2 Main Challenges For Making Money With Your Blog

Blogs are fast growing internet phenomenon. This is no surprise considering the benefits that the blogs bring to their owners.  Aside from being a great tool for promoting their cause and sharing their opinion with the rest of the world the blogs are also opportunity for making money online. There are blogs started with a purpose of making money by selling advertisement place or  selling affiliate products.

However not  all blogs perform equally well when it comes to making money for their owners.  If you wish to start a blog for the purpose of monetizing it then there are challenges you must face to convert it to a high earning blog. There are many factors that influence how profitable your blog will be, but there are two main challenges you must face if you wish to be making a decent profit from your blog:

1.  Driving traffic to your blog. Most important thing that will make or break your blog as an income source is the number of visitors that will come to your blog and keep coming back in the future. To achieve this requires lot of patience and hard work. The most important thing to do  this is by creating quality content for your blog. Both people and search engines love fresh and unique content so you can forget about  publishing articles from article directories or other blog. There are two ways you can create quality content for your website. One way is to write it yourself, the other way is to pay to freelance writers to write it for you.  Another important thing to drive traffic to your blog is promoting it. You can use social media, commenting on other blogs, guest posting on other blogs of similar niche that are established to promote your blog and build backlinks which are important for search engine optimization.
2.  Find the best way to monetize your blog. Driving traffic to your blog is the hardest part of making money with a blog, but that is not the whole story. The other also important part for making your blog profitable is finding the best method to monetize it. Various monetization methods are not equally successful for all blogs. You must experiment to find the best one for your blog. You can monetize your blog by placing ads or affiliate links, or sponsored postings. Some blogs make most of their money from AdSense, other from affiliate programs an other by selling advertising spot to advertisers for a fixed amount of money for a certain time period. Blog owner usually use combination of monetization methods to make money with their blogs. 

Those are the two major challenges of creating a profitable blog. How profitable your blog will be depends mostly on you. How much work are you ready to put in and are you prepared to experiment to find the best ways for making money with a blog. If you think that writing a few blog posts and placing some ads on your blog is enough to money start rolling in you simply lie to yourself.