I just came across these two posts and gained a few nuggets of gold in a matter of minutes.  It’s about sharing so here are the posts and the links for you to learn and enjoy.

Speeding Links For Search For Blogging Readers – Week 50

Template for Building a Small Powerful Network

With great points like these it’s hard not to succeed online.  For me the creating networks, helping and learning from others is a key to success in any form.  It doesn’t matter if you want to make money online make money blogging or just want to work from home doing freelance writing.

When you engage others with the intent of bringing value, you can’t help but succeed along the way.

I hope you enjoy these two articles and gleam a bit of knowledge from them as I did.

Make Money Blogging

If writing is an art, then, blogging is an art museum. This is because bloggers are  the ones who create from within, carefully sculpting words that best describe their feelings, thoughts, wishes, wants, and everything.

Basically, blogs started as weblogs that refer to a “server’s log file.” Since its inception in the mid-1990s, blogging gradually saturated the virtual community making the Internet a great source of information.

However, back in the day, you still needed a web site and domain name, but today, you don’t need anything except an account with a free blog hosting site. In almost all cases, these kinds of blogs are free.

In most cases, blogs are created for personal use. Like a journal, people can write about anything including their adventures, their good times, bad times, and whatever ideas they want to share.

Nowadays, with the explosion of online businesses, blogs have gradually started being used for both business and pleasure.  Blogs have given businesses the opportunity to improve their brand and impact people on a different level.

Business blogs are used to advertise and communicate to customers and potential customers about their services or products.  They give the business owner another form of communication.

Because of this, now more than ever, you can use blogs to make money online.  And it’s easier than ever.

So, if you are thinking about starting a blog, whether to make money online or for pleasure, you should consider a few guidlines that could help you get the most from your blog.

Here’s a few things you should know…

Know Your Audience

It doesn’t matter if your blog is for business or personal you’ve got to consider who your audience is. You’ve got to keep them interested.

It’s about sharing infromation.  So even if it’s all about you, keeping it interested is a good way to gather a following.

Use Pictures

Blogging is writing so there are only two ways to paint pictures.  Either use livley picture words or use pictures on your blog. There are many places where you can get pictures online.  One of my favorites is iStockPhoto.com because they have thousands of high quality pictures available for cheap.

Make Your Blog Relevant

You can write about anything at all and that’s perfectly fine but you want to consider how relevant your information is.

Does your audience want to know what you’re writing about?  Sometimes that relevancy makes your blog that much more interesting.

Don’t Make Your Blog Difficult To Read

This comes back to knowing your audience.  But if you want to reach the most people as possible it helps if you keep things simple to read and understand.

Yes, blogs are not created equal. They can be for fun, for profit, and even both.

Think about why you want to start one and get to it.  You just might enjoy it.