First things first, what is a blog? Writing a blog is like writing a journal.
You share your thoughts, your knowledge, your story and just a little bit of everything that is going on in your life.
So many people enjoy reading about specific topics, they seek out information, your blog can be the source of information that they are looking for.
Next thing to move onto is content.
A blog is loaded with content, articles, short stories, videos and pictures.
For example, if you are a die hard fisherman, and you want to write a blog on fishing you can do stories, fishing reports, pictures and anything that has to do with the topic.
You will want to make sure that your content is fresh and original.
Everything that you put online you need to post to you blog first.
The search engines love blog and you can get a ton of organic traffic (straight from the search engines).
The third thing that you need to understand is how to monetize your blog.
There are so many ways that you can make money using your blog.
The first thing that you need to get a grasp of is affiliate marketing.
Being an affiliate to a product means that you sell someone elses product and make a profit from it.
Affiliate marketing is one of the most powerful marketing methods for your blog on the internet.
All you need to do is post a link to your affiliate product and provide the right content for people to come to your blog and click on the links.