Blogging for money is one of the most popular trends online right now. After seeing blogs like Problogger, Mashable and others alike cashing in big with this new money-making trend, wannabe bloggers around the world dream about setting up a blog and then striking it rich within a few short months. Sadly, this ain’t going to happen.
Successful Blogging Basics
Before you can even think about making money with a blog you need to be clear on your intentions. Blogging with the purpose of earning fast cash is a thing of the past. Today, readers are a lot more savvy and queued up on these matters. When the Internet came to live back in the early 90s nobody knew how big it was about to become. Fast-acting bloggers were the ones cashing in, especially if they spiked their posts with affiliate programs and product offers.
Since no one knew about these offers they were making a fortune as readers clicked on their links and when they bought stuff.
These days you need more than a simple willingness to blog for profits. You have to pick a micro niche in demand, or at the very least a niche that is pulsing with a pond of eager to bite fish. The problem is not the demand in itself – it goes deeper than that. Unless your blog is seen by enough people willing to part with their money, you will only ever earn a meagre pittance from your efforts.
Select Your Niche With Your Passion in Mind
Many new bloggers make the mistake of picking a niche they know nothing about. While this is not necessary a hindrance, it sure can be when you get stuck for ideas and the creative juices fail to flow.
Pick a niche based on your experience. Everyone knows stuff about stuff. It could be a hobby you’ve forgotten, a job, something you did years ago or a sport you are passionate about. Think pets, kids, medical conditions you have experienced, book topics you love and anything that gets your heart beating faster.
Blogging should be fun. When you understand the topic it will be much easier to quickly come up with an idea for a post.
Savvy Bloggers Go Where the Money Is
If you want a head start with your blog consider the following evergreen niches such as money, relationship, sex, health, dating, how to make money. Within these niches you will find an abundance of micro niches that have a ready-to-buy readership. These guys want answers to their problems and instructions on how to avoid pain. If you can remember anything you ever read online remember this last paragraph and apply the knowledge to your blogging ventures.
Some marketers would charge you money for this information. Here you get it for free because sharing is caring and really, it’s common knowledge to folks who’ve been around the block.
Video Blogging
Despite the success of video blogs and YouTube being the biggest search engine in the world right now many bloggers forget video. If you suck at writing why not do a video blog?
You only need a few minutes of quality content for each blog post, something you can throw together within the next 30 minutes. We often complicate things when they are so easy and obvious.
Go and have fun with your blog. Be creative. Be outrageous. Be YOU.
I think that you have to pick something you are passionate about. That is the most important factor, otherwise you will give up on it pretty easily. As we all know, seeing results from blogging usually takes a while, so if you are not passionate about what you are writing about, you will likely give it up.
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I don’t have much knowledge about earning money as a blogger, but I would say that you have to write about something that you really are passionate about otherwise you don’t stand a change out there. The next think you need is hard work. Hard work is a lot easier I you are blogging about something you love and not only blogging to be rich.
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earn money from blogging can not be done by way of instant but it took perseverance and hard work.
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I think just make a blog of interest. With passing of the mind our mind become creative. Problogger is great example.
I’ve seen a lot of successful bloggers just by video blogging. I guess videos are a little catchy and people rather watch a video instead reading the text.. eventually, you can put the video and below the transcription, the way seomoz does….
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When I start a niche blog (or business) I generally try to pull from my hobbies because it’s something that I not only understand very well but I know what type of person I’d be talking to (you basically get the market research and content strategy in one go!)
Twitter: alwaysakiwi
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Well, my blog started off as something entirely different (that fizzled) however I kept it up more as place to organize my thoughts, what I use for my online endeavors etc, and have only recently started to “expose” it, via comments etc.
However, I’m amazed that even with the few that visit, some even buy stuff! Cool!
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Thanks for your article. I’m finding niche to create a blog.
well, now it’s pretty hard to find a profitable blogging niche.. i mean, all the niches had already been exploited and now they’re no longer niches… like some people think about lose weight niche.. come on, it’s been good years since this is no longer a niche:)
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i recently just started a pretty specific pop culture related blog – just about everyone knows about this item – i took a niche that was not well developed and created a blog. The site is very new (currently not a month old) and already has over 3,000 unique visits, AND I have people paying me to advertise.
So the best advice is to take something undeveloped, or underdeveloped and make it better – then advertise and spread the word – then people will start recognizing it
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