Sometimes people seem to have the wrong idea about making money with blogs. It's not one of those get rich overnight schemes - though some promoters try to infer that it is for their own benefit i.e. they make money by saying this.The fact is that, in most instances, it takes a while to build up a decent income from blogging.
A Squidoo lens publisher summed this up nicely when she left a comment on one of my Squidoo lenses Making Money With Free Blogs.
Tracey_M wrote:
"...after 3 years of struggling to make money online I have in January made my first $800 passive income, which I hope to compound every month to the end of the year. I work full-time at it too and my word of advice to anybody trying to make money online is to be patient and persevere and it will happen! I have never felt so positive about my future." My underlining.Now I'm not saying that it takes three years to build an income, it can genuinely be done in a lot less time than this. The fact is, however, that many people take up blogging, or creating something like Squidoo lenses, and then give up after a couple of months. Traffic to blogs doesn't just happen, it has to be worked at.
To be successful with blogging there are possibly three essentials:
(1) Write stuff that people want to read.
(2) Publish as regularly as you possibly can - an ideal would be daily.
(3) Do some work every day to get more traffic. Promote your blog regularly in other words.
These are generalisations but they work. There is, of course, lots more besides these, such as monetising your blog properly, having a reader friendly layout, using keywords, SEO and so on and so on. But most of all it's about perseverance and building your blogging business on a sound foundation.
Good luck,
Mike.
Further reading:
40 Free Ways To Get More Blog Traffic
Long Tail Way To make Money
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