So many blogs start with so many good intentions. Often within a
few weeks they have joined the list of failures that never
update and which sit there as a seemingly permanent reminders of
the owners' failure. If you want to join the ranks of the
successful money bloggers, the people who make money on-line,
then how can you avoid that happening to you?
Before you start you blog, before you even choose a name for the
blog, you should think about what the theme is going to be.
Don't say "making money" because we can take that as given. We
need to pause for a moment and think about themes...
Let me put it to you this way, when you buy a newspaper, what is
it that the newspaper company is selling you? It isn't news: the
company is selling you an advertising sheet that has some news
in it. They give you the news so that you might read the
advertisements. That's how they make their money.
It's the same for you with your money blog. What are you going
to put in it so that people will read it and other blogs will
want to link to it? To answer that question you first need to
ask yourself two very important questions:
1. What can you blog about?
2. Can you write?
So, what are you interested in? Make a list of all the things
that you feel that you could blog about. If you think about it
long enough the list could become quite long. Hobbies, sports,
celebrity gossip, politics, fashion. Just make a list, and see
where you get with it.
You can also add yourself and create another list out of that.
Are you a single mother bringing up children alone? A retired
person, or one who is long-term unemployed? All of those
categories would provide you with enough to create a blog that
could be regularly updated, provided that you can write.
If you can't write very well, then your options are rather more
limited. You will need to create a blog that does not rely on
you knocking out regular article length postings. One possible
option would be a video and photograph led blog. A celebrity
blog would be ideal for that. You can get all the video that you
want at sites such as
Voxant Newroom, and even get some articles and photos from
there as well. If you sent up your blog with a nice wide sidebar
then you could run one of the news feeds at the top of the bar
and set it so that every time someone enters your blog, the feed
begins to run. Voxant will pay you for taking their video,
articles and photos so you are making money almost at once.
Once you have decided on your theme, now you need to choose the
template for your blog. If you plan to blog about family
matters, obviously you will want to choose a template that is
different from that of a political blog. You also need to
consider if you are going to run video on the sidebar: will the
bar be wide enough to take the feed?
Now you can create your blog, and here is the final bit of
advice that I am going to give you. Don't over post in the first
few days. You will want to because you will have ideas coming
out of your ears, but resist the temptation. Write all those
postings while you are feeling hot, but save them. Just post
once a day and you will find that you do not get weary. When
things do begin to slow down and you do start to fell tired,
then you should have a couple of weeks' postings all nicely
stored away and you can start to use them.
So, decide what you want to blog about, then decide if you have
the ability to write about that topic regularly. If you think
that you don't, then choose a blog topic where you can use video
and photos, and that way all you need to do is to put a short
comment in, rather than a long piece.
Get the blog running, and get yourself known as the blogger who
provides the information - whatever it is - and then worry about
making money. The point here is that if you run the blog
properly then your ranking will rise because people will link to
you. When that happens you will start to make money.