One of the most common ways to earn money online is to make money by blogging. Many people hear of the idea that one of the best ways to start earning money online is by starting a blog. So they come up with an idea of what to start their blog with, and start posting to their blog posts that are related to their topic, and they add some adsense ads and some affiliate offers all for the purpose to earn loads of cash with their blog.

The key to make money by blogging

Do people really make money by blogging or do they fail to even earn a cent?

One thing you should know is that there are plenty of people that start a blog and post daily to their blog and don’t even earn a cent from their blog. And there are people that hardly post to their blog and earn thousands of dollars each month.

So with that said, in what does it really depend that you do in order to make money? What makes a blog successful?

First of all, before you pick an idea of what to write in your blog, you have to do some research in what people are interested to read about. Let’s say if you will start a blog about watermelon pits, then you have very small chances that somebody will visit your blog, that means small chances to make some money. But if you blog about i-phones, dating, ways to earn money online or so, then you will get visitors to your blog and definitely earn some money.

But, just taking a topic that interests people isn’t enough because the competition is so big that you’ll have to work months upon months to get good rankings for your blog so you’ll get visitors. So you’ll have to break down the big topic into a smaller niche.

For example, let’s take a niche like computers, if you’ll start a blog on computers your blog will get lost between all those big companies that have millions of dollars to invest in their websites. So you could brake it apart into desktops and laptops, but that doesn’t help me too much. So, let’s take laptops you could pick different companies like Toshiba, HP, and so on. Afterward you could take a model number or screen size and write on that topic.

Get the idea? You have to take a niche that doesn’t have too of a big competition. And it should be a niche that interests people. Then you will have success and start to make money by blogging. There are people that just pick the wrong topic that doesn’t interest anybody, so they could have the best blog in the world and it won’t earn them a cent.

The key to success is to pick a good niche to write your blog about.

Shlomo Enden is an experienced blogger and a full time affiliate marketer, who helps other people in ways to earn money online. Visit my website for good ideas on ways to earn extra money.