Making money with Blogspot's easy blogging tool begins with a simple three-step process to creating your blog.
Step One is choosing your topic, securing your web address (URL), and naming your blog. You learn about keywords and Google's keyword tool, and begin familiarizing yourself with Blogspot's interface.
Step Two is where you'll get more comfortable using the Blogspot interface, find more keywords related to your theme, and weave them into text boxes that help both your ranking in search engines and guide AdSense in placing relevant ads on your pages.
Step Three is when you begin populating your blog with content. Content is the key to growing your money-making blog. The more entries you have, the more frequent they're posted, and the more focused they are, the higher your ranking in search engines and the more traffic - and money - you'll receive.
After you've built up your blog, you'll begin to notice a deficiency in the blog format - older entries get buried deep in away. A search box and blog archive (two "gadgets" I recommend you put in your left or right column) will help visitors find material written and posted long ago, but that can be onerous for the casual visitor to use. Blogspot now has the ability to post up to ten stand-alone pages on your blog (you're reading one of mine), and I recommend you use this feature. Think of sub-topics to your main theme, and create unique pages for them. On each of those pages, you can then paste links to blog posts that fit into those topics.
For example, this page links to the three steps to creating your blog. Those were my second, third, and fourth blog posts, and would be hard to find if I didn't create this page and link to them. As I create more posts that have common themes, I can group them on pages too. Ultimately, I'll have a home page with a directory to pages devoted to my sub-topics, and those pages will all link to the detailed posts that support those topics. Not only does this organization make your blog easier for a visitor to navigate, but it makes your blog more attractive to search engines, improves your ranking, and increases your traffic.
