How to Make Money Online in Kenya - Part II

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Posted by Felix Okoli on Friday February 18, 2011 at 13:43:16:

In my last post, I wrote about how to make money online in Kenya and for now, I don't suppose that you are still thinking that it is impossible, so let's move forward from there.
Making Money online can be exciting once you have made your first dollar and then you would ask yourself; "How can I increase this?".
As I mentioned, there are many ways to make money online and what I am currently doing is one of them - Blogging.

Blogging in Kenya
In brief blogging is basically sharing your knowledge on the web by means of texts, pictures, videos and other means of communication. If I was asked to define it, I would say that Blogging is the art of writing and publishing your knowledge to the web. It comes from the word web log and a log happens when you make an entry or an addition to a website. Blogs across the world mostly make a living from blogging.
The thing about a blog is that on one side it is a website and on the other side it is dynamic and so you could do a lot of things with a blog, including making money online in Kenya with it.

How to Make Money from a Blog
Having a blog is one thing and making money online from it is another. In order to turn your blog into cash cow and let is start trickling in some dollars for you, you would need to monetize it.
Now how do you monetize a blog in Kenya? Well in order to make money with your blog, there are several ways to do this and I'm just going to list some of them:

- Using Online advertising
- Selling items online
- Selling services online
- Reselling
- Afilliate marketing

If you look into the list I gave above, they go way wider than just one direction. For instance, if you are using online advertising to make money from your Kenyan blog, there are various methods to use which can be Google adsense, Adbrite, Kontera, Adgator, direct ad sales and so on.

I am going to go deeper on some of those issues later but for now, you need to understand how you can make money online with your blog.

Getting Started. How to Blog
You will need to setup you blog first in case you are just starting and want to use this medium to make money. With a blog in Kenya and about Kenya, there are quite a lot of things you could do.

Here are some tips for starting a blog from Kenya

- Don't go global yet, try to use your advantage and knowledge about Kenya to enter the blogosphere
- Look for a niche that relates to Kenya
- Popular niches are technological, telecommunication and jobs related
- Don't just start a blog with your name as the domain name, it may limit you.

First things first:
- Get a domain name
- Get web hosting
- Set up your blog with Wordpress, Blogger or other blogging platform
- Make your first post

After setting up your blog and it is online, the next thing to do is to make your first blog post. See how it feel having your writing published online and made available for every person in the world. Feel the power and remember that you have to be responsible for very post you make. If you are just a newbie, I would advise that you stick to wordpress as it makes blogging easier for you both as a user and as an admin.

Next Steps
Now that you are already blogging, the next thing to do in order to setup your ability to make money online is to include your monetization options. If it is Google adsense or Adbrite, just take the code and paste it into your Wordpress template or or other platform and all you have to do next then is just write. and the money keeps trickling in.

This blog post is mainly about how you can make money online in Kenya by means of a blog. There is more to say on this topic but what I have posted so far is enough to get you started

Comments:
Re: How to Make Money Online in Kenya - Part II Posted by cash on Monday May 2, 2011 at 8:9:16:

This is a very interesting but simplified way of making money online in Kenya.

I Do agree that there is a lot of stuff one can write about Kenya-coz Kenya is one of those places where there is always something new happening somewhere.

Thanks for the tutorials

Re: How to Make Money Online in Kenya - Part II Posted by Pocesetter on Tuesday May 31, 2011 at 14:20:42:

NICE ARTICLE. THERE ARE MANY WAYS TO MAKE MONEY ONLINE IN KENYA BUT PEOPLE ARE IGNORANT OF. I HAVE A blog at www.naibayblog.com it talks of legitimate ways to make money in kenya and elsewhere.

Re: How to Make Money Online in Kenya - Part II Posted by Benedict lowe on Monday June 13, 2011 at 9:12:29:

I'm impressed. I dont think Ive met anyone who knows as much about this subject on how to make money online as you do. You're truly well informed and very intelligent. You wrote something that people could understand and made the subject intriguing for everyone. Really, great blog you've got here. Keep it up, Benedict.

Re: How to Make Money Online in Kenya - Part II Posted by Cathy on Monday October 10, 2011 at 16:35:17:

Nice blog. I have also made money online here in Kenya. Once off registration of Kshs.1200 and you earn month after month after month

Re: How to Make Money Online in Kenya - Part II Posted by Cliff Imasuen on Tuesday January 24, 2012 at 3:32:17:

Nice share. Learned a few things here. http://netcashforum.com shares a few tips and secrets on making a fortune on the internet