The world wide web is full of really good ways for you to make money from home online, but it is also full of plenty people who are there to try and rip you off, so the big question is what are the legit real ways you can earn extra money online from the comfort of your own home. One of the fastest and cheapest and easiest ways to get started out working from home is to start a free blog, blogger is one of your options, blogger is free blogging platform that is hosted by google, another popular choice is wordpress however personally I have never had any experience with wordpress and am quite happy with blogger or blogspot as it is also called.

So you may be wondering to yourself how can I earn extra money online with a blog, well there are many different ways you can make money with a blog to advertise is one way and a popular choice of advertiser to use, especially when your starting out would be google adsense, it is free to join and google will place the ads on your blog for you matching them to the theme of your site sothey are relevant and of interest to your readers this option is available to you in blogger after you set up your blog and is very easy to implement.

Another way to make money with your blog once it gets a little moretraffic is to sell affiliate products through your blog a good company to start with would be clickbank.

Clickbank sell e-books and have a huge list through every different niche for you to choose from, a good way to make these affiliate sales is that you could write reviews on your blog about products your readers will be interested in and then link to these products with affiliate links.

If your just starting out on your journey to earn extra money online, I would probably just stick with adsense to start with and to begin with even this wont make massive amounts of money . The key to success however is good, key word rich, original content and plenty of it on whatever niche you choose to write about, my advise would be to choose a subject you are interested in or you will soon become bored and will give up before you make any progress, for example if you have a hobby or something you know a lot about write about that, remember when someone searches for something online they are generally looking for answers to something so you need to be that expert who can answer there questions and solve their problem.

Write a few decent posts on your blog and submit your blog to the major search engines the top three are Google, Yahoo, Bing these are the major ones we are interested in.

Once you have done this you have set the wheels in motion, keep adding content on a regular basis as search engines will reward you for this and you will begin to see more visitors and start earning more money.

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Are you interested in blogging? Have you heard the stories about people making loads of cash on their blogs and even quitting their regular jobs in order to blog? While it is true that blogging can be lucrative as well as fun (you should be having at least some fun while writing about what interests you), it is also another form of work and needs to be taken seriously.

Many folks start out blogging once or twice a week, throw a bunch of Google AdSense ads up on their site, and then just expect the money to start rolling in. The truth is much different, as they soon find out. Successful blogging takes time and patience and even a little luck. Before you even start your first post, here are four things you need to know about blogging:

1. Blogging is a part-time to a full-time job.

You will never succeed in blogging unless you treat it as at least a part-time job. This means that, in any given week, you must devote a good 20 hours to your blog site. Believe it or not, when you discover all the tasks that blogging requires of you, even 20 hours will not be enough! You should write a post once a day, ideally, or at least every 2 days. You need to write back-up content for your blog pages that readers will gravitate towards. At the very least, five good anchor articles are recommended- and these articles should not be disguised sales pages! Then there is the weekly newsletter; as your blog gains a following, people will be subscribing to your site. It is a good idea to e-mail them a weekly synopsis of your posts or perhaps a completely new and unrelated article. Finally, as if all that were not enough, you will be spending some time doing web site backup, content editing, and research for future posts and articles.

2. Blogging is a business.

Blogging is a business, and like any business, it needs to be for-profit. While it is understandable that businesses often have start-up costs, eventually those costs need to be outweighed by profits. Keeping this in mind, your blog needs to focus on a topic that interests people and will generate traffic to your site. This way, your ads will be clicked on and purchased from. It is also imperative that, whatever topic you choose for your blog, you are perceived as an expert in that field. Keep in mind that you dont necessarily have to be an expert- only that you are perceived as one. Why? Well, would you go to a butcher to have your tooth filling replaced? No, you wouldnt. Likewise, people are not going to visit your blog if they feel that you are not an expert in the subject matter about which you are writing. So, choose a hot topic for your blog and make sure that it is a topic youll be able to research or at least form a credible opinion on. Of course, it helps immensely if you are also interested in your blogs subject matter.

3. Blogging must be advertised.

Remember how I stated that you need to spend at least 20 hours a week on your blogging? I didnt include the time you will also be spending advertising your blog. Submission of blog-related articles to article directory sites, posting of press releases and classified ads, searching out other like-minded blog sites and making comments- all this is required for effective advertising of your blog. Some people go one step further and advertise via Google AdWords and the like. After all, there is no point in having a business if your potential customers are not aware of it.

4. Blogging must be worthwhile to the reader.

No one wants to read about how your cat spit up two hairballs today. Or about how smart your baby is. People gravitate towards blogs for one of several reasons: the blog provides valuable information, it teaches, or it entertains. So, a blog about stock options will be visited. Even a blog about the juicy gossip on a movie star will be visited. But your blog about your family get-together over Thanksgiving will not be visited.

So, in conclusion, do you think you have what it takes to run a blog? It isnt the easiest thing in the world, and it will cut into your social life for sure. However, the deep personal satisfaction of having your own web site cant be beat. And the money that results from people visiting your site- well, that doesnt hurt either.

