Over the past few years blogging has changed a great deal and evolved in many ways.
What was once an activity limited to a very small number of people has now exploded into a mini-industry.
As the number of bloggers has exploded, so has the number of tools and services available for bloggers.
How much could you earn? How would you like to earn a million dollars from blogging? Would you settle for a few thousand dollars per month? Or are you happy with how things are going? Some bloggers make a full-time living from blogging, and they earn millions of dollars.
Is blogging right for you? It is worth taking time out to ask yourself whether making money with a blog is right for you.
Examine your intentions! Not every blogger is suited to blogging for money.
What many new bloggers find is that at first the enthusiasm and ideas come easily, but after the first flush of energy has passed it becomes harder and harder to write every day, let alone keep up with all the other factors of maintaining a blog.
When your income depends on keeping it up, you might find some of the feelings of excitement and enjoyment have turned to resentment and blogging has become a chore.
Passive and active income.
A big appeal for making money out of blogs, or in fact web publishing in general, is that it is seen by many as a passive income.
This is income that is earned even when you are not actively working.
Though there are aspects to blogging that can be seen as allowing a passive income - for example, advertising can earn you money while you are asleep, you can take days off, and so on - in actual fact you do need to keep working at it to make a steady or increasing income.
The important thing in blogging is to stand out among the crowd and it is always going to get harder and harder.
You need to find a way to better serve readers while covering new ground.
Here you will find more information about blogging and other easy ways to make money online.