Thursday, February 9, 2012

Blog Income Secrets - Value Isn't Enough

Unless you're completely new to the blogging scene, you've heard that content is king and that offering real value is vital. But knowing this and acting on it isn't enough. One of the big blog income secrets is that content and value aren't enough. Let me explain.

When top blogs make money, they surely have great content that provides value to their readers, but they have several more characteristics. The most important of these is that they have traffic. That is, their blogs get thousands of visitors a day.

No matter how good your content is, no matter how valuable your visitors find your content, if you only have a trickle of visitors, you blog income is going to be at best very small. There are tens of millions of blogs out there. If your blog covers a topic that lots of people are interested in, there are likely to be tens, even hundreds of competing blogs. So just getting visitors to your blog can be a challenge.

Once you have lots of loyal readers, you're still not out of the woods. Getting your blog to generate money (known as monetizing you blog) is the next challenge. If you want to earn blog income, you need a good monetization plan.

So as you can see, delivering value to your readers isn't nearly enough. Getting visitors to the blog in the first place, then getting them to spend money are additional blog income secrets you need to master if blogging is going to make you real money.

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