In my last blog, I laid out the criteria for what constitutes a hobby blog. Now I wanted to talk about what criteria makes a blog a job.
If you blog as a job, you can work for a company (like I work for Families) or you can write your own blog. When you write for a company (and this can be different depending on the circumstances but I’ll get into that later) you are getting paid per blog. The amount of money you make equals the amount of blogs you write. You may make extra depending on how many readers you get or how much ad revenue you bring in, but even then, if you don’t write any blogs, you won’t have any readers, and you won’t bring in any ad revenue. Once you stop blogging, the income from the blog dries up almost immediately. You may get some income from ads as Google continues to send people your way, but Google rewards sites for adding new info, so the older the blogs, the lower the ranking Google gives you. If you stopped blogging today, you would eventually lose your page ranking, and stop receiving any traffic.
If you accept work from companies like PayPerPost for your own blog (because you can’t do a PPP with a company blog like Families,) then that makes the relationship between you blogging and your income even more solid – if you don’t write the reviews, then you don’t make the income, period. People who blog for a job approach the blog like they would a regular job: Blog from 9 – 5, Monday through Friday, maybe throw up an occasional post on the weekends, but the work is very steady and the blogs have to be produced, because if they don’t blog, they don’t make money.
This is the kind of blogging that I do. I work from home, and my job is blogging. I don’t write from 9 – 5 (that would require dedication and all that jazz,) but the idea is there.
For anyone who paid attention in my last blog (which would be everyone, right? Right.) I did mention that there was a third kind of blogger. Check out my next article, where I talk about blogging as a business.
This was part of a series on blogging. If you haven’t read the other entries in this series, make sure to check out the summary page for a listing of all blogging articles. Comments and feedback are always welcome – feel free to leave them below or send me an e-mail at Hava L {at} Families dot com. Thanks for reading!