Myth or real, its up to you to potrait but right at this moment, i can tell you blogging cant earn you a living unless you are some Pro guru already, the kind which has a profile behind their back, and to name you a few likes, Darren Rowse, John Chow, Matt Cutts.

These are just some of the bloggers behind what marketing blogging is all about, these guys have defintely hit five figures and all these blogging of thoughts and ideas is done while you are either sleeping, watching a drama that does not make you any money or even going out for a coffee with your friends at an expense of $5.60 for a starbucks coffee and not getting any returns out of it or maybe you are making love with, Ok not going to touch on the sex topic and guess i dont have to spell out everything, but what i am trying to drive across to you is while you are out there complaining how poor you are to your friends and family, have you thought about these guys who are earning hundreds every hour, so now who is the loser, you or him?

Dont worry if you are a loser who would want to become like them, then i can help you thought i am not able to get you to earn five figures or so, you see many a times newbies who are keen on becoming a internet marketer fails is because they are not persist in what they have to believe in, and patience and faith plays a big role in attaining that.

Example, Salesman A and Salesman B both got in a sales & marketing company selling xxx product and after half a year Salesman A earned a total of $2000 commission while Salesman B earned $1500, but because Salesman A felt he should be able to hit more than $2k, he moved to another company while Salesman B continue for another half a year building his current network and trust, Salesman A contacted his customers but products were not ideal for his current customers and had to build another profile of customers which cause him to hop from one company to the other, in total he changed 3 company within a year and causing him to fail and felt dejected so he left the sales line and joined a company which pays him mere $1.6k and all he could do is blame himself for quiting his previous job, What happen to Salesman B, within that half a year, he boost his network and trust and his loyal customer kept helping him do referral deals and making him the most outstanding salesman for the year.

Story sounded familiar to your real life, as Salesman B persist and worked hard to create a network which followed him and referrals from his loyal customers have brought him to another level while Salesman A will be forever lost in his "Failure Land" and not see what he could do to come back. This is reality, once failed people tend to think of it as a condemn idea.

So are you ready to start a blog? If you are bring that mouse and keyboard to work!!!

Why A Blog

Having a Blog is a vital part of making money on the web. This is because search engines are attracted to blogs in a big way since their content is constantly updated. "A blog is an online journal," blogging expert Deb Weil explains in her Business Blogging Starter Kit (www.wordbiz.com). "It’s called a journal because every entry is time and date stamped and always presented in reverse chronological order." If you publish information to establish your expertise in a niche market, blogging should be part of your publishing arsenal.Get a blog platform from either Wordpress or and get started.

10 Steps to a optimized blog

1. Have it setup with a layout of your choice, if your blog is not used for advertising then i recommend a 2 column Layout which is commonly used otherwise use a 3 column layout which would be recommended for improved ads setup. Go to the search engine and search for 3 column layout template which is widely available, one of the more popular choices to optimize your blog.
   
   
2. Make sure your Meta tags are optimized to fit your blog contents and remember to minimize your word usage to 1-4 eg. (Profitsense blog, Adsense, Make money online,Niche Affiliate program online)
   
   
3. Make sure your font size is suitable for our human naked eyes. It should not be too big and too small, it will affect readers and distract them, even worse stop reading and just leave your website immediately.
   
   
4. Make sure your title is related to your website and your description should be brief and less than 225 characters as search engine spiders would be confused if you have more than that amount of characters, and it will not be good for indexing your pages in search engine.
   
   
5. "Post a comment" should be switch to on mode and allowed in your blog to attract question from other viewers seeking for clarification.
   
   
6. Get your first post up on your blog, if you are good at article writing, or if you are not and in the process of learning how to write professional articles, please go to these website for free contents, but please leave the authors biography in your blog to give credit to the author of this article.
   
   • http://www.goarticles.com/
   • http://www.articlecity.com/
   • http://www.fripp.com/articleslist.html
   • http://www.arcanaweb.com/resources/article-directories.html
   • http://www.articledepot.co.uk/
   • http://www.dotcomwomen.com/free-content.shtml
   • http://www.valuablecontent.com/
     
   
   Dont always use coped over article as it might affect your traffic since you are directing all traffic to another website and thus losing your potential reader.
   
   
7. 2nd post onwards should be consistence and updated daily on your blog.It should help in your google ranking if your contents are unique and resourceful.
   
   
8. Optimize your blog with Addons Video widget,Social Bookmarks and Rss Feeds, It will bring you viral and unique traffic easily on your blog
   
   
9. Get your Now, this should be one of your must advertising ads in your blog and it will give you revenue once a user clicks on it, so make sure your contents are relveant. Google Adsense has its TOS, please read fist before proceeding and that clicking on your own ads is not adviceable.
   
   
10. Linking your Blogs to Web directories and you make want to get traffic advertising agent to boost your traffic, getting link referral will assist your blog and its free!
    

Now after setting up your blog, remember nothing comes overnight so does a blogger, wait and continue to get your blog updated regularly and you should see the fruits with months!

Cheers!