So, is blogging for money still the bomb?

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Blogging online has become a most intriguing subject for more people streaming to the internet ever since the meltdown of the world economy. In the gripe of financial distress, so many people in the hunt for an honest money making way off the internet – finally come to terms with blogging and making money organically off blogs.

Passion + Perserverance + Patience = Blogging

Most people don't really realize that the entire concept of blogging takes so much time and effort though. Literally millions and millions of people compete at it all at once all the time – it's like building a house from scratch with either time or loads of money. So let's get to the point.
Do you have your blog pillars in place?
Right before any blog starts - just like with a house - it needs a foundation, a plan - and pillars.


Can you build hundreds of blog posts on the subject you choose - and if you can't or don't plan on doing so - how will you remain competitive in the blogging industry?And together with your ambitious thought of publishing relentless posts on your blog - are you also anxious at starting your new blog venture to remain ahead of the stream?

Welcome to the blogosphere. A big big place of over 300 million post-spitting weblogs. It's mind boggling of just how many people wishing to create their own wealth online and at the same time the lack of not quite understanding as to what level and sheer effort anyone will need to put into at building a successful blog online.
In simplicity, a blog no longer just consist of some few web pages - because while it's only a blog - it's just another mere random web location with words, pictures (and perhaps videos) - things that nobody would ever remember, really. It's like some free newspaper that you get in your post (or email). You quickly take a look at whatever (garbage) someone sent you - throw it away, trying to remember in that split second whatever carried somewhat, (possibly could have been to an extent a bit of), importance. A quick promotion or some special kind message- or just the hope of some kind of luck. The hope for luck coming at you like one or the other competition you're convinced you've really won . . . Like the scams notifying you that you've won a prize. In desperation, even though for a fact that you've never entered any prize - you fall prey.
Ever felt like that? Have you ever be this overwhelmed and felt overthrown by your fate? In such a way that you'd degrade your own standards in desperation?
This is what happens all the time online.
Spam, low-quality and un-interesting has become intricate on the internet. So even though you write your own posts and you follow everything from the google book - your strong optimism for the moment won't necessarily start to begin telling the once-upon-a-time-story that you think you're highly competitive and you're blogging to the bank all the way and live happily ever after.

Yep. A blog has become a brand. Just imagine there were exactly 1 million retail stores on the internet, all selling exactly the same 1 single item. Let's say it's a digital product such as airtime or buying electricity online from them. It's not about the fact that everyone needs airtime or electricity. It's about who from the 1 million getting first to that customer - and how.
Websites that became web services has all but one thing in common: Reaching the consumer - the hundreds of millions of them out there. Whether that is trying to gain in offering your blog as a host for advertisers, selling a product to someone directly/ indirectly - or offering another service of a kind - you'll need to get to that person first.
Getting to them first, with the very best deal you could possibly give them.
I guess, for a moment, you'd probably wonder whether I'm still talking about a blog and blogging. Yes, oh, yes. And unfortunately to some. Blogging has become a full time job.
So before ever trying to start yours - just think about the sheer volumes of already existing blogs that you'll need to bypass to be amongst the ones that are successful: that amount is about 350 million of them.
How to set yourself apart from others (hint: it will take some bad ass amounts of time and bucket loads of effort):

Be unique to the extreme

Many a time it could rather be a bit daunting to write posts that doesn't reiterate something someone else already said somewhere online. In fact. It's not just difficult - it's just simply impossible to come up with stuff that's 100% unique.
Let me recap that for you quickly. Uniqueness has nothing to do with "unique word rearranging"/ word spinning. Spinning any content that you can think about irregardless of the best word spinner with breakthrough technology in artificial intelligence won't make a dent in the meaning of the word: Unique.
Uniqueness has something to do with that what people couldn't find on the internet yet or something that was almost the same thing but was totally presented in just simply an exciting form.
Nevertheless. If it's nearly impossible to talk or write about things that googlers have never ever read in their entire lives before . . . No sweat. Nothing to worry about.
The only thing you really need to be concerned about is whether real people will absolutely love your blog and what's on it. If people visit your blog and simply don't like what they see, then it's a pretty given fact that the search engines will likely follow those same people's actions. Visiting your site and leaving it again all in but just a few puny seconds . . . We all know what that means, don't we?
Harm! Absolutely bad news. Bad bounce rates that will affect your organic serp rankings in a negative, down spiralling way.
So how do you ensure you get your blogging right?

Get a better template

When I'm talking about a better template, I'm not just refering to a more organised and clean look and feel to it.
  • We're talking about font type and font size
  • We're talking about those nasty ads (are there like 100 of them?) cluttering the entire blog and killing the whole idea.
  • We're obviously talking seo

and all the other small tidbits that normally won't be regarded as important.
Just imagine you get to a blog - and all of a sudden there are flashing things going around all over the place. Things that are both distracting and irritating to the purpose of your visit to the blog: Exploring what's behind that blog post title.
Do you see how easily people could flee your blog? How easy the search engines could rank you down because people clearly won't like your content or your site? Bad bounce rates (the amount of time someone spends on a given web page (or blog for that matter) since they arrived there) is one of the most important factors out of about 200 ranking factors google includes into their algorithms as to determine who ranks where, anywhere on their search engine. I'm sure the other big ones, Yahoo and Bing have similar ranking factors.
I'm sure you're probably starting to see the bigger picture here:
Have you actually enhanced or over-enhanced your blog for the search engines in the gain of search engine optimization? Or have you messed up the entire user experience the person had when he/she came to your solution (blog post) in the first place?

Best piece of blogging advice: Just be yourself already!

The worst thing that can happen to anyone going out for a job interview is

  • when you're already nervous and you know you're not well prepared
  • the response is that your nerves goes in overdrive . . .


