1. It can make you money.
After some point in time, your blog will have more content. So now it’s time to put on some ads so to see what’s happening.
I would recommend going for ads after you posted 50 posts on your blog each posting being at least 1000 words.
Because it’s more likely that google adsense will approve you once you hit 50 posts.
It’s super simple to enable ads on a website with google adsense, the only issue is you got to wait patiently for 20 days for them to review it.
It’s not a one day process. So be patient.
2. It let’s you express yourself.
Imagine writing about stuff that you already know. Simple, right?
You’re in control.
No one tells you what topic to write about. It’s your wish. You’re in control.
You can write about whatever you like.
It’s like a place where you create another version of yourself and you can also show it to others just by sharing your domain name.
It’s really awesome.
I think a lot of people would write if they are not intimidated by the tech part involved.
It’s not really that complex. Just some initial setup and that’s all. It’s about posts now. It’s really simple to set up a website. You can do it in 5 minutes.
The interesting part is the content part.
Can you be patient? Can you keep writing when you see no results? It’s a mindset game.
3. You learn about the tech behind a website.
Web is fun. It allows you to explore different arenas.
When you try to create a wordpress website, you get interested in stuff that you didn’t think of.
For example, how your website looks. What plugins to put in it, what’s the speed of the website.
You get to know the basics of web. Suddenly, you think creating a website is easy.
And you also get interest in creating apps from nowhere.
Like, literally you can try creating apps and it will be fun. Then you get interest in AI and you get to know about it and whats happening in the AI space.
4. It’s a cool time pass.
I think it’s a great switch from anything you do. Think about it.
How cool it would be to brag about the money you’re making from your blog and talking about it with your friends.
Your friends will be like: this guy is a genius.
Again, this is definitely time consuming and you got to put in reps, aka make content, ideally 50 posts of 1000 words each and let’s see where it goes.
One way nothing happens is by doing nothing.
So buy a domain, connect to hosting and start writing.
You will feel cool about yourself and then once you’re in the online world, you’ll learn many more interesting stuff related to tech.
5. You can repurpose content for social media down the line.
This one is one step content nerdy but it’s also simple.
Once you have text based content, you can repurpose it into any type of content: image, audio, video, infographic, carousel, etc.
That’s why I’m so passionate about the text based content because it’s the king of all formats.
Its the words. The words.
There is no content without words. You need text to derive any content from. Make text posts and you can repurpose it down the line, always, for a life time.
Lets talk about traffic to your website. I like to drive traffic from social media through paid ads.
That’s costs money. Yes. I know.
But there maybe arbitrages where you can get a click for a cheap price and sell that click for more through more ads. That’s why I think it’s a reliable viable option to driving traffic.
Organic methods if they do drive traffic organically that’s great.
But one should not be dependent on what they got no control over. Right?
6. Your content is yours for a lifetime. You own it.
The thing about having your own blog and not writing for someone else is that you own it for a life time.
You can create tons of versions of the same content multiple times.
Of course, it’s something different compared to getting paid to write but I’m trying to put light to the reality.
Like, I who doesn’t like to own the content they create.
If you feel like it’s a huge lift, think about it this way. Just start as a time pass, like I mentioned before.
And just keep writing, let’s see where you get after 6 months.
7. It could become a full time job.
Now this is far from where one starts at.
But there’s potential to make this a full time job once you start seeing some money.
How?
You create more content and more blogs and more ads, you got it.
Now some times you may not like writing, but that’s not true. You like writing, that’s why you started the blog in the first place.
It’s just that it could be at that moment you may not like that.
Take a break for a couple of days if needed and get back. You’ll feel differently.
Feelings can change.
But the goal cannot.
Like think about that cool part, instead of telling your friends you are making some money somehow, you’re making a living just by writing on blogs, they would just freak out.
It’s not about them in any way. But it’s about what you like.