and trusts Amazon as a store. You don’t have to convince your visitors that their credit card number won’t be stolen when they shop there.
• Amazon’s inventory of physical products is fantastic. They carry so many items that you can always find something of quality to promote, almost regardless of your particular blogging niche.
• Amazon spends millions of dollars studying ways to increase the percentage of visitors who end up buying products (i.e., optimizing the conversionrate of their pages). Your main goal is really to send traffic to Amazon by way of your affiliate links, after which Amazon will take care of converting many of these visitors into customers, thus earning you a commission on all of those sales.
• Unlike other referral programs, you get a cut for every sale that’s made within a twenty-four-hour period, not just for sales of the product you promoted. My technical blogs have received commissions for goods that I never promoted, including watches, swimming pools, and adult toys. That is because you may send visitors to check out a book, but once on Amazon they may purchase other books or other products (either instead of or in combination with the original item) within the twenty-four-hour period for which your tracking ID is valid. Those unexpected, additional sales add up quickly.
• Unlike some other affiliate programs, it is considered normal for bloggers to routinely link to Amazon in their posts. This means that your archives will contain many posts including Amazon affiliate links, generating you commissions long after you initially posted them.

When I was a kid I created an arrangement with my local computer store in which I would refer friends and acquaintances to them, and the store would then give me a small percentage commission based on what those people bought. I didn’t know it at the time, but the service I was providing to that store was a form of affiliate marketing.

This type of arrangement can be extremely beneficial for both the company and the affiliate. The company receives new business from customers it may not have reached otherwise, and the affiliate gets a commission for each sale that can be directly traced back to the affiliate’s site (online, usually through a cookie or coupon).

Typically, online affiliate offers work like this:

1. The affiliate links to an offer with a tracking ID embedded in the link.
2. A visitor visits the link and is redirected to the landing page on the company’s site.
3. A browser cookie is stored with a certain expiration date on the computer of the visitor. This cookie associates the visitor with the affiliate that referred them.
4. If the visitor makes a purchase at any time while the cookie is still valid,a commission is provided to the affiliate by the company.

Depending on the type of goods and the company’s approach to affiliate marketing, the commission can be anything between a few percentage points to 100 percent. Yes, you read that right. Some companies will go so far as to give away the entire sale price for a promotional period in order to attract more affiliates and perhaps recurring customers.
 

More commonly for digital goods such as ebooks and courses, margins are exceedingly high, which means that content producers routinely offer affiliates a 50 percent commission rate for all sales made within a large period of time after the initial referral (e.g., sixty or ninety days, which, again, is often tracked via cookies).

As you can imagine, you can generate a substantial amount of money from affiliate marketing if you have a large enough audience that you’re offering relevant services and products to.
 

As a blogger you already have the audience, and as we’ll see in a moment, you can find relevant affiliate offers to present to your readers. Affiliate marketing really is the one monetization strategy you can’t afford to ignore.

Before jumping into key affiliate programs for technical bloggers, I want to provide you with a little background about the stigma associated with affiliates (and affiliate marketing) in general.
 

The reason affiliate marketing has gained such a bad reputation is that the economic incentives to promote a company’s products are very high. Here we’re not playing around with a dime a click. Depending on the product and the commission, we could be talking as little as a few dollars or as much as hundreds if not thousands of dollars per referred customer.

Affiliate marketers have gone to great lengths to grab such generous commissions, including spamming, misleading, and downright scamming users. I really encourage you to look past the negative connotations that are associated with affiliate marketing. In this section we’ll take a very ethical approach to this subject, which can reward you handsomely without the need to mislead, spam, or promote crappy offers or products to anyone.

Read the following articles too to get good knowledge and tricks

1. A Blogger’s Best Friend:Amazon Associates 
2. Earn Money with the Amazon Associates Program
3. Build Links with Your Associates ID
4. Use Multiple Tracking IDs
5. Understand Amazon Associates Reports
6. Get the Best Out of Amazon Associates
7. Where to Find Other Reputable Offers

Conceptually not far from ads, sponsorships are an excellent way to make money with your blog. The basic idea is that you find companies that are relevant to your niche and then contact them about sponsoring your blog. In exchange for a monthly fee, you’ll provide them with high visibility to your blog’s readership. For example, the popular blog Daring Fireball makes a substantial income by offering RSS feed sponsorships.

Before you approach potential sponsors, though, you should have detailed information about your audience, which is easily obtained from Google Analytics. Prepare a page on your blog or as a PDF that you’ll send by email with the details of your demographic as well as with details about what you’re offering. If you are good with graphic design, make your presentation appealing and be sure to include lots of attractive graphs. Eye candy sells. Key information you should enclose in that page or document:

• Site usage statistics: The average number of unique visitors and pageviews per month, as well as your subscriber count. Include trends if your blog is growing rapidly.

