Blogging is still a hobby for some people, but the more savvy ones have learned how to use blogs to earn online. Can you really earn off a blog? You can, if you start correctly.You may have heard of ways to earn from blogging, but unfortunately, there are also many ways to sabotage your own blog’s success.
Here are the 2 ways to kill a blog without really trying.
Mistake #1: Using Free Hosting THEN transferring to a hosting account that you don’t own
Whether you’re dabbling at this online marketing thing, or you’re seriously looking for a day job alternative, get your own hosting account. I recommend the Platinum Package from Bluehost. You’ll get a free domain, and all the space you need to accommodate your blog data
That last bit is important because active blogging means storing an ever-increasing amount of data in your database. If you go cheapo on your online business and you won’t pay 7 dollars a month to own server space, you risk losing this data if your host suddenly decides to cut your hosting.
About free blog spots: these are OK, but….
When you start blogging, you also start making friends online. People who like your blog will link to you and use your FREE subdomain’s url. As your blog grows, you’ll lose track of who’s linking to you and who’s been telling their friends about your blog. If you change your blog’s URL because you finally decided to avail of hosting, you risk losing the link love from those who sent traffic your way in the past.
Mistake #2: Publishing Unrelated Content
Your visitors read your website for a reason, and they will come back (via their bookmarks) in the future for the same reason. Your topic is your main selling point. If you write about sales, all your posts must be related to sales. You may write about other things, but you should always find a way to link any topic to your main one.
Let me reiterate: people come to your site because they are interested in what you have to say about a particular topic. Try to maintain an acceptable level of consistency.
