In today's economy you're not alone if you're looking for ways to bring in a little extra income each day and each week to help pay the bills. One thing you might consider doing is making a little extra money blogging. A blog, as you may already know, means a web log i.e. a place where people share their personal thoughts on a topic, or on every topic and the content is displayed in reverse chronological order.

Many people think of blogging as something to do for fun. But it's time people start to become aware of the fact that blogging can provide a significant source of income.

Here is what you might consider doing. First you'll want to set up your blog using one of the more popular services such as Wordpress or Blogger. These blogs manage your content for you. You don't have to be a web designer to have this sort of blog because the software is ready built to integrate and organize the content that you post.

There are two ways you can have a Wordpress blog. It can be hosted on their servers which means you'll have a domain like this: myblog.wordpress. There are advantages to this system because the software is more friendly to beginners and it has many tools built in to build up traffic. It's also a free system. You can also get a Wordpress blog at Wordpress which means you will be hosting the blog with a hosting company that you pay for.

Whichever form of blog you choose the important thing is that you post to it frequently. For maximum effectiveness create your blog around a particular topic or niche such as fly fishing, or dating tips or whatever. This will make sure you are using keywords that will attract people from search engines like Google.

Once you have some traffic coming to your blog you can monetize the blog with AdSense ads. You can also go seek out sponsors who might be interested in placing banner ads on your blog. There are even websites out there that will pay you to review a product on their blog.

The other thing you can do with your blog is known as "affiliate marketing". You can go to a site like Clickbank or Commission Junction and find a product that your target audience would be interested in.

Then you write a review about the topic. When you sign up with Commission Junction or Clickbank you'll get a unique link. You should post that link before and after your review. If anyone purchases the product you wrote about through one of your links you will get a commission. If you keep blogging consistently these commissions can really begin to add up.