Blogs are an ideal way to start making money online. Here are some ideas for getting started blogging for cash.

First decide on your blog platform. If you are just starting out then making a free blog at blogger.com is a great way to start. It is also an easy way to apply for an AdSense account as you can apply directly through your blogger account. You are going to need an AdSense account as it is the number one way to make cash with your blog.

Before making your blog you will need to decide what you are going to blog about and ideally find a good list of keywords. You might like to write your first blog about something you are already interested in – this makes it a great deal easier to start writing. Once you get used to writing blog posts and articles every day you will eventually be able to write about any subject you choose.

Try typing “keyword tool” into Google to find a site where you can get a list of keywords for your subject. For example, if you are going to blog about gardening, this is a very wide topic that you need to narrow down to find your “niche”. Check with a keyword tool what people are searching for in the gardening topic.

Write down about 20 phrases that people are searching for… such as container gardening which has around 60,000 searches a month. You could make a blog about this and write blog posts about some of the other keywords and phrases which appear in the keyword tool… for example container herb gardening.

You have probably heard of people talking about niche blogging. You’ve heard them tell you that niche blogs are the best blogs to make money with. Now if only they’d tell you what niche blogging is you’d be able to profit from them as well. Well, sit tight…I am about to explain it all to you.

Niche blogging is not the same as personal blogging. When you write in your personal blog you just say how you feel and what you did that day. When you post in a niche blog you are blogging with a purpose and a specific topic in mind.

I guess the best way to explain it would be to tell you what a niche is. A niche is a sub-market. Lets say you love gardening, but because it is such a big topic you want to focus on vegetable gardening. Suddenly vegetable gardening becomes your niche and if you made a blog dedicated to vegetable gardening it would be a niche blog.

Almost anything can turn into a niche. Lets say you love hunting… You could create a niche blog about it! What if you love to sew? Yes, you can create a niche blog about that as well!

What I particularly love about niche blogging is that you can write about a topic you love and still find ways to turn it into a passive income. You can do this through Google AdSense and by offering affiliate products.

Not all niche blogs will be good money makers. It really depends on your niche, the competition, how well you rank in the search engines and what products you can sell. However, if you have a good guide and the right mentor you can do very well as a professional niche blogger.

To profit from your blog today, you need to acquaint yourself with the world of net marketing and word press blogging platform. That’s if you want to make a profit, rather then keep paying for a space on a server and even worse, wasting your time.

After all, people are interested in what you have to say. Maybe now’s the time to consider the leap to your own online business. With good management strategies, you could start blogging, quit your ‘day job’ and do just fine!

Let’s say you’ve got a successful blog going, with a loyal and growing readership.

Do you have any ads running?
Do you provide leads to your readers which enrich their knowledge?
Do you have streaming audio and video?
Any RSS feeds?

If not, it may be about time you got more sophisticated. How do you learn how to integrate all of these features and start realizing an income? This is where blogging guides become valuable. Blogging guides do not generally teach you how to write. You’ve got that down.

What blogging guides do teach you is how to market your blog. While you may have an indestructible rapport with your readers, that won’t make you any money. You need targeted ads for products and services your blog readers are looking for, to enhance their knowledge or skill sets.

For example, let’s say your blog concerns greenhouse gardening. Your readers are hungry for information on building and maintaining greenhouses, books of both a general nature and specific and more obscure facets of greenhouse gardening, such as orchid care, hydroponic gardening or grafting cacti in Minnesota in winter.

You know how to find what your readers want. You need to know how to form affiliate agreements, whereby your link to greenhouse garden products results in a commission for you, when your reader clicks through and buys that product.

If you’re not currently integrating relevant graphics, submitting to directories and social networking sites, you’re missing out on lots of traffic. If you’re not conversant in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), you need to get on the ball!

There are free blogging tutorials to get you started. Once you’ve got a handle on how to make money, invest in a good blogging guide. You’ll make money with blogging!

Blogs are an ideal way to start making money online. Here are some ideas for getting started blogging for cash.

First decide on your blog platform. If you are just starting out then making a free blog at blogger.com is a great way to start. It is also an easy way to apply for an AdSense account as you can apply directly through your blogger account. You are going to need an AdSense account as it is the number one way to make cash with your blog.

Before making your blog you will need to decide what you are going to blog about and ideally find a good list of keywords. You might like to write your first blog about something you are already interested in – this makes it a great deal easier to start writing. Once you get used to writing blog posts and articles every day you will eventually be able to write about any subject you choose.

