Getting Started With Blogging - Part 2
This is just one article in a series on how I make my living online by working from my RV anywhere I decide to park it. Read the entire series and you too could be well on your way to living any lifestyle you choose with complete financial independence.
Last time I talked about the 4 things you need to get started. This time I want to cover just the first item in that list. Finding your niche to use for your blog.
This is really quite easy. Find something you are passionate about. It might be your job or hobby. It might even just be something you really like, but never really did as a job or hobby. For example, a friend of mine has been interested in Geology for a long time. He finally took a college-level course in it and got completely hooked. When he asked me to help him decide what to use for his blog, this was the first thing I thought of. Why not? He likes it. He knows a lot about it now because he’s made a passion out of studying it. And, there’s probably a lot of other people out there that would be interested in it. It made sense to me.
Whatever you pick, just make sure it’s a subject that many other people might be interested in. It won’t do you a lot of good to pick a really obscure subject and then wonder why your web site doesn’t get any traffic. Very common subjects work really well, even though there may be a lot of people out there with web sites about it already. Take the fast-food restaurant approach … just because there’s already hundreds of thousands of them doesn’t mean there isn’t room for more.
think about it and make a list of several subjects you’d be interested in blogging about. Don’t decide just yet. Write down a few of them. Then read the next few articles before you actually start. Next time we’ll talk about getting a web site picked out and running.
Getting Started With Blogging - Part 1
This is just one article in a series on how I make my living online by working from my RV anywhere I decide to park it. Read the entire series and you too could be well on your way to living any lifestyle you choose with complete financial independence.
Getting started blogging for income is easier than you’d think. All you need are 4 things …
1. You need an area of interest or expertise and the time and desire to write occasional articles about that interest. We all have areas of expertise from our training, professions or even just our hobbies. Believe it or not, the Internet is so big now that you’d be amazed at how many people share your interest. Those people are searching the Internet every day looking for more information. The whole point of your blog is to provide them with information about that topic, and possibly have them click a link for further information that you can make a small income from. After all, you’re reading this because you were looking for information on how to make money on the Internet using a blog or other such web site.
2. You need a web site. This too is easier than you might think. It’s possible to get a web site on line and ready to go in just a few minutes with a very small cost. And don’t worry about not being a web programming geek; you don’t need to be. With free software like Wordpress (the software used on this site) and others, you don’t have to worry about programming the website. Al you have to do is write the articles.
3. You need affiliations with people who sell products so you can offer these products on your web site to your visitors. You can even have a product of your own, but that can get a bit more complicated. Again, these affiliations are far easier than you think and cost you nothing to get.
4. Finally, you need the knowledge and ability to get people to click on your web site and read your articles. In the Internet Marketing world this is known as traffic. Just because you build it, doesn’t necessarily mean they’ll come. That make work in the movies, but not on the Internet. This part can get a little tougher than the other 3, but really isn’t that difficult either and you can learn to do it easily. I’ll spend most of our time in this area.
In the next few articles, I’ll expand on how to do each of these 4 steps and where you can get help with each of them.
Blogging - What’s It All About?
This is the first in a series of articles on how I make my living online by working from my RV anywhere I decide to park it. Read the entire series and you too could be well on your way to living any lifestyle you choose with complete financial independence.
Web Logging, or “Blogging” is very quickly becoming one of the most popular Internet-related activities for millions of people all over the world; it represents a great opportunity for those who create blogs and for those who use them. Very often misunderstood as just a way of keeping personal diaries online, blogging is far more complex. The range of topics blogs deal with is incredibly wide; from politics and economics to sky diving and snorkeling. The next very important aspect after blog content is actually the interactive format of the pages that allows users to take action on the site.
Part of the history of blogging includes the very first attempts to run an account of one’s personal life, and many of the blog owners liked to call themselves journalists or diarists. In the early days of blogging around the mid-90s, people enjoyed the experience of belonging to the online community that went beyond all sorts of boundaries. This was the time when the very first combination of text, pictures and videos were included in a blog, as the most accurate way of reflecting one’s life. Sometimes, bloggers transmitted live images with the help of various portable devices, creating the so-called semi-automated blogging.
At the beginning, blogs were not individual pages, as they mainly functioned as components of larger websites; nevertheless, with the rapid development of technologies, it came into everyone’s power to create and support a personal independent web log. The only condition to enjoy a successful blogging experience is to stick to high quality content that makes any visitor return to the site and even take action on it. Creativity and innovation are probably the best ways to define the blogging experience since we can identify a true craze to be seen online.
Blogging is one of the most effective ways I’ve found to supplement my online income. I use blogs (like this one) all over the internet to promote products I receive commissions on, support my own products, and earn income from pay-per-click advertising. In the next few articles I’ll explain what blogging is, how to do it and how I use it as a major part of my online income.
