Today it’s common place for people to know a blogger however it’s not so common to know a work from home blogger who actually makes money blogging.

Blogging in and of itself is really easy today. If you have something you want to share blogging is the way to do it and it doesn’t have to cost you a cent.

However, after saying blogging is easy and free, I have to add that if your goal is to blog for profit you will need to work at it. I’m giving you good advice when I say that the first step in blogging for profit is research.

I Look At Blogging Like Vegetable Gardening

My first experience at gardening was kind of a flop and I didn’t actually have any plants that produced produce. Thank goodness I had a job and didn’t actually need the produce to live. Had I been blogging for profit back then I would have starved.

Later I learned a few things about gardening in general which helped with the following growing season. Using vegetable gardening as an analogy of blogging for profit what did I learn that could equate to a work from home blog that will make money?

A Vegetable Garden’s Location Is Like Your Niche

The first step in good vegetable gardening, just like in real estate, is location, location, location.

In keeping with our analogy of veggie gardening location means where you get the most direct sunlight. For blogging for profit this means you need to be located in a niche you can get enough traffic to make money.

This also means that your traffic or the sunlight is direct and not bouncing off things before it arrives at your garden, or blog. This means you need targeted traffic for best results.

You Need To Have Fertile Soil Full of Nutrients

So sunlight or a profitable niche is required but it’s not the only thing one needs to succeed in gardening or blogging.

Before you ever plant the seed, or start that first blog post you need to be sure you have all the things required for growing your garden in place before you trying growing things or earning income from your blog.

Planting Seeds As Blog Posts

Once you have cultivate and amended the soil so that it has a good foundation for growing a garden or a business you need to have the right seeds which in this analogy are your words of choice, or niche related keyword phrase.

Water Your Garden Regularly For Best Results

So, all the things you have done to this point have been a foundation or garden preparation. Next, for best results the garden needs to be watered regularly. The thing is too little and you don’t get the results you expect but too much and you can over do it.

In blogging it’s great to have natural links pointing back to your blog pages. However, just like in gardening, too little watering or backlinking and you won’t get the effect you want. Too much backlinking all at one time can appear unnatural to search engines and can have negative results.

I love gardening and I love working at home and blogging for profit. Both took me a while to learn how to get the best results, once I learned it was up to me to apply what I learned and that’s when the magic happens.

Learn how to work from home in your spare time successfully and you stand to make some great income. Maybe even earn enough over time to quit your day job to work at home full time like I do.

It can definitely be done but I should warn you that it may not be as easy as you’ve heard. Too many gurus out there making claims that just are true so don’t get sucked in by them.

Best Work From Home Tip Ever

No I don’t mean the best tip is not to get sucked in by shady gurus but that is good advice.

My best piece of free advice would definitely to be sure the niche you plan to work from home needs to be something you are ready, able and willing to work for years. That really limited me, I just didn’t know it until time proved it to me. Now I work niches I enjoy.

I have a strong interest in gardening but little knowledge. If I didn’t really like the niche, enough to learn new things, I may have given up after the first year. I had no idea what I was doing but learned a lot and did make money.

The thing is I hadn’t learned enough about Internet marketing to set things up properly and didn’t do nearly as well as I could have. I didn’t even have a domain name with my keywords in it. Just used an old domain I had sitting around doing nothing.

After learning how to work from home, find a niche and research keywords I learned that I was pretty clueless and lucky to have made any money. It was time to start a new site and do things a little differently.

How To Work From Home in Your Spare Time

So you already know you should start with a niche you already like so that you won’t find it so hard to come up with content month after month and even year after year. I have found this is vital, well for me anyways. I lose interest far too quickly.

Stay Distraction Free

My experience has taught me that distractions keep me from doing my best work. Before I started my work from home Moncton blog I was a computer instructor. Creating lessons was kind of like what I do today and I had to lock myself in my office to get the best results.

Dedicate Time To Your Future Success

The human brain seems to work most efficiently when a routine is set. Getting in the habit is what it takes and that means working the same time each day or every other day. Just get a routine going and without distractions.

I have a sign I put on my office door that says Do Not Disturb. It took a few reminders before my family got the point and allowed me to work at home in peace. Until the money is coming in the family doesn’t see it as working.

Get each of the things I’ve mentioned in place and you can stay focused and get more accomplished in less time. So once again. Find a niche you can stick with for a long time, have a place to work without distractions and try to work on a schedule so you have a routine and you’re ready to go to the next phase as a work from home blogger.