The key to doing this is that you must have some knowledge or interest in something you can write a blog about. A blog can be about pets, food & cooking, computers, cars, quilting, health and fitness, politics, finance --really anything you want to write about. There are people searching the web every minute of every day looking for information. The other requirement is that you must posess reasonbable basic writing skills.

The really good news is that there are some great "how to" programs on the market that will walk you through the process step-by-step and we haven't yet seen any scams in this area.

There are many free blog sites such as blogger.com, but if you want to create a blog that gives you the flexibility to set up income producing ads, and generate money for affiliate programs, I really recommend Word Press. Here is a link to a very low cost instructional product that can show you how to set up a Word Press Blog in minutes.

We don't have the time or space here to write a complete aritcle on blogging, but I think everyone knows what a blog is. You make money from your blog in several ways:

• You can use the Google Adsense program to put ads on your blog whereby you earn money when someone clicks on them
  
  
• You can get both advertising and affiliate banners from a number of sites such as Commission Junction and Kolimbo that will pay you handsomely when someone clicks on the banners and/or if they purchase something.
  
  
• You can sell your own products via your blog.
  
  
• If you blog becomes really popular > 50,000 visits a month, advertising agencies will pay you money to advertise on your site.

Matt Druge was one of the first political bloggers. His site is full of links and free content.  He is reported to earn over $100,000 a month from advertising on his site

Our Top Two Recommended Blogging Programs

We examined seven different blogging-for-money programs. None of them were scams, but several of them were poorly written, too technical, incomplete or there was no value for the money. Two programs, however, met all four of our criteria and we gave them both 5-Stars.

Blogging To The Bank by Rob Benwell gets our Number 1 recommendation, because it's both good --and inexpensive. This is a downloadable product, but it is easy to print out if you like hard copy. Ron writes pretty well (could be a little better). His instructions are easy to understand and he offers some very nice bonuses with his product.

Blogging For Riches is a more expensive program, but this is one of those times where you get what you pay for. This program is very complete and comes with good support. If you get this program you don't need the Word Press training mentioned above because it is included, so that does save you some money.