Lots of us are now getting into blogging. But not many know that blogging is more than just maintaining a gripe diary. If it’s a way to show off your writing skills to many, it’s a way to earn some extra cash as well. In fact, some people are earning their monies by indulging in this full time. It’s the latter part of the blogging feature that’s creating many dotcompreneurs. And there’s money to be made through Text Link Ads, affiliate programmes, Google Adsense, selling products and so on. From my experience of the different blogging platforms available (xanga, typepad, blog.com, blogsome, tblog.com, blogspirit, blogger), I prefer WordPress the most. It’s easy, has a lot of customisable features and brings out the joy in blogging like nobody else.

My friend Jason Pereira has painstakingly done a lot of research on how to set up a blog, generate traffic and even monetise it. You could read his long post here… HOW TO CREATE A BLOG