{"id":880,"date":"2009-11-20T13:39:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T03:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=880"},"modified":"2013-08-19T11:39:26","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T01:39:26","slug":"blogging-for-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/11\/blogging-for-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging for money"},"content":{"rendered":"

I often come across people claiming to make their living from a blog or advocating others to start a blog for the purpose of making money. While I don’t doubt a blog CAN make money, I don’t think it is as easy as starting a blog<\/a> nor do I think ‘everyone’ can do it.<\/p>\n

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Do you blog for money or other reasons?<\/p><\/div>\n

Raivyn (who apparently does make money from her blogs) wrote a blog post about the realities of blogs and money<\/a>. I like the fact she starts with suggesting the need to know why you are blogging and what you want to achieve<\/strong>. If you love writing online and want to make enough for a weekly cup of coffee, then blogs may be the income stream you need; if you hate your job and want a full time income, then blogging needs a lot of thought before believing it is the solution.<\/p>\n

Which leads, of course, to why do I write this blog?<\/strong> There are a few reasons, but my aim has never been to make money directly or to be a pro-blogger.<\/p>\n

Having a blog attached to my business website allows me to promote my business indirectly – it lets customers know who I am, it is an easy way to add content to my site frequently<\/strong> <\/a>which gives people a reason to return and search engines a reason to find me, and it is related to my business anyway.<\/p>\n

I also enjoy helping people and sharing knowledge <\/a>which is what most of my blog posts are aimed at.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Of course, if anyone wants to pay me riches for reading my blog, I’m open to new ideas! But making money is not my priority from the blog.<\/p>\n

So why do you have a blog?<\/strong> Is your reason for continuing it the same reason you started it? Does blogging bring you an income? An income worth the time and effort it takes to run a blog?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I often come across people claiming to make their living from a blog or advocating others to start a blog for the purpose of making money. While I don’t doubt a blog CAN make money, I don’t think it is as easy as starting a blog nor do I think ‘everyone’ can do it. Raivyn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,53,59],"tags":[996,75,396,301],"class_list":["post-880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-content","category-business-info-tools","category-web-content","tag-aim","tag-blog","tag-money","tag-reason"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t