• Geographic information: Where are your visitors from? Include the top ten countries and the percentage of traffic these locations provide.
• Demographic information: If you’ve run surveys and know about the profession, age group, income, and other demographic information about your visitors, include these stats, too.
• Relevant keywords (optional): If the majority of your organic traffic comes from keywords that are relevant to the sponsor, consider including the top ones in the information package you send out so as to show that your blog has the right audience.
• Your offer: Detail exactly how much you’d like potential sponsors to pay for the sponsorship and what you are offering in exchange. Clarify whether you are offering sole sponsorship or cosponsorship of your blog. Traffic stats aside, what really seals the deal is an appealing offer. You could offer any or all of the following perks to potential sponsors.
• A banner advertisement in a predefined format and position on your blog. Link to the sponsor, of course, but opt for a nofollow link. This way Google won’t think that you are selling links for PageRank purposes. In your offer, let the sponsor know that such links will be nofollow to comply with Google’s policies. Specify if you are limiting the offer to the frontpage (unusual) or throughout the blog (more common).
• A thank-you note and backlink at the bottom of your posts. For example, “This post was sponsored by Acme, the best solution for all your cartoon explosion needs.”
• A periodic thank you post that includes a shout-out to your sponsors, links to them, and a brief explanation of what they offer your readers. If your sponsor turnover is not significant, this kind of post can become annoying for your readers, thus you’ll want to keep them infrequent (e.g., once per quarter).
• Interviews, guest blogging, and other content-based arrangements that benefit both the sponsor and the readers. Always disclose your affiliation. Don’t hide the fact that you have a sponsor from your readers.
• Trials, giveaways, and special offers that are useful to your reader and great marketing for your sponsor.

If you don’t have any companies in mind, do some research to see if there are companies in your niche that are already sponsoring other blogs. It’s far easier to convince them to also sponsor you than it is to approach a company that has never heard of blog sponsorship before.

You can also have an Advertise page in your navigation bar as well as a Your Ad Here banner or button in a spot that you’re offering to sponsors that links to that page. Making a post in which you explain that you’re accepting sponsors is also an aggressive but legitimate way to go about it. There are companies that facilitate the whole process so that it’s virtually identical to selling ads through a network, but part of the benefit of sponsorships is that you deal with a handful of companies only, one on one, for months or even years at a time. So once your initial agreement is set up, there isn’t much work to do on your part except for collecting payments. You may as well cut out the middleman, establish good professional relationships with companies, and keep all the revenue for yourself. Should You Find Sponsors for Your Blog?

Without a doubt, sponsorships are a great way to generate recurring sources of extra cash as a technical blogger. I don’t advocate you seek sponsors the same day you launch your blog, though. Establish yourself first, and then go after sponsors. If you’re lucky, you may even be approached by companies who are interested in a media buy before you’ve started looking for them. For the record, on my programming blog I currently offer a full banner ad (468 x 60 pixels) on top of each new post for $200 a month and two halfbanners (234 x 60 pixels) at the top of my sidebar for $100 each. I also offer my sponsors the ability to be interviewed or reviewed (with full disclosure)

when a new product of theirs, one that’s relevant to my audience, comes out. That’s $400 a month, or, if you prefer, $4,800 a year, right there. (I usually sell sponsorship placements for three or six months at a time.) You can set your own price by basing it on a honest RPM/CPM. If you require a sensible $3 CPM for a given sponsorship offer, you can divide your average monthly pageviews by 1000 and then multiply that by $3. So if your blog were to attract 100,000 pageviews per month on average, you can request $300/mo. from your sponsor. Generally speaking, the more prominent your banner and overall sponsorship offer and the narrower the scope of your blog, the higher you can go with your CPM rate.

As usual, respect your readers. Opt for tasteful ads and banners. Don’t permit Flash ads that include sounds, and limit the animation level of your banners to a minimum. Likewise, don’t feed your readers low-quality, spam-like sponsors just to make a quick buck. I constantly receive offers for sponsorship and link purchases from companies I do not trust. I always turn them down, and so should you. For startup or company blogs, just like ads, sponsorships don’t make much business sense.

Advertising is the first strategy to consider to start monetizing your blog. Thanks to ad networks such as Google AdSense,placing ad units on a blog is very straightforward. Such networks act as intermediaries between advertisers and publishers. The details vary, but essentially ad networks aggregate a series of ad spots on a large number of sites and let advertisers pay to place ads in them. This frees you from the burden of finding advertisers, agreeing on a fair price, collecting payments, and so on.

Google Adsense is the ever best Ads network that pay higher amount per one click and further you can understand about Google adsense programm reading my "What Is AdSense?" article. If you contemplate to place ads on your blog, you can sign up for free with Google AdSense and then set up one or more ad units. AdSense is the site owner counterpart to the Google AdWords program, which is the interface used by advertisers to buy ads on search results and sites belonging to the Google AdSense program.

