This article is guest posted by Melvin Dichoso.

We’ve been all taught that in order for us to make money blogging, we need to target large countries like US and Canada. The main reason behind this is because the audience from that country is more profitable than the audience in your location, for example here, Philippines.

Although there is nothing wrong in that, we must also not forget that establishing our local presence is equally as important as getting readers from those countries. The fact is our local demographics would still dictate how credible we are on a certain field.

While getting traffic from bigger countries is a lot easier, establishing a presence in your own country could mean more because its almost unrealistic to get press coverage from other countries, or get clients if you’re doing consulting and even get yourself popular. Building a personal brand plays a crucial role on

This article is part of the “Start A Blog And Make Money” series.

Simply put it, a blog is a website that is often updated with content called “blog posts”. Most often, the latest blog post will be shown at the top of the blog.

Someone who blogs is called a “blogger”. When a blogger updates his blog, he is “blogging”.

(Wow, I’m seriously not used to formal-ish writing. I’m not even good at grammar! :-))

Blogging has evolved A LOT since it first came out. Here are some types of blogs you might have heard of:

Personal blog

When it first came out, people used blogs to rant about what happened to their day, what they think of or in other words, they use it like a diary – a web diary.

Niche blog

From the word “niche market” or a very specific market, niche blogs cater specific markets. That’s why there are blogs out there

I see a lot of bloggers giving the tip “Traffic now, monetize later” then telling that it’s more important to concentrate on getting traffic and building readership first BEFORE you monetize your blog.

I don’t agree.

Now here’s the 3 reasons why you SHOULD monetize your blog before even launching it:

Yes it is important to get traffic and build a good relationship to your readers…

But why not do it while monetizing your blog?

It only takes several minutes to setup some simple monetization for a blog – or if you’re like me who can’t figure out HTML, it’s going to take a couple of hours but after that it’s good to go :-)

Why you shouldn’t monetize your blog now

There’s a downside though.

Monetizing your blog can make you a bit statsaholic and make you check your Affiliate account/Adsense account from

This article is guest posted by ZK.

When I first started to blog , I thought that by posting a few articles on the blog and promoting it via articles directories, a few social network sites I would drive hoards of traffic to my blog. That did not happen, along the way I made a few mistakes. Below are some of the mistakes that I made hopefully you can avoid doing the same

Do not start on unfamiliar topics

If you are a beginner and are starting on a topic then you should keep in mind that you should start on topics which are you are familiar with. There are many bloggers who start with topics on how to make money using their blogs, they have hardly been successful. So it is better to start on topics which you are familiar with.

Blogging on “me too” topics or articles

Avoid using topics and

This article is guest posted by Brian Garvin.

If you haven’t gotten your first blog up yet, I really need to honestly ask you why? I mean there are a myriad of positive reasons and great things that can happen to you if you would just buckle down and get on a consistent blogging regimen. I won’t have time in this article to cover all the reasons, but I will cover some of the main reasons.

There are 2 primary ways you can earn a living blogging, and one way isn’t necessarily better than the other. It’s totally a matter of personal preference. You can go one extreme to the other or anywhere in between. The beauty is you blog for yourself so you get to call the shots. You can develop 3-5 authority sites with 1000 or more posts each that make a couple grand or more monthly each within

This article is guest posted by Brian and Jeff.

There is a heavy misconception in the Blogging World that in order to Blog about a particular topic and turn it into an Authority Site, you need to have gone to school for years on the subject or do it everyday at work. I’d say that statement is about 10% true and I’m going to tell you why in a minute. All you have to do to create an Authority Site is learn about the subject you want to start Blogging about. But it doesn’t take that long.

You can Become a Blogging Expert in any topic in just a matter of a few weeks. I don’t see anyone writing about this, but just about each skill, trade and subject out there to create a Blog around has it’s own set of custom lingo or terms of the trade. For example in