How to Use Blogs to Increase Your Online Income
In spite of the fact that I have my own blog and blog for clients, there are very few blogs that I read on a regular basis. As a busy freelance writer, I simply don’t have the time.
When I visit some blogs and they have a long list of “favorited” blogs, I think to myself, “How in the world can they keep up with all those blogs?” Even trying to keep up with a few is time-consuming for me.
So, what does all this have to do with using blogs to grow your online income? Quite simply this: information overload. I read a few blogs – and implement as much of what those blogs tell me – as I possibly can.
You see, it’s not in the reading of information that grows your income, it’s the implementation of the ideas you read about on blogs that increases your online income.
How to Choose Blogs That Will Increase Your Online Income
There are a few blogs that come to mind immediately when you think of making money online – especially with blogs — eg, ProBlogger.net, JohnChow.com and ShoeMoney.com. Blogs like these are what I call “foundational blogs,” for they are good sources of honest, hard-hitting information from those who have actually – well, made money online from their blogs.
A lot of bloggers will try to tell you how to make money blogging, but many of them have never actually succeeded beyond a certain point.
Rule #1 How to Choose Blogs That Will Increase Your Online Income
So rule number one in choosing blogs that will increase your online income is read the blogs of those who’ve actually done what you want to do. If they haven’t done it themselves, how can they tell you how to? I’m amazed at the number of blogs like this.
Rule #2 How to Choose Blogs That Will Increase Your Online Income
Rule number two is – where possible – choose blogs written by those who are in your niche. This is important because while there are some fundamental rules for making money online that cut across niches, there are some tweaks that certain niches may call for.
Rule #3 How to Choose Blogs That Will Increase Your Online Income
Rule number three is choose blogs that have an active community – eg, lots of comments, a forum, etc. This is important because many times, it’s the comments left by others that give you golden nuggets of information that may not have been covered in the actual post.
Conclusion to How to Choose Blogs That Will Increase Your Online Income
There are only so many hours in a day. And, I find that many who want to make money online spend so much time surfing, reading and interacting on social media sites that they never get around to the number one rule of making money – online or off – ACTION!
You can talk about it, research it and plan for it until the cows come home. BUT, you will never make money online until you actually start doing it. And that means knowing when to turn off the information faucet, and turn on the entrepreneurial faucet (ie, take action).
Written by Yuwanda Black from Inkwell EditorialPosted on January 26th, 2009 and filed under Making Money
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Hi, thank you much for sharing this info with us. I have read many articles and blogs about increase your online income by using blogs but never found tips like mentioned here.
There are very few blogs who make money online. I am one of the few
This post made me unsubscribe from your RSS. Having three rules all with the same text and then the same text twice more in the short article is just plain annoying, sorry.
These are important tips to remember. When I first started as a freelance writer, I did so much reading that I almost never wrote anything. I too have cut down on the number of blogs that I read and take action on.
Its like the people who read every “Lose 3 kg in 2 weeks” or “Lose 2 inches for the beach this summer” article in a magazine but never get around to actually eating right and exercising. Or those that sign up to every affiliate program out there but never run a single banner.
Taking action separates the successful from the unsuccessful.
But there is one extra step – failure. Most successful people are those that continued to act and work through multiple setbacks and failures along the way.
@Paul: RE “Taking action separates the successful from the unsuccessful.” Truer words have never been spoken.
RE “But there is one extra step – failure. Most successful people are those that continued to act and work through multiple setbacks and failures along the way.”
I’m so familiar with failure that it should be my middle name. I have a saying, “You don’t work your way to success; you fail your way to success.” For, it is in the getting up, dusting yourself off and starting over again that the foundation for success is laid.
Good insight.
Blogs are becoming a very major tool for promotions these days, From celebrities to students all have started to give away latest Information about themselves. Yes they do make them earn a lot through advertisements
Your last paragraph about “take action” makes me remember what Morpheus told Neo in Matrix I, in the training program: “Stop trying to hit me and hit me!”. Thank you for your article.
Hope i have reached the right place about using blogs!
The rules seems to be quite intresting!
Any way,i am going to follow the rules given by you!
thank you!