Giving voice to millions and enabling individuals to spread their presence across the world, blogs—or at least writing and editing blogs—are the cottage industry of the 21st century. Drove of people make their living as bloggers. Some sell products and services, but it is becoming more and more common for bloggers to earn a living by creating content. Example are Shi and bingkee.
Interestingly, the majority of bloggers being paid for their writing are not preoccupied with search engine optimization (SEO)—held by many to be the “secret” to making money online.
A blog can help you establish a voice and identity online, can help you position yourself as the authority in your marketplace, and can give you a great avenue into learning more about what makes your customers tick.
What kind of blog you have, would you explain a bit about your blog here.
Interestingly, the majority of bloggers being paid for their writing are not preoccupied with search engine optimization (SEO)—held by many to be the “secret” to making money online.
A blog can help you establish a voice and identity online, can help you position yourself as the authority in your marketplace, and can give you a great avenue into learning more about what makes your customers tick.
What kind of blog you have, would you explain a bit about your blog here.
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I guess I do make part of my living as a blogger, though I initially considered myself more of a writer than blogger.
The biggest blog I manage is the blog for the OneLove Regional Campaign (www.onelovesouthernafrica.org).
This is a nine-country campaign that aims to reduce the rate of HIV infection in Southern Africa by encouraging people to have one sexual partner, rather than having multiple concurrent partners.
I source content from the partners in the nine countries taking part in the campaign and repurpose it for the blog. I also write original content.
I also develop content for the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering's blog.
The blog is currently being upgraded to a self-hosted site.
My writing blog (http://damariasenne.blogspot.com) has helped me to develop an online voice in the marketplace.
I have been invited to be keynote speaker at digital content conferences, and been interviewed by some mainstream media that found me through the site.
Some publishing markets have also approached me about republishing content that I previously published on my blog( for pay and credit).
And you are right: while I know SEO is very important, and keep it in mind when developing content, it's not the major driver for the content I develop. My clients have a message that they want to communicate, and I mostly focus on that. But I'm sure the blogs would do even better if I gave SEO a lot more priority, without jeopardising the quallity of the content.
Very powerfully said here that blogs are Blogs The Cottage Industry of 21st Centruy. Many including me are making their living by blogging, their SEO understanding notwithstanding.
BTW, dont worry about SEO and its maze. Write a good blog regularly and every thing else will follow. I am running multtiple blogs, no particular theme and not efforts for SEO and I am happy with the results.
So can you. No?
And thanks for this post and the mention here. Many thanks.
Blogs have been part of the economic trend right now. With the economic downfall, people are now relying on some means to earn income while being unemployed or looking for another job.
Just like you, I really don't mind about SEO. I think niche-blogs have to be more concerned about SEO because they have a competitive market and that's how they earn money.
Well, as for my blog...my blog is a personal one. A personal commentary about my life living here in the US. It's more of opinions, views and commentaries on the American society, culture and lifestyle.
Thanks for the link.
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