So you’ve decided to start a blog. If it is personal interest, that is great.
There are some people who want to start a blog in hope of monetizing it. And that means the blog has to get traffic and lots of it. The believe that in the old motto “if you build it, they will come.” Many are disappointed to find that this is not true.
The truth is that there is no shortcut to getting traffic. Getting good traffic that is stable and consistent requires a lot of hard work.
In order to get traffic, you need to be found when people do searches using their search engines (in most cases Google). In order to be found by Google, you have to have good amounts of quality backlinks. Backlinks are links on other websites that links to your.
Now getting good backlinks is no easy matter. It requires you to write quality content so that people are naturally (or organically) linking to you. And it requires a lots of content to increase that chance a someone will find one of your content relevant to what you are talking about.
Examples
For example, Christoper Ross says “I write a half dozen posts a week that get published but about another two dozen get started and never finished. Writing for my blog is a 20 hour a week job.”
A “hubber” on HubPages wrote the article “How To Build A Website That Makes $100+ Per Month“, in which he concludes “making money online takes a lot of work. It is very possible and you can definitely do it – you just need to make that commitment to do what it takes. There are no free lunches and there are no easy ways out.”
Another HubPages article “Making Money Online – The Reality” says “making money online is hard work, and in the early days, it’s likely to require even longer hours than you currently work in your regular job. … And you have a big learning curve in front of you!”
Others have reflected that same sentiment saying, “earning money online takes just as much effort as a real job, sometimes more.” [ref]
How To Build A Website That Makes $100+ Per Month
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