I work from home as a freelance writer. That being the case, I sometim

Published Sunday, 4th Oct 10:44 BST

I work from home as a freelance writer. That being the case, I sometimes find myself with plenty of time to spare. To make use of the extra time I have on my hands, I decided to look for other ways to augment my income.

Sincemy work involves on-line researches, I am on-line almost everyday for hours on end. This led me to look for on-line opportunities for earning.While most people spend their timelooking for items sold on-line, shopping for stuff or buying on-line, I devoted my time to looking for on-line money making opportunities.One such discovery I madeis through networking. However, contrary to other forms of networking, this on-line networking I came across with is done through blogs or blogging.

Yes, the world of bloggers, more popularly known now as the blogosphere can be used as a networking tool. How? One way is by joining sites which help advertise your own blog or website, sometimes for free, to other bloggers or website owners. Another is bysubmitting your blog or website to on-line directories so other bloggersor website owners may visit your own.A third way is by exchanging your links with others so reciprocal blog or website visits take place.

But there are some things to consider to make on-line networking effective. Networkers make sure they use attractive website designs. Why? Well, as the saying goes, first impressions last. So logically, the first thing a visitor to a website notices is it's design. A website must be attractive enough, easy to navigate on and informative.

With that in mind, I and my trusty laptop went about searching on-line for attractive and user-friendly website designs or templates. Since I was aiming to reach out to almost all kinds of people who have access to the internet, I browsed sites which offered tons of website designs for free. I finally found two designs which suit my blogs and just added some elements to spruce them up.

Thankfully, the website designs I chose clicked and they fit the theme of my blogs perfectly. Now, I have hundreds of regular visitors to my blogs who read the contents I postalmost on a dailybasis. Increasing readership and traffic to a blog or website is important if one wants to make a go of on-line netwroking.

So if you are on the look-out for opportunities and you want to target people who have internet access, whether they be people bent on shopping orbuying on-line, or people like me who love to write and let others read what I write, try on-line networking but make sure that your site has an attractive website design. You can never go wrong by trying these tips.

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