Blogger (service)
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Blogger logo
Type of site
Blog host
Available in See below
Owner Google
Website www.blogger.com
Alexa rank Decrease 119 (April 2017)[1]
Commercial Yes
Registration Optional, Free
Launched August 23, 1999; 17 years ago[2]
Current status Active
Written in Python[3]
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. Generally, the blogs are hosted by Google at a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be hosted in the registered custom domain of the blogger (like www.example.com).[4] A user can have up to 100 blogs per account.[5]
Up until May 1, 2010, Blogger allowed users to publish blogs on other hosts, via FTP. All such blogs had (or still have) to be moved to Google's own servers, with domains other than blogspot.com allowed via custom URLs.[6] Unlike WordPress.com, Blogger allows its users to use their own domain free of charge, while WordPress.com charges around $13 to use a custom domain.[7] Blogger cannot be installed on a web server. One has to use DNS facilities to redirect a custom URL to a blogspot domain.[8]
Contents [hide]
1 History
1.1 Redesign
1.2 Available languages
1.3 Country-specific blogger addresses
2 Available designs
3 Integration
4 Blogger on mobile devices
5 Blocking
6 Limitations
7 Support
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
History
On August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features (for which Pyra had charged) to become free. In October 2004, Pyra Labs' co-founder, Evan Williams, left Google. In 2004, Google purchased Picasa; it integrated Picasa and its photo sharing utility Hello into Blogger, allowing users to post photos to their blogs.
On May 9, 2004, Blogger introduced a major redesign, adding features such as web standards-compliant templates, individual archive pages for posts, comments, and posting by email. On August 14, 2006, Blogger launched its latest version in beta, codenamed "Invader", alongside the gold release. This migrated users to Google servers and had some new features, including interface language in French, Italian, German and Spanish.[9] In December 2006, this new version of Blogger was taken out of beta. By May 2007, Blogger had completely moved over to Google-operated servers. Blogger was ranked 16 on the list of top 50 domains in terms of number of unique visitors in 2007.[10]
On February 24, 2015, Blogger announced that as of late March it will no longer allow its users to post sexually explicit content, unless the nudity offers "substantial public benefit," for example in "artistic, educational, documentary, or scientific contexts."[11] On February 28, 2015, accounting for severe backlash from long-term bloggers, Blogger reversed its decision on banning sexual content, going back to the previous policy that allowed explicit images and videos if the blog was marked as "adult".[12]
Redesign
As part of the Blogger redesign in 2006, all blogs associated with a user's Google Account were migrated to Google servers. Blogger claims that the service is now more reliable because of the quality of the servers.[13]
Along with the migration to Google servers, several new features were introduced, including label organization, a drag-and-drop template editing interface, reading permissions (to create private blogs) and new Web feed options. Furthermore, blogs are updated dynamically, as opposed to rewriting HTML files.
In a version of the service called Blogger in Draft,[14] new features are tested before being released to all users. New features are discussed in the service's official blog.[15] In September 2009, Google introduced new features into Blogger as part of its tenth-anniversary celebration. The features included a new interface for post editing, improved image handling, Raw HTML Conversion, and other Google Docs-based implementations, including:
Adding location to posts via geotagging.
Post time-stamping at publication, not at original creation.
Vertical re-sizing of the post editor. The size is saved in a per-user, per-blog preference.
Link editing in compose mode.
Full Safari 3 support and fidelity on both Windows and macOS.
New Preview dialog that shows posts in a width and font size approximating what is seen in the published view.
Placeholder image for tags so that embeds are movable in compose mode.
New toolbar with Google aesthetics, faster loading time, and "undo" and "redo" buttons, also added the full justification button, a strike-through button, and an expanded color palette.
In 2010, Blogger introduced new templates and redesigned its website. The new post editor was criticized for being less reliable than its predecessor.[16]
Available languages
As of late 2016, Blogger is available in these languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Hong Kong), Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (United Kingdom), English (United States), Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian, Persian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, and Zulu.
