You can create traffic for your site and products and make money at the same time. What's more, you can do it for free. All you need to know is how to create blogs.

Blogging is a free and effective method to generate traffic and at the same time make some free money. This can be easily done when you know how.

A blog is a frequently updated journal or diary usually, often hosted by a third party. It can also be defined as a free content site, which is hosted as a subdomain of the major blog site. It allows for the posting of comments and articles in most cases. Blogs are designed to be informative with the readers having the opportunity to air their views either through posts or comments..

Blogs are free to create. They are also hosted for free and can be viewed as websites. Rich content blogs can pass for stand-alone websites. Blogs can also contain links to other resources such as other blogs, websites or internet based applications.

So how do we make money from blogs? Because of their potential to drive traffic, blogs can be used as a means for advertising. Two money spinning products are promoted via blogging are google adsense and affiliate products. Affiliate products refers to products from affiliate companies such as Clickbank, paydotcom, and shareasale to mention but a few.

With google adsense codes on your blog, you make money when people click on the adverts on your blog. With the affiliate program links, you make money when viewers click your link and buy the product you promote based on your leads.

With blogging, you make money using the benefits of a website, without really owning one, or having to pay for one. Of course blogs have certain advantages over full-fledged websites, but they also have their disadvantages.

Creating a blog is relatively easy as you do not need to have a knowledge of HTML before you can create a blog. You may need a basic knowledge of HTML though to be able to manipulate your blog content.

Making money from blogs is relatively easy, if you can get you blogs seen by the search engines. This is known as blog optimization. To optimize your blogs, you will need to add as many pages as possible, using either original articles written by you, or you could use other people's articles, but be sure you give them credit by placing their link on your blog site. The more posts you have on your blogs, the better your blogs rank with the search engines.

Now, where can you get resources to create blogs from? There are lots of blogging site on the web, but some of the popular ones are thoughts.com, blogger.com, squarespace.com and creative-blogs.com. You can trydifferent blogging sites, just to get a hang of what blogging really feels like.

You major satisfaction comes, when make your first cents from blogging. This is when you have turned your blogs into profit making sites. Profits come in with traffic and blog traffic comes in with advertising. You could use free means of advertising such as free classified ads or posting of articles on ezine sites. These ads or articles can refer people to your blog site.

Whatever you do, always remember that blogging is free, the traffic is free and the money you make from blogging is free.