To make money blogging what should you blog about?

SO YOU WANT TO START A BLOG, BE A BLOGGER, AND MAKE MONEY BLOGGING?

Making money from blogging is a fantastic dream for many people. Imagine being able to quit your day job and start a new job, for yourself, working from home online, as a blogger. When people ask you what you do for a living, you would proudly declare: “I blog for a living!”

Well, it is possible, and it is easy, but it does not happen overnight, and you do need to learn a bit about blogging and making money with your blog first – but the learning is easy too – you just need a bit of time, and do you have that time?

If you do have the time, or can spend a bit of time every day learning more about blogging, then, perhaps, try it. Of course it doesn’t end when you finally know quite a bit and get yourself a blog, and write about three or four blog posts. Making money from blogging is a fulltime job. So don’t say goodbye to your boss just yet.

A blog needs to have a lot of content to interest readers, keep them coming back, and for those readers to click on ads you have on your blog, that are preferably related to the content of your article so that the ads will also interest your readers, and from which you can earn an income.

So, what do you write about?

One important rule to try and remember, although it seems a little odd, is not to set out to write for money. Write about what you already know. Some of the high earning bloggers write about 20 or more blog articles a day, which they post to their blogs. It takes time to run around the Internet or library researching products, services, or content on other websites that you know very little about. By all means, do that a bit later, but, for starters, always write about what you know, or write about what you enjoy, or write about what you dream, if you like. You will get a lot more content onto your blog, more quickly, if you use this method when thinking about what to write. Also, never ever copy another writer’s efforts. See how long it takes to write something, be proud of it, then see it on somebody else’s website too – and, of course, be highly upset and confused if their site is ranking higher in natural search engine results, than yours, for something they didn’t write. Do not duplicate content!

Some ideas about what to write about:

Your hobby
Your current day job
What you do each day
What you think each day
What you would like to think one day
What you used to think long ago
Details – very detailed, as in helping your child learn how to tear small bits of paper for a collage on a school poster project – the placement of the items on the table, what to do first, what to keep checking he or she is doing right, how to hold the paper, how to put his or her fingers together and grip and twist to tear bits of paper or magazine page, was it a cut out picture, or just a page being torn, making a pile of correct torn off bits for further use, making a pile of bits to be thrown away later (write about ANYTHING – just detail it!)
Descriptions
How to’s and lists on anything
What you see out the window
What you see out your child’s window
What you see out the dentist’s window
What you see out the rain-splattered window
How you would feel if you fell through the rain-splattered window
What you see when you close your eyes
…………just get creative and THINK!
Don’t just get creative and think, but also carry a notepad around with you and jot down ideas all day, wherever you go. In front of your pc, turn those scruffy notes into blog posts.

The more you write, the more you will see you need to add further categories to your blog, or even start other blogs to cater to each niche.

Oh, and have fun too.

Don’t write blog posts about anything that seems difficult to write. You need to add as much content as possible to your blog, as frequently as possible, so don’t hit patches that put you off writing.

Oh, and one more thing: remain positive, and don’t give up. (Okay, so it was sort of like two more things, but what the heck, this is our blog, and we write what we like.)

© Terry and Tony 2010