All right. Let's get down to brass tacks. The real question is: how do you make real money at blogging?
Well, not easily. The only real way to earn money through blogging is by selling advertising. Do you see the adwords links on the right hand side of the screen? Well, try clicking on one of those. Come on- try it. Every click generates a tiny, tiny bit of revenue. It's called Google Adwords, and it's revolutionized the online marketing industry.
Want to make a go of it? Well, there are three rules to producing a good quality weblog that people might be interested in reading:
- You need dedication. Go two weeks without posting and you've lost your audience completely.
- You need talent. Write with wit and humor. Dense prose? Dry words? Fageddaboutit.
- You need to pick a theme or a niche that is useful to your audience and that they'll keep coming back for.
One good way to do all of the above is to start blogging about something you enjoy. Do you like going to farmer's market? Start rating your area's farmers markets and interviewing organic farmers. Biking? Review trails and post your miles on a specialized Google map. Frisbee golf? An updated listing of events and games would do.
It's important to try and find a niche that others aren't exploiting. You can do video game reviews, but so do a million other people and they've got an awful big head start.
One good sign that you've found a empty niche is not being able to find what you're looking for on the internet. In other words, if you can't find something then other folks have the same problem.
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