I was watching the news on TV last night and there
was a warning about buying puppies as Christmas presents. There's
nothing worse than visiting the kennels in the new year and seeing all
those unwanted dogs that were chosen as presents because they were so
cute at the time. It reminded me of people who start a blog in the hope
of making some money online only to give up after a few days or weeks
when things don't work out.
The average blogger makes around $20 to $50 per
month. So, if that is the average, it stands to reason that some people
make less than that and some people make more. The amount of potential
income that can be generated by blogging depends entirely upon your
ability to build a loyal audience of people who have money to spend.
There is no point in creating a blog and then
looking for an audience. Your first task is to identify a hungry market
and provide it with high quality information. Once you have established
your blog and created some interesting content, your next task is to
attract your hungry audience to your blog. There are many ways of
attracting traffic to a blog site including banner adverts, ezine
advertising, pay per click traffic, links fro other web sites and
submitting your site to the specialist blog search engines.
There are literally hundreds of blog sites that
lay desolate and abandoned like an old frontier town with tumbleweeds
blowing through on the breeze. Their owners failed to identify a hungry
market, they failed to attract visitors or they simply gave up posting
fresh new content to their blogs.
Blogs are dynamic web sites, they require time and
attention. Search engines love them because they are frequently updated
with fresh new content. People love them because they regularly provide
new and interesting information. But you have to persist, just like any
other business, online or offline, you have to work at building up your
content, building up an audience of loyal readers and creating a
portfolio of products and services that will appeal to your readers and
generate some income.
There are many ways of generating income from your
blog. Several people have created successful niche sites that offer
product reviews including books, software, videos, DVDs and other
popular products. Other bloggers earn their income from the sale of
advertising space and yet others generate income through pay per click
systems such as Google's Adsense programme.
There is now another way of building a profitable
blog. A brand new hosted blog service - http://www.Blog4Cash.com
has married a fully featured blogging service with a two tier affiliate
programme thus allowing you to build up a residual income from everyone
who signs up through your referral. This provides a great opportunity
to build up a regular income to supplement your regular blog profit.
So remember, to become a truly successful blogger
you must take a long term view and seek to provide interesting content
for a hungry market with money to spend. Don't expect to achieve profit
overnight and plan to build a portfolio of income streams some of which
have a residual element that will provide you will a recurring income.
Copyright 2004 John Taylor
John Taylor - November 2004.
John is a prolific writer and is the author of
several books including "Testing & Tracking" (http://www.Test-and-track.com).
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