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HallyZ has been teaching others how to blog for money on her own blog web site, Your Money and Debt. To find out how to blog, where to market your blog, how to generate blog traffic, and most importantly, how to make money from your blog, visit http://www.yourmoneyanddebt.com

WordPress bloggers beware because you can be attacked and hacked due to vulnerabilities in the WordPress platform. This article covers whats happening and then gives you 12 ways to avoid it from happening to you.

Thats right my friends WordPress blogs are being attacked, hacked and redirected to other websites without the owners of the blogs being aware. Sounds scary doesn’t it? Imagine if you had a blog or website earning you hundreds of dollars daily!

Let me back up for a moment for those that arent in the know:

It all started for me on June 11, 2009 when I received a desperate call from one of my friends that runs a very successful, well-known and profitable wordpress blog.

They were almost in tears because the wordpress attack and hacker used a loophole in their self hosted blogging platform to accomplish two tasks:

1) Re-direct the traffic away from his wordpress blog to another website that was full of links to different affiliate products

2) Replaced all of his static websites using Iframe redirection to erectile dysfunction drugs and other pharmacy type websites.

How did the blog owner find out? One of their readers clicked on a link in the blog to read a post they were interested in and they were taken to an affiliate website that had nothing to do with the topics being discussed on the blog.

Thinking it was just an error they tried again and was taken to a completely different website than they were directed to the first time. That sent up red flags for the reader and they contacted the owners of the blog.

The really sad part is that by the time the owners of the blog were able to correct the wordpress attack and hack they had lost approximately $700 in sale that day alone. Whats worse is that here we are exactly a week later and they are still working on repairing the damage done to their static websites.

What can you do to protect you name, brand, reputation, revenue and WordPress blog from being attacked and hacked?

1. Secure Your WordPress Database

Create a database for WordPress. WP uses only a few tables but creating a whole database just for the blog is more likely to limit its access.
Create and grant limited access to a database user. Create a user to access this database only and grant limited access to SQL commands in the database (select, insert, delete, update, create, drop and alter).
Pick a strong database password. Make it as random as possible since you don’t have to remember it.

2. Populate http://wp-config.php Properly – Use WordPress secret key generation tool to generate random WordPress cookies. These keys are used to insure better encryption of information stored in WordPress user’s cookies.
You also want to modify the WordPress table prefix to something other than wp_ by adding random characters and numbers to the end of wp, such as wp64mlm_manual.

3. Replace the Default admin Username – Fantastico users are able to pick admin user and password as part of the installation process. Replace the default so that admin user name is now myadm instead of admin.

4. Pick Secure WordPress Password for Admin Your password should combine uppercase and lowercase characters and include numbers.

5. Use Secure Login via Encrypted Channel – WordPress bloggers who have SSL enabled for their domain should use that encrypted channel to access their WordPress Dashboard. You can force admin sessions over HTTPS by setting the FORCE_SSL_ADMIN variable in http://wp-config.php file to TRUE.

6. Upgrade as New Version Becomes Available – WordPress bloggers should upgrade once newer versions are issued because the upgrades address know security vulnerability issues.

7. Update Word Press Plug-ins It only makes sense to do so once you upgrade to a newer version of WP.

8. Backup Your Database and Files – Install a plug-in or use cronjob to create backups of your wordpress blog database and files on a regular basis.

9. Disable Directory Browsing – By default in most hosting, indexes of directories are shown in web browsers revealing any content of a directory that has no index.html or http://index.php. You can modify this behavior with Apache by adding a line of code into the .htaccess file in the root directory.

10. Protect WordPress Administration Files – WordPress administration files reside in wp-admin directory of your WordPress blog. You may use .htaccess to restrict access or allow only specific IP addresses to enter this directory and file. You may also allow access from a range of IPs by way of mod_access.

11. Restrict File Access to wp-content Directory – The wp-content directory contains your theme files, uploaded images and plug-ins. WordPress blogs don’t access the .PHP files in the plug-ins and themes directories via HTTP. Restrict wp-content by way of .htaccess so only the following files can be accessed image files, javascripts, and CSS preventing people from accessing any other files directly.

12. Hide The WordPress Version in the Header Tag.

These practices are nothing new and WordPress has been telling their self hosted bloggers that they should be implementing these tactics since day one.

Now the wordpress attack and hack is in full effect and millions of bloggers are going to wake up one day and find that all their hard work, efforts and revenue is gone.

I beg all WordPress users to take emergency steps to protect themselves starting today! While I have listed what can be done in this article there is so much more that wasnt covered so I highly recommend that you take the time to research the resource I will mention in my bio below because it is how my friend and I are now protecting ourselves from the WordPress attack and hack.

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Paul G. Hackett A.K.A The Medical Billing and Transcription Mastermind and religious blogger uses http://www.urlfreeze.com/medbill/Word_Press_Attack_Hack_Lock_Down/ to protect his blogs and revenue generating website http://medicalbillingbooks.tripod.com