Try typing “keyword tool” into Google to find a site where you can get a list of keywords for your subject. For example, if you are going to blog about gardening, this is a very wide topic that you need to narrow down to find your “niche”. Check with a keyword tool what people are searching for in the gardening topic.

Write down about 20 phrases that people are searching for… such as container gardening which has around 60,000 searches a month. You could make a blog about this and write blog posts about some of the other keywords and phrases which appear in the keyword tool… for example container herb gardening.

You have probably heard of people talking about niche blogging. You’ve heard them tell you that niche blogs are the best blogs to make money with. Now if only they’d tell you what niche blogging is you’d be able to profit from them as well. Well, sit tight…I am about to explain it all to you.

Niche blogging is not the same as personal blogging. When you write in your personal blog you just say how you feel and what you did that day. When you post in a niche blog you are blogging with a purpose and a specific topic in mind.

I guess the best way to explain it would be to tell you what a niche is. A niche is a sub-market. Lets say you love gardening, but because it is such a big topic you want to focus on vegetable gardening. Suddenly vegetable gardening becomes your niche and if you made a blog dedicated to vegetable gardening it would be a niche blog.

Almost anything can turn into a niche. Lets say you love hunting… You could create a niche blog about it! What if you love to sew? Yes, you can create a niche blog about that as well!

What I particularly love about niche blogging is that you can write about a topic you love and still find ways to turn it into a passive income. You can do this through Google AdSense and by offering affiliate products.

Not all niche blogs will be good money makers. It really depends on your niche, the competition, how well you rank in the search engines and what products you can sell. However, if you have a good guide and the right mentor you can do very well as a professional niche blogger.

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To profit from your blog today, you need to acquaint yourself with the world of net marketing and word press blogging platform. That’s if you want to make a profit, rather then keep paying for a space on a server and even worse, wasting your time.

After all, people are interested in what you have to say. Maybe now’s the time to consider the leap to your own online business. With good management strategies, you could start blogging, quit your ‘day job’ and do just fine!

Let’s say you’ve got a successful blog going, with a loyal and growing readership.

Do you have any ads running?
Do you provide leads to your readers which enrich their knowledge?
Do you have streaming audio and video?
Any RSS feeds?

If not, it may be about time you got more sophisticated. How do you learn how to integrate all of these features and start realizing an income? This is where blogging guides become valuable. Blogging guides do not generally teach you how to write. You’ve got that down.

What blogging guides do teach you is how to market your blog. While you may have an indestructible rapport with your readers, that won’t make you any money. You need targeted ads for products and services your blog readers are looking for, to enhance their knowledge or skill sets.

For example, let’s say your blog concerns greenhouse gardening. Your readers are hungry for information on building and maintaining greenhouses, books of both a general nature and specific and more obscure facets of greenhouse gardening, such as orchid care, hydroponic gardening or grafting cacti in Minnesota in winter.

You know how to find what your readers want. You need to know how to form affiliate agreements, whereby your link to greenhouse garden products results in a commission for you, when your reader clicks through and buys that product.

If you’re not currently integrating relevant graphics, submitting to directories and social networking sites, you’re missing out on lots of traffic. If you’re not conversant in Search Engine Optimization (SEO), you need to get on the ball!

There are free blogging tutorials to get you started. Once you’ve got a handle on how to make money, invest in a good blogging guide. You’ll make money with blogging!

A blog can be used in so many ways that you can imagine these days. Some people use it as an online diary to share about their lives, some people use it to teach others stuff that they are good at. Some people use it to earn an income online. Whatever the reasons, having a blog is a common thing these days, for the purpose of sharing information. People who blog, are also known as bloggers.

In the past, in order to share information on the Internet, your have to know how to create a website. Creating a website requires a certain degree of skills like HTML (HyperText Markup Language) editing. You also need an HTML editor and know how to upload your files to your website via a FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client. Yes, these terms may be very familiar to some but they may also sound very alien to others. Today, sharing information on the Internet is as easy as learning ABC. All you need to do is go to websites like Blogger.com or WordPress.com and you can follow simple instructions to setup a blog in minutes.

Why do I own a blog?

I am an Internet Marketer. This means that I am earning a living through the Internet by marketing products and services online. There are many ways which one can market on the Internet. If you go to Google and search “Internet Marketing”, you will be able to find lots of information on this topic. Having a blog is one of the ways that people can make money. Having a blog is also a way that people can connect with people on the Internet. In this age of Information Technology, online communication is one of the most used ways of communication. People prefer to type than talk here.

