Why should you blog? What is the purpose of posting your thoughts on the internet for all interested to see? For me, it started out for me trying to make some extra money from Google Adsense, ads that are generated on your blog site that earn money for the writer. To be brutally honest I have yet to reach the payment threshold which is $100 U.S. dollars, after blogging for several years. Currently, I am at $50.60, halfway there. So perhaps you might consider blogging as a potential source of income, but do not quit your regular job yet. Making money with Adsense depends on many factors such as traffic to your blog, ads that it generates and whether or not your audience clicks on the ads or not. However being diligent in posting fresh, relevant, evergreen, well-written content will increase your potential to make money with your blog.
I see nothing wrong with trying to make some extra income from your blog but aside from making money why else should you blog? To be heard, I believe most people who have something to say want to be heard. I believe the popularity of FaceBook is partly because it gives people a platform where they can share what's on their mind. So then why not just FaceBook? Good question, many share their thought on FaceBook, or/or Twitter, and that is great for most people. But what about a long post such as I am sharing, might seem too long for FaceBook, too many words for Twitter but as a blog post it is just fine. For me, I feel freer writing blog posts than other social media because it goes out to strangers rather than friends and family, things I blog about may not be something I want to share with people I know. I know that sounds strange, call me a weirdo, whatever, that is my hangup. Apart from making money, having a platform to be heard from is another reason to blog.
Another reason to blog is a good one and an unselfish one is to be a help to others. To be able to take your knowledge and share with others via the world wide web is a great privilege we have in our modern day tech-rich society. It is a good thing to take the knowledge and gifts God has given you and share that so that others might benefit from it. As a Christian, I can use my blog to share my faith and tell others about how Jesus died for their sins and how God raised Him on the third day, and how they can have eternal life by placing their faith in Jesus for the forgiveness of their sins and the salvation of their soul. Sorry for the run-on sentence but just wanted to take an opportunity to share Jesus and give an example of how a blog can be used to benefit others.
Lastly, blogging is a good therapy, a good way to get things off your chest, out of your mind and into written words. For me, knowing someone might read my words is an incentive for me to write them in a blog along with the potential to make Adsense revenue. I have always enjoyed writing and blogging gives me an outlet for my writing.
Should you blog? Is it for you? Maybe it is, maybe no. Perhaps it could be a way to share all that wisdom and knowledge that is crowding that brain of yours. Maybe it could turn into a stream of extra income, might be able to quit your day job. Or it might just be a good outlet for the writer in you to
publish your thoughts to an unlimited audience.
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