You will be provided with an embeddable snippet of JavaScript code for each ad unit you create, which you then place in strategic spots on your blog. Ads that are relevant to your content will automatically be displayed inside such spots on your blog I have described this further in article how does AdSense know what ads to send?, and your account will earn a variable amount of money each time a visitor clicks one of those ads. Most of the adsense publishers ask how much money can make from AdSense? and their is no a simple answer to give. It is vary according to keywords that used in your blog. If your blog contain and write articles on high paying keywords you can earn much dollars.

  
Google will display a maximum of three ad units regardless of how many units you place on a given page. This means that you shouldn’t place more than three ad units on any page of your site.

WordPress users can include ads in the sidebar by adding a Text widget containing the JavaScript ad code provided by AdSense. For other spots, such as below each post, users can choose their theme’s ad options or use one of the many ad plugins available, or they can edit the theme’s files directly. Common theme files to edit are header.php, footer.php, and single.php.

Hi friends in These days most of the internet users that earn money from internet by doing ads clicks or Google Adsense requested to Hide their real IP address. Because you can visit your sit too as an another person in a foreign country after changing your IP address.

There are some methords to hide your IP address and in this article I describe how change or hide your IP address using VPN (Virtual private Network) connection. Then create a VPN connection.

1. Make sure your system is up–to–date
Be sure that you run Windows Update before setting up your VPN connection.

2. Open the Control Panels
First, click on the Start button and click “Control Panels”. This opens up the “Control Panel Home.”

3. Go to the Control panel and change it to small icons

4. Next, click on the “Network and Sharing” control panel

5. Click “Setup a new connection or network”

6. Select “Connect to a workplace” and click next.

7. Next click “Use my Internet connection (VPN).”

8. For Internet address enter ras.finance.upenn.edu and Division of Finance for Destination name 

Or you can  use below links to find Free VPN severs

1. VPNBOOK
2. JustFreeVpn

Select Don’t’ connect now; just set it up so I can connect later

9. Enter your username and password

10. Click Create

11. You should see this screen next. Click the “Close” button to return to the “Network and Sharing” screen.

Now Your VPN connection is ready. Go right side of the Task panel and click on network place and click VPN connection now created and click on connect. Type your username and password and connect to the VPN server. 

Now check your IP address.

watch below video to clarify further more.

I have helped thousands of bloggers around the world to blog more effectively and I can say that there are tons and tons of mistakes made by lots of people. So I am going to share with you, based on what I have seen so far from all my customers and subscribers, the top 10 mistakes to avoid in blogging.

1. Avoid Black or Dark Backgrounds. Time and time again, I have seen many new bloggers when it comes to selecting a theme. They decide to select a theme that has a dark background or the text are displayed on a black or dark background. The recommended color for a background is always a light color or white. The reason why this is so is because, many readers who view a dark background website would associate it with a hacker’s website or something that is not nice.
2. Always Evenly Space Your Article Post With Paragraphs. This may sound fundamental to many, but I see it all the time. Bloggers post up articles on their blog and forget to leave paragraph spacing for their articles. Let me show you an example of the before and after effect:You will notice instantly the major different when you have spaces in between your articles, as it will make it easier to read the article. I recommend you start a new paragraph every 4 sentences.
3. No Affiliate Programs Or Products Been Sold On The Blog. This is kind of a weird thing and simple thing to say but I have seen many bloggers who blog online that are trying real hard to make money.However, when I see their blog I note that they are not even promoting a single product on it. Here’s the thing, if you do not post up products you like to promote you will never make a sale online and you will never earn money online! So if you have yet to post any affiliate links on your blog, I would highly recommend you go to Clickbank and sign up for a free affiliate account and start selling products on your blog.
4. Always Use A .COM To Represent Your Blog. Most people who blog online would use free services like blogger to create their own personal blog. However by doing this, you are actually not helping yourself in branding your blog to be a professional blog. It is always recommended to get a .COM for your own blog site. The recommended platform to create any blog is by using the Wordpress free open source software that can be found at this website. If you are looking for Wordpress themes, you can click here to claim your free Wordpress themes created by me
5. Post Articles Regularly On Your Blog. Blogging can be a real tiring thing to do on a daily basis. However, many fail to realize that if they do not update their blog often the chances of getting your blog exposed on the internet would be reduced. In fact, I have blogged for more then 2 years and what I realized is that when you have more content on your blog, you have more chance of it been picked up by Google once you know how to target the right keywords on your blog. This in return can help to bring more traffic to your blog and the best part is that it’s all free! The recommended amount of articles to be posted is at least one blog post every 3 days.
6. Install Tracking Software To Find Out What Your Visitors Are Doing. There are various free tools; you can use to track what your visitors are doing. It’s an important element in online business that many people always fail to do. Two free pieces of software that I use personally are the MyBlogLog tracking tool and CrazyEgg tool. With these two tools, you will be able to find out visually what your readers are doing on your blog and you will also be able to track what your readers like to click and read on your blog. This is important information for you
7. Interact With Your, ReadersAn active and successful blog will only be good if it manages to connect with its readers. Getting your readers to interact with you is another important part of blogging. What I have realized is the more you are able to connect to your readers, the more they are willing to trust you.Obtaining trust from your readers is important when it comes to selling products to them. Once they have trust in you, the chance of them buying a recommended product from you would also be higher
8. Failure To Collect Leads On Your Blog. Collecting leads is an important process in making money online. By collecting leads from your readers, you will not only build a base for your own business but also create an online community where you can update them constantly with frequent updates and products.
9. Failure To Get Your Blog Index On Google. I was really surprised to find out there are actually many bloggers around the world that forgot to index their blog to allow search engines to search their blogs. To allow search engines to search your blog is an important element no one should miss. This is because, you can leverage from the free traffic that will come into your blog once you know how to optimize your blog correctly to get targeted traffic. To find out more about how to do that, you can find out more in my guide here.
10. Drive Traffic To Your Blog!This part I would say is the most important part in blogging as many people who spend countless amount of time posting content on their blog always forget to drive traffic to their blogs. There are more then 77 ways you can actually drive traffic online and all you need to do is pick and master one or two methods to get your blog going.

