Earning money of your Blog demands serious time and energy, and what begins as a hobby can quickly turn out to be a Job No. 2 for most of us. Read this advice on how to add value to your blog from an expert - Harold Davis. These are summary from Harold's interview with Wired News: How to Almost Live on Blogging, although these are quite old, they are definitely worth reading and are a must keep-in-mind for most amateur bloggers. Make a blog profitable You should have at least 100 pages of high-quality content. Good reference material really draws traffic. Lucrative areas for blogging Hot technology areas are always good to blog about. People always want to know what's new and what's hot and those sites tend to have very monetizeable content. Blogs on legal issues would do well if they are focused on areas that have to do with litigation - Drugs and diseases that have resulted in huge liability suits. Another area that seems under-blogged is financial reporting. Make a living from blogging There are 10 million lonely bloggers and people probably only read a few thousand. If you're going to make serious money off this, it's a serious time commitment. Amount of time and money People who are really in the business of making a living off content pages, average about $10 a page per year. Usually, it's not enough to make a living on, but it's a good supplement. Own server-side blog advantage If you host your own blog and have an AdSense account, you get paid by Google when people click on those ads on your web pages. You can make more money from keyword advertising if you host your blog on an outside server.
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