Over my many years of blogging, I have learned a thing or two about it. This post was written to share some of that wisdom so that you, as a new blogger or even an experienced one, may consider the opinions of someone who has been around.
- Blog about topics that interest you and not necessarily about topics that you think will get you paid. I understand your desire to make money from blogging. You need to learn how to do it first though. You will become good at a much faster pace if you are writing about things that you find interesting. If you struggle to write a post about widgets so that you can show ads for those widgets or so that you can put an affiliate link to widgets then you are going to hate the whole process. You will probably also suck at it.
- When you are blogging you are having a conversation with one other person at a time on the other end of the connection. Speak to him or her. Don’t speak like you are in an auditorium full of people.
- For God’s sake, don’t waste your money or your time on black hat software to build hundreds or thousands of links, whether they come from profiles, comments, articles or social sites. All of them are a waste of time and ultimately make you look like a chump.
- Don’t expect to make money in the first few months you are blogging. You don’t know jack squat about blogging when you first start out. Other than politicians or weathermen, what job could you possibly get that pays well when you don’t know what they hell you are doing? People telling you that you are going to be making good money in 90 days are full of shit. Totally, totally full of shit. If you listen to them, they will steal your money. There are plenty of them out there. If you find one, stop reading their lies right away. Go look elsewhere for people speaking the truth. If they sound like they are really hyping up this line of work and talking about how easy it is, then they are about to convince you to part with your money.
- The people making money aren’t the ones buying the eBooks. They are the ones selling the eBooks. Think about that before you go to buy an eBook about making money online.
- You can learn everything you need to know about making money blogging for free by experimenting and reading what other people are telling you for free. You don’t need to pay for some secret information. All the information you need is available for free. You just need to keep looking. It is going to take you a while to find it all. It will take you even longer to learn it all. That is the truth. You will have to put in your time and pay your dues.