It all comes down to a flop. And the rest is just plain history.



When it comes to blogging, your nerves will also go into overdrive simply being overburdened by the sheer amount of competition out there all doing the same thing: You need to act like this; brake your content into bits and pieces that can make search engines fall in love with you; you need to write catchy blog posts . . . blah, blah blah.

  1. Sit down and relax.
  2. Shutt down all those rules and regulations of musts and must-nots.
  3. Don't ever feel obligated to blog at a certain rushed rate.
  4. Start thinking about all the styles of writing that you absolutely adore.
  5. Focus your mind on all the subjects that simply makes you want to write about.


And for goodness sake, calm down!

There is no specific way to follow to make blogging successful. Listen to Aaron Lee of what he has to say: "By being me, I enjoyed writing and the process more. It had me writing more than I usually would too."

A very interesting thing Chris Pirillo notes which comes down to the same thing as to say: Don't try to commercialize your blog! This is what he says: "People don’t care to follow sites so much as they care to follow people."

That is so epic and true. It's about finding an emotion in the content that people will be reading on your site that they clearly feel they can relate with and engages them into a meaningful relationship or link between blogger and reader that will outlast the stiff atmosphere of a commercial blog.


SO do you think you're blogger material?

(Does the question sound a bit offensive and sounds too challenging? Do you feel as if too much is expected when you're labeled a blogger?)

Here's a step-by-step-guide on how to start your blogging venture – setting up the technical stuff, while I hope hang around my blogging and money blog right here.


The best way to become successful is actually NOT to expect too much too soon and allow yourself to experience the utter joy to see yourself growing from baby steps to where you can walk and eventually run the race to your own successes.

Go well and enjoy!

How to speed up your blogging with guest posting

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Blogging on the internet could quite be exilirating at times . . . And then you get the times in most cases when it could become very tiring.

This is why most places everywhere on the internet will always reiterate to you the importance of

1 Blogging with your own style, creatively and authoritatively

2 Writing about things that you are absolutely passionate about or can extent on quite a bit

Those two things always have one thing in common: time. Extrenious amounts of time. You will either need to already have or acquire an outstanding writing style to be able to gain recognition and acknowledgment from bloggers and whom ever manages/organising them.

However, one aspiring thing to do that pays off much faster than organic blogging?
That's right: Guest Posting.



Writing Guest Posts to build Trustworthiness, credibility and Name Branding

It is advisable to every young or new blogger to utilize guest blogging as the best and more successful way to expand your online footprint. Conclusively,  getting persistent exposure at various blogs all over the internet will ultimately create the most lasting way to ensure people can trust you.

Guest Posting: Starting with building trustworthiness and your name


The very first thing one ever needs to do whilst starting a blog, (especially a commercial one with the idea to earn one or other form of income from it) is to differentiate yourself from low quality on the internet world. This you call branding. Building reputation. Showing and making yourself visible as a leader in your niche to all the people out there.

This is where the hard work starts. As they say. You first need to crawl before you can walk. Guest posting on a blog similar to your own is like

  • making friends in your very own niche
  • and building trusts amongst those friends and their audience

Benefits of guest posting:

Getting QUALITY traffic to your blog, primary reason

An interesting blog post on an authoritative blog, will most likely create a more natural way of people there clicking through to visit your own blog. Cosequently this leads to:

 Inquisitive visits from your guest posts that will lead to better bounce rates

Imagine you write a highly interesting post on one or the other popular blog. Then readers simply scroll down after reading the post, read up on you, and just on the spot decide to check out who this person is that's responsible for such an engaging read.

There's simply no better way at getting better website traffic than having your own signature on other people's websites. Just imagine you get 100 visitors from 10 different guest posts every single day?

There's no imagery here.

For the average niche blog you will write a guest post for will most certainly be able to send you 100 visitors every single day. Authority sites where you successfully pitched and have your content posted could many a time give you up to 1000 visitors a day. That's one guest post that can give you 1000 highly targeted people to your preferred website/ blog.



You will sooner rather than later realize that the whole idea behind writing highly engaging and thoughtful guest posts on the best blogs around in your niche, will act as a catalyst for both short term and long term benefits.

Short term benefits: Insteading of sending your credit card into overdrive in trying to make people aware about you PAYING, cent for cent and dollar for dollar in Google Adsense – you'll get instant gratification from your instant blog traffic that you'll gain from those reputable blogs sending you the traffic. Thousands of targeted blog traffic can lead to all kinds of things. Most notably it can lead to direct sales.

Long term benefits: These are the greatest benefits. Finding someone's face on different blogs often, may suggest to someone that that person is there to stick around and that he is part of a larger community in which he/she is making their mark in. Yes, I'm talking about building reputation and trust. Guest posts from authoritative blogs will send your own reputation into tendem. Besides this one long term benefit, there's at least one more.

Building your subscriber list

Every blog needs to start from scratch. Irregardless of how influential it may be one day - they all need to start from the ground, up. This is one of the greatest long term benefits a blogger can get from any other blogger.

Simply put. Being a guest blogger is the STARTING POINT of engaging with a particular community ALL THE TIME. This includes but is not limited to commenting and discussing your point of view from your guest post.



The end results is as simple as it could be, however, consistent involvement is what will be required. A confirmation to say that, listen I'm around and I'm always here.

People will like you in due time and eventually this will consistently lead to the fact that people will subscribe to your blog - and the history of the end result of your hard work will pay off: You will gain your OWN community on your blog and become that very same authority blog whom everyone would want run to in the hope that they could benefit from all your readers.

So what do you decide? Will you remain writing your own blog posts on your own site and gain traction over many months? Or will you writing FIRST to gain twofold benefits: highly targeted traffic and building a brand name?

What will it be? Hope you will make the right choice, there!