Teachmeblogg

You might have heard that you can’t make money as a blogger. A few bloggers can manage if they generate superhuman levels of traffic, like Perez Hilton or ICanHasCheezburger (the LOLCat blog). For ordinary mortals like you and me? You’ll be lucky to pay your Chipotle bill from advertising. You need a model that works in the real world. First, take a look at a post I wrote on exactly this topic, called Why You Can’t Make Money Blogging. One of the things I talk about in that post is that, for those who aren’t seeing stratospheric traffic, we need to solve real problems in order to make a decent living. Copyblogger, even though it’s one of the most popular blogs on the web, takes this approach. We don’t go the “blog celebrity” route, because that’s subject to fads and fashion, and we like to build our business on something more enduring than that. Instead, we provide lots of solutions to real-world problems with our free content, and we offer additional solutions involving p...