Want to become a blog millionaire? Blogging is a great
home business. Not only can you make money from your
armchair, but starting is easy... just start.
Yes - start. Starting intimidates blogging newbies, but
you can only learn how to blog by blogging. In the days,
weeks and months you spend "learning", you could be making
money. This is because blogging is experiential: you can
only learn by doing.
Every niche (topic area) is different, and you'll need
different techniques to get traffic and income, so if the
idea of blogging intrigues you - start, don't wait.
How to Get Started - Use Blogger
Almost every blogger has used Google's Blogger platform
at some stage, and many experienced bloggers have many
blogs on that platform, so don't feel that you need to buy
a domain name and install WordPress before you start to
blog.
Yes, WordPress is great, and you will eventually want to
move to WordPress or another Content Management System like
Joomla, but since you can create a Blogger blog in less an
a minute, use that.
For your first blog, choose a topic you enjoy writing
about. Your "starter" blog is exactly that. Chances are
you'll create several blogs before you hit on a topic which
is not only easy and exciting for you, but which draws a
lot of traffic and makes you a great income.
Among my blogging students, my biggest headache is
convincing them that you can't make a mistake blogging.
Every blog you create, and each post you write, teaches you
something. And the more you learn, the closer you are to
creating a great blog.
A Warning - Stick to the Point
Most of any blog's traffic comes directly from the
search engines. This means that you need to focus your
blog. Don't create an "everything" blog, writing about
sports, your life, your kids, politics, and vacations,
because you have no hope of getting traffic from the search
engines.
Stick to a single topic, and don't consider writing
about yourself. In our example above, your blog could be
about basketball or any other sport. If you wanted to write
about politics, create another blog. Ditto if you wanted to
write about great vacation spots.
Stick to the point, and you'll get traffic.
You can turn a blog into a great home business, and make
money every day from your armchair... just start.