Make a Real Living Off Your Blog in 2007

Make a Real Living off Your Blog in 2007 by Paula Neal Mooney

Blogging is "hot ta death," as the kids would say. So this New Year's Day 2007 has me ruminating over ways to increase my blogging-from-home (or wherever) business goals to reach my ultimate goal: making a real living and drawing a six-figure-plus salary from blogging in 2007.

Funny how some people laugh at that goal or write "good luck!" as if making a living off your blog is some kind of impossible dream. But I know that God is no respecter of persons, and if Darren Rowse and Michael Arrington can do it, so can I thru Christ.

So here goes with my blogging goals and visions for 2007, which all will intrinsically help to increase my revenue by driving blog traffic and the like. Hope they help you quit the job you hate -- that you're so stressed over you get sick in the parking lot upon arrival -- and make all your money doing the blogging thing you love:

Subscribe to more blogs, leave more comments...This morning I went thru my Associated Content email archive and subscribed to a lot of other content producers' pages and added them to my Favorite CPs tab. I know I've been a little stingy in this regard. Oh look how they worship me! Sure I leave comments, but the Lord showed me how much people have been e-mailing and supporting me and reading my work without me reciprocating. So I vow in 2007 to be even more supportive of folks who are kind enough to leave me comments and actually read their stuff. Cast your bread upon the waters and in many days it will return to you...

Stay up on the latest techie stuff...like Business 2.0 magazine, which seems so up on the latest Web 2.0 happenings. I'm also subscribing left and right to other blogs for up-to-the-minute happenings. Plus, I will act sooner on good techie tips like the one email I got from Google Adsense explaining how to implement video ads. I'm finding they pay a lot better since I've put them on my blog...

Increase pageviews. Google Analytics said my blog received 47,597 pageviews for the month of December. Not too shabby, bless the Lord. So my goal is too keep doing what I'm being led to do and skyrocket that number by following the edict to...