Ready to Give up your day Job?

For anyone who wishes to give up their day job, it’s an appealing ambition to start a few blogs, watch them take off and quit the stress of the office life to sit in the comfort of your own home and live off of the advertising revenue.

Though despite the apparent success stories written mostly about events in our personal lives primarily for friends and family, the vast blogs on the internet today don’t really see great floods of traffic let alone see any fortunes made. Despite this, there are a select few people out there that do make a healthy income from blogging and have realized the recipe for success.

Here’s how the exceptions to the rule do it:

Pick a topic that interests you and that you know will interest your readers, technology, gadgets, computer games or subjects where you have the opportunity to solve problems for readers are good themes for blogs. But be careful about being too narrow and specific. You can only write so much about remedies for stretch marks, but there are literally volumes of valuable information you can write about in regards to the many issues, problems and remedies in respect to pregnancy.

Build up traffic, I could write a dozen books on how to attract traffic to web sites and blogs but the basics involve reaching out to other bloggers, writing quality content that’s both entertaining and useful and updating that content regularly. Sometimes you can do all these three and still go relatively unnoticed on the web. The solution could be as simple as changing the title’s of your blogs to something that better catches viewers eyes.

Blogging is hardly a get rich scheme as many people expect their very first Blog to instantly become a smash hit. Even for experienced writers, a feel needs to be developed on what works on the web and what doesn’t and most people will give up due to a lack of results before they develop such a ‘feel’. Probably the best way to shorten your apprenticeship in blog writing is to read other peoples blogs, both good and bad. Look at the really popular blogs that attract thousands if not tens of thousands of visitors a month and try to emulate what they are doing.

Get a head start, after months of blogging and only seeing a gradual increase in regular traffic and new visitors I introduced an idea I learnt from business marketing. That is to spend 50% of my time studying what the competition is doing and spend 50% of my time trying to improve on it, and hey presto it worked! I was learning how to write content that attracted more visitors at a much faster rate so in the end I was doing less for more results.

Start strong, usually the first six months of a new blog are the hardest because a large amount of effort is involved just to make your blog visible and noticed among the many thousands that are out there. Create a strong momentum in this initial period and you have a much greater chance of seeing your blog make enough money to make payments on a new car.


Don’t rely purely on adsense, while placing adsense ads on your blog is probably the quickest and easiest way to create revenue from your blog. The most successful bloggers use a combination of pay per click advertising and affiliates. Choosing one revenue type over the other will limit your income from your blog.

Multi stream you income, while gaining revenue from both adsense and affiliate commissions, sometimes you blog posts are worthy enough to be morphed into articles and press releases which you can be paid for. Some bloggers have even secured freelance writing contracts from their blog posts.

Enjoy what you do, you will find if you treat blogging like a job your passion just won’t be in it and this will feed back into your posts. Try and keep things interesting for yourself and enjoy yourself and not only will you find that the right words come more easily, you will be much more motivated and prolific and the end results will see the kind of online revenues you could only dream about!

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