Creating a blog is nothing that you need to be afraid of. There is no elaborate planning required either. However, there are a few things you would need to decide. Since these blogging service providers give you a lot of choice in terms of template and color themes, would be require to take those decisions yourself.

The following is a quick guide of what to think over before creating your
blog:

• Theme: Determine what you would be writing about or the nature of the content that you would be sharing with your readers. This depends mainly on your interest. Topics blogging to the field of politics, poetry, arts, current affairs, or almost anything under the sun can be chosen. You can stick to one theme or you can choose to write about whatever concerns you on a day to day basis. Since it is your very own web journal, you can make it as flexible as possible in all aspects.
• Blogging Provider: Next you need to decide upon which blogging service provider you would like to use. This depends on the kind of reviews that you get about them from friends and acquaintances, or something about them that you may have read online. Otherwise, you can always try out something and find out if you like it. You can try out
• one of these popular sites: Blogger.com, WordPress.com, Typepad,Blogagotchi.com,Livejournal.com, JournalHome.com, TheDiary.org,Mindsay.com,Blog.com,Diaryland.com,Blogdrive.com, or Xanga.com.
• Templates: A wide range of templates will be made available on any blogging service you decide to start you blog. Select the one you most prefer or like.
• Freebies: The advantage with these blogging service providers is that they make your blogging experience as dynamic and interactive as possible. They enable you to install add-on features that include button, pictures, blog chalks, imoods, tagboards such as myshoutbox.com, guest maps, guestbooks, comment boxes for readers' thoughts and views, etc.
• Additional Features: These interesting ones may not be free. By paying a price you can avail of them.
• Nature of Blog: You must determine who should read your blogwhether you want it to be read only by a select circle, or must it be open to all. This will depend upon the content, mainly.
• Layout: Again, there will be a wide range to choose from in terms of layout and color schemes.
• Content: You could pick up a specific theme and write about it consistently, or merely decide on any random topic as and when it interests you. You could try putting up content for a while and see the kind of response you get, and alter or modify it accordingly.
• Blogging Circle: Blogging is a great way to come in touch with people from across the globe. You can surf and visit other people’s blogs. Do not spam in their comment section, but write a genuine comment if
• you have something to say about a particular post.
• Skins: You can customize and personalize your blog as much as you want. Using software like Photoshop you can create your own skins and make your blog attractive as well as make it reflect you own personality.
• Publish: Finally when you are done selecting the setting and preferences, selecting a content to put up, you need to publish the content. Do not, however, forget to send the link to your blog to your friends and acquaintances so that they may come visit you.

Once you have started your blog, you will have noticed that it hardly takes fifteen minutes to do so. Maintain the blog is even easier. Here are a few tips that would help you successfully keep your blog going:

• Update: Update frequently otherwise visitors may stop coming to your blog. It will also give you more confidence to churn out more well worded posts in the future.
• Personalize: Even though you might be discussing general and universal themes, add your own personal touch to make things lighter and interesting.
• Theme: If you have a theme blog you can Google for other blogs of a similar kind and build you network.
• Spelling and Grammar: Make sure you proof read your posts. Spelling and grammatical errors can be a major put-off for many readers.
• Advertisements: You could play host to sites like Google AdSense and earn revenue by placing their links on your blog.