Yesterday, I received an email from one of my valued readers asking:
“Kevin, is it really possible to make good money blogging?
Regards
Ruth”
I immediately sent a reply to Ruth but thought I should follow up with a blog post on the same topic. So, can you really make good money online blogging? The answer is a big “Yes”. You can earn good money online blogging every month. To give you an idea, think about TechCrunch.com. The blog make more than $ 1,000,000 per year. That is a nice income by both the U.S. and Kenyan standards. Other popular blogs such as Mashable.com and HuffingtonPost.com follow closely.
While these blogs operate so much like mainstream media houses and publications, with various internal writers and editors, specialized sales teams, etc. they each started with one passionate blogger writing about topics they were passionate about as to attract a huge following. And you don’t need to start such a popular blog to start seeing the cash. There are many small bloggers making a killing online with their blogs. Indeed stories of bloggers making five and six figure income online blogging are all over the internet.
Monetization channels for a blog range from affiliate marketing and direct advertisement to launch of related products such as training courses and physical products.
So, yes it is very possible to make money online blogging.
But it takes dedication and passion. For that reason, you shouldn’t try to blog about a topic you are not passionate about. The fun thing about blogging allows you to write about subjects you are passionate about, to work from any location so long as it has internet connection, to meet many interesting persons, and it can become a full time business. What is even more interesting, blogging can be the bridge to that job of your dream.
Yes blogging can help you get a job.
What topics should you blog about?
Choosing an appropriate niche for your blog is not really a straightforward task. You can write about whatever you want, but the single most important factor for successful blogging is quality content that is informative to your readers. That is how you establish your credibility among your potential readers and generate repeat traffic to your blog. Ask the successful bloggers what the most important factors contributing to their success were, and most of them will immediately mention content.
It is just a simple logic anyway; to make money blogging, you need traffic (visitors) to your blog and what a better way to attract blog traffic than with informative, well researched and optimized content?
What exactly is quality blog content?
To fit the description of quality content, your blog posts must be unique, valuable and engaging to your readers. How valuable your blog posts are to your readers vary from niche to niche. For instance, while readers of a tech blog will delight in informative blog posts sharing with them the latest gadgets and tech developments, readers of a humor blog will delight in funny posts that entertain them.
The most important point here is to make your subscribers and readers’ stay at your blog worth their time.
Your content should also be unique if your readers are to become repeat visitors. If you were to start a new blog where you ONLY repost articles appearing on the New York Times website, for instance, your readers wouldn’t have strong conviction to stay with your blog when they could just as well read the same articles from the original source.
Lastly, you should inject a sense of personality into your blog posts by sharing your own experiences and opinions, asking questions to your readers, and responding to your readers questions. You can even write blog posts dedicated to your readers’ questions just like I did with this blog post.
In conclusion, you can make good money online blogging. But you need a definite plan before launching your blog. Among the things to define in your plan would be your blog marketing strategies and monetization techniques among others.
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January 27th, 2012 at 10:12 am
Hello Kevin, it is very true blogging is a powerful way to make money online. Bloggers like John Chow and Darren Rowse earn five to six figure income and everyone can too. But as you say, passion and thus, quality content are the most important factors for successful blogging.
Cheers Bro! Thanks
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February 3rd, 2012 at 4:27 pm
Its very true that blog posts should be unique, valuable and engaging to your readers…good info, thanx
February 3rd, 2012 at 6:32 pm
Hello Reggie,
Great to hear from you.
Kevin
February 5th, 2012 at 9:44 am
People should write about what they are passionate about and not just what you think will be profitable.
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February 17th, 2012 at 5:32 am
It’s indeed possible to earn a living from blogging
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February 17th, 2012 at 12:00 pm
That is very true Alvin, Hope you are doing fine.
February 17th, 2012 at 12:05 pm
Hi Openbook guys, that is an interesting site you have.
February 20th, 2012 at 12:52 pm
I am very eager to answer this question karun. Earning using a blog has never been difficult, only thing is that you need to have some knowledge of the topic that you want to blog.