Country-specific blogger addresses
Starting in February 2013, Blogger began integrating user blogs with multiple country-specific URLs. For example, exampleuserblogname.blogspot.com would be automatically redirected to exampleuserblogname.blogspot.ca in Canada, exampleuserblogname.blogspot.co.uk in the United Kingdom. Blogger explained that by doing this they could manage the blog content more locally so if there was any objectionable material that violated a particular country's laws they could remove and block access to that blog for that country through the assigned ccTLD while retaining access through other ccTLD addresses and the default Blogspot.com URL. However it should be noted that if a blog using a country-specific URL was removed it is still technically possible to access the blog through Google's No Country Redirect override by entering the URL using the regular Blogspot.com address and adding /ncr after the .com.[17]
These redirects have privacy implications for anonymous users: those who share a link to a Blogger site obtained from their web browser's address bar may inadvertently reveal which country they are currently in – unless they fool (e.g. using a VPN service located in another country) or override the country detection, or manually edit the link to refer to blogspot.com before sharing it.
Available designs
Blogger allows its users to choose from various templates and then customize them. Users may also choose to create their own templates using CSS. The new design template, known as "Dynamic View", was introduced on 31 August 2011[18] with Dynamic Views being introduced on 27 September 2011.[19] It is built with AJAX, HTML5, and CSS3. The time for loading is 40 percent shorter than traditional templates, and allows user to present blog in seven different ways: classic, flipcard, magazine, mosaic, sidebar, snapshot, and timeslide. Readers still have the option to choose preferable views when the blog owner has set a default view.[20] Some of the widgets (e.g., Labels, Profile, Link List, Subscription Links, Followers and Blog Archive etc.) are available for Dynamic Views; other templates are chosen by the blogger.
In April 2013, Blogger updated its HTML template editor that has some improvements to make it easy for the users to edit the blog's source code. The editor was updated with syntax highlight, number line and jump-to-widget button for ease of editing the code.
For over half a year dynamic views users were suffering from a bug causing custom CSS and page navigation often not to load properly. This happened because a JavaScript routine rendered the page before it was loaded. A blogger user fixed the template and published the fix.[21]
Integration
The Google Toolbar has a feature called "BlogThis!" which allows toolbar users with Blogger accounts to post links directly to their blogs.
"Blogger for Word" is an add-in for Microsoft Word which allows users to save a Microsoft Word document directly to a Blogger blog, as well as edit their posts both on- and offline. As of January 2007, Google says "Blogger for Word is not currently compatible with the new version of Blogger", and they state no decision has been made about supporting it with the new Blogger.[22] However, Microsoft Office 2007 adds native support for a variety of blogging systems, including Blogger.
Blogger supports Google's AdSense service as a way of generating revenue from running a blog.
Blogger also started integration with Amazon Associates in December 2009, as a service to generate revenue.[23] It was not publicly announced, but by September 2011 it appeared that all integration options had been removed and that the partnership had ended.[24]
Windows Live Writer, a standalone app of the Windows Live suite, publishes directly to Blogger.
Blogger can be optionally integrated with Google+.
Google+ comments can be integrated with blogger comments.
The Campaigns tab in Blogger dashboard links to Adwords making it easier to create ads.
Blogger on mobile devices
Blogger has launched mobile applications for users with mobile devices. Users can post and edit blogs, and also share photos and links on Blogger through their mobile devices. Not only advanced mobile devices, such as smartphones, are being considered, since users can also post blogs via traditional cell phones by SMS and MMS.[25]
Screenshot of Blogger app on iOS
The major two mobile operating systems that Blogger focuses on are Android and iOS.[26][27] Blogger allow users to edit blogs anywhere through the app and either publish the blogs or save them as drafts. Quick navigation from posts and drafts is accessible from a list. Users can attach photos by taking a picture with a Blogger app or selecting pictures from their photo galleries. Sharing current locations on posts is also possible by tabbing My Location bar and adding locations. Users can also share photos and links directly to Blogger.