Why should you own a blog?

If you are good in something, or maybe an expert, say for example gardening, and you would like to share your knowledge with others who share the same interest, you can choose to create a website about gardening and upload information on your website. This will enable your knowledge to be shared to the world. However, most people who start off sharing their interest online may not have much technical knowledge on how to create a website. They may not understand what is HTML. This is when having a simple blog can help so much. Just head to blogger.com and create your first blog, and start by posting information that you want to share. As you share more information on your blog, interested readers will begin to visit and interact with you. As you go along, you may even consider selling something on your blog. It can be an eBook that teaches gardening in a more structured step-by-step manner, or it can be some gardening tools that you think is helpful for your readers. Having a blog helps in building this kind of relationship as compared to a website, where interaction is lesser.

There are many aspects to what contributes to a successful blog. Blogs that tend to be popular are generally more specific in their topics. A blog that teaches you how to use Photoshop will have more visitors as compared to a blog that teaches you how to use photo editing software. This is because there is a specific group of people who is ready to learn Photoshop and if what you teach is simple to understand, and your visitors like you, they are likely to stick to you for a long time.

I really love this article, because it records my first real step in becoming a consciously sustainable person. I don’t mean becoming eco-friendly or environmentally conscious or any other nebulous phrase that suggests some effort at environmental awareness without really being concrete enough to define a measurable standard.

I have taken tentative steps before, but now that I have done my research, I know what true sustainability is, I know that is our highest goal, and I know how to get it done. I chose to start this journey to full sustainability by starting to become a producer. Yes, of course I will still consume, and for right now there a lot of holes in my game, but I am becoming a producer as well, and it feels pretty damn good.

I bought All New Square Foot Gardening because I had heard good things about it, and I wanted to start growing my own fruits and vegetables with the least amount of hassle. I happen to know that hydroponics is the most efficient way to grow anything, but it is a pretty complicated place to start. Square Foot Gardening seemed to be a good simple solution from the outside looking in. But would it deliver?

After reading it and buying the materials for starting my own square foot garden, I have to say it truly does provide a very easy way to start growing your own food. Among the many fantastic things about this method is that it can be done in any living setting, even an apartment balcony. I strongly recommend this book to people like me who do not want to deal with the hassle of gardening. The author Mel Bartholomew provides a step by step process for building your planter box, mixing the perfect soil, planting, growing and harvesting. No fertilizers. No pesticides. It is good stuff.

It took me less than a week to read the book, purchase the materials, put the box together, mix the soil and plant my veggies. The author does not mention costs, so I am going to list my costs for materials right here, for your benefit:

Heirloom Seeds (more on heirloom in my next blog): 8 packets – $23.25
Lumber: (1) sheet of plywood + (2) 2×6 redwood – $28.59
Soil Mix: vermiculite + peat moss + compost – $80.93
Grid: 5/8″ x 1/4″ trim board – $14.98
Total cost: $147.75
Work Time: roughly 8 man hours

This was more than I expected, but most of the costs are one time. The only ongoing costs are for compost and seeds. If you compost yourself, that line item is eliminated. With Mel’s technique, seed use and waste is significantly reduced in comparison with tradition row gardening, so seed packets can last as much as five years.

So what is the payoff?

I will have to wait and find out for myself, but according to the book, here is an example harvest from a 4×4 box:

1 cabbage
1 broccoli
1 cauliflower
4 romaine lettuce heads
4 red lettuce heads
4 leaf lettuce heads
4 salad lettuce heads
16 scallions
5 lbs. of sugar peas
8 swiss chard
9 bunches of spinach
32 carrots
32 radishes
16 beets

I priced out this theoretical harvest at my local supermarket, and it came to over $115.00. If you have two growing seasons per year (this is typical), you will be in the bonus after the second harvest.

You have probably heard a million times about “getting back in touch with nature”, so I’m not going to bore you with that. What I do want to say is that the project is a lot fun, it is a fantastic way to beautify your yard, it has endless possibilities for adaptation and creativity, and it is one of the greenest things you can do. Sometimes I think green can be summed up in one sentence: make it yourself, or buy local. That is the long and the short of it.

The book is far more detailed and complete than this little summary suggests, so I strongly urge you to buy it, read it and make it happen in your garden.

There are a few other items I would like to mention before I sign off that I will be expanding upon in future blogs.

As I mentioned before, my researched has determined that hydroponic agriculture is the most efficient, and I love the idea, but it does require more upfront cash than a square foot garden.I will be pursuing this in the future though, so stay tuned.

