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How to Go About Building a Blog

Many people ask what you need to get started in order to make a profitable blog. The answer is nothing, provided that your only goal is to spend no money at all. Now, if you want higher returns and if you have the money to spend, the answer to “what you need to get started” might be several hundred dollars, in order to invest in tools that could make your climb to the top faster and smoother.

One of the most important things you will need to get started is some form of keyword research tool or database. On the market today you can find a large selection of these types of products, ranging in price from zero dollars up to $500. One of the most popular available today is ’WordTracker’, they offer a free limited trial version or you can pay by the day at $7.50 or by the month, costing around $45. Using a blog keyword research tool will allow you to find out which words are the most commonly used and have a cumulative profit rating associated with them.

Other than a key phrase tool, the answers to the, “what you need to get started” question, will usually depend on the project.

For instance, if you’re hosting a blog and you want to monetize it with Adsense, you may want to add a thumbnail generator to your, “what you need to get started” list.

A thumbnail generator will create code that, when inserted in your blog, will generate scraped-thumbnail pictures from related searches on Google images, and will place them next to your contextual ads, increasing the click-thru rate.

However, if you will be marketing your own product, then you will need to add an auto responder to your, “what you need to get started” list.

You can increase your conversion rate immensely by using an auto responder, because it will allow you to save time by not having to personally follow-up on each email, or only relying on your sales page.

Before you go out and spend a large amount of money, you should check out the tools offered on the internet that can help you get started. It may very well be, that you decide to purchase some tools to better help you with development and promotion to make you more successful in blogging. So basically you have a few choices, you can create a profitable blog without paying a cent, but if you want to take advantage of automating tools to further improve your profitability and efficiency, you will have to purchase at least a few tools.