Blogging for FUN or PROFIT?

If you can express yourself pretty well in writing, then I'd say that you shouldn't pass the chance to create your own blog and start blogging.

I have learned thru the apprenticeship program that I am in right now that blogging should not be treated as a vehicle to rant and rave. Yes, you can rant and rave and do your musings too but it would be a lot better if you start creating your site with a definite goal in mind: are you doing this just for fun or you'd like to earn some bucks.

Always have the end in mind.

I know I really am guilty of this big time! I mean I started this blog all fired up and ready to receive that windfall of cash. Guess what? It didn't happen. Why? I really didn't have the end in mind and have not put in the needed time and attention to make this blog profitable.

So how do you do it?

Before pounding those keys and creating your postings, think first.

If your blog is just a means to vent up all those pent up emotions and views, then do away with placing stuff that let you earn from it like Adsense and those Affiliate Marketing Products. However, if you want this as a source of income, then you should decide how much you want to earn, how many blogs are you going to create and how much time are you willing to devote to it. There are also tons of available info online on how you can increase traffic to your site. You need not spend a dime.

The real secret to profiting from your blog is to get tons of traffic. Let the whole blogosphere know that you deserve to have a place here. Let them "listen" to what you have to say. It really would not hurt promoting your blog to every Tom, Dick and Harry who happen to have internet access. Don't be shy!

Remember too that you need to have content, lots and lots of new content for you to rank high in the search engines. And that means at least 2 new posts every week.

So are you blogging for fun or for profit? Wouldn't it be better if you do both?