Do you want to make money blogging? Hundreds of thousands of people are doing just that, and you can too, as long as you approach it the right way. Let’s look at three vital secrets to success.
1. You must have the right content
Before you start your blog, find out who the audience will be and what your audience wants to know. Be as precise as you can. Once you know who your audience is, you can choose a topic for your blog that appeals to that audience.
This is where most new bloggers make a mistake. Once you’ve chosen your topic, do a search online and find out if people are looking for information on your particular topic. If no one is looking, no one will find your blog, so choose another topic.
Simply put, the right content for your blog is content that people are actively searching for.
2. Readers must be able to find your content
You started your blog and created ten posts. This is just the beginning. A-list blogs have many thousands of blog posts, and top blogs have at least ten new posts every day.
Of course, this is an avalanche of content, and as an individual blogger, you can’t compete with it.
However, you should take note of what the best blogs do. This means that you will need to create at least one new post every day, preferably more.
Why? Because readers need to be able to find your content.
The first way they will find your content is through the RSS feed. Your feeds will be indexed within a month of creating your blog. You can speed up this indexing by submitting your blog’s RSS feed to blog directories.
Remember, though, that readers basically find your blog when you create new content – for new readers, post every day.
3. Readers must respond
Once your blog is established and has some readers, you’ll want those readers to respond. However, you don’t just want feedback. You want your readers to take action.
You want your readers to do what you’ve created the blog to do, whether it’s to click your advertising links, buy affiliates or other products, or buy services you provide.