Blogging Can’t Hurt if You Can Create Wealth

If your content makes sense, it doesn’t matter whether you’re doing web writing or hard copy writing. The important thing is that the writer must give the readers an article which the reader will love. Writer material must be interesting and accurate. Much of it depends on the objective of the writer and the writing audience.

Why your audience or readers? Because a real writer has to suit the material by knowing his audience or readers.

A writer writing children’s book or website would know how to use words and animations that fit the interest of a “kiddie audience”. The Disney website is an example of great writing copy geared for children. Whether one writes a children’s book or a website, however, makes no difference because both are legitimate writing. The only difference is in the medium.

By the same token, when one writes a business copy, it doesn’t matter much whether one is doing it for a website or for a magazine. The fact remains that content matters. A business article should be interesting enough for readers to read online. Though business articles may be deemed boring to most readers, the treatment of the story can change all that. A good writer would know how to do a good re-write to catch the attention of both online and hard copy readers. In cases like business writing, a good writer must know the subject to do a re-write. One cannot write about the recent economic bailout without knowing details and making the connection between Wall Street and the main street. Main street would not be interested in a bail out article that’s comprehensive unless the writer can put in it terms that involve “the folks”. The same folks remember are your readers.

Most goes for all kinds of writing. Personal blogs/websitesare also legitimate writing if it happens to be interesting, witty, or funny. Universal appeal is a factor which makes a blog/websites garner more clicks per page. How-to-do things, gardening, relationship and comic blogs are almost always popular because nost readers are interested in things they can do in their routinary lives. There is nothing ordinary about information that will give your folks new and interesting information about “ordinary” things. Frugal living tips, how to save energy, how to fix your own toilet, how to prepare your Halloween turkey are seasonal favorites whether they are written online or not.

Legitimate writing depends on the writer. No one else can make one’s work “legit”, but your style and accuracy. If your readers

come back to your blog and appreciate your work because you’ve suited your material to fit what they want, that makes you a legitimate writer.

The medium doesn’t make a writer legitimate or not. It is the writer’s skill which does. A journalist may do a good story and it will still be a great story whether it’s published on a newspaper or a website. Most newspapers are online and have the same writers as those in their “real” newspapers.

They get read pretty much more when they decide to go online and they remain legitimate writers and newspapers even if they’re both online and hard copy writers. On the other hand, some writers start their ebooks online and end up selling them as hard copy when publishers like Lulu or Amazon find out that they’re interesting enough to market.

There are legitimate writers for news and commentary like moveon dot org, huffington post or lifestyle magazines such as life after fifty dot com and lifestyle online. Those who write for all these online publications are most definitely legitimate writers. If the internet did not exist they would still be good writers and would probably still be writing for publications.

Good writers cannot be classified as online writers or hard copy writers. If you are writing web content that is popular, accurate and well-written, you are a legitimate writer. Your skill, creativity and content is what matters.

The greatest internet success story is the story of Pierre Omidyar, a French-Iranian born in Paris who migrated to the USA. Omidyar believed that the human race is basically good and that online selling and buying would work. This is a man who believed that auction online would work, yet, he had never been to an auction all his life. Thus, in 1995, he tried and set up his own site called Auctionweb which mainly sold antique,books, eletrical equiptment, comics and computer items.

Remarkably, despite the naysayers who said it wouldn’t work, it did.

Omidyar left his regualr job and hired a single employee by the name of Chris Agarpao. Actionweb was doing so well, though at that time he only had a modest office with only about two chairs and a table. Despite this, in 1995, Auctionweb hosted over ten thousand bids. His business was working so he decided to later call his enterprise Echo Bay, but that name was taken by a Canadian company in Nevada. So he settled for ebay. Yes, the same great Ebay today. Seeing the profitability of the idea, real enterpreneurs were only too willing to help him – including Magraret Whitman (now Mccain’s Campaign Manager) who helped develop ebay into the what it is today. Last we heard from Omidyar he was drining a 4 million dollar car and he’s retired at 41. He founded the Omodyar Network that does philantrophy and humanitarian work positively affecting millions of people.

