Creating and maintaining a money making blog can be both exciting and frustration all at the same time. When creating a blog your excitement level and enthusiasm is high but as time goes on you quickly learn how involved blog building can actually be. There is much to do insofar as optimizing, monetizing, marketing and content creation. Where do you start and where do you focus your efforts especially if you are blogging to make money?

Well obviously you focus your efforts on ways to increase blog traffic to your site which ultimately means catering to your visitors. With the understanding that your readers really do not give a hoot whether you make one red cent most of your efforts will go seemingly unappreciated. The one thing you do want to get right however is posting quality content for your readers. This is probably the most important component of the blog building process. If they like what they read they will return and with this comes loyalty which will eventually lead to you making money.

Here are 3 simple things for you to focus on when blogging to make money to help keep people returning and eventually start making purchases.

Post Regularly

Give people a reason to come back or they quite simply will NOT. Oh and by the way give people something worth their time to read!

Use Keywords Wisely

Do your research and find those words or phrases that are most applicable to your post. A little help from our friends the search engines is always welcome….along with the traffic they send.

Monetize Correctly

Place banners, pop-ups or links that advertise only products that are related to the post or your blogging theme.

Maintaining a money making blog can be very involved from the standpoint that you are striving to attract and retain readers while also marketing to them. Your priorities need to be on establishing reader loyalty however your reason for creating a blog was to earn an income. This takes a delicate balance of time and how you invest your efforts as to whether you will be successful. The 3 areas you need to focus upon as mentioned above will help to increase blog traffic which needs to be your main objective. You will also however want to prepare your site so that visitors will spend money when they are ready. It is important to remember that people care less whether you make any money but at the same time you need their loyalty in order to earn an income. In the end therefore you must FIRST serve their needs with good content and plenty of it.