There are many people everyday that start a new blog on their daily encounters or something that they really enjoy telling others about. Every where you look on the web you will always run into someone that has a blog on almost every subject out there right now. While blogging can be pretty addicting, it can also be very lucrative as well. Blogs have been a reliable source of information for a while now and that is due to the fact that they are always constantly being updated by their owners. So like I was saying, there are many bloggers out there. You will be able to find a good amount of blogs out there that will provide you with decent information that can really help you out. There are others out there that people really won't even spend that much time with and will only hope that they can make a profit off of their blog. You don't really ever want to speed through setting up your blog because the first 30 seconds that someone spends on your blog can really make or break your reputation. Make sure that your blog looks organized and appealing to your reader. Have lots of pictures and colors on your blog to strike the eyes attention. When you set up a blog with many free hosting sites they usually allow you to put some time of advertising on your website. A popular blogging site is known as blogger and this site is also owned by Google. You are allowed to place Google ads on your blog in specified areas of the template that you choose. Google adsense is a great way to make money from your blog if you aren't able to make any sales from it. Whenever someone clicks on one of your ads, you get paid some money per click. Another good way to make money from your blog is by using affiliate products. You can scope out different products from different places on the net. A popular site that many affiliates use is called click bank. You can set up a nice banner for the affiliate product that you are choosing to promote and whenever someone clicks through your affiliate link and makes a purchase then you will get paid a decent commission. Now, hopefully you were able to follow along with the above two ways to make money. Now, the hardest part of making money from your blog is the promotion side. When you set up your blog to the way you want it to look, you are now ready to start driving thousands of people to your blog. The best way to get traffic to your website is by spreading your blogs URL around the whole internet like a virus. Some ways you can leave back links to your site is through articles, bookmarks, forums and many more free ways. So, in the end blogging can be either something that you enjoy to do everyday after work or can be something that you use to make money with. Maybe you even like to do it for both reasons, whatever it is blogging has many benefits for many people. You can offer the information people are looking for and will be able to help out many people for a lifetime by blogging.