There were also the four young Israeli teenagers in 1996 who started Mirabilis net and tried to invent a “chatting” software. These four young teenagers then, were all computer “nerds”, who wanted to give out free soft ware that anyone can download to communicate with anyone in the world. Thus, was born ICQ. In 1998, AOL bought the software from Mirabilis and these “kids” are now retired millonaires. That’s the second best success internet story. Today there are 700 million users of ICQ in the planet.

At 21 years old Mark Zukerberg, a computer “nerd” since he was in grade 6, decided to come up with a computer programme that can be used for all Harvard students for networking and showing off their profiles. This later expanded to include most of the Coleges and Universities in the USA. He lauched Facebook in March 2004. Today, there are about 7 million users all over the globe.

Alex Tew was just an extremely broke College student who needed money. After some thirty minutes of “desperate thinking” he came up with the idea of selling one million pixels of advertising

space on a website for $1 each. Initially, he thought of it as an insane idea but he had no choice but TRY. Besides, he had nothing to lose. He had his homepage, a million dollar idea dot com online and running two days later and sold his “ad space” at Ebay.

It was the UK media buyers who bought his space (ad pixels) and he managed to sell millions of them after those selling products found out that his idea worked.

Today, Tew is rich and is taking his time deciding what next to do in his life despite the fact that most of the huge computer companies were offering him the best jobs. His advise : “Keep trying. Be creative. And never listen to nay sayers!”

Mr. Darren Rowse is another internet success story.In November 2002, he started his first blog that covered everything from topics of culture, spirituality,politics, emerging church and life in Australia. Being a Christian, Rowse also wrote about his hopes, dreams and point of views. He urged his Christian community to join him. That was when problogger began which now helps other bloggers earn money by blogging. He was also the first to write one “killer” article about digital cameras that made him discover how Google’s Adsense contextual ad system works and today, he maintains 20 blogs and google adsense sustains his comfortable living as he keeps on blogging.

There are probably a hundred of thousands success stories on the web. These are the main examples of how a small idea followed through, can be like a seed which gains for anyone a million fold back. Perhaps there is some truth in Rhonda Byrne’s Law of Attraction. Find out and try whatever you’re thinking. It just might work.

Most of the traffic generating websites and blogs are written by writers who are innately driven to write. Naturally, it becomes even more inspiring when people read what you write and though this may be motivating, most writers write because they feel good about writing.

Still what makes a writer feel a sense of euphoria is knowing that people are reading what he or she has written.

When one keeps a blog, for instance, and the everyday blog traffic increses, the writer feels a deep sense of fulfillment. Do writers really need inspiration to write? Perhaps, though I’d doubt if the cents or the few dollars we get at a writing site “inspires” us. Most of us write because we want to as if our lives depended in it, or else, we wouldn’t be here.

Motivation to write traffic generating articles? What else gives writers more motivation than knowing that his or her blog is being read? What “makes” the traffic however is something that writers should try and figure out. Sometimes it is mere luck, as in the case of Darren Rowse who started to blog because he wanted to start a personal journal. His effort, by some quirk of luck, earned for him millions thanks to his “traffic” which was pretty light initially when he invited his first comunity of friends. Today, his site problogger dot net has millions of hits a day. His millions started from the effort he first started in 2002. It was not an over night success, but today, he is a millionaire. Yet he’s still being “sustained” by twenty more blogs that he manages, all of them TOPS, and that certainly is the best motivation.

Pragmatically however, a blog or website generates traffic when the writer knows his or her expertise. Most of the top blogs are all about one “theme”. They aren’t a hodge-podge of disconnected subjects. The best blogs always seem to have a running theme, some call it “niche writing”. This means that writing about what one is most passionate and knowledgeable about. If one is a History or a Computer whiz, write a blog that specializes on these topics. It will certainly generate traffic because this will attract readers who have the same interest and thus have your audience interact with you. As long as there is interaction between the blog writer and the audience/readers, therewill always be traffic.

