What a blog can do for you - Part II

Hello friends, this is the Part II of "What a blog can do for you?"

In Part I we saw some personal advantages of writing for own blog. I am not going to pursue you to leave your habit of writing for another blogs or sites and start your own blog. I just want share with you my views, which may need corrections and suggestions from you. Please do it through comments.

I understand that both Writing in your own blog and in other sites have their own advantages as well as disadvantages. With your own blog, you have plenty of freedom such as what you want to write, how lengthy or short you want to write , what picture or video you want to use to spruce up your blog etc. If you write for other sites you may need to follow the rules and regulations of a site administrator, which may not be always as per your imagination. Mostly if you fail to stick to the site's rules, chances are high that it may result in deletion of your articles. So your personal blogs have advantage when it comes to freedom. The benefit of writing own blog is that one can write according to one's wishes and abilities. If you have enough knowledge about a particular subject, you can write good articles on that subject but you may not be so successful in writing on other subjects. So if you do not have your own blog, then you have to accept the subjects which may not be of your choice. So the quality of writing may not be maintained if you are writing for others. In such situation your work will not get the recognition.

Now let us look into the other side of blog' Make money out of your blogs. When it comes to earning, your own blog may not be that beneficial as you thought initially. You need to promote your site /website all alone, which is tiring and a continuous time taking process. You need to learn a lot of things about Search Engine Optimization techniques. Now a days are there are many sites from where you can learn Search Engine Optimization techniques free of cost.  So naturally it requires different skills and knowledge. So if one wants to earn through blog then one has to think of marketing it effectively.On the other hand, when you are writing for some other sites, there are whole bunch of experts to promote that site and you get paid for the page impression or a certain percentage of ad revenue that your articles generate for that site. If you are writing for another site, you may get writing tasks different from your skills and interests. It pushes you to learn new things in life. If you continue write about your own interests, you may miss many of other areas of knowledge, which if you put a little effort could be an enjoyable experience in learning and writing.

Thus an own blog may be for those who are exceptionally good at marketing,writing and other computer related activities, if your prime objective is making some money from blogging. So, your purpose with a blog is important to decide whether you need to go for an own blog or just write and earn money in other blogs/sites. For most people, the tendency would be to earn some bucks from what you do. Writing for other sites is a short term option to earn money from your online activities.

The bad thing with writing for other sites is that your writing may be posted in multiple sites by the site owners without your permission. You might have put your energy in researching the internet and books to write an article. You can see your well researched articles all over the internet without your name on it. For many of you this may be annoying and frustrating because you do not get the proper recognition for your hard work. We need to accept the fact that this is the way those sites works and make money and share the revenue with you. You have to decide between two options;

• To write for other sites and remain free from all worries of updating the blog and marketing it to earn regularly.
• To write your own blog and earn reputation. You make money at a later stage as you grow if you wish.

An own blog gives you passive income, but may not be good for those looking desperately to make money from online activities. If your prime objective is to make money, then you need to develop skills required to market your blogs, while updating your blogs regularly with quality content. 

Writing up to here, I feel the post about 'What a blog can do for you?' is still incomplete. I may update this content at a later stage with more inputs. Till then good bye.