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Blogging for Money
By Nick | October 24, 2008
When I first started this blog I had grand ideas of creating a blog that would make me thousands of dollars worth of residual outcome. I set up a widget to the left of the blog that had advertising and away I went. Then something happened. I started realizing that it is really really difficult to make money from a personal blog that really has no focus. I recently took down the advertising widget (some of you may have noticed) because after looking at what I had earned from the advertising, I decided that it wasn’t enough for me to keep it on my blog. I earned a measly $6.67 in eleven months.
At first I was a little upset…like I said, I wanted to make residual income. Have people paying me to advertise on my site, etc, etc. After much research I learned that I needed to find a topic and stick to it if I am ever to get consistent readers from a wide range of internet saavy folks that would tell others to check my blog out. To make a long story short, this blog is not interesting to the most people. I sure do have a lot of fun maintaining it though!! I’ve made many new friends with this blog and have reconnected with some that I had lost contact with.
Now my goal is to come up with a topic that I can write about and start another blog (while maintaining this one as a personal blog) that will draw crowds of fans and allow me to share something that I am passionate about. Herein lies the problem….there are many things that are interesting to me. What topic do I select? Graphic Design? Surfing? Photography? Web Site Design? Or maybe something entirely different. Whatever it is, I need to be able to push out lots of content that is relevant to the topic I choose.
Some people argue that there are plenty of blogs about all of those topics…and that since they have already been done, why waste the energy? The thing about it is that there is tons of money to be made in online advertising and online content delivery. Now that I have familiarized myself with the concept of blogging, it is time to take the next step. If you aren’t changing, you aren’t growing. Wish me luck.
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October 24th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
I wish you tons of luck!
October 28th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Thinking of it this way may help you: If you’re going to create a niched blog for the purpose of selling, figure out what you want to sell and then work backwards to create the blog.