As someone who has been blogging for 10 years, I find most articles designed to encourage people to start blogging infuriating. They paint blogging as this wonderful activity that will free you from your 9 to 5 job and solve all your problems. They show you pictures of happy bloggers working on the beach. What bothers me is that while blogging is wonderful, it has pros and cons like any other job. ...
Looking at blog income reports from popular blogs, you could think that the only way to make money blogging is to blog about blogging. Luckily, you would be mistaken. The reality is that there are successful blogs in all kinds of niches. You simply hear more about the make money online blogs because they are the ones sharing revenue numbers and posting income reports. While make money blogging bloggers are highly visible, thousands of bloggers earn a living by helping their audience in niches such as dating, automotive, grooming or ultralearning. ...
There is a lot of bad advice when it comes to finding a blog niche. “Write about your passion.” “Choose the most profitable niche.” “Don’t choose a crowded niche.” This advice is well-intentioned but ignores key psychological principles and causes many bloggers to give up blogging after a few months. That’s a shame because finding what you want to blog about is simply finding the intersection between what people want and what you want. ...
Having a recent date associated with your article could be the difference between a page 1 ranking and a page 5 ranking. This means that you should not only keep your content up-to-date but also make sure that Google knows it’s up-to-date. This article will show you how to find out the dates Google associates with your articles and make sure these dates don’t hurt your rankings. It will also answer a question lots of bloggers ask: should you remove dates from my posts? ...
What’s the worst thing that could happen to your blog? For many bloggers, the answer is getting blacklisted by Google and seeing all their organic traffic vanish overnight. And a common way this happens is when Google realizes your blog is infected before you do and simply blacklists you. This almost happened to my friend Anna from Garlic Delight a few days ago. Luckily a few simple SEO checks allowed her to notice the malware and get rid of it before being blacklisted. ...