Many people believe (probably because of the poor quality information course which they may have recently studied) that they are going to become rich from blogging.
Well, is this possible? The short answer is yes, but oh if only everything were this simple! There are an ever increasing number of blogs on the internet, which provide people's thoughts, feelings and comments on a huge range of subjects and topics.
Therefore the question has to be, how do you make your stand out? First you will need to identify an area that you wish to talk about.
This may be a subject on which you have an opinion or have knowledge.
You should really be interested in this topic as this will help you to continue writing when you are running out of ideas.
Next you need to decide what your angle will be? Will you be conversational or offering expertise on a particular area? If you really focus in on a niche within a niche, this may help for you to develop your area of expertise.
Next your website needs to have a great theme and layout.
People want to be able to move around in a very simple way and ideally you want your website to be aesthetically pleasing.
Use of images and video will improve the level of interaction which you visitors will feel.
This moves us nicely on to your content.
The more content which you add to your blog the better.
If you are able to write a new post every day, this is probably the best way as it will mean that you will quickly build up a catalogue of information for your chosen area or niche.
This will then mean that you should see increasing numbers of visitors to the site.
If you stop posting new content for a period of time, this traffic will definitely slow down.
So if you start with the view of posting once a week, keep it up! Get your visitors to opt in to your mailing list.
If they are interested in the information or knowledge which you are providing them with offer something free and get them to sign up! This will then mean that you have a database of subscribers which you can then potentially introduce other ideas, products or services which you believe to be of interest to your subscribers.
This can be a good way to make money from blogging.
In addition if you display adverts on your blog that are relevant to your audience, often this will generate further revenue for you.
Over a period of time you can raise some good funds using this method.
In addition you can approach businesses which specialise in the area in which your blog is about and ask them if they would be interested in taking up some of the advertising space.
If you are considering doing this, the more information you are able to provide these companies with the better, so clicks, visits and all this information will help your case if you are being proactive with your fund raising efforts.
In addition you can generate revenue by displaying Google advertising on your website.
Over a period of time this will again generate a revenue stream if your traffic numbers are high.
Quite often blog owners will endorse certain products or services, with a view to earning commissions for any sales that are generated.
If you provide reviews of products, this can be a great way of generating additional funds.
Not all of these proposed revenue streams will be relevant to your business area, but if you are to apply some of these to your blog, you will definitely make some money.
The more visitors that you have, the more chance you will have of making serious returns.
There are people out there who are making £10,000 per month, every month.
If you are prepared to make the investment now, this will pay back in future months and years.