Make Money Blogging

One of the big problems that some people experience when they begin to blog is that they think instant wealth is going to come to them.  That is not true, completely.  There are of course the occasional beginner bloggers that have made a name for themselves or made a fortune.  Those are the exception, not the norm.

When you are beginning to blog about whatever you want, sometimes it is easy to overlook the fact that if you lose focus you will fail.  What do I mean?  Well, if you begin to get overwhelmed with issues like affiliate programs, adsense, keyword research, search engine optimization and other topics, you can easily lose focus on the fact that you are blogging about a certain topic.

If you lose focus on your topic of choice, you will notice that your posts are less informative and your readership will suffer.  Now, before you say that you can’t make money blogging about a topic and you have to know all of that stuff, let me point out a couple of pitfalls to avoid when blogging.

First, there are two types of blogs and bloggers.  One is a blogger that enjoys writing about a certain topic, whether it is about food or sports or how to take care of your dog.  This type of blogger doesn’t really concern themselves with all of the aspects of making money online with their blog, yet.  While their main focus is writing quality articles and interacting with their readers, making money with their blog is on their mind, but it doesn’t drive the focus of the site.

The second type of “blogger”, if you want to call them that, is more of an netropreneur.  Their main focus when creating a blog or site isn’t the fact that they want readers.  Heck, they could care less if anyone stops and signs up for their RSS feed.  Why?  Because social network traffic doesn’t click on ads or affiliate banners.  The blogopreneur (like that word?  I just made it up!) is concerned with the aspects of keyword research, SEO and getting search engine rankings for their site and/or respective pages.  They want the search engine traffic that is looking for a cure, or fix to the problem they have so when the get to the site, they click out on adsense or affiliate ads.

Those are the two types of bloggers, in a wide explaination.  It really depends on your focus that you want to experience.  One of the main things that you need to consider if you have never blogged before is that you should start off blogging about a topic that you enjoy.

So many people start off chasing the big areas of “make money online” or “credit cards” or “debt relief” that they are competing against giants in the industry.  You won’t get far and will get frustrated and quit.  Trust me, you will.

If you want to experience blogging that will lead to income, here is a good case example to look at.

There is a site that deals with Cats.  Not just a normal picture of a cat, but funny pictures of cats with strange headings or baby-like captions on them.  The site started off as a spoof site, but when traffic started heading into the hundreds of thousands of page views per day, it was decided that this spoof blog was heading into something special.

icanhascheezburger.com became a success almost instantly.  The blog sold in 2007 sometime for probably over $1 million and made some people wealthy.  The phenomenon of this blog is special and worth looking at.  It started as a spoof of cat pictures with funny captions.  It ended up making people millionaires.  Why?

Well, when you cater to something that people enjoy reading or finding and you enjoy writing about it, you can make money online with it.  There is a great article about the icanhascheezburger.com site that appeared on Businessweek.com site.  It is worth the read.

So, where does this leave you if you are wanting to learn how to blog or make money blogging?  Pretty simply the easiest way to start off is to write about something you know about.  If you enjoy scrapbooking stamps, create a blog about how to use them or make pages with them.  If you collect old ford tractors, then blog about finding parts for them or the history of farming implements that go with them.

There are many things that you can blog about.  Writing about something you enjoy or are familiar with is the first step in getting started.  Trust me, the money will come later.

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