10 Reasons Why You Should Start Blogging

Everybody has their own reasons for starting a blog, Well for most of them its Money :P but many have other reasons. To be honest, I never blogged for money, I started blogging because It was my dream to own a website where I can share my knowledge and experience. I first monetized my blog with AdSense after 2 years of blogging, but I'm not saying that blogging for money is bad, If I were then why would I make a website with name blogformoney? 

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Coming to the point, If you are a newbie and want to make a blog but are confused then here I put down 10 reasons why you should blog.

1. Money

As I said, Most of the bloggers start blogging because there is money involved, And since the goal of this website is to help you accomplish that, I'm putting Money as number 1 reason why you should start blogging.

Bloggers earn money by monetizing their blog with Ads, by writing paid reviews, Affiliate marketing etc. There are many ways and we'll talk about them in upcoming blog posts. 

2. Hobby

Blogging can be a good hobby, You can write about your interests, experiences. You can also use blogging as you daily journal and write about your daily adventures etc. You can post pictures, videos related to your blog posts. You can share your blog with your friends, family, relatives and let them express their views via comments.

3. Writing Skills

Blogging regularly improves writing skills, It helps make your typing fast and accurate without any spelling mistakes. Blogging also helps overcome grammatical errors and improve vocabulary. If you constantly read blogs and write your own, Your skills will improve in no time.

4. Reputation

Blogging helps you build online reputation, People start following you, you gain readers who read your posts, leave comments, share your posts. You get known.

5. Can be a Good Career option

If you are an extremely good writer with lots of knowledge in your respected niche, If you getting huge traffic and money from your blog then It can prove to be a good career option. Many part time bloggers have taken professional blogging as their career and have found success.

6. You'll Gain Knowledge

When you read other blogs or research online about your next blog post, you gain knowledge. You'll come to know about new things and thus it will expand your knowledge.

7. Meet New People

Blogging involves reading other blogs, interacting with other bloggers or readers, leaving comments or replying to existing comments. By doing any of the above, you interact with new people. With help of social networks you can make friends, You can read their blogs and learn about them. 

8. Share knowledge experience

If you have good knowledge about some topic then writing about that topic on you blog helps others learn. This way people who are interested in that particular topic visit your site and learn from your knowledge or experience.

9. Can be done anywhere

For blogging you don't need a fixed place, You can do blogging from anywhere in the world. All you need is a Computer and Internet and you are good to go. I know many people who run blogs on their mobile phones. So this makes blogging a hobby you can carry anywhere.

10. No Investment

Blogging does not require any investment, With platforms like Blogger you can easily start a blog in no time without paying a single penny. If you want a dot com domain then its your choice, Otherwise blogging does not require any investment, It can be done free of cost. We will learn more about Free Blogging in upcoming posts.

Stay tuned