2. Blogging

If there’s something that you're really passionate about, you can create a blog where you can talk
about it regularly.
This is a fun way in which you can share your passions while learning and teaching about what you’re
already excited about with like-minded people.
In order to become a blogger, you would need to be a decent writer with the ability to write
interesting, thought provoking or entertaining content. You would also need to be able to post fairly
regularly to your blog so that it can grow and build a strong following.
Blogs can make you money in several ways. Just some of the ways are to have people pay you to post
their advertisements by using a service such as BuySellAds.com {this is best for blogs with a lot of
traffic}, or by putting Google AdSense ads on your blog. With this option, Google will pay you each
time someone clicks on their advertisements on your blog.
The amount of money you can earn per click will depend upon the topic of your blog and the
competitiveness in the marketplace for advertising in your certain niche.
A third option is to sell affiliate products related to the topic of your blog. If for example you had a
blog about weight loss, you could locate a weight loss product that has an affiliate program, which you
can find at Clickbank.com, and either put banners up on your blog, or promote it to your newsletter if
you're collecting the email addresses of your visitors.
In order for you to become a Blogger, here are some steps you can take:
● First, you will need to choose a blogging platform. The most common, and the one we highly
recommend is Wordpress.
● After you have your new blog looking how you like, you can then start posting news, lessons,
stories, articles or anything relevant to your blog.
● Try to add new content as frequently as possible so that you build up a regular readership base.
● As Google and other search engines discover your blog, you should start to see more visitors
coming in to your blog as they find you via searches related to your blog topic.
To get more free visitors from the search engines, your posts should contain keywords that people
regularly search for on Google.
● Some other ideas to get more visitors are to post your new blog posts in Facebook groups related
to your niche so people can share it around.
Another option is to comment on established blogs related to yours so that their readers can click on
the website link in your comments and visit your blog.
How much can I make out of blogging?
It can take some time to establish a blog, but the profit potentials can be quite large.
Your earnings will vary based on the amount of traffic you get, how interesting your content is, how
often you post, and the types of advertisements you put on your blog.
We run a Travel related blog where our main source of income are affiliate links for Booking.com
and sponsored posts written by other authors and I make around 400$ from it per month.