Blogger also provides dynamic mobile views for the blogging compatibility with mobile devices and smartphones. They enhance the readability accuracy on these smart devices, but editing a blog on the blogger app remains an open issue for the users.
Blocking
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Blogger has been blocked for various periods of time in the following countries:
Cuba
Fiji
India (some ISPs in 2012 blocking an IP address put into Federal List of Extremist Materials in 2011)[28]
Iran
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
Pakistan[29]
People's Republic of China
Russian Federation (some ISPs in 2012 blocking an IP address put into Federal List of Extremist Materials in 2011)[30]
Syrian Arab Republic
Turkey
Vietnam
Yemen
Blocking of *.blogspot.com domains by keyword-based Internet filtering systems is also encountered due to the domain containing the substring "gspot".
Limitations
Blogger has the following limitations on content storage and bandwidth, per user account:[31]
Blog description – 500 characters max; Hyper Text Markup Language markup not supported
Number of blogs – 100 blogs per account
Number of labels – 5,000 unique labels per blog (an increase from the original 2,000), 20 unique labels per post (with at most 200 characters)
Number of pictures – Ordinarily, up to 1 GB of total storage, shared with Picasa Web. If you've upgraded to Google+, your photos will be stored in Google Photos, where you have 15 GB of storage space shared with Gmail and Drive. However, if one has signed up for Google+ account, images less than 16 megapixels (4920 x 3264)[32] would not be counted to this storage limit. For users not signed up for Google+, 800 x 800 pixels and below images would not be included in this storage space.
Number of posts – There is no limit on the number of posts one can have in one blog. However, only 50 posts can be published per day before a user is required to go through a check process.[citation needed]
Size of pages – Individual pages (the main page of a blog or archive pages) are limited to 1 MB
Size of pictures – If posted via Blogger Mobile, limited 250 KB per picture;[33] posted pictures are scaled to 1600px[citation needed]
Number of pages – There is no limit on the number of pages you can have on one blog
Team members (those who can write to a blog) – 100 invitations per blog
Favicon – Any square image less than 100 KB
Account suspension: if a site is violating any terms of service, it may be suspended by Blogger without any notice. Repeated violations may lead to Google account suspension.
On February 18, 2010,[34] Blogger introduced "auto-pagination", which limited the number of posts that could be displayed on each page, often causing the number of posts on the main page to be less than that specified by the user and leading to a hostile response from some users.[35][36]
Private blogs are limited to only 100 members.
Support
The official support channel is the Blogger Product Forum.[37] This online discussion forum, delivered using Google Groups, serves Blogger users of varying experience, and receives some monitoring from Google staff. "Top contributors" are community-members nominated by the Google staff who enjoy additional privileges including managing discussions and direct access to Google staff. There is likely to be a top contributor or other knowledgeable person reading the forum almost all the time.
A number of people, including some top contributors, run personal blogs where they offer advice and post information about common problems.
StackExchange's Web Applications forum has a tag for "blogger", which is used for questions about various blogging platforms, including Blogger.[38]
See also
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Comparison of free web hosting services
List of Google products
Niche blogging
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Hartley Engel The unsaved who are preoccupied with iPhones and various counterfeit gods (e.g., politics, Trump-bashing polarizers, lgbt rights, Hollywood-worship, etc.) need to understand how poverty-stricken they are spiritually and repent and bow down to the enthroned Christ.
Pray for the lost, for the sons of disobedience, for the slaves of unrighteousness.
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Lrita Zelman We are so ungrateful in the West I was only thinking over the past two days about there are people around the world that have NO government agencies that they can turn to for help and having a bowl of rice a day and drinking dirty water is a luxury.
Oh God help us to help them.
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Francis Helen Exactly!! Most African countries have so many issues that IPhone is the least of their problems. Hunger, insecurity, bad governance, child and maternal mortality due to bad healthcare system, no access to portable water, and other humanitarian crises...the list is endless. Besides, there is more to life than iPhone.
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Anikó Varga And those places are not exclusively in developing countries but one can find them scattered throughout the US and Europe as well. Even though many leaders of the "first world" want to forget about it.
