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Over on my Blogging For Dollars Blog (the blog for readers of my Blogging For Dollars ebook), I’ve just posted about bloggers’ monthly incomes from blogging.

As the post “Money blogging: how much do bloggers make?” shows, you can make reasonable money blogging, even when you’re just starting out. However, this assumes that you develop your own blogs, and your own ways of monetizing them.

Unfortunately, many Web writers hesitate to do this; they focus on getting hired by others to blog. If you’re a new writer, there’s nothing wrong with this. If you’re in your first five years of writing, you need all the writing experience you can get, so being commissioned gives you that experience.

As soon as possible however, you should begin developing your own money-making blogs.

Choosing a money making niche for a blog

I wish I could give you a straight formula which will help you to choose a niche for a high-income blog. If I could, I’d probably keep it to myself.

As with everything else in writing however, you can rely on the numbers to tell you what a money making niche is. Start a blog, and see whether it makes money for you. Or better yet, start several blogs.

All the pro bloggers I know own several (many) blogs. One maniac owns a hundred blogs and counting. Of course, he’s not blogging himself on these blogs, he’s hiring other writers to do it, and even after he pays the writers, he’s doing very well indeed.

So get started. Create a blog. Then create another one. See what the numbers tell you. You’ll often be fooled: a niche which looks as if it should make money turns out to be a dud; another niche which looked hopeless turns out to be an income tree.

Experiment. The potential of making a high income is there, so if you want to blog, remember that you need to create your own blog(s), rather than just blogging for others. You’ll find a niche which turns into a gold mine - just experiment, and let the numbers tell you.