There is a hard way and an easy way to get this done and keep your blog going. Both will give you results but the universal truth about everything applies to blogging too. The harder you work, most likely you are to achieve the desired results.

I do not believe in short cuts. I will first explain you the right way of blogging. If your desire is to build a successful blog the golden rule is,

“Be Interesting”

Easier said than done. It is a fact that no one will be a part of your blog if you cannot make it interesting. Your blog will most probably die within the first 3 months if it does not have a supporting community around it.

Jon Morrow of copyblogger wrote a very good article about how to do just that. “Be interesting”.
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Choose your blog niche carefully.

It will be very difficult to keep blogging after few weeks If you do not know what you are talking about. So no matter how lucrative the niche is, do not jump in if you do not know about the subject matter well. Of course you can learn. But my advice is not to do this with your first blog.

Later on you can experiment with different topics but when you first start out, stick to a niche which you love talking about.

I started this blog last year after I achieved considerable success from 3 of my product selling web sites. All I did was making money and reading ways to make more money. My head was full of ideas and I was experimenting a lot with different projects. This blog was the mean of communicating my ideas and that is why I never ran out of things to write.

It is important that you blog about something you really like. There are people who proved this wrong. You can join that group if you work really hard and if you can keep the motivation going.

Try to become an authority blogger in your expertise area.

If money is your primary motivation of having a blog, Do not worry ! there is money to be made in almost all industries. Do not start a ” make money online” blog just because you want to make money blogging. That would be a wrong approach. The truth is, there can be more money in other niches.

Creating flagship content.

Flagship content is about creating useful resources through your blog.

“Just like Wikipedia is the lazy bloggers go-to reference for general research, your Flagship Content is the place everyone will link to when they think of your topic.”

Besides building your blog’s authority, there are several other benefits that bring long term value to you and your blog, stuff like longevity, visibility and marketability.

I could have a put a summary here but you will gain more value if you have access to the full course by someone I really respect, Chris Garrett’.

This free ebook introduces the concept of Flagship Content and provides all the information you need to create, package and promote compelling resources that attract more attention to your blog.

All you have to do is subscribe to Chris Garrett’s RSS feed and there will be a download link in all the feeds you are receiving. This is not just for newbie bloggers. When someone in his status offers blogging advice,we all should pay attention.

Easy ways of creating blog content.

These methods are not recommended if you want to create a long term authority blog. you can practice these methods if your motivation is just to make money out of the web space you own. Earning potential is very low unless you create hundreds of web sites using these methods. It is possible because the effort you have to put in is also low when comparing with maintaining a authority web site.

Using Article Sites.

You can obtain content from article sites like “Ezine Articles”. No copy right protection laws will be violated if you follow their simple guidelines. There are hundreds of other article sites which you can use. The major disadvantage is you will be penalized for duplicate content issues by Google and other major search engines. It will be very difficult to rank high for your targeted key words.

Using content obtained through a PLR package.

PLR, also known as Private Lable Rights or Master Resale Rights is a package consists of ebooks, articles, softwares which you have the legal rights to modify / use/ distribute. Because of the high distribution usually these packages comes with a very low price.

Again, the major problem is “duplicate content” filters in search engines. You can avoid it by significantly modifying the content. I am planning to offer a 10 GB massive PLR package very soon.

Auto Updating web sites.

You can build content for your web site through RSS feeds of other web sites. Some web sites allow their full RSS feeds to be featured in your web site. Please make sure you read each site’s policy before using their feeds to auto update your web site. There are wordpress pluggins to simpify the whole process.

Hire a Freelance Writer to write content for you.

You can hire writers through most of the web master forums and through sites like elance. This can be costly if you hire professional writers. But this eliminates the major problem associated with all other easy methods. These people write original articles thus there will not be duplicate content problems. Make sure you test their portfolio before hiring them.

I came across this very informative Sqidoo page about freelance writing.

If I have missed any method of creating content for web sites, please do not hesitate to write your ideas using the comments field. I will update this post with most creative ideas with a link to your web site.

Best User Comments.
Nishada said,

“generating content is a problem for most bloggers and I think reading other blogs goes a long way in solving that problem. You have to updated about the latest in your niche and reading the top blogs in your niche is a good way to do that. This in turn helps you get new blog posts ideas.”

We are in the 6th step of ” How to create a blog and make money blogging” series. If you have missed any previous articles here is the index for your easy reference. If you have not created your blog yet, Start building one today !!!

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