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Elizabeth Colleta Moraa Southern Sudan is a country which gained its independence a few years ago and has not stabilised. In such a situation farming is not reliable thus food is scarce. A true Christian would not make fun of such a case. Pray for them if you can't assist.
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Phil Teichroew You would be very surprised though! I have heard many stories from India & Africa where many impoverished still have to have their cellphones & there is only one central location to charge them, usually many miles away. As far as I'm concerned, it's an absolute addiction!
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Tumblr Features for Bloggers
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by Susan Gunelius
Updated August 31, 2016
Tumblr is a hybrid blogging application and microblogging tool. It enables you to publish short posts that contain images, text, audio, or video which aren't as long as traditional blog posts but aren't as short as Twitter updates. The Tumblr community of users can reblog your content on their own Tumblelogs or share your content on Twitter with the click of the mouse. Is Tumblr right for you? Take a look at some of the Tumblr features that are currently available so you can determine if it's the right tool for you to publish your content online.
It's Free!
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Tumblr is completely free to use. You can publish your content with no bandwith or storage limits. You can also modify your Tumblelog's design, publish group blogs, and use a custom domain without paying anything to Tumblr to do it.
Customized Design
A wide variety of themes are available for Tumblr users that you can tweak to customize your Tumblelog. You can also access all of the necessary HTML code to make any changes that you want to your Tumblelog's theme.
Custom Domain
Your Tumblelog can use your own domain name so it's truly personalized. For businesses, this enables you to easily brand your Tumblelog and make it appear more professional.
Publishing
You can publish text, photos (including high resolution photos), videos, links, audio, slideshows, and more to your Tumblelog. Tumblr offers a variety of great publishing features that make it easy for you to publish any kind of content to your Tumblelog, including:
Publish to your Tumblelog from email.
Publish to your Tumblelog via a text message from your mobile phone.
Publish audio posts to your Tumblelog via phone.
Schedule your posts to publish in the future.
Use the handy bookmarklet to instantly share anything you see online via your Tumblelog.
Keep your entire Tumblelog or certain posts private.
Collaboration
You can invite multiple people to publish to the same Tumblelog. It's easy for them to submit posts, which you can review and approve before they are published.
Pages
Make your Tumblelog look more like a traditional blog or website using customizable pages. For example, create a Contact Us page and an About page.
Search Engine Optimization
Tumblr uses a variety of functions to ensure your Tumblelog is search-engine friendly using search engine optimization (SEO) techniques that happen behind the scenes without any additional effort on your part.
No Ads
Tumblr doesn't clutter your Tumblelog with ads, logos, or any other unwanted moneymaking features that can negatively affect your audience's experience.
Apps
There are many third-party apps available that can add even more features and functionality to your Tumblelog. For example, there are entertaining apps that enable you to add speech bubbles with text to images, apps that enable you to publish to Tumblr from an iPhone or iPad, apps that enable you to instantly publish images from Flickr to your Tumblelog, and many more.
Twitter, Facebook, and Feedburner Integration
Tumblr integrates seamlessly with Twitter, Facebook, and Feedburner. Publish your posts to Tumblr and you can automatically publish them to your Twitter stream of Facebook profile news stream. If you prefer, you can pick and choose which posts to publish to Twitter and Facebook. You can also easily invite people to subscribe to your blog's RSS feed and track analytics related to those subscriptions, because Tumblr integrates with Feedburner.
Q&A
Tumblr offers a great feature that enables you to publish a Q&A box where your audience can ask you a questions on your Tumblelog and you can answer them.
Copyrights
Tumblr's Terms of Service clearly stae that all of the content you publish on your Tumblelog is owned and copyrighted by you.
Support
Tumblr offers an online Help Center, and users who cannot find answers to their questions can email the Tumblr Community Ambassador directly at anytime.
Analytics
Tumblr works with blog analytics tools like Google Analytics. Just set up your analytics account using your preferred tool and paste the provided code into your Tumblelog. That's all there is to it!
