Can you earn Money Blogging?

Hundred of blogs are created and being added to blogosphere every day. And, every blogger dream of earning a lot of money blogging. But in reality most of the bloggers can’t even earn a decent amount which can compensate the efforts and hard work that they put into blogging. If you ask that is it possible to earn money blogging? The answer is – YES. If you blog consistently for few months, then you will definitely earn some money blogging. But if you ask that can I generate a full-time earning from blogging? The answer would be still Yes. But it is very less likely to happen. The statistics show that the majority of bloggers earn less that $10 per month which means that the majority of bloggers can’t even earn a part-time income from blogging.

Then should you quit blogging and start doing something else? Whether spending so much time blogging is worth it? Is it next to impossible to generate a full-time living blogging? No. Why? Well here are the few reasons that why you should not quit blogging even if you can’t earn anything from it now.

Building a successful blog takes time – It takes years to build successful blogs. Building a large archive of posts, a loyal readership base, domain authority in the eyes of search engines won’t happen overnight. So as a bloggers you should have a long-term view. Once you have built a loyal readership base it won’t take a lot of hard work in monetizing it.

Blogs are passive source of Income – Blogs are a partial passive source of income. Although, you have to update your blog at regular intervals but it doesn’t means that your blog won’t earn any money on the day you don’t update it. High quality posts of the blog keep on earning for years and once you’ve a sufficient number of such posts you can earn a passive income without putting lot of efforts.

Advertising is not the only way to earn – Well, Most of the bloggers can only think about advertising and affiliate marketing when it comes to monetizing their blogs. What they don’t realize is there are a lot of other ways too that can be used to earn a decent amount from their blogs. The most common way is to write an E-book. Write an E-book on topics related to your niche and promote it amongst your readers. One of the biggest examples is the ProBlogger E-book which earned $72,000 for him. Besides E-book, you can easily find a lot of freelance writing/marketing assignments from the companies that have the same target audience as of your blog.

No two blogs are Equal - Every now and again, bloggers keep on comparing their traffic and earning stats with other blogs. But they forgot to realize that no two blogs are equal. A blog, which is in finance niche is not equal to the blog in shopping niche even if they have same level of traffic. And, even if two blogs are in same niche, they won’t earn same despite of the same traffic levels because of the difference in writing style, visual appearance and content structure.

Blogging is not an easy Job and it becomes very difficult for a blogger to stand out from the crowd when millions of pages of content is being added to blogosphere every day. So keep trying and enjoy your blogging.

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[This is a guest post by Roger Rae, who is a freelance writer working for Fortepromo promotional products, a promotional tote bags company based in Minnesota. If you too would like to write for our blogs and get paid per post, please refer to this page.]