A Blog Isn't Just For Christmas

By Author: John Taylor
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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 -