Blogging Business
There are some people who make money with their blogs. There are millions of people blogging. If you relied on the odds of making money with a blog, you might as well just buy a lottery ticket. The bottom line is that you will need some reason for people to come to your blog. The reason anyone goes to a blog is to find something out. I know that nobody reads my observations on life or the weather. People don’t use the net to find out random things about the lives of people they do not know, usually. People only read blogs to get information. They do not read a blog to get enjoyment from following a fictional story, and very rarely read some random person’s poems. People read blogs to learn stuff.
Look at some of the most popular blogs. They are about new technology, politics, entertainment, or how to make money. These are all things that give people some benefit. There are a lot of blogs about how to make money blogging. For some reason, this is a popular topic. Some people make a decent living writing about how to use the net to make money.
If you want to actually make money with a blog, you will need an angle. You need to have some information that people want to read. They will have to be able to find your blog in the search engines. This means you will have to do some promotion. You can do some promotion just by writing articles about things that people are looking for online. Check some of the search engine sites like Google Trends for what people are interested in reading about. There are any number of things to write about online at any given time. You are only limited by your imagination.
So far, I have made zero money blogging. I have read tons of stuff about this subject online and in paper books. Who knows, maybe some day I will figure it all out and make a decent living. Until then, I am going to read about the people who are making it with blogs, and maybe I will learn something useful in my quest for wealth.
