Weblogs or blogs are taking over the web, This is good news for some and bad news for others.

The good news is that it costs absolutely nothing to start a blog or weblog,

The bad news is for those that make their living designing websites or selling domain names and hosting a drop is more than likely to show up before long.

What difference is there between a website and a weblog ?

Let us start with websites.

You first of all buy a domain name then hosting, this can be vary in cost depending on the type of website you are building.

If you can't build your own website you then pay someone to design and build it for you.

Next you ad content and to have a successful website you continue to ad fresh content daily or weekly.

You then work out a linking program which is ongoing throughout the life of your website.

Now you wait for the search engines to spider your website and send you traffic.

If you have optimised your website correctly, begun a good linking campaign then you should start climbing up the ranks, but this can take many months of pain staking work.

Your key words are all important but don't forget there are millions of websites probably competing for the same keywords you are so you must be one step ahead all the time.

Sign up to as many directories as you can find and don't get discouraged when other websites ignore your request for exchange links, just go on to the next one.

As your PR builds up it will get easier as more websites will start linking to you.

As you see your website climbing up the searches do not relax, now is the time to step up your work.

Ad more web pages, look for interesting information that will give your website the edge over others.

After many , many, months of hard work you should soon see the benefits and start to make money from your website.

Blogs or Weblogs

Next we have the blog or weblog,  these are springing up all over the web and most of them are free.

A weblog is simple to get started you don't have to build a website, just join free then follow the simple instructions,

Decide on what subject you want to write about, it could be anything at all from business to babies. Keywords are all important here as well as you want the search engines to pick up what your blog is about.

Where it could take months for your website to be successful a blog is different it can be picked up by the search engines straight away.

Just join an affiliate program and ad your url at the end of each blog or place Google adsense ads to your blog to start making money.

A blog or weblog is the easiest way to make money on the internet and it is free, no more searching for ways to make money.

You don't have to stick at one either, you can do as many as you want all with different subjects, just remember to place those adsense ads to your sites and you'll soon be rolling in money.

Another bonus is that you can search for info on the web and copy and paste it to your weblog so no hard work is involved.

Just by spending a couple of hours a day or less depending on how many blogs you have set up could soon bring you in full time earnings and it won't cost you a single cent.

What could be better than that!

Sylvia White is a Work at home mentor and webmaster of  http://www.sylviawh.co.uk