One technique I will be testing in future growing is living water. I am not doing it in this first season, so this first yield can be considered as a control in my little experiment. For those of you who are not familiar with the work of Victor Shauberger or Masaru Emoto, water can have amazing regenerative and vitalizing properties given the correct energetic charging. As with hydroponics, I will elucidate in the near future.

OK, one last near future note. One method which is outside of the square foot gardening book that I did experiment with is the seed planting process mentioned in Anastasia, the first book in the Ringing Cedars series. I am late to this party, having just finished the first book, but all I can say is wow. That book has already contributed mightily to the shifting of the paradigm and the material is great, but I am not going just take it at its word. I will review that book in the near future, and let you know just how effective the practical advice in that book is based upon how my crop turns out.

That is all I have for now. Happy Passover, and love to all,

Discover all you need to know to build the perfect greenhouse and garden shed. You probably already know that a greenhouse is the best place to: winter your warm weather plants, start next years annual flower and vegetable garden plants and spend quality time with your friends and family. Okay, you’re probably thinking where and how do I get started? As you continue reading you will discover the surprisingly simple ways to build the garden shed and greenhouse of your dreams.

Garden Shed Basics

A garden shed is a structure built and used for storage, hobbies and a gardener’s workshop.

A Gardeners storage shed is home to all kinds of special tools that require different storage methods employed. Small hand tools kept organized in a gardeners tote on a shelf saves the gardener valuable time and money looking for damaged or lost tools.

Seasonal equipment and tools such as drop spreaders and broadcast spreaders stored in an overhead loft save valuable floor space and reduce unwanted clutter. Secure lengths of PVC pipe to the bottom of the loft support framing and store items like: rolls of landscape fabric, extra tomato stakes and your long handled tools are a great way to maximize the use of your storage space; please, remember to protect your head and eyes from sharp objects.

Power Equipment Storage: Riding lawn mowers, garden tillers and ATV’s are all heavy bulky items that eat up a lot of floor space. Build a platform with a shelf atop it just tall enough to roll the lawn mower, ATV and garden tiller under to maximize the overhead storage space or even a workbench.

The gardeners’ workbench; when used as a potting bench requires materials that stand up to moisture and chemicals; fertilizers, plant foods and insecticides are many times extremely caustic. Build a set of cabinets to secure all: fertilizers, insecticides, plant foods and other chemicals and keep them organized and out of harms way.

Here is what I’ve got: a blog with clarity!

End embarrassing clutter, open both your garage and front door with pride!

Here is what I’ve got: a blog with clarity!

End embarrassing clutter, open both your garage and front door with pride!

Herb Garden Design need not be something which is for your entire garden it may be an addition to your existing garden or just some pots and containers placed in strategic positions.

When looking at the design my first consideration is always to ask why and what am I doing this for. Simple question but necessary as we often forget why we are thinking Herb Garden Design. Most of us will be looking at our garden and thinking we could put some helps in there, but think what do we want to use them for? What herbs do we use in our cooking and will we get some benefit from growing them here.

No point using up our garden space on a Herb Garden if we are not going to use the herbs, I do realise that a herb garden can in itself look quite stunning and also have some magnificent flowers and fragrances but the point is to use the herb in some practical fashion, mostly cooking but perhaps medicinal.

Once we know what kind of herbs we use in our cooking and want in our garden we need to find out if they will grow in our climate. We need not worry too much about the soil or drainage here as Herb Garden Design lends itself to using containers. A quick visit to our blog site will show some examples of how this can look and be achieved.

Local Garden centres will normally only stock those varieties of herbs which grow in the local area so this is an added safeguard to ensure your project is not a disaster by planting herbs that will not grow.

Containers laid out and spaced with or on some gravel walkways as I have said can make for a quite stunning look and have the very positive advantage of being easy to maintain. Also if you have limited space but want a few herbs this is a great way to fit them in.

A lot of herbs are extremely sturdy and once planted in open soil will spread and can be difficult to manage if not given attention on a regular basis, containers also eliminate this problem by leaving only the area of the container available and also they are very easy to empty and start again.

A practical herb garden design will provide the right amount of the right herbs for you in a short period of time and will provide growth for years to come. For more ideas suggestions and support visit our blog site.

Elliot Dennis is a Vegetable Garden enthusiast and has is keen to share his experience with like minded individuals and provide a useful blog to share information and ideas and suggestions. Visit Elliot at his Blog Site with your ideas and pick up tips and suggestions.