Many of us are obsessed with starting our own blog that brings in tons of traffic. But the truth is, it’s very tough to start a blog and begin making any real money from it right away. It may take up to a year or so to develop a blog long enough to attract decent traffic. If you’ve tried developing a niche blog-for-profit from scratch, you know that it can be a daunting task. You are the writer, marketer, publicist, and web developer. You have to educate yourself about hundreds of different topics to make your blog successful. One of the advantages of this is that if you do things right, your income is potentially limitless. But let’s say you are not in it to become the next big internet blogging tycoon. Let’s say you’re goal is to make a decent side income from the internet. Consider being a professional blog writer.
About 16 months ago, I started a personal finance blog called Money Crashers, and I spent almost a year blogging faithfully and learning about SEO and wordpress tips and tricks. My traffic was consistently less than 100 visitors per day. I knew that my blog had the potential to grow enormously, but I came to the conclusion that the time required to make the blog better was not worth the income. I decided to sell my blog and become a paid employee for it. I won’t divulge how much I make writing for Money Crashers, but I will tell you that I currently make about $500 per month blogging for other blogs.
There is a huge market for blog networks and other bloggers looking for people to help them write articles. If you are decent at writing and you are passionate about a couple of different topics, you can make some great part-time income applying for part-time blogging positions. The best resource to find bloggers-for-hire ads is Pro Blogger. They have a job board in the top right corner of the site that posts ads for companies looking to hire blog writers.
So, what are you waiting for? You can start making money right away without educating having to yourself on Wordpress, SEO, blog monetization, and traffic building.
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You are totally right, some ppl like it.. some dont.
I dont
I want to have my own blog and be everything it needs. your income is not limitless when you are just a paid blogger
Right, I totally agree with you. Your income is limited as a paid blogger for other sites. However, some people don’t have the time required to make a blog successful in terms of monthly income. Writing for other blogs is a quick way to start making decent income online. That is my point that I wanted to convey. i may have done a bad job of it!
I agree with Erik, most people don’t know anything about seo, keyword research and probably know dont have any idea on monetization.
Do you know of any pay per blog sites? Instead of pay per post, I mean actually paying a service to write for your blog?
They phrase in your article was “It may take up to a year or so to develop a blog long enough to attract decent traffic.”
I think people get excited or hear a great success story and they forget that basic tenent.
When I stated blogging, I had no idea about SEO or any of those other stuff. Actually I still don’t have a very big knowledge of them. But I still would rather put in the time to built up my own site and make that profitable than work for someone else. Great post…
Hey Dame,
I can totally understand that. Again, I’m not making the argument that blogging for someone else is better in the long term. I’m just saying that it’s better in the short term to earn some extra cash and gain some experience.
Erik, yeah I have to say that as a blogger starting off, you probably are better off writing for someone else.
It’s like going into business. Most of the time, it’s better for the average person to start off as an employee or apprentice in the business they would eventually want to startup in. They when they have the capital and know-how, jump in.
I dont like salary caps.
I’d much rather be the person that finds people obsessed with the idea of blogging for cash, and making money from their efforts. Yeah, I know blog networks haven’t fared too well, but I think it could still be done right. BTW – checked out your wordpress layout site. You’ve got to get rid of those yahoo ads. The targeting is horrendous considering your audience.
as for the pay-per-blog comment by t-mobile, check out getmecontent. I had them write some stuff for me this summer and it was surprisingly good – well-researched and everything.
Hi.
I started blogging only about less than 4 months back. I have a few blogs. Just like you, at first it was about getting traffic and earning from Adsense. Then I realized that I do not have much time to maintain a few blogs a day.
So, now, I only blog on a weekly basis, for FUN, and earning my first check from Google only after about 2 months of blogging.
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