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An Ultimate Lifestyle Secret - Blogging is Not as Easy as You Think

Do you have any idea how many blogs there are on the Internet? Statistics indicate that while you were reading that question and trying to figure out the answer, more than two dozen new blogs were started up.

There are literally millions of blogs online today. People are tripping over each other in their rush to start their own. Why? Money! The word is out that you can make money with a blog. Most people using the Internet began doing so because they heard that a lot of money could be made there. However, when they realized the amount of work and the expense involved in creating a website, they backed off. Then blogs came along. For quite a while, most people didn’t really understand them and had no idea just how profitable they could be.

Then new technology and development made it so that even a young child could create a blog and the race was on. Everyone wants one so that they can get in on the cash windfall.

However, after a few days of blogging the new blogger realizes that money isn’t pouring into their pocket. They also learn that blogging is work. They have to create entries of interesting information to get people to visit their blog, and that is work. They are spending much more time on their blog than they realized that they had to and still no money is flowing in. In fact they haven’t made a single penny yet, unless it was from a relative that felt sorry for them.

They have now discovered that it takes a lot of work to get people to visit their blog. It takes even more to convert that traffic into paying customers.

What they have discovered is that it takes about one-half hour to write, spell-check, edit and post a 400 to 500 word blog entry. Multiply that by one entry per day for a month and you have spent 15 hours of work with no monetary return. Fifteen hours of work at a fast food outlet would result in more than $100. Where is this windfall of money that should be flooding in?

Now reality starts to set in. At this point a lot of new bloggers will give up and abandon their blog. Many of them didn’t even write or post 30 entries in their first month and probably would never reach that many even if they continued with it. I don’t know if you are aware of it, but the Internet is cluttered with blogs that were started with good intentions and then abandoned like an orphan. Most fell victim to the "blogging is work syndrome." Don’t let it get you too!

The blogs that keep going are those started by someone who will keep it up even if they never make any money at it. Their reason for starting a blog was that they had a passion to write about the topic they chose. They have interest and knowledge on the topic, and their expertise shows in the quality of their entries.

Their readers come back over and over just to see what the blogger will say next. They also pull out their credit card to buy the product(s) that the blogger recommends because they like the style of the blogger and trust him or her to provide quality products because they know that the information provided in the blog contains quality. They also click on interesting Google ads or subscribe to newsletters associated or recommended by "their" blogger.

Don’t be fooled by the fluff and rumors that blogging is easy. Blogging is a lot of work, but if you enjoy your chosen topic it doesn’t seem quite as arduous. It is also much easier and beneficial when the blog is kept up to date with useful information.