Make Money Blogging

One of the biggest questions that can face any person that is new to blogging is what do you blog about to make money online? This is the million dollar question with a whole lot of answers. Often times people start reading about different topics that other people are telling them they should be blogging about. This can be your biggest mistake and I’ll explain why.

When you are thinking or have just started a blog, you often start finding those “guru’s” that tell you how to make money with your blog. I won’t name them, but they can be called the “A-listers” just for reference. If you are like me, when you first started blogging you were excited about it, looking to find what really makes you happy, or just blogging about news, celebrities or other topics.

Then you realize you can make money with your blog.

Now comes the search for how to make money with your blog. Whether you use Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing or countless other search engines, there are tons of people telling you different ways to make money while blogging. Some people offer good advice. Others are just wanting to sell you this wonderful e-book that is full of the latest information and guarantees to make you an instant millionaire and wealthy beyond your wildest imagination with your blog. For only $49. Oh, wait, it’s $19. Well, for today only it’s $7! Man, what a bargain!

Well, guess how they are making their money online? They make their money by selling crap products that tell other people, usually newbies, how to make money online by selling crappy e-books.

This is so wrong in all the ways possible that I won’t even go there.

Here is what to blog about to make money online.

Your passion.

Yep, it’s that simple. If you are looking to begin blogging, and maybe you aren’t even wanting to make money with a blog yet, you have to have some passion for the topic. Whether you are blogging about gardening, custom cars or the weather, you have to have some type of passion to write about the topics that are there to be written about.

Your topics need to be popular amongst other people. You have to have some knowledge about something in order to write about it. You really need to ask yourself what is your reason for blogging. Are you wanting to blog to become popular online or to scratch your creative itch? So, if you have a favorite hobby that you really enjoy, why not write about it?

What do you write about when blogging? Well, you can write about the latest trends, newest tools, or upcoming products that will make your hobby or interest more popular.

This is one of the most important things that many new people (newbies) to blogging find confusing. While the so called gurus are telling you that you have to do it one way, you don’t. Sure you can try and follow them, but who is reading your blog that you are writing about how to make money online when you don’t have a clue about what you are doing or saying.

But, if your hobby is organic gardening and you start blogging about your experiences, what you are learning, new sites that have great information or the best place to find products, it won’t take long for you to start getting traffic and readers.

Once you start getting readers and traffic to your blog from the search engines, then you can start looking to monetize your site. Until then you are wasting your time, especially if you haven’t blogged before and don’t know about search engine optimization techniques, keyword selection and anchored text links.

If you want to learn more about those things, stick around, subscribe to the RSS feed and learn more about how to make money blogging. I strongly believe that anyone can learn to make money online, even with a free blogger blog and no money invested. It takes a little time, I will tell you that in advance and many people get frustrated and quit before the results start to show.

What you blog about to make money is really ultimately up to you. Only you know your passions or interests. Only you can make the decision to start blogging and learn how to blog and make money online blogging. What to blog about to make money is pretty easy to determine, just blog about your passions!

Update: You can make money online without blogging about your passion. It is called niche marketing. This is where you research the terms and phrases that people are searching for, check the online competition for those terms and phrases, and create websites focused on those topics. This process can follow several simple steps and over time (because only scams promise you to make thousands of dollars overnight) and with some effort on your part, you can begin to make money online. Read more about this process on my post that talks about the 3 steps to make money online. There are some great links for resources and the only ebook that I recommend called the Nomad’s Guide to Making Money Online.

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