Making Money Online Should Come Secondary To Passion

I’ve been creating content online for over five years now. This website is only one of the sites I’ve created throughout my years. I’ve made podcasts, blogs, uploaded videos to Youtube, and even have gone as far as to creating my own blogging radio station. Throughout all of this I’ve definitely had some struggles, but have also learned a ton of valuable information that has assisted my in improving how I perform my daily online activities.

It’s only within the last year that I’ve begun to initiate monetization and advertising onto my websites. As you can see I haven’t begun monetizing this site, and I don’t plan to within the near future. I’ve decided to run an experiment on whether or not monetizing my blogs make a significant difference in the amount of loyal traffic that my sites receive. That’s not to say that I’ll not find some sort of income with this blog. I’m going to make a stronger attempt in adding a second track to my income stream.

This brings me to the point of this post.  Making money online should come secondary to the passion you have for creating content whether it be blogging, podcasting, or video production. This will get you into the habit of writing about something you love and receiving natural and reliable traffic. When you monetize your blog you’re leaving yourself the potential of writing for the ads, which in my personal experience, can lose you massive amounts of traffic in just days. Google and other search engines also look for content that’s original and helpful, not geared towards advertising programs such as Google Adsense and Yahoo Publisher.

The simple fact is, that if you focus your attention primarily on the content you produce the money will eventually naturally flow in. Just remember that it’s going to take time and you may end up failing the first few attempts. Keep at it and publish at a set frequency and be consistent with what you do.