How to Make Money with a Blog: Don’t be Afraid to Write
A lot of people tell me the reason why they don’t write in their blog regularly is because they’re too afraid their writing is not good enough for the Internet. They’re afraid search engines, like Google, act as quality filters that syphon off only scholarly and professional articles while leaving amateur and laymen blogs in the mud.
There are a couple of reasons why this is not so. Firstly, and the most important in my opinion, is that search engines are not perfect. The reason why a blog post ranks the way it does in search results depends on a many number of factors, quality just being one of them. The domain name itself plays a huge role in the placement of search results. For example, if you were to search for the phrase “make money online”, the first result to come up may be the site ‘makemoneyonline.com’. Is this the best site when it comes to finding out how to make money online? Probably not, but it managed to rank in first place because its domain name matched so closely with the search phrase. Once it ranks first, it’s easier for it to stay there since other people find it and link to it.
A second reason why you shouldn’t be afraid to write on the Internet is because not everyone on here is a scientest or professional journalist. Many are just kids, young teenagers, people who have never received any type of higher education and don’t intend to do so. You’re afraid to write because you would sound naive and foolish to Professor Brainstein, but what you fail to realize is that for every professional that visits your site ten times the amount of average people visit it as well. When you write useful or interesting information in a certain field that the average reader did not know, no matter how basic, it’s likely that he or she will link to your article. Your article may not be the one of highest quality about the topic, but the one that was linked the most by average readers because it was the easiest to understand.
So, if you know you can’t write perfectly all is not lost. Your goal isn’t to write for the small number of geniuses in life, but for the masses. If you doubt what I’ve said here is correct, you must agree that although this article is far from perfect, you still found it anyway.
