A ghostwriter writes content such as books, ebooks, blogs, newsletters and other material and someone else is given credit. For example, a ghostwriter might be hired to write a book on entertaining, but Martha Stewart is given credit as the author when the book is published. Or an actress might hire a ghostwriter to writer her memoirs but take full credit.

There are many people who hire ghostwriters. Celebrities, business owners, bloggers, even other authors may hire a ghostwriter to do some or all of the writing for them. Key to remember is that you will not be given credit for your work and discretion in sharing you are the actual author is important.

Start by pulling together a resume, samples of your and references if you have them. If possible put up a website to showcase your work. Keep in mind that if you are ghostwriting for someone, they are unlikely to want you to use reference from them on your site. For information on building a website go here.

Market yourself on the internet and in the community. Also check out elance.com and gofreelance.com for jobs. Gofreelance does charge but offers a free trial of their services so you can check it out and see if it is right for you.

Pricing is going to vary according to the job. Try to take on jobs that pay well. Remember you have expenses such as electric, phone etc. that you are paying and you are not reimbursed for sick days.

Recently I read an excellent ebook on Ghostwriting. The book covers where to find work, what types of jobs to accept, what you can expect, how to price your services and much more. An excellent blueprint for a Ghostwriter.

You can get a copy of the ebook and learn more here; GHOSTWRITING EBOOK.

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Niche blogging is selecting a very tightly defined niche area and writing about it. For example instead of writing about weight loss which is a very broad topic you would write about a small segment of weight loss such as cleansing to lose weight.

If your goal is to make money niche blogging then you will want to select a topic that will earn. Some commonly know popular earners would be weight loss, going green, relationships, travel, acne, hair loss and other topics. Take one of these and zero in on a segment of it. When I made my niche blogs I considered the articles I had written at pay per click sites and how much they made. I personally found that recipes, music, crime and life skill ideas did not do well for me. What did do well for me were articles on weight loss, making money, beauty etc. I took my favorites and developed them into websites.

But if you just throw a website up and start writing you will rarely make money. You need to target words that people are searching for so you show up in the search engines. And of course many of these topics are very competitive because they can make a lot of money.

So you need to find keywords to target that will fit in with your niche blog. I personally use and highly recommend Market Samurai When I started I used Google Adwords tool. But I found it to be a long frustrating process when looking at so many keywords. With Market Samurai the work is done for you. You type in a keyword to search and it will pull up associated keywords. Then it will look provide different information; how many people are searching for the term, how much competition etc. Most importantly it will tell you how hard it would be for you to rank high in Google for the term. It is a huge time saver.

You need a great domain name. .com is the most popular but you can rank for other extensions. Just be sure not to include a trademark!

I recommend registering your domain name at NameCheap.com NameCheap offers good pricing on domain names and privacy.  A domain name runs around $10 a year.

Hosting is next on the list. Sometimes people ask if they should use a free hosting site like Blogger or Blogspot. The answer is no.  Because you do not control those sites. So you are niche blogging on a site that can change rules, delete your account or disappear.  Hosting runs under $10 a month and is an essential investment. I recommend Hostgator.

Now it is time to pick a WordPress theme.  You can use a free or paid theme. One easy way to find a theme you like is to google the terms you are looking for along with WordPress theme and then look under the images instead of the text results.  You can waste many hours looking for WordPress themes. If you plan to build many blogs my advice would be to find a flexible theme you can use over and over.

Now it is time to install your WordPress theme on your website.   You must first install WordPress on your site. This is done at Hostgator through the Fantastico Panel. Hostgator has step by step tutorials for you to follow.  This is very simple to do so don’t be afraid to try it.  If you purchase Hostgator hosting through my link email me and I will do it for you;  Hostgator hosting.

Now it is time to log in and see your site. There are a number of plug ins you will want to add to your site to make it work efficiently and there are online tutorials on how to add plug ins. I will also do this for you if you use my link for Hostgator hosting.  I recommend using All in One SEO pack, Google Adsense (to add Adsense automatically) and other plug ins depending on your need. For example if you plan to only post once in a great while you may want to add Old Post Promoter which will rotate old and new posts so your site looks fresh.

One plug in I love is EasyAzon. This plug in pulls in links and photos from Amazon based on keywords you give it.  So you can pull in anything Amazon carries and earn a commission. It totally changed my business!

Now that you have your blog set up it is time to start niche blogging.  You will want to use the keywords you found with Micro Niche  Finder.  Use the keywords in the title of your post and sprinkled through out your post. On the side of your blog you will see “Post Tags”.   It is important that you include tags or keywords from your article post.  Click publish and you are on your way!

Next it is time to think about monetizing your niche blog. There are many ways to monetize a blog. Adsense is one of them.  Google Adsense is free to sign up for;  sign up at Google.  With Adsense advertisers pay to have their ads on your site.

My favorite tool to find out what keywords to try and rank for is Market Samurai. Get a free trial and learn more here; Market Samurai

It is important to note that with Google Adsense you must have a privacy policy on your site. If you need help with this contact me.

You can also put affiliate products on the blog.  There are many different affiliate companies. You will make a selection based on the type of niche blogging you are doing.  Some of my favorites are;

Share A Sale – wide variety of products.

LinkSynergy -  wide variety of products.

MoreNiche - health and beauty products, excellent support.

Amazon – Low commissions but wide variety of products.

Clickbank – Online products ebooks, software etc.

I would recommend starting out with just two or three companies. Select products that you feel add value.

Recent changes in FTC laws require that you post on your site that you are an affiliate of the products you sell on your site.  You can post a disclaimer in the About section of your site or elsewhere on the niche blogging site.

