How to Choose Your Blog Topic!

5 tips to choose your money making blog topic!

 Creating a niche blog is a great way to blog for money.
This Chapter will teach you how to choose your blog topic to create your own niche blog for money.

  #1 Firsthand experience
 When you write and blog based on something you have firsthand experience with, it shows in your work. Your blog visitors will trust you and this will create more opportunities to make more money blogging.

  #2 General enough to cover a multitude of topics
 Your blog topic should be general enough to cover a multitude of topics, so don’t pick something too specific. This will allow you to cover many areas, attract more visitors to your blog, and create more branches for sharing your knowledge. Take my topic keyword for my blog www.jamaicanlove.org >Jamaica Under the heading of Jamaica, there is an abundance of subjects to blog and write about.  

• The Caribbean
• Bob Marley
• Jamaican Culture
• Jamaican Food and Cooking
• Jamaican Traditions
• Rastafari
• Jamaica travel
• Growing up Jamaican

...just to name a few. If you can cover a multitude of subjects, under your main topic, this will help you spread your wings so to spread as a leader, in that field

 #3 Something you could write about every day!
If you could see yourself writing about your chosen niche topic every day, then perhaps you have the right niche topic in mind. It is important when blogging for money, that you do not get bored or discouraged or run out ideas, because the continuance of making money from your blog will largely depend on your ability to keep creating new content.

 #4 Something you enjoy writing about
If you enjoy your niche topic, the money will come and will come abundantly. Why? Because when you enjoy what you do your enthusiasm will propel you into success. Enthusiasm in work, equals more productivity and generates more public interest in your work.

  #5 How to make blogging for money a breeze!

Ask yourself these 5 questions, to be sure you chose the right topic for your blog!

1. Do I have firsthand experience with this topic?
2. Am I confident I could write an entire book on this subject?
3. Do I consider myself to be an Expert on this topic?
4. Am I confident that I know this subject from every Angle?
5. Could I teach an entire class on this subject?

If you answered yes to all of these questions then blogging for money, with your blog topic, will be a breeze! To Get started I recommend, SBI. They have all the right tools for newbies to get started in the right direction and take the guess work out of building and starting a blog as a source of income. 

Blog for money - tips for building Posts

7 points to write a blog post that pays

Compelling Title A keyword link to money page in the first line Call to Action to buy at the Bottom of page Content (text) of 1000 Words or more Inspiring Photos Informational and inspirational Includes the video equivalent center in content with same post title

Compelling Title!

What do I mean by a compelling title? I title your posts with a title visitors can’t resist. Even if you have to overstate the truth a little bit...do it! Just make visitors want to click the link to your blog post to learn more. Blog post A is titled > “How to Retire Rich” Blog post B is titled > “How to Retire Rich Happy and fabulous” See how these two titles create different pictures in your mind? I would choose to read title b over title a cause title a cause title b sounds like more fun.

A link to money page in your first line

Many people will click a link if they think it will bring them more information on what they are looking for. Make sure the first link on every page is in your first or second line, and highlights the main keyword in your blog title. Here is an example Blog title is.....”How to Visit Jamaica cheaply” Your fist line in your blog post could be something like. >If you want to visit Jamaica cheaply, there are some things you should know to get the best deals possible. (link the words visit Jamaica cheaply) It is important to link your blog is this way for 3 reasons This link highlighting the main keywords in your title, tells search engines that these words are strong/and important. People are likely to click this link because it’s the first link they come across. It is good to cause this link to go to spending page. Clicks are important on a new blog. The more clicks through (into) your blog the more weight the search engines will give your blog the higher page rank you will get in the search engines. So be sure this link clicks to another page on your blog, before it clicks out of your blog.

Type minimum of 1000 words!

Be sure to blog 1000 words minimum for each blog post and blog page. Search engines love blogs with lots of words, and so do your blog visitors. I know this might sound like a lot, but you will get used to it. It takes me about 1- 2 hours to create a good blog post of 1000 words, including photos and links.

