Blogging to sell: monetize your Web writing

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Blogs are valuable Web properties. Just like Web sites, you can create a blog specifically to sell it.

With 12 days left to go in an auction the NorthxEast blog is up to $5,500. Their blog only has 33 posts, and is a blog about blogging, which is a topic that is notoriously hard to monetize. Typically freelance bloggers get paid anywhere from $5 to $50 a post. If this site goes for $10,000 then it will be a valuation of $300 a post. Where was that extra value created? It is in the number of inbound links and number of subscribers. Over 700 bloggers link at that site and it has a couple thousand subscribers.

I’ve got a lot of blogs - so many that I’m too scared to count them. However, I look on each blog as an investment in Internet real estate. They’re property. As they’re developed and as time passes, they become more valuable.

I wrote “Super-Fast Money-Making Web Sites For Writers: Join The Web-Publishing Bonanza”, which shows you how to make money creating fast Web sites, and you can certainly do the same thing with a blog. A couple of days ago I started a new blog about organic food which I’ll grow with a view to selling it next year or the year after.

If you like to write, creating sites and blogs may be a great way for you to make money writing for the Web. Once you know how to set up a site or blog, you can add content to the site at a schedule which suits you, or whenever you please.