Blogs
are powerful tools used in communicating with millions of people globally
through content creation. It is the best way of getting your words out there,
whether you blog about News, entertainment, sports, fashion, or a personal
dairy of your daily life which ever your niche is. Blogs have become One of the
most lucrative ways of generating income On the internet today if you know how
to properly go about it. You can build a Carrier with your blog and earn
awesomely from it but there are five things you really should know if you
desire a successful blogging Carrier.
1.
Blogging takes your all
If you want to generate 6 figures from your
blog on monthly basis you have to give it your time, consistency, lots of
patience and even your money. Let me explain further
Time
You
have to take your time in creating meaningful articles that will help solve
problems and very well entertain your audience so they will probably keep
coming back for more.
Consistency
In
terms of been consistent you have to at least produce 5 to 10 contents every
month and make sure you stick to the routine, the more content you create the
more visitors you get.
Patience
Making
good money from your blog will never happen in just some few months you created
it. Its gonna take a while maybe a year or two or three depending on how
passionate you are and how far you are willing to take your blog. I use to get about 1000 page views when i was
newbie but now i get page views running into millions because i was patient, consistent and
scouting for better ways to move my blog forward, patience is indeed very
rewarding.
Your
money
Running
an effective blog will cost you a little but not too much in terms of hosting(purchasing
a domain name), purchasing internet service from your network providers, your
work environment and anything that will make your lifestyle as a blogger worry
free.
2.
You have to work on been Famous
Why
do you think all the really famous bloggers in the world get millions of people
storming their blogs every day its simply because they have made names for
themselves. (Huffington post, Mashable, Timothy Sykes, Perez Hilton amongst
others). They have already adopted the principle that been famous attracts all
the goodie goodie blogging has as to offer. Work on becoming famous if your in
the news and entertainment niche and sooner than you expect you'd be banking
millions of Naira every week.
3.
Its all about your passion and destiny
To
be a successful blogger you have to be very passionate about your blog. You
have to make your audience your first priority because they will be the one
paying your bills, you have to study them and know the kind of content they
want to see on your blog. 95% of the internet population are looking for
solutions to problems of all sorts and searching for the best news and
entertainment content providers, that's why the websites with this solutions
attract the Lion share of traffic every day.
I
remember vividly when i was very young i wasn't even in my teenage years then
when people around me knew me for two things only which were music and
entertainment, i was very passionate about them that i sparked up
conversations everywhere i went even
during my years in high school. That passion has been in me ever since i was a
little boy and that was what led to the birth of my blog.
Here
is the most important part, your passion comes first before you can Fufill your
destiny as a famous blogger. You have to seek for direction from God so you
won't waste your life on a blog your never going to
profit from and will probably forsake in no time. This is the main reason why
so many blogs are left to die everyday because their owners lack direction,
determination and patience to feul their blog, ask God and he will direct your
path like they always say "in everything you do put God first".
Thousands of bloggers
create their blog because they have heard about a rich and famous blogger
somewhere at a particular point in time, they never care to know if this
individual has been destined to make it in life this way, the blood, sweat and
tears that he or she has invested in it. Take a minute to ask yourself this
questions what are my talents, I'm i
destined to make it big by running a blog I'm very much passionate about.
Please ponder on this questions well and don't let your hunger for money
deceive or distract you from discovering yourself and your limits. if you are
really destined to make it big through this means you will be amazed with your
level of success.
4.
Study your niche before you create your blog
Carrying
out a proper research on your niche is very important because that is what wil
bring visitors to your blog and later generate income for you. you also have to
know your competitors, study them and replicate their strategies, the more
information you gather about your competitors the more chances you get at
beating them at their own game.
5.
Ignore SEO and dont ignore SEO
I hope you have digested all the four points i
mentioned earlier properly and maybe you have decided to pursue a Carrier in
blogging, i know this last point might seem confusing but its not let me break
it down for you.
Not
all niches require rigorous search engine optimization, like i said before fame
is the backbone of any entertainment blogger to succeed, if your not famous to
an extent your blog won't get a lot of visitors . for instance let me enlighten
you about how news blogger Linda Ikeji gets 0.44%(500k) of the internet
population visiting her blog everyday.
Linda ikeji's blog started around 2007 her stats
where ridiculously low when she started blogging, then she went off the radar
for 3 years hunting for new ways to make it big with her blog, Linda's blog
never developed huge success by sitting back and waiting for traffic to pure
in, she had to go out and get it, today she is famous, rich and living the good
life, fame is the power generator of her blog now because people can't do
without visiting her blog everyday despite the fact that she doesn't have the
most fascinating contents. If you are in the entertainment niche all you have
to do is get a good name for your blog, get a very catchy description because
that is what will catch your visitors eye coming from the search engines, activate
your meta tags, create useful entertaining content and lastly work tirelessly
to become famous, don't bother wasting your money on hopeless SEO companies
they are not in the equation of entertainment bloggers our technique of
generating traffic is very different.
For
niches that are not in anyway related to news and entertainment do not ignore
SEO, maximize your blog effectively for search engines because lots of your
traffic will come from there. you can very well generate a good income from
your blog if you know and understand your audience well, you don't have to
become famous to grab the goodies blogging has to offer but if you can put in
the work it will be an extra bonus for you, hard work forever pays.