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A Blog Isn''t Just For Christmas.

Copyright 2004 John Taylor

I was watching the news on TV last night and there was a
warning about buying puppies as Christmas presents. There's
nothing worse than visiting the kennels in the new year and
seeing all those unwanted dogs that were chosen as presents
because they were so cute at the time. It reminded me of
people who start a blog in the hope of making some money
online only to give up after a few days or weeks when
things don't work out.

The average blogger makes around $20 to $50 per month. So,
if that is the average, it stands to reason that some
people make less than that and some people make more. The
amount of potential income that can be generated by
blogging depends entirely upon your ability to build a
loyal audience of people who have money to spend.

There is no point in creating a blog and then looking for
an audience. Your first task is to identify a hungry market
and provide it with high quality information. Once you have
established your blog and created some interesting content,
your next task is to attract your hungry audience to your
blog. There are many ways of attracting traffic to a blog
site including banner adverts, ezine advertising, pay per
click traffic, links fro other web sites and submitting
your site to the specialist blog search engines.

There are literally hundreds of blog sites that lay
desolate and abandoned like an old frontier town with
tumbleweeds blowing through on the breeze. Their owners
failed to identify a hungry market, they failed to attract
visitors or they simply gave up posting fresh new content
to their blogs.

Blogs are dynamic web sites, they require time and
attention. Search engines love them because they are
frequently updated with fresh new content. People love them
because they regularly provide new and interesting
information. But you have to persist, just like any other
business, online or offline, you have to work at building
up your content, building up an audience of loyal readers
and creating a portfolio of products and services that will
appeal to your readers and generate some income.

There are many ways of generating income from your blog.
Several people have created successful niche sites that
offer product reviews including books, software, videos,
DVDs and other popular products. Other bloggers earn their
income from the sale of advertising space and yet others
generate income through pay per click systems such as
Google's Adsense programme.

There is now another way of building a profitable blog. A
brand new hosted blog service - http://www.Blog4Cash.com
has married a fully featured blogging service with a two
tier affiliate programme thus allowing you to build up a
residual income from everyone who signs up through your
referral. This provides a great opportunity to build up a
regular income to supplement your regular blog profit.

So remember, to become a truly successful blogger you must
take a long term view and seek to provide interesting
content for a hungry market with money to spend. Don't
expect to achieve profit overnight and plan to build a
portfolio of income streams some of which have a residual
element that will provide you will a recurring income.

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John Taylor - November 2004.
John is a prolific writer and is the author of several
books including "Testing & Tracking"
(http://www.Test-and-track.com).
For information on *How To Get Paid To Blog* click here now
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