Here are some links to assist with blogs and monetization. In the video the service Aweber is mentioned, and it is one of (or perhaps the) largest list management companies for small businesses/marketers. Aweber allows you to set up multiple lists, and separately put in your blog’s RSS feed to send every post automatically to your list. Aweber allows you to pick the template look used to send the blog-to-email-list emails, or other emails.

Picking keywords might help if you are looking to tweak your posts to attract targeted traffic, or to have advertising relative to high-paying keywords be displayed. The Wordtracker service has a free trial to try their service.

A popular blogging platform, Wordpress, has both software and blog-hosting services. You can get the software, themes, modules, and other items at WordPress.org, and you can get a free blog which may rank well in search engines at WordPress.com. Speaking of Wordpress, the next video shows many tips of using Wordpress blogs, and driving traffic to your business:

Most bloggers who are trying to monetize their blogs will already be aware of the information in these videos, but as with all tips & techniques, seeing the information can provide new ideas, or provide motivation to do more in your own efforts.

The third video is titled “Make Money Blogging”, and discusses benefits of blogging in that the customer controls the syndication (versus email marketing and other push marketing). It also discusses getting started (hosting), driving traffic, advertising, getting content (current events are one that always has worked for content), and to bring your personality to your blog.

Side note – if you do not have a domain name, the website PCNames has gained popularity for domain name brainstorming with it’s effective web 2.0 interface. With recent controversy about major registrars who may be reserving names that it’s customers search for, as of the time of this writing, PCNames states that it does not store the names that are searched for using it’s interface.

To continue your information-gathering on this subject, future related posts on this website will be tagged with Blogging or Monetization (or other emerging terms).