Blogging Advice – Personal Blogging Or Business Blog

Having your own blog is definitely a very popular thing to do now, probably because it’s just so easy to start a blog and there are even ways you can make money from your blog. If you’re just starting out and you need a little blogging advice, there are many online forums that you can join and ask questions of other more experienced members. If you want a very quick overview, keep reading…

One thing for you to realize, is that you can start a blog for free. Two of the most popular blog formats are WordPress.com and Blogger .com. You will have a wide variety of themes, the overall look of your site, to choose from with either format. You can have it hosted for free or you can buy your own domain name and set up a hosting account so that you actually own your blog site. This is the preferred method if you want to make money with your blog since you don’t actually own anything with the free methods.

The next thing you will need to consider is what are you going to blog about? Do you just want to set up a personal blog so you can share your travel or family stories with friends and family around the world, do you want to share gardening tips, etc? It can be whatever you want it to be you just have to decide.

Just remember that if you want to use your blog to start a business, you will need to spend a little more time and find a profitable niche market instead of just setting up a blog about something you love to do. In order to make money with your blog you have to make sure that there are enough other people who are willing to spend money on the niche you pick.

Whether your blog is a personal blog or a business blog, you can still make money by adding some ads to your blog. To do this simply sign up to Google Adsense, they will place ads on your blog related to the topic of your blog. Whenever someone clicks on one of the ads you’ll get paid a commission. The amount of money you make won’t be a lot, but what the heck, if you’re just blogging for fun anyway making a little extra money every month is just gravy!

Another thing to keep in mind, again this advice will pertain to any type of blog whether it’s a personal or business blog, is to make sure that you stay on topic with your blog readers. If your blog is about gardening you don’t want to start writing about sewing for example. While it is ok to write the occasional post on something a little off topic, don’t make it a habit. Remember, people will come back to your blog over and over again because they are interested in the topic of your blog. If they are reading a blog about gardening then they want to read about gardening. Give your readers what they want.

By following this simple blogging advice you can be be up and ready to blog in no time. It’s a fun way to express your opinion, make some money, share your knowledge, or just have fun.

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Before I get into the details I want to make sure you realize this is not a free blog service.

This is an established blog already getting thousands of visitors per month and making an income.

It is on it’s own domain name and it’s own hosting.

Here is a screen shot of the traffic that I took today:

Visitors For The Month Of June

You can see that it averages over 100 visitors per day and all that traffic is coming from the search engines or social bookmarking sites as seen in this screenshot:

Sources of the traffic

If you do the math you will see that the total from the search engines almost matches the total visitors exactly.  These are not people I am sending to the site from my list.

Don’t worry if you are the lucky one to get the site you will be able to look at the full stats from your control panel.

Now comes the big question, “Why am I giving away a profitable site?”

There are a couple of reasons the first reason is that this is in a niche that I don’t have a true affinity for  and the site could be doing so much better if some one that enjoys this niche or is willing to learn this niche was working the site.

The second reason is that I am using it as promotion for my Blogging Beginners site.

At Blogging Beginners we teach the exact methods I used to create this site in under a week and then not do anything to it for months and still get traffic and income.  Again the income and traffic would be much higher if this was a niche I enjoyed working in.  I even have ideas and suggestions that would raise the income level on this site that I will share with the new owner when we give it away.

Now a little more about the giveaway.

This won’t be a random giveaway, we are looking for someone that will take the existing blog and use the techniques we teach at Blogging Beginners (yes, we will be giving away a Free Platinum Membership too)  to make this blog even more profitable.

You have to be a member of Blogging Beginners to be eligible for the giveaway but this isn’t a problem since you can sign up for free.

We will be giving away the blog on July 31, 2009

If you are interested just click anywhere you see the link to Blogging Beginners to sign up and get the case study for the site.  More information will follow after you sign up.