Sure SEO experts and key words are important and help generate traffic, but a gardening “nut” would not be out in googling searching for keywords and meta tags that are in your blog if your blog happens

to be about computers or History. Bloggers attract their own kind which is why writing about something you know matters.

Humans are also motivated to blog because they want to be a part of something. That’s why social networking sites like MY Space and Face Book have become big business. These networking sites know that human beings want to “connect” and it is filling this need which makes them “give people” free accounts, sub-domains, blogs or web sites.

In return, they do advertisers pay them big bucks. Fill and human need and you’ll surely get blog “traffic”.

Help people and you’ll earn. This is true with those do-it-yourself-sites. When one needs a plumbler in the middle of winter and can’t find one, one tries to “find help” in the web to do the job. Besides, what can be more motivating than coming up woth a job that helps others? You get traffic and know that you’re helping people. Not a bad deal at all.

Making money always is a motivator, a huge one. That’s exactly why there’s adsense, adbrite, paidtoblog, apsense, link exchanges and hundreds of opportunities to “sell” your ad space, your ideas or even your articles, products and services in your blog.

Reading news that a blog sold for 15 million, which is true, is definitely a motivator. At a time when the economy doesn’t seem to be looking too good, there is John Wu who just sold his website, bankcoholic dot com, for a whopping 15 million and he still manages the blog (and gets paid for it) after the sale. Here’s his story.

Writer’s write, some writers write and make money. Either way, it’s a win-win activity because most writers are happy because they write. But they would be a million percent happier if they get paid for it well.

Home page online copy is expected to be an excellent abstract of everything that you or your website is all about and a general definition of what products or services you sell. If it’s a personal blog or website, home page copy is usually the “About Me” page which gives your online readers an idea of who you are. Thus, writing home page copy should be precise, but not too detailed. Good copy also means that you can hold your readers or audience to red on and navigate through your whole site.

Thus, a home page should be interesting and not a longish discourse about each and every product or services you are offering. Remember that most of your readers are browsing through the internet. Browsing is exactly what it means, a cursury reading. To make your online reader or audience to stay on your page is the first thing that matters. Your copy must be catching and interesting enough to motivate further reading of your website. The hone page is where you put ON the right details. It is much like a written “trailer” of your whole website where you pitch in the best about you and your products.

Your home page must be written geared to your marketing niche. This means that you should know your niche, or your prospective market. You must know what “tickles” and “teases” them so that they would keep on reading. Writing an inviting home page is only hard if one doesn’t know your niche. Knowing your niche means that you know what’s the latest that a particular commercial or type of readers are “crazy about at the moment”. Thus, if you are offering something like clothing and bags in your site, you should know what’s “hot” about clothes and bags. By the same token you must also know what’s the latest fad diet should you happen to be selling a diet or anything related to it. Not knowing your niche is one of the most common mistakes that online marketeers make. One does not sell mint chocolates, for instance, to low-carbohydrate dieters who are looking over the websites. If it’s a personal blog, your writing must run through about one general theme (for instance lifestyle) so that your readers know exactly what your blog is generally about.

Your copy must be comprehensible. Consider that not everyone may understand stiff high-falooting linggo. Thus, if you are selling a product, like an air balloon, say why your products are better than the rest without having to go through an explanation of the law of gravity. Instead, talk about why your balloons are preferable than that offered by your competitors. Talk about colors, size, safety and speed. Have about three of the major languages options on your site. The more people who understand your home page, the more they are bound to read and stay on your page.

Your home page must have clean copy. This means that your copy must be free from grammatical errors. Grammatic errors give the impression that you do not care enough to produce GOOD copy. Show that you care about your readers by writing RIGHT. Good grammatical copy displays that you are reliable, responsible and that you care for your readers. Besides, no one who writes “bad copy” is taken seriously, particularly online. If you have to hire a copy editor, do so.

