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Author: Angela Booth

Want to make money blogging? Hundreds of thousands of people are doing exactly that, and you can too, provided you approach it in the right way.

I’ve been blogging for ten years. In the early years, blogs were a curiosity, and traffic flowed without effort. Nowadays, blogging is a challenge. Let’s look at three vital secrets for success.

1. You must have the right content. Before you start your blog, work out who the audience will be, and what your audience wants to know. Be as precise as you can. Once you know who your audience is, you can choose a topic for your blog which will appeal to that audience.

This is a stumbling block for many people new to blogging for money. When you decide on a topic, conduct a quick search to make sure that people are actually looking for that information. If there’s no demand for your topic, you’ll have a hard time generating traffic to your blog. If this is the case, consider a different topic.

2. People need to be able to find your content. Say you’ve just put up your blog and you’ve added twelve posts. That’s great, but you’ve just gotten started. Popular blogs can have hundreds, even thousands of posts, and the top blogs can have as many twenty or more posts in a single day.

Granted, this is a huge amount of content. If you’re working alone, chances are you won’t be able to compete when it comes to sheer volume. But, pay attention to what these top blogs are doing. They’re posting at least once a day (or more), and you should plan on doing the same. The more content you have, the easier it will be for visitors to find your blog.

One of the first ways for people to find your content is through your RSS feed. In less than a week after starting your blog, your feed should be indexed. If you submit your blog’s RSS feed to blog directories, you can get indexed even faster.

3. Your content must encourage feedback from your readers. When you’ve built a following of regular readers, you want real feedback, interaction, not just occasional comments. You want them to use your site for what it was designed for: clicking your ads, and buying your products and services.

If you keep these three points in mind: create the right content, make your content easy to find, and encourage interaction with your content, you’ll be much more successful as you try to make money blogging.

Want to make money blogging? You can make great money from home with top blogger Angela Booth’s Lazy Rich Blogger method. You’ll learn the secrets Angela discovered in her years of blogging. For free blogging tips, visit Angela’ Blogging for Dollars blog.

Do you know what your blog is worth?  Is it worth zero, or could you be sitting on a goldmine (present or future)?  Let’s explore what’s your blog worth.

Do You Have a Focus?

Does your blog have a focus, or are your posts all over the place?  Assuming you aren’t a public figure or celebrity, a scattered approach to blogging makes it tough to find targeted traffic.

Targeted traffic is more than just desirable — it’s the life of a profitable blog.  Without focused traffic, you’re going to find it hard to sell anything, much less build equity in your blog.

If you’re not too far along in your blogging, you can probably get back on track — when you have more posts, the “off-focus” ones will be a smaller concern.

On the other hand, if you’ve been blogging for awhile, your posts are numerous, focus is scattered and your traffic is low…you might be better off starting a new blog.

Traffic, Traffic, Traffic!

Well, make that targeted traffic, which is what raises the value of a blog.  Whether you are building a blog to build your business or have the idea of selling it, targeted traffic is the only way to really make money blogging.

But what the heck is targeted traffic?  In general, it’s traffic that arrives at your site via search engines, and can also be extended to include traffic arriving from articles you’ve written.

As nice as it is, targeted traffic isn’t about things like a Digg front page posting that drives enormous amounts for a day or two.  That’s fleeting and not part of the traffic flow you want.

What about other social networks, like Twitter and StumbleUpon?  If you’re getting some steady traffic from them and they view more than 1 page, I’d consider that targeted.  What I would not consider targeted is a huge spike from either one — unless you got repeat traffic because if it.  (Example:  if a lot of Stumbler’s bookmarked you and came back.)

What’s Your Blog Worth?

Ultimately its monetary value lies in the amount and consistency of targeted traffic, along with the focus (“niche”) you’ve selected.  For example, a Google 1st page blog on goldfish (even if there is a lot of targeted traffic) won’t have the same monetary value as a high traffic blog about affiliate programs.  Different niches, different monetization possibilities.

The only exception to the above would be a blog that has a highly sought-after domain name (example, florida.com).  Even if the blog had virtually no traffic, the value is in the name itself.  But these days, it’s really hard to come across those kinds of names.

So what’s your blog worth?  Nothing until you build it up, unless you’ve got a desirable domain name.  But with time, your blog can bring you profits, whether through affiliate sales, brick-and-mortar sales or selling the blog itself!