Blogging For Money - The Basics
Everyday new blogs are created with the hopes of finding internet riches and fame, those same blogs are failing weeks and months down the road. The reason? Most people go into blogging with the mind set that the riches and fame comes quick and easy. That is pretty far from the truth. Blogging is like a business and it takes time to grow and nurture it into a long term income source.
Think of a blog as a child growing up. Along the way to adulthood there will be trials & errors, mistakes, and many other learning experiences. Also along the way there will be opportunities that will offer shortcuts for a price, secrets for a price, and many other things to get your hard earned money. They will offer this software, this service, or something else with hopes of making it all go faster. You will fall for some of these and in time learn that they are just promises without any substance.
What does it really take to make a blog succeed on the internet? Time, work, and knowledge. All three of theses relate together in a very intricate way. Lets first look at time.
* Time: The only thing that will speed up or slow down how long it takes your blog to make it are work and knowledge. The more work you put into a blog the faster you will can see results, the more knowledge you have the faster the work will go.
* Work: If you don't work on the blog, it will never make it and be just a dead spot on the internet. Knowledge will make your work easier but won't do the work for you. If you don't have the time then you can't do the work.
* Knowledge: In everything you do, there is a learning curve. Just think back to learning to ride a bicycle. It took time and work to gain the knowledge on how to ride a bicycle. Blogging in the same way. You can't just say one day I'm going to be a professional blogger if you know nothing about it. Quitting your day job would be kind of dumb and your spouse will probably leave you. It takes time and work to gain the knowledge to be a blogger.
There is hope in the dreary night though. If you really want to be a professional blogger you can and all it takes is Time, Work, and Knowledge. You don't need a $400.00 program, secrets of blogging masters, or any other high priced item to get started on the learning curve to be a professional blogger. You can actually start for free!
What does it really take to make money blogging? Actually that is quite an easy question to answer.
* Website: While having a domain name and your own website is best, this costs money (not a lot but still money). You can get a free blog at either blogger.com or wordpress.com.
* Content: Some people say "content is king". While many will argue, that isn't quite true. Content is highly important. The value of your content to others will determine if your blog is worth coming back to in the future. Blogs are like retail, you need people to come back or you won't survive.
* Traffic: Traffic is truly king. You can have the best content in the world, but if you don't have traffic you don't make money. Even if you have bad content, you can make some money if you have the traffic.
* Monetize: This is the last thing you worry about but the first thing a beginner will work on. Yes, you do need a way of making money on your blog. If you have the first three and don't have this one you won't make any money, but if you have this and not the first three you won't make any money either. Worry about this last since it is the easiest to handle.
Those are the four most important things you need to have a money making blog. The details of each are just that details. Details are part of the learning curve.
Among these four basic items you need to have for a money making blog. You will find that doing them in the order listed is also something you want to think about. You need a website first, then create content, then traffic to read your content, and then lastly work on monetize. Once you have all four you are on your way to riches and fame.
Is that all there is? Heavens no. You are forgetting about the learning curve and the details. Once you get the basics, the details are what you spend 99% of your time working on learning. That is where time, work and knowledge come back into play. How much money you make will depend on the details. There are no secret to the details. What has worked for one person in the past may not (probably not) work for someone else.
Those secrets, information, programs, educational courses, and such out there on the net are people trying to sell you are either them, telling you the same thing trying to find their path to riches, or trying to lead you down the same path they took when the path has already changed.
Right now, you are at the basics. In the coming weeks I will be going over the basics in detail explaining more of each. If you are waiting to hear the "Secrets" there aren't any. A good understanding of the details will take you much further then the "Secrets' will any day.
Sara Ferguson
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