By now you must have heard of blogs. All someone needs is a computer and an internet connection to create a blog. A blog can be a personal diary, a journal of everyday events, or a collection of information focused around a specific subject. But did you know that blogging can make money?

As strange as it sounds, keeping a blog can earn you money. Now you couldn't realistically expect to make an absolute fortune, but the potential isn't chump change. A lot of people could use some extra spending money.

Before you can publish a blog, you need a blogging service to create one. Examples are Wordpress and Blogger. You can customize your blog to your own liking, and you can change the HTML around and add links if you want to. Blogging services usually come with templates you can choose from, and you can create your own.

The most important factor in your blogging to make money would be the main subject about your blog. Different topics will bring in entirely different groups of people, and this could determine how much money you make, if any.

For some people, pay-per-click ads are the prime source of income of their blogs, so they choose the blog subject based on how much PPC ads tend to bring in for that subject. Google Adsense comes to most people's minds when they think of making money like this, and plenty of bloggers have Adsense ads on their blog, and make money whenever visitors click on those ads.

If your blog has a high amount of traffic and high Google page rank, you can also make money by selling ad space on your blog. People pay money to have one way links from high PR sites because their sites can get indexed by the search engines faster and it helps their search engine rankings.

Yet another popular way of blogging to make money is by advertising affiliate products on your blog. This is usually done by writing about topics related to those affiliate products, and reviewing those products. You earn commissions when people buy those products through your blog. A way to make this more effective is by giving your visitors helpful information before trying to sell to them.

Blogging about your product or business can help bring in more money. You can write articles about subjects related to your product or business, and get your visitors interested. This also helps promote your product or business through the search engines, because regularly updating your blog with unique content is a big plus for search engine rankings.

Some people blog just because they like it has a hobby. But it can be a profitable hobby.