Blogging for Money: The Blind Leading the Blind

I know exactly what all of you are thinking: what does this new blogger know about making money off blogging or blogging in general? The answer is not much but 453x more than I did when I started Studenomics about 6 months ago. Speaking of that to celebrate my 6 months of running Studenomics, I will have a massive group project where I will write roughly 8-12 articles and have them posted here and on some of the top personal finance blogs. The project will be called the Summer of George, playing off the Seinfeld episode where George was meant to have a great summer but it never happened. Except in this case, the project will help you succeed and have the most productive summer ever. More details will be released within the next few weeks but back to the original topic.

I launched my new blogging section without formally introducing it to the readers of Studenomics. Right off the bat let me confess to you guys that I earn very little money off my blog and unlike other bloggers I want to write about blogging as a means to help you guys start a blog. I wanted to start a blog for the longest time but I never did because a certain barrier existed, I did not know how to start a blog or how to get a domain. Due to this reason I started a blog many months after I started writing articles in MS Word.

With my new blogging section I hope to show all of the twenty somethings out there how easy it is to actually start a blog and voice your opinions on a daily basis (believe me it can be therapeutic). I also hope to provide you with tips on how to avoid making the same mistakes that I have made and let me tell you that is a lot of mistakes.

I will also to try to provide general tips on search engine optimization, monetization, building traffic, and many other beginner topics. One thing I will not write about is how to make a living off blogging because I have not figured this out nor have 99% of the other bloggers out there. I plan to write about blogging about once a week and I will probably learn more from you than you will from me because of the nature of the blogging.