Getting Started With Google Blogger by Marziah Karch
Updated July 23, 2017
Blogger is Google’s free tool for creating blogs. It can be found on the web at http://www.blogger.com. Previous versions of Blogger were heavily branded with the Blogger logo, but the latest version is flexible and unbranded so you can use it to create and promote blogs without a budget.
The main advantage to using Blogger is that Blogger is completely free, including hosting and analytics. If you choose to display ads, you share in the profits. Getting Started With Blogger
You can use blogs for everything from updating your friends and family about your life, giving your own advice column, discussing your political views, or relating your experience in a topic of interest. You can host blogs with multiple contributors, or you can run your own solo show. You can even use Blogger to make your own podcast feeds.
Although there are fancier blog tools out there, the mixture of cost (free) and flexibility makes Blogger a fantastic option. The one note of caution is that Google has not put as much effort into maintaining Blogger as they have into building new services. That means there's a chance Blogger service could end. Historically Google has provided paths to porting content to some other platform when this happens, so chances are good you could migrate to WordPress or another platform should Google decide to end Blogger. Setting Up Your Blog
Setting up a Blogger account takes three easy steps.
Create an account, name your blog, and choose a template. You can host multiple blogs with the same account name, so you only need to do that part once. This way you could separate your professional blog about your business from your personal blog about dogs, for instance. Hosting Your Blog
Blogger will host your blog for free on blogspot.com.
You can use a default Blogger URL, you can use your own existing domain, or you can buy a domain through Google Domains as you set up a new blog. The advantage to using Google's hosting services is that they scale incredibly well so you won't have to worry about your blog crashing if it becomes popular.
Posting Once your blog is set up, Blogger has a basic WYSIWYG editor. (What you see is what you get). You can also toggle to a plain HTML view if you prefer. You can embed most media types, but, like most blog platforms, JavaScript is restricted.
If you need more formatting options, you could also use Google Docs to post to your Blogger blog. Email Your Posts
You can optionally configure Blogger with a secret email address, so you can email your posts to your blog.
Pictures Blogger will let you upload pictures from your desktop and post them to your blog. Just drag and drop them from your desktop into your post as you're writing it. You can also use Google Photos to embed pictures, although as of this writing that's still labeled as "Picasa Web Albums" after the now-discontinued service Google Photos replaced.
YouTube videos can also be embedded blog posts, of course. Appearance
Blogger offers several default templates, but you can also upload your own template from multiple free and premium sources.
You can add and manipulate gadgets (the Blogger equivalent of WordPress widgets) to further customize your blog.
Social Promotion Blogger is compatible with most social sharing, like Facebook and Pinterest, and you can automatically promote your posts on Google+. Templates
You initially pick one of several templates for Blogger. You can switch to a new template at any point. The template controls the look and feel of your blog, as well as the links on the side.
You can also customize and create your own template, although this requires more advanced knowledge of CSS and web design. There are many sites and individuals who also offer Blogger templates free for personal use.
You can change the arrangement of most of the elements within a template by dragging and dropping. Adding new page elements is easy, and Google gives you a good selection, such as link lists, titles, banners, and even AdSense ads Making Money
You can make money directly from your blog, by using AdSense to place ads automatically onto your blog page. The amount you earn depends on your subject matter and the popularity of your blog. Google puts a link to sign up for an AdSense account from within Blogger. You can also opt to avoid AdSense, and no ads will appear on your blog unless you put them there.
Overview of AdSense
How to Add AdSense to Blogger
AdSense Don'ts - Dirty Tricks and Bad Tips That Will Get Your Site Banned
Mobile Friendly
Email posting makes it easier to use mobile devices to post to your blog. You can also post pictures directly from your cell phone with related service Blogger Mobile.
Google does not currently offer a way to make voice posts directly to Blogger from your cell phone.
Privacy If you want to make blog posts, but you only want to keep a private journal or you just want your friends or family to read them, you can now choose to make your posts either private or restricted to approved readers.
Private posting was a much-needed feature in Blogger, but you can only set the posting level for the entire blog, not individual posts. If you restrict your post to certain readers, each person must have a Google account, and they must be logged in.
