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How to actually make money blogging (on read.cash or anywhere) In short Do: Write about something that **interests** people Write **periodically**: every day, every few days, every week **Engage** your audience to do some action to stay with you Be **readable**, use correct grammar Have **patience** - blogging takes time **Promote** your articles Prefer writing in a **language** you know well Don't: **Don't** write about something that **has millions of other authors** writing about **Don't copy** articles of other people Now, for more details... Be interesting You need to write about something that interests a **decent number of people**. Autos, psychology, health, photography, cryptocurrencies, travel, games, etc.. All these and similar topics are good, but generally, they violate the rule of "**millions of other authors write about the same thing**".

What are you going to offer readers that **others haven't**? Do you have any **personal expertise** to tell your readers that will constantly keep them entertained for months or years? **The best thing** you can write about is **your hobby** or **your professional knowledge**. This is the thing you know the most about and that's what you can write a lot. **If you can write about something without thinking about whether you get paid or not - that's what you should write about.** Being a blogger is **fun**, so a lot of people try to do that. You'll realize soon enough that being a blogger is **not easy**. It **takes time** to find your own audience. You need to accumulate readers one-by-one just like a pearl is made - with tiny increments. Any successful blogger grew their audience slowly, with occasional bursts.

That means that after you publish your first article - don't expect success to come immediately. It's going to take time. The best strategy I can recommend is to **have a steady job** (if you can) **while** you are **trying** to grow your readership. If tomorrow you decide to make money blogging - don't expect the paycheck at the end of the month. **Occasionally**, you'll write an article that's going to be an instant hit with the audience, bringing you more subscribers immediately. However, **most** of your articles are going to be nothing special, sometimes even **decreasing your subscriber counts**. Don't panic - it happens, it doesn't mean you did something wrong, usually, it's just that your ex-reader is bored with this topic and doesn't want to hear any more about it. Have **patience**. Grow slowly. Have a job in the meantime. Write periodically People are bombarded with blog posts, tweets, Instagram posts, Facebook messages, emails, ... If you don't write consistently - **people will start to forget about you**. If you haven't contacted your audience for a year and suddenly start blogging again - expect 10% to 30% of your subscribers to leave/unsubscribe immediately. They won't even remember who you are and why have they subscribed.

You won't be happy if your ex from a few years back suddenly texted you, what do you expect from your readers? Engage You need to have a way to bring your audience back to you. Read.cash offers "subscriptions", many other sites have these as well. However, you need to **remind** **people to subscribe**. Otherwise, they'll just think: "Oh, I'm sure I'll remember it", but in a few seconds they'll have a new thought and forget about it. A simple phrase to "**Remember to subscribe if you liked my content**" is a powerful tool to build your audience. **Like most of the businesses - bloggers survive on return customers.** Be readable The explicability of your transient deliberations might transcend the capabilities of your literary adherents. Translation: **write simply**, **people need to understand**. It might be **tempting to use smart words**, but it will make fewer people understand you. The fewer people understand you - the fewer supporters you'll have. It's that simple. **Correct grammar**. My grammar is nowhere perfect, but I make a lot of effort to make sure I use the proper words. Re-read what you write, edit it (even after you've published it!) **Correct punctuation**. Sentences must start with an uppercase letter. Put a single space after each dot (". ") and comma (", "). It's pretty simple and it helps readers. Use **paragraph breaks**, people generally don't like reading "a wall of text". Use **bold** to help people scanning the text. Many people scan the article first to figure out if it's any good. Highlight the important parts to help people with this. Use **images**.

Images help you get people to your point faster. Luckily, it's really easy to insert images with read.cash - just click an icon and type any search - you'll be able to insert **legal copyright-free images** in seconds. **Avoid copying images** from the Internet. It's **illegal**. If a copyright owner files the DMCA complaint - we'll have to remove your article. If you need images - use Pixabay, Flickr Creative Commons search (requires attribution) and Unsplash. https://pixabay.com/ https://www.flickr.com/search/?text=face&license=4%2C5%2C6%2C9%2C10 https://unsplash.com/ Promote your articles This is what many people get wrong. They think that **if they are a good writer, people will find a way to them**. It's **wrong**. You need to bring people to your articles. To do that you need to **post links to your articles to Facebook, Twitter**, find a relevant **Reddit** and post it there. Post it to relevant **forums**, etc... You don't need to post it under your own name, register a new account with a pseudonym.

Don't just post your links - interact with the community - talk to people, try to help them and **occasionally** put your links. **We, at read.cash** try to solve this problem by having automatic affiliate links, thereby **engaging other people** to find readers for you. But, it won't be magic. People share articles of already well-known authors **more often** than that of a newcomer. Wrote an article? Publish an update on your Twitter, FB, and Reddit: "How to do this thing. My new article. [link]" Don't hope that people will come. They won't. They are bombarded with links by less shy authors in the meantime. Language Prefer to write in your **native language** or in a language you **know really well**. If you have to write in English - use Grammarly.com or hire a native proofreader on Fiverr (it could be as cheap as $5). https://grammarly.com https://fiverr.com/ Conclusion We try to help authors as much as we can by putting your articles in front of the audience, by having affiliates promote your articles, **by suggesting people to upvote your articles with money**, but you need to do the legwork too. Engage your audience, share the links in relevant places, be consistent, be original!

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