When you want to make a living online there are certain things you have to consider, especially to whom you are writing. Generally I can divide it in three categories. Most of the time bloggers will deny that they blog for the first two but if you be honest you know you are doing it. I do the first two often and that is what brings me income.

So here are the three ways I can divide my blog post aim. Meaning when I type or write a article I have one of these three things in mind.
Blog for traffic

Certain times you will have to do this. Especially when catching and having some great or breaking news. When you have breaking news you have to blog for traffic with Keywords in mind and targeting search engines. Blogging for traffic does not mean you ignore your regular readers it just means you have to do more work in getting your article out there using meta tags and keywords. Some people do this with every post which is not a bad idea but it is time consuming. Time you might not have if you have that breaking story and want to get ahead of news companies.

Blog for money

Writing a blog post for money does also not mean you are ignoring your readers it just means you are trying to sell or promote something. Sometimes regular readers do get annoyed when you type a article for the purpose of making money out of that article. But they have to understand, in order for you to make a living online you would have to type these articles from time to time.

Blog for community

Writing a community article is having only your readers in mind and only focusing on their needs. Focussing on what they want and growing your community by writing post that benefit them. After all it is your readers that keeps your blog going, without them you wont really have a blog. Writing for community should be your main focus if you want to make a name for yourself out there. People dont always want to read the above two “blog for money” and “blog for traffc”. Anyway, if you aim for a brilliant post you will have traffic but please understand the traffic I am talking about in point no1 is the type of traffic you get for breaking news. Traffic that usually would not come to a blog or your blog.

Last of all one I did not mention which should be the most important factor is this:

Blog because you like blogging

Blog because you enjoy blogging. People can clearly see when you are only blogging for money and not really enjoying what you are doing. Blogging for enjoyment is the greatest way to grow a blog. People can see you enjoy yourself and it helps you write quality articles. What better way to to grow a blog than enjoying what you are doing.

Anyway feel free to add more points in the comments. Thanks for reading, remember to bookmark

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