If you surf the web, and I don't mean just logging into Facebook, it's likely you've come across money making blogs all the time.
So why not set up one of your own? It really is easy and the actual blog can be fully set up in a matter of hours.
That's the finished fully functioning blog ready to make money but it's not gonna make money unless you drive traffic to it.
I'll show you how to do that later but this article's going to focus on getting your blog up and running.
How To Set Up A Money Making Blog Believe me I've made every mistake online but thankfully I've learned from this and became successful from this.
Now, the good thing for you is you don't have to make mistakes cos you can follow the techniques I've learned that work.
I've set up lots of blogs that were intended to be money making blogs but failed miserably, now I have a blogging system that works.
My top 7 recommendations are:

1. Use WordPress; it's great for getting traffic from search engines like Google and very easy set up.
   
2. It's best have a theme with a right side bar and a small header (allowing for visitors to see content without having to scroll down).
   
3. Use a traffic getting SEO plugin; this shows you how to optimize your blog for search traffic, use an all in one SEO plugin with this.
   
4. Install status updater to tell your Facebook, Twitter and MySpace friends when you post.
   
5. Onlywire is another great plugin for automatically bookmarking your posts to over 30 social bookmarking sites, enabling you to get crazy amounts of traffic from one post!
6. Have an opt in box on the top of your sidebar.
   If you're one of my students or know me at all you're probably sick of me saying it; list building is the best way of making money online, so make sure to have a way to capture emails on your blog.