I feel very fortunate today to be able to experience and participate with making money online. We truly live in an amazing time. But everyday I see people struggling with making money online and really its a lot simpler than many people make it out to be.
Each blog that you create has its own niche and each has it’s own challenges. But there is one constant that each blog requires, one constant that each blog needs in order to be successful. I want to share this with you today – and it is a very simple concept – it just needs to executed!
So for everyone who is impatient – I’ll tell you my secret right now… The secret is writing.
Yup. That’s it. Just sitting down and doing the writing. I told you it was simple.
But here is the catch, most people don’t like to write. Or they feel its too time consuming, or it takes too much effort, or whatever. I hate to break the news to you guys, but good writing is what is going to bring you good traffic. And Good Traffic will Make You the Money Online.
Another trap that most people fall into is they try to find away around writing. They buy tools that scrape content from other web sites, spin content, copy content, steal content all to try to short cut what they need to do. This will get you no where and you will never be able to make a living by using duplicate content. It just won’t happen. Google is smart and you will never rank.
Some of you may argue with what I’m saying here today. Some may say that its not true and you can make money with these short cuts. Okay, sure, you may be able to skim some pennies off the top with this method. But the big money is with really good, original content.
So How Do You Gain This Success for Your Blog?
Everyone, and I mean EVERYONE… I don’t care who you are… everyone knows something about something. Everyone is good at something or is an expert at something. And that knowledge is what is going to make your blog successful. Even if it is being a “Pro at TV Channel Surfing” and “How to be the Best Couch Potato” it is a talent that others will not have and may want to know about.
The key is to create a blog about the one thing you’re really good at, and write about it.
Just write about it. One post at a time. One idea at a time. Slowly build up your repertoire of facts and articles on your site. Don’t write for keyword density. Don’t write for search engines. Write for people. Write for readers. If you do this, you will have a successful blog. As Fred Zimmer of the Men’s Warehouse says – “I guarantee it.”
Content is King
See, most people get caught up in trying to make money over night. They spend their time on everything but the content. They copy or steal articles from other sites. They obsess over link building, and getting indexed fast. They search for the right keywords and the right domain name. The buy PLR content, outsource content writing, blah blah blah…. GEEZE!
Don’t get me wrong.. all of these things are needed and are important. But NONE OF THEM are needed more than the Content! Content is King.
People spend more time and money on everything but the content it’s no wonder so many people fail when trying to start making money online.
Making Money Online
Many people start a blog and start writing posts but don’t see any visitors and don’t seem to make any money. This is Normal! You need to understand it takes time and patience. Blogs are like snow balls. They start off small and insignificant. But you keep working with them, they will grow bigger and bigger and bigger. Eventually, people will naturally start to link to your blog. (by the way – this is the best linking of all!) You will see more and more people start to visit. Word of mouth begins to spread. The next thing you know – you have over 200 unique people visiting your blog everyday and you ARE Making Money!
Trust me, it happened to me just like this. And it started with a very obscure niche blog that I built around my career field. The search numbers are so low for this niche it doesn’t even show up in Google’s keyword tool. But it was a niche I knew something about. It was information I knew and I knew it well!
Call to ACTION!
So get out there and build a blog about something that you know about. You will be successful! Be patient and let it grow. It doesn’t matter what the topic is. Someone somewhere will want to know more about it.
Are you still unsure? Do you have an idea and don’t know if you should blog about it? Leave a comment here and let us know. I would love to hear about it and I bet you’re wrong! I bet you will be successful with it.
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Hey Joe, nice article. I totally agree that writing about something you’re good at makes keeping your blog/s updated much easier.
This is my first visit, didn’t know about your blog. I’ll have a little look around now I’m here.
Totally agree with this post – Great information for the struggling internet marketer!