You can make big money blogging. There are people just like you that have created blogs that initially garnered a few dollars and went on to make a $1000 a day.

So why are blogs such money makers?

There are several reasons. First of all, blogs are personal. These websites are windows into the life of real people. They build relationships with readers. A certain degree of intimacy can be created.

Secondly, their interactive, other people can comment and start up a dialogue when the blogger hits a resonant chord.

A third reason for their growing popularity is that blogs are easy-to-build. They make it accessible for anyone to have a website without paying a webmaster a huge sum.

So why do these factors cause a blogs to be big money magnets?

The answer is found by doing what police detectives do: You follow the money.

On the Internet huge amounts of money gets raked in by the Search Engines.

Google, Yahoo!, MSN and other browsers – like companies in every other industry – are all vying for marketshare. More people means more money. To gain advantage users like you and me must feel the browser is helping us find what we need.

To the people who run the search engines that means having a way of bringing you the information you want. As a customer you type in words describing what you are looking for. You hope that you get a list of very relevant sites that really match what you want.

The better the browser can do this the less likely you will be to hop over to another competing search engine.

So, it is in the best interest of these companies to create better search results for you. These organizations have created smart little robots – called bots or spiders – that troll the Internet looking those sites that are popular over time and have a lot of up-to-date information.

The bottom line is that search engine spiders are looking for two things: fresh content and places that other people go to regularly.

Blogs provide that.

Because the information is personal and unique – written by both the blogger and readers – blogs consistently create new content. Spiders love it and so they reward you with a higher ranking in the search results page.

The higher you get on the pages the more visitors are likely to check out your blog. You become what is called “an authority site.”

The next thing that makes your blog very popular is having links from other authority sites. To the bots having other well-liked sites point to you means you must be offering relevant information. It means the same thing to people as well.

So now you can see that the important thing about blogs is that they attract traffic.

Thousands of people click on the very first links they find when the search engine brings them results. Your blog can be right up there on the list.

On the Internet getting lots of traffic is the first part of a formula for making money. The second part has to do with what precisely you put on your blog that people can buy.

Stay tuned, on the next post I will show you exactly what it takes to make money blogging.

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