Writing blogs and waiting on adsense.....

Well, I'm still waiting on adsense to either approve or reject my application, they said a week, maybe they just got busy, I don't know.: )

Since I'm fairly (actually, VERY ) new to this, I've been trying to get tips on writing meaningful blogs that people will actually enjoy reading and would be helpful as well. While doing my research I came up with what you may call a blog business plan.

Step one, which is the most important of all the steps, is to decide who your target market is, for instance in the case of this blog, I would say my target audience is: individuals that are interested in making money online either passively or as a primary income because they either dislike their job or, as we all do, just want to make some extra money on the side. They've come here as a means of getting information as well as seeing how successful a newbie is at doing this.

Step two, is to set the tone of the blog. In the context of this blog, when I write, do I want to be serious the entire time, write this as comedy or just write as though I were teaching a lesson. I'll be honest, this really got me thinking, I want this to be a site where when people come here, they learn but at the same time enjoy reading it and don't see it as just me lecturing. So I'm going to just put it out there, I'm going to try to make this blog as informative as possible while at the same time as laid back as possible. Lets think of this as a group meeting with no ties and everyone is wearing shorts and bahama shirts.

Step three, keep it real. Now that I've put it out there in the last paragraph that I want the tone to be as laid back and as informative as possible, I want to also tell you that I'm going to be honest with you in my writings. I am not going to tell you I expect this to be easy, but also not going to say that I don't sometimes dream about making money with this. I'm not here to sell you anything, I'm here to learn and pass it on, if I make money at it, great, if not, maybe my grammar (or writing) will improve.

Step four, actually write, dont just list a whole bunch of links for people to find information on what they want to know about. We know how annoying it is when we go to a website and all it is, is a sight that links you to what your actually looking for, its the same with blogs. This isn't to say that I'm not going to put links (on the right) to helpful information, its saying that we dont want to replace text with links.

Step five, Keep It Simple Sweet, we've probably heard this a million times. In a nutshell, what were saying here is, keep the paragraphs in your blogs short, don't ramble and keep the writing as easy to understand as possible.

Step six, its quality not quanitity. I can write everyday, however, one of about three things are going to happen, 1. I'm going to get tired of writing everyday. 2. Your going to get tired of hearing from me everyday or 3. I'm going to run out of things to write about and the quality is going to go down. So with that being said, expect anywhere from one to three posts a week on the site.

Step seven, RSS feeds. You're probably wondering, what the heck is an RSS feed? Well, it stands for Really Simple Syndication and is basically a subscription to your blog. Basically, whenever you update your blog or site, it sends that update to your subscribers, (similiar to a magazine subscription) rather than them trying to remember to come to your site or coming back when there isnt anything new on it and wasting your time.

Well, that about wraps it. I hope this information was helpful and it you have any questions or comments, feel free to leave them. Hopefully, Google will approve my adsense account by the next week.