While visiting some blogs yesterday, it made me think why most bloggers start a blog? Although it may seem quite logical why most bloggers start blogging, I would still like to tell you guys why I and most of you started blogging?

Money-Blogging is  lucrative and offers a way to make some cash.

Fun-Blogging is fun as you can express your opinions, and the fact that you could make some extra cash makes it even more fun.

Interaction-I love surfing the internet and the chance getting to know different kind of people from different places interests me. Getting regular readers to my blog also makes me feel good.

Challenging-For me blogging is a challenge and makes me put my mind to something useful. It also makes me strive to be successful and  keeps me motivated.

These are my main reasons why I blog. All these reasons combined make me blog. Every person has different needs and reasons to blog. Some people only blog for the money, while others do it for fun. As all these reasons are different I will go into more detail .

Blogging For Cash

Oh yehe…The ultimate reason to blog. Now I’m not going to lie to every one of you, the main reason why I started to blog was because I saw that blogging was a good and steadily increasing business with a lot of potential. After reading other successful blogs time after time I decided to start one myself. Inspired by the fact some blogger´s were making some good money.

Although I don’t only think about making money with this blog, it is still a important part of blogging and definitely one of my long term goals I’ve  set for this blog.

Making money online with a blog can be a tough and long journey, but if you try and work hard it can make your job easier.

I know for a fact that every blogger would love to make a extra income from blogging, right? Would you still blog if there wasn’t any money to be made blogging? I know most bloggers would say no, but there are a few who blog purely for fun.

Blogging for fun

Ok, I admit I wasn’t the brightest student in the class when it came to writing, in fact I still ain’t, but that doesn´t stop me to enjoy blogging. Anyway, enough about my brightness, lets continue.

The thing I love about blogging is that I can get away from reality and just start blogging, it’s as if blogging opens a whole new world to me. You can express yourself and publish your thoughts. You can write about anything you want. There´s no limit on how much you can write, or what topic you can write. It’s complete freedom.

Another thing why I like blogging for fun is that other people get to read your blog and to be honest I like it when other people read my blog and give their opinion on the situation, because it gives me the energy and drive to continue blogging.

Blogging for your readers

Before I started to blog, I used to read a lot of other blogs and one question that I coudn’t figure out was

Why bloggers considered readers so important?

Well, now that I’ve been blogging for some time now, this has to be 1 of my main reasons to blog. I absolute love it when readers come over to my blog just to see what I have to say, Eventually if they like your blog they will be reading your blog almost on a daily base, just to see what you´ve written on your blog.

To be honest, the first thing I do when I wake up In the morning is switch on my laptop and look if I have any comments on my blog. Getting comments on my blog makes me feel happy, because it shows that readers also have something to say. I understand that everyone loves to get positive comments, but sometimes you will get negative comments as well, don´t get angry when you get negative comments just take it as a critic and try to improve. At the end of the day you will get negative comments or positive comments, but at least you will know that people have read your post.

Seeing my readers go up every week, inspires me to write even more posts. It simply means people like your blog and are willing to read it every day. They become your loyal reader´s no matter what.

What I also tend to do when waking up is checking my Google analytics. By checking this I get to see all the traffic my blog is receiving. I also get to see where my readers come from and which country´s my audience comes from.

Blogging is challenging

Yes, blogging is a big challenge for me. Some of you must be wondering why the heck would blogging be a challenge as there’s nothing adventures about it?

Well, before starting this blog I had already written my goals and what I wanted to achieve with this blog. By writing my long term goals for this blog I personally made a commitment to make this a successful blog.

By achieving my goals for this blog makes it an interesting challenge as I can see what I am capable of achieving. Seeing this blog progress every day, makes me feel as if I’m one step closer to achieving my goals.

After completing a goal I always set my goal even higher than my previous goal.

As I believe there´s always room for improvement. By aiming for high standards you will get a habit to always aim high in life.

The bigger the challenge, the more you will achieve.

So what were your reasons to blog? Did you achieve your goals? What keeps you still blogging?

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