Include Inspiring Photos

Let’s face it. People like to feel good. Try to use colorful uplifting happy photos on your blog. This creates a warm inspiring feeling for your blog visitors, and good feelings, equal blog for money dollars in your pocket. It sounds silly, but how else are visitors going to get a visual of what you are blogging about. Choose the most inspiring photos/images you can find to support your blog posts and pages.

Informational and Inspirational Text!

Blog visitors are searching for information that will inspire them and that will teach them something new. Try to include useful information in your blog posts, Big or small. If they were happy with the information they found, next time that same visitor want information on your topic, and guess where they will go? Right back to your blog.

A Call to Action at the end!

If you want to make money blogging, every single one of your blog pages, and blog posts should have a call to action at the end of the blog text that is profitable to you...this could be... Sign up to receive the newest free tips and advice.... (This builds your email list) Check out my new book entitled.... (Promotes yourself written book) An image/photo and description of a product you are promoting (Link it to a buy page)

Includes video equivalent center in the page

Make a video that explains the text already on the page and place it center in the text. Search engines like pages with videos, because it causes visitors to stay on your pages longer, and causes search engines to give your blog a higher rank for that reason. (Do this for every blog page and every blog post; don’t forget to post this video to YouTube to direct traffic to your blog too)

What is a blog?

A blog is the latest trend in websites now a days. There are many reasons internet surfers like to visit blogs, and equal reasons why bloggers like to share information on blogs. Here are just a few...

• A blog is Categorized
• A blog engages website visitors
• A blog is great for following an experience
• A blog is dated and archived
• Some people find a blog to be more personal

Dated and archived

On a typical blog, every post is automatically dated and archived. Blog visitors like this because it allows them to know the most recent blog post the blogger has posted, or to look back on the oldest. This is good for bloggers too cause it helps them to stay organized in their work.

Categorization

Blogs are great because they have "categories." This way if someone is seeking information on something specific, they will know which category is most likely to have the information they are looking for, instead of having to search the entire blog/site.

Take for example...a blog about Jamaica... This blog could have categories like

• Travel
• Food
• People
• Culture

If you are seeking information about what not to pack in your carry on when traveling to Jamaica, you would know clearly which category to check on this particular blog – the travelling category.

Tags

Tags on a blog help search engines know what the blog is about. Tags are keywords and keyword phrases that people might type into search engines, that people might be looking for on a particular topic. Like Dogs or English Dogs, or big English dogs. You get the idea!

Blogs encourage dialogue

Blogs encourage communication between bloggers and blog visitors/subscribers. This helps to build trust, answer questions of site visitors, and helps new visitors learn more buy reading the comments and questions of other site visitors. It a really cool thing! Just visit my blog www.jamaicanloveblog.wordpress.com and read some of the comments. You will find that certain topics stir more response than others.

Following an Experience

One of the best ways to blog for money is to share an experience. When people go online they want to learn something new. Watching someone else experience what it is that you want to learn about is the best way to experience it before you actually go through it yourself. Blogs are great for this!

Examples of experiences that have been blogged about

“My first pregnancy” “Building a House” “My weight loss journey” “My natural hair journey” “Training to enter the Military” “Having twins” Just think, what experiences could you share online that others would like to learn about. Just know you can monetize blog or vlog any jounrey so dont be afraid to share things that are personal.

More Personal

Many internet surfers like blogs because they tend to be more personal. Everyone knows there is someone behind the blog. Therefore getting information from a blog, rather than a website may be seen as more valuable.

Social Sharing Online

One of the greatest features of a blog is the ability for internet surfers to share information online. Most blogs come with buttons built into the blog posts and pages for internet surfers to easily share the information that they find online with others. Social sharing blog buttons include facebook.com, twitter.com, linkedin.com, pinterest.com, tumblr.com and many more.

Sitebuildit!

To make the blogging and sharing experience easy for you if you are a first timeer. I recommend sitebuildit! Sitebuildit has all the tools for the new person online to get started and to ensure one is taking their business blog in the right direction!