Keep your home page neat. No one wants to read anything that hurts the eye. Avoid using irritating fonts or glittering ones. No matter how neat or clean or copy may be, if it’s something they’re in purple fonts against a glittery background, no one would appreciate your copy. Your copy must be as good as your web design. Avoid a frenzied home page sputtered by too many pictures(jpegs), pictures and glitters. Readong your copy must be pleasant, not a “feat”.

Design your words to fit into major keywords and meta tags so that search engines will “mind ” your page.There is such a thing as “designing copy” to fit most search engines. This is why a simple abstract is better. You can later have your copy (or website) submitted to most search engines. If you have to use one of these SEO word analyzers, do so if yours is a business site. The ROI is assured if your site comes out on the top ten search list.

While there is literally no such thing as a perfect copy, you sure can come close to it. Going over some of the most blogs with the most “hits” (try using Alexa) will give you an idea of what a perfect copy almost is. Keep things “tantalizingly simple”is a good start for the home page.

If your content makes sense, it doesn’t matter whether you’re doing web writing or hard copy writing. The important thing is that the writer must give the readers an article which the reader will love. Writer material must be interesting and accurate. Much of it depends on the objective of the writer and the writing audience.

Why your audience or readers? Because a real writer has to suit the material by knowing his audience or readers. A writer writing children’s book or website would know how to use words and animations that fit the interest of a “kiddie audience”. The Disney website is an example of great writing copy geared for children. Whether one writes a children’s book or a website, however, makes no difference because both are legitimate writing. The only difference is in the medium.

By the same token, when one writes a business copy, it doesn’t matter much whether one is doing it for a website or for a magazine. The fact remains that content matters. A business article should be interesting enough for readers to read online. Though business articles may be deemed boring to most readers, the treatment of the story can change all that. A good writer would know how to do a good re-write to catch the attention of both online and hard copy readers. In cases like business writing, a good writer must know the subject to do a re-write. One cannot write about the recent economic bailout without knowing details and making the connection between Wall Street and the main street. Main street would not be interested in a bail out article that’s comprehensive unless the writer can put in it terms that involve “the folks”. The same folks remember are your readers.

Most goes for all kinds of writing. Personal blogs/websitesare also legitimate writing if it happens to be interesting, witty, or funny. Universal appeal is a factor which makes a blog/websites garner more clicks per page. How-to-do things, gardening, relationship and comic blogs are almost always popular because nost readers are interested in things they can do in their routinary lives. There is nothing ordinary about information that will give your folks new and interesting information about “ordinary” things. Frugal living tips, how to save energy, how to fix your own toilet, how to prepare your Halloween turkey are seasonal favorites whether they are written online or not.

Legitimate writing depends on the writer. No one else can make one’s work “legit”, but your style and accuracy. If your readers come back to your blog and appreciate your work because you’ve suited your material to fit what they want, that makes you a legitimate writer.

The medium doesn’t make a writer legitimate or not. It is the writer’s skill which does. A journalist may do a good story and it will still be a great story whether it’s published on a newspaper or a website. Most newspapers are online and have the same writers as those in their “real” newspapers. They get read pretty much more when they decide to go online and they remain legitimate writers and newspapers even if they’re both online and hard copy writers. On the other hand, some writers start their ebooks online and end up selling them as hard copy when publishers like Lulu or Amazon find out that they’re interesting enough to market.

There are legitimate writers for news and commentary like moveon dot org, huffington post or lifestyle magazines such as life after fifty dot com and lifestyle online. Those who write for all these online publications are most definitely legitimate writers. If the internet did not exist they would still be good writers and would probably still be writing for publications.

Good writers cannot be classified as online writers or hard copy writers. If you are writing web content that is popular, accurate and well-written, you are a legitimate writer. Your skill, creativity and content is what matters.

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