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To maintain your readers and continue to build your blog’s “brand name,” you have to update regularly.  Remember, these readers are your money making opportunity.  This will require you to find new and fresh ideas to write about.  Hopefully you will have a good idea of how to brainstorm for new ideas after this article.

When you decided to begin blogging, whether to flee the drudgery of your workplace or to simply add a residual income stream, you probably thought that it would be something you would enjoy.  It can be, but if you choose to write only about boring topics, you will soon hate it.  You should try to choose topics you have passion about, are interested in, or at least know a lot about.  This is something you should definitely do in the beginning to get going, but would be a good idea to continue with as your blogging empire grows.

As discussed in part 2 of this 10 part series, Choosing the Content of Your Blog, you should make your blog feel welcoming.  Visitors should feel like everything is addressed to them, and that a person is writing the blog articles, and not a robot drone.  Your personality must show through in your writing, and this is much easier to achieve if you write about something you really enjoy.

After you have chosen the main theme of your blog, you need to get into a habit of posting at least every 1-2 days.  This is critical!  The posts don’t have to be huge every time.  Sometimes writing a quick 100-word post about a news story related to your topic is all you need.  Keep writing as much as you can, as long as the content is relevant to your blog’s subject.  This momentum will continue to build, and eventually will be hard to stop.

Eventually you will find it harder and harder to come up with topics.  Use some of the ideas below to brainstorm

1) A great way to come up with topics is to investigate into what similar blogs are posting.  The two places to start are blogsearch.google.com or technorati.com.  These will help you search for blogs that are related to your blog’s subject.  Don’t copy other blogs.  Again, DON’T COPY OTHER BLOGS.  Having similar topics is okay, but copying is a terrible idea.  It will get you into trouble, and will not help you out.  Use other blogs as starting points for your brainstorming, and write unique articles from those starting points.
2) News articles, both in the newspaper, online and on TV, are great things to use and talk about on your blogs.  You can give summaries of them or discuss them, whichever would fit in with your blogging style best.
3) Forums are another great tool to give you ideas to brainstorm about.  Search for forums related to your blog’s subject, but don’t join every one.  Limit yourself to just a few, as you need to be able to keep up with checking them.  Ask questions, answer questions and have conversations with people that have similar interests.  This will give you a lot of good information to brainstorm and write about.

In addition to providing visitors with new information, posting every day (or at least every 1-2 days) will show the search engines that the website is active.  This will give you a better rating and more traffic as a result.  More traffic means more opportunities to earn money.

We will talk more about generating traffic later, but keep it in mind when writing.  The most important thing that you can do is constantly adding information to your blog.  Make sure it is relevant, and not a repeat of an earlier posting.

Keep posted for our next part of our series on My Make Money Guide.