Labels
You can add labels to blog posts so that all of your posts about beaches, cooking, or bathtubs are properly identified. This makes it easier for viewers to find posts on specific topics, and it helps you when you want to glance back on your own posts.
The Bottom Line If you are serious about blogging for profit, you may want to invest in your own web space and use a blogging tool that gives you more customization options and tracking information. Starting with a Blogger blog would still give you an idea if you’re able to keep up with regular blog postings or if you can attract an audience.
Blogger doesn't make a podcast friendly feed without some tweaking in Feedburner. Blogger's tools for private blogging are still very basic and do not allow for as much customization as bigger social networking blog sites, such as MySpace, LiveJournal, and Vox.
However, for the price, it’s really a very well rounded blogging tool. Blogger is an excellent place to start blogging.
15 Side Businesses That Pay Good Money in 2017
Justin Bryant0 CommentsJuly 24, 2017
In this video, you will learn about 15 side businesses that pay good money in 2017.
You can do all of these on your own time while still maintaining a full-time job.
Enjoy the video and let me know what you think in the comments below!
Here are 15 side businesses that pay very well:
1. Freelance writing
Believe it or not, there are actually a lot of sites out there that will pay you $100 or more per guest post. On top of that, you can get your own clients.
Helpful resources:
Some sites that pay well
Writer’s job board
UpWork writing
2. Twitch channel
Twitch allows you to make really good money from your gaming videos. There are multiple ways to get paid.
Helpful resources:
Twitch site
Ways to get paid via Twitch
3. Video editing
Video is supposed to be the number one source of traffic within the next few years so it’s no surprise that more and more brands need top-notch video editing.
Helpful resources:
Fiver video editing gigs
Camtasia
Movavi video editor
4. Social media management
With sites like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram taking over people’s free time, more companies want a solid social media marketing strategy.
Helpful resources:
Social media manager salary
Best social media management tools
5. Uber driving
Uber could easily get you paid $15 an hour or more driving people around town. That doesn’t even include their affiliate program.
Helpful resources:
Uber
Uber affiliate program
6. Investing
There a lot of great options out there these days when it comes to investing.
Helpful resources:
Lending Club
Retirement home investing
Vanguard
Money Master the Game book
7. Online course selling
You get to make passive income and set your own price when you make online courses. Just make sure your over-deliver on good content.
Helpful resources:
Udemy
Teachable
Other online course sites
8. Artist
Being an artist may be more profitable and opportunity-rich than ever with the internet.
Helpful resources:
Etsy
Amazon Handmade
9. Photography
Photography is another creative option for making really good money.
Helpful resources:
Foap
Shutterstock
10. Blogging
Blogging gives you a way to have multiple income streams from a single site that you are in charge of.
Helpful resources:
How to start a blog
How to build a 6-figure blog
Ways to make money blogging
11. Tutoring
If you don’t mind helping people one-on-one, online tutoring can be a great business.
Helpful resources:
Tutor.com
Wyzant
12. Network marketing
Network marketing is good if you get the right company and the right mentor to help you.
Helpful resources:
MLM Rankings
Network marketing tips
13. Programming
Programming is one f the most valuable skills you can have because everything (apps, software, websites, AI, etc.) are built from code.
Helpful resources:
Envato Market
Learn programming for free
14. YouTube channel
A YouTube channel is a fantastic way to get in front of millions of people and build a business.
Helpful resources:
YouTube trending videos
YouTube tips playlist
15. Affiliate marketing
This is still one of the best ways to make money online. Help companies sell stuff and get paid a commission.
Helpful resources:
Clickbank
Amazon Associates
Affiliate site example
Conclusion
There are plenty of businesses you can start online that will pay you very well these days. Many people are making the switch and have even been able to quit their day jobs, like me.
Justin Bryant
I’m an entrepreneur, fitness freak, artist, car enthusiast, sports fan and self improvement addict. My goal is to help people be their best and create incredible businesses that change the world.
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