The modern day blogging has completely evolved from its initial form. What once started as an online diary where people would maintain a narration of their personal lives, blogging has transformed into a money-making industry full of lucrative opportunities. Soon after the term \u2018blog\u2019 was coined in 1998 by Jorn Barger, several online tools for blogging like Blogger, Blogspot and WordPress were introduced. But it wasn\u2019t until 2005 when blogging entered the mainstream as several commercial projects like Mashable, The Huffington Post and TechCrunch took over the blogosphere.<\/p>\n
This is when blogging went from being personal to commercial and from being about passion to money. A \u2018blog\u2019 that was once treated as a personal online space is now used to attract visitors with the intention of earning money<\/a> through multiple sources.Nowadays, it is easy to set up a technology blog<\/a>, install a fancy theme, hire content writers and build enough traffic to attract advertisement requests. Not just that, corporate blogs actually hire content writers to keep their sites running. I\u2019m sure most of these bloggers don\u2019t really do it for the passion.<\/p>\n Did you know that the average salary of a blogger is around $30-40,000 a year in US? Moreover, blogging sites earn millions of dollars every year via pay per click, affiliate linking<\/a> and displaying banner ads. An interesting infographic on SocialMediaToday<\/strong><\/a> revealed the top earning blogs wherein the monthly revenue of The Huffington Post was $2,330,000 followed by Mashable with $560,000 a month. These blogs have established their credibility in the industry. Majority of online consumers have made a purchase based on recommendations from these reputable blogs. Additionally, platforms like Investors Club<\/a> or Logics Valley make it easier for bloggers to monetize their efforts by connecting them with potential buyers and investors interested in purchasing profitable blogs. If one is writing with the intention of making a sales pitch, what is the passion in that?<\/p>\n Although I am not against the idea of turning passion into a living, is every blogger nowadays really passionate about what they do? Or are they simply in it to earn big bucks? How does one determine what the motive really is? Being a blogger myself, I have first-hand experience of both these aspects of blogging. In my opinion, there are certain peculiarities that can ascertain whether a person is blogging just for the sake of it or have other ulterior motives.<\/p>\n After going through all the above mentioned traits of a blogger, the question you need to ask yourself is\u2026why do YOU blog? Are you among several who consider it a financial necessity to blog? Or do you love blogging irrespective of any compensation? You decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The modern day blogging has completely evolved from its initial form. What once started as an online diary where people would maintain a narration of their personal lives, blogging has transformed into a money-making industry full of lucrative opportunities. Soon after the term \u2018blog\u2019 was coined in 1998 by Jorn Barger, several online tools for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[326,297],"tags":[302,304,299,298,303,301,300,305],"class_list":["post-809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entrepreneurship","category-money-making","tag-blogosphere","tag-keyword-oriented-content","tag-mashable","tag-money-making-industry","tag-money-making-proposition","tag-techcrunch","tag-the-huffington-post","tag-trending-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6041,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809\/revisions\/6041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.surveycrest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Blogging as Money-Making Proposition:<\/h2>\n
Passion or Money – How to Determine?<\/h2>\n
You Blog for Passion if you:<\/h3>\n
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You Blog for Money if you:<\/h3>\n
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Why Do YOU Blog?<\/h2>\n