There are many different directions, you can go to stay at home and make money online. To be truthful, not everybody can do everything that is available to them. In this article we want to write about one thing everyone can do regardless of where they live or their current Internet marketing ability.

What I'm talking about in this article is blogging. Not only writing in your blog, but trying to make money doing it. Let's look a little closer at what blogging is.

- First of all blogging does not cost you anything monetarily. If you are smart you will host your own blog which you will have to pay for. But the act of blogging itself is free. You're only cost doing this is your time.

- Blogging is easy to do. You do not need any special skills to do it. If you can type the thoughts in your head you can blog. Your ability to come up with thoughtful articles, however, will affect how many people come back to read what you have to say.

- If you like people you can use your blog and social networking to get to know people. Blogging and social networking is has become known as Web 2.0. This is a great way to interact with your readers and build an online business.

- One of the most important ways to make money online and work from home is to develop credibility in the niche that you are in. Blogging allows you to do this. When you provide insightful and useful content you really can brand yourself as an expert on the subject that you write about. Over time more and more readers will come and visit your blog.

- You can monetize your blog several different ways. You can add advertising with pay per click programs such as Google Adsense and Bidvertiser. You can include affiliate programs in the various articles that you write about. You can sell leads to different affiliate programs and get paid for those. One final thing you can do is capture names and email addresses for future follow-up to sell to the list that you build.

We also need to mention using an RSS feed when you blog. This allows people to subscribe to your blog and receive updates whenever you post it. The larger your subscriber base to your RSS feed the more potential business you can get as people will always see your next article.

In conclusion, blogging is one way to make money online and work from home anyone can do. What is stopping you!