So now that you have products and/or Adsense and posts on your site it is time to get traffic. You can have the best niche blog in the world but if you don’t get traffic no one will see it.

There are many ways to get traffic.  There are many ways to drive traffic to your site.  Some of these methods include  article marketing, posting on forums, using a link to your site in your signature, submitting the RSS feed of your niche blog to feeds such as FeedAge and social bookmarking. I will go into more detail on traffic in another post.

Once the traffic comes to your site, you may want to capture your readers email address depending on the type of site you have.  The best way to do this is by offering a free report. You can write a report yourself or find a pre-written PLR report.  PLR stands for private label rights. These are articles you can rewrite or publish verbatim. They are usually inexpensive and a quick way to get a report for your niche blog.

To get the report your readers will need to opt in to your mailing list or auto responder. In my opinion the best autoresponder and the one I use for some of my sites is Aweber.  They offer a $1 trial for a month.  Once you have an autoresponder set up, it will automatically send out your emails.  You can also make a pop over box to pop over when readers visit your blog to invite them to sign up for your newsletter.  There are so many blogs out there it is easy for people to forget about your blog if you don’t have an autoresponder so it is well worth it to get one.  Use my link to sign up for Aweber and I will help you select and find a report, make a pop over and help you put the newsletter sign up code on your site.

One of the most important things with niche blogging is to offer your readers value.  You will want to provide great content and offer goods and services that you believe in.  That is how you will build your readership.

It takes time to build your readership and you may have questions along the way.  One community that can help you build your blog is WP Goldmine.  WP Goldmine is a group of very supportive people that discuss ideas and strategies to take their blogs to the next level.  The site focuses on Niche Blogging and offers step by step how to videos and reports. If you are interested in joining a trial member ship is only $1. Click her to try WP Goldmine for the $1 Special Offer. I am a member of the site and am constantly learning new things there, even though I have been niche blogging for some time now.

It took me several years of working diligently to build up my niche blogs and to learn what to do. But it was well worth it. I won’t say exactly what I make but I will share that it is very financially rewarding for me.

I have picked out the best of the best methods and  things that I use that took me much time to ;earn. Hopefully this report will save you some time and help get you on the road to niche blogging fast.

If you have any questions do feel free to email me  at info@WriteForMoneyOnline or info@MyLilGoldDress.com.

Happy Blogging!

Lee

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Hubs are rated with the top score being 100. The rating is determined by traffic, unique content, viewer ratings and quality. You retain all rights to your work.

With HubPages your earnings come from revenue generated from affiliate accounts. These may include *eBay, Amazon, Kontera* and Google. HubPages pays you 60% of the impressions generated from these sources. If an actual purchase is made ie someone clicks through your hub and buys an item from Amazon or eBay for example, you keep 100% of the affiliate revenue. Hub also pays for referrals in two ways. If you send traffic to another Hub you receive a percent of total impressions 9% -12% depending on if they have an affiliate or not. Hub also pays for new writer referrals. * Note: Kontera pays out at a $100 minimum so if your Hubs do not generate traffic, it is unlikely you will see pay out. *eBay has tightened their standards making it more difficult to get an account with them.

Because your earnings from HubPages is determined by affiliate relationships, you must set up an account with each of the affiliates on your own and enter the information in your account settings at HubPages. Hub gives you step by step directions on how to sign up for these affiliate relations in their FAQ’s.

HubPages also offers a Flagship Hub program for the best Hubbers. A $25 payment is given for a Hub that is written on an approved topic and meets the standards set. Bonuses are also given.

Making a Hub is fun and easy. I recently created my first Hub, “How to Lose Weight Fast and Easy with Fat Loss 4 Idiots.” Using the modules, I created text and added a photo. A slideshow option is also available if you have 5 photos or more. Hubpages automatically added the Adsense. It gave me the option to include Kontera advertising. On the side there are boxes to add eBay and Amazon. I opted to add the Amazon box. I selected products from Amazon that I felt fit well with the hub. But if desired it can be done automatically.

Earnings from HubPages will vary according to Hub. Some writers seem to do well and others find the earnings mediocre. But one nice thing about HubPages is you can get backlinks to your other websites and potentially pick up earnings.

Just a note, I have two Hubpages accounts (which is allowed) and have written most of my Hubs for the other account.

Click here to see my latest Hub on The Keyword Academy.

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Maria O’Brian, aka WriterGig, won eHow’s top writer award.  With a bank of several hundred articleas, she consistently earns over a thousand a month from eHow. Maria writes eHow articles that rank high in the Google pages and attract large amount of traffic.  I was inspired to join and write for eHow after reading Maria’s posts on a WAHM forum.  A short time after I joined, I read Maria’s book and applied the information.  My eHow income was close to $100 by my second month.  Now I routinely earn several hundred dollars a month and I owe a lot of credit to the information I learned in Maria’s ebook and by writing consistently.

This ebook is very clear and gives step by step directions on exactly what you need to do to maximize your eHow income potential.  You will learn how to select topics, how to write each article for the search engines, and more.  For the past two months I have been spending most of my time working on my websites and occasionally writing an article or two for eHow.  Yet each month, my earnings on eHow have been several hundred dollars.  This is the ultimate in passive income.

I highly recommend making the small investment in Maria’s book.  If you apply the information, it will pay off month after month. 

NOTE: eHow no longer has a writers compensation program. I recommend starting your own websites. Learn how step by step here…Keyword Academy

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But most of all I recommend starting your own websites. I did it and so can you. Get step by step training – first month is FREE, get my BONUS and learn how to start your own websites.
Learn more here; KEYWORD ACADEMY

I know several people making thousands each month in passive income from Hubpages. Read my new Hub on the Keyword Academy and sign up for Hubpages.
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