…….. Whatever the heck you want to use it for.

If you want to bring your business online, set up a blog.

If you want to write funny stories, build a blog.

If you want to start a fight with a politician, get your blog set up.

If you want to make money from home blogging, well why don’t you set up a blog.

If your getting married and want your gift registry online, do it on a blog.

If you want to make money from home, start building a blog right now.

Want to do some affiliate marketing, how about doing it on a blog.

If you want to capture names and email address of your visitors, use your blog as a squeeze page.

If you want to have a store online selling your Ebay stuff, set up a blog with your store on it. You get the point, I hope.

What a blog is used for exactly is whatever the individual behind that blog wants to do. You, in essence can set up an Internet journal wherein you are able to digitally write down your opinions, thoughts, feelings and/or just about  anything that you want people to read.

Occasionally, you’ll even come across bloggers who, instead of writing texts, make their blogs more audio friendly, by using audio entries or ipod casts. This is called audio blogging.

Here’s some places I found where you can get free stuff and a thing or two:

• How Getting An F On Your School Paper Makes You A Better Blogger (problogger.net)
• Affiliate Marketing For Beginners-Online Home Based Business (affiliatestartingline.com)
• How To Make Squeeze Pages 101 (johnchow.com)
• Submitting Quality Article Content Equals Good Search Engine Traffic (ronmedlin.com)

In layman’s terms, what is a blog used for depends totally on you and what you want to accomplish. You still here? You should be setting your blog up

Read on to get your free wordpres plugin today!

Okay,  so you’ve got your blog up. It looks all pretty and you’ve begun pumping out some nice quality content for your readers. You’ve got your your autoresponder all geared up and ready to go. You’ve stuck in a few advertisements hoping to get some clicks and make money blogging.  After what seems like an eternity you take a lookie look at your traffic stats.

WHAT THE #$@^%^@! “No traffic!”

Scratching your head you begin to realize that in order to get folks to click on those ads or even read your blog site content, you’ve got to get some blog traffic.

Who knew? Don’t get frustrated. Increasing traffic to your blog is one of the most difficult and time consuming things us bloggers have to do. However, if you are using WP as you blogging platform, there’s lots of little widgets and a particular wordpres plugin you can use to make this task a whole lot easier.

If you haven’t see my post about some of the best wordpress plugins, then hop over and take a read. I’m testing out a simple free blogging tool that allows me to get more traffic to my blog.  Ironically, it’s called the Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin...at least that’s what Jeff Johnson calls it.

It’s his newest free SEO software that you can use to grab more free traffic to your blog from the search engines. Version 2.0 was just released and it is easier to use, and more powerful than ever. All you have to do it plug it into your blog and his software does all the rest.

Check it out:
Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin.

Have No Fear:  If you already have a WP blog you can simply plug it in and let it work its Traffic-Getting magic. And if you don’t have a blog… Jeff shows you how to install a free one in as little as 2 minutes using a secret “push a button” technology that even the newest of newbies could use. Seriously, this thing Rocks!

The great thing about this brand-new Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin Version 2.0 is that it is…

It couldn’t be easier to use and it’s…

100% free and Installs in minutes. You heard me right.

Check it out:
Free Traffic-Getting SEO Plugin

I promise it will save you some time. Let me know  your thoughts on this wordpres plugin. I want to know if it works for you like it has for me.

• Click here for your FREE create A Blog Brainstorming Cheat Sheet  Click here!!
• Read and apply the cheat sheet to come up with your niche idea or topic.
• Head over to Namecheap.com and grab yourself a good domain name for about $10 and some hosting for $3 a mo.

• Follow the instructions in your cpanel on getting wordpress on your site. It’s just a matter of clicking a few buttons.
• Go grab a free theme template from just about anywhere and upload it.
• Do your keyword research and start posting.

Now these directions are written with the consideration that you want to know how to build a blog site with . I am just assuming that part because wordpress is my absolute favorite and IMHO the easiest, most flexible way to get your blogging business online fast.

We want to get you up and going with making some cash with your blog. So, go learn how to build a blog site and let’s make some money. If you get stuck somewhere post a question below and I’ll help you out.  You can’t get started with the money making part, if you don’t know how to build blog site.

{RANT}Avoid making the mistakes I made in the past by using the information given to you. You see for four years I bought all kinds of stuff. You name it, I probably bought it. I spent countless hours and only God knows how many thousands of dollars trying to make money online. The only thing I made sure to do is allow the materials I purchased to sit on my hard drive collecting cyber dust and continuosly fall into the sales copy pitch and buy the next best thing. I didn’t make one damn penny. It wasn’t until I lost my job that I decided to take some action and get it done.  That’s when I started scouring through my hard drive and found the two books that changed my life. I know it’s not easy, but learn from my mistakes and take action. {END RANT}

Okay, this E-book is a must-read and was written  by a gentleman named Ken Evoy. Again, if you don’t know who that is, don’t worry. I’ll fill you in later. It’s also FREE and I consider it my make money online encyclopedia. It’s a long E-book. It’s very thorough and will help you to get your mind right. You need to have a certain mindset in order to be successful and this will help you get where you need to be mentally.  Netwriting Masters Course.

This e-book was written to help you understand making money online and how to go about developing multiple income streams from your knowledge, ideas, and passions, affiliate programs, advertising, Google Adsense, and much more, all in the shortest time and without spending all your hard earned cash. However, you have to do one thing to get the most from this online money making manual.    You have to read it.

You still reading my text? WHY? Go download the book and read it.

When you finished reading both e-books, come back here to comment on what you thing about them. Let me know if they have changed your perspective on making money with a blog or if you still want to know how to start a blog.

Hence, it is my mission to eliminate the clutter and give you the necessary information required to help get your blog up and running as quickly and painlessly as possible, for FREE.

I know some folks are just not technically skilled. You don’t have to be skilled in order to start a blog. All you need is desire (Well, and you should know how to read If you are reading this post, then you have what it takes.There’s a few steps involved. Baby Steps. I promise.

The very first thing you should do is download two of my favorites E-books on the how to start a blog subject. The very first is written by Jack Humphrey himself, “The Authority Black Book.” If you don’t know who he is, don’t worry. I’ll fill you in later.

This book is FREE and it is filled with a plethora of information on becoming the authority in your niche so you can make money blogging – a whole lot of it.

Don’t just download it and let it sit on your hard drive. READ IT! Print it out and get a highlighter and mark it up. Take notes and memorize it. Sorry for the ranting and screaming but I get a bit excited when people do the ole download-and-read-it-later-never-ever-to-get-back-to-it thing. It drives me nuts because I did it for so long and that was the #1 reason it took me four years to make my first nickle online.  It was when I decided to read this book that I began to see the fruits of my labor. Don’t make the mistakes I made.  You still reading? Click on the book and download it for goodness sake. Then come back here to get my next secret blog profit weapon.

How to start a blog – Part 2

**Did I mention that I kind of like building websites? I should have a contest and build a website for a lucky winner..** Just a thought.

Anyway, MakeMoneyFromHomeBlogging.com is very proud to announce this blogging product review site. Here are some key points on the site:

A great review of Jack Humphrey’s Blog Success ( a program I swear by)

A great review of Ken Evoy’s SiteSell ( a program I have been a member of for over four years)

And, a great review of Yaro Starak’s Blog Mastermind (good, but not a great program).

Take a look at the site. Tell your friends, Tweet this post, Pass it on for the world to see…

Thanks a bunch….I welcome your feedback, as always.