It can be observed that every day there are thousands and thousands of blogs getting published on the internet.
In fact, during the starting of my career I also used to wonder on why people keep lots of efforts for writing blogs.
I am sure many of you might also be still wondering on what are the benefits of blogging, especially if you are planning to start a blog. Am I right?
Hence I thought to write a blog on this topic, so that you might get to know about them. I hope after reading this blog you will feel more motivated to start blogging without any delay.
So let’s dig into those benefits.
Benefits of Blogging
1.Make Money Online
One of the main reasons why most people blog is to make money online. There are many successful bloggers who started their blogging as a side business and now have quit their jobs and are completely into blogging.
There is no limit to the money you can earn through blogging, provided you have very high traffic to your website.
The best part is, blogging can help you earn passive income.
So if you are wondering on how you make money online through blogging, here are some of the ways:
a. Affiliate Marketing
b. Adsense
c. Sponsored Posts
d. Paid Memberships
2. Become Better Writer
If your dream is to become a better writer then start blogging. Blogging on consistent basis will make you a very good writer.
I hear lots of people complaining that they cannot start a blog as they are not good writers.
Buy my dear, if you want to become a better writer then I would strongly recommend you to first start blogging.
Only practice makes a person perfect.
Consider your blogging platform as a ground for your practice. I am sure if you practice in this ground consistently you will become a very good writer over the time.
3. Establish As An Expert
In whatever industry you might be in, if you would like to become an expert then blogging can help you with.
For example, if you consider digital marketing world, if you ask me to name some of the experts then I would mention names like Neil Patel.
He established himself as an expert through his blog neilpatel.com
He used to blog on a consistent basis, that too a very long form of content with not less than 1000 words.
So start your blog today and establish yourself as an expert.
But please keep in mind that success takes time and requires lots of patience.
4. Learn New Skills
Blogging can help you learn new skills.
If you want to manage your blog by your own, then you need to learn lots of new skills like – time management, SEO, Social Media Marketing, Setting Up Email Campaigns, Basic HTML, etc.
Do not just get scared by reading my words. For starting a blog you need not require all these skills. But over the time you yourself will consider learning these skills for improving your blog.
So do not get worried and happily start your blogging journey 🙂
5. Sell Products or Services
Blogging can help you sell your own products or services.
It is your own blog and hence can sell whatever you feel like. Some of the ideas on what you can sell in your blog are:
- Online Courses
- E-Books
- Become a Coach
- Offer Consulting
- Freelance ServicesBlogging can help you sell your own products or services. Share on X
6. Express Yourself
Blogging can help you to express yourself. There are few people who blog not to earn money, or to become expert writers.
They just started to blog to express themselves.
They blog on various topics like:
- How are they feeling now
- What breakfast are they planning to cook Tomorrow
- Their experiences on a recent trip to a new place
- Their opinion on society
There is no limit to the topics. They just try to blog on whatever comes to their mind, just to express themselves. Few people feel that doing so will help them get relieved from their stress.
So if you would like to express yourself – start blogging.
7. Help Others By Sharing Your Knowledge
There are people who want to blog just with the intention of helping others.
For example, there are people who might have already cracked some prestigious competitive exam.
These are the one who will start blogging to help other future aspirants of the same exam.
They try to provide various tips, clarify many topics and many more through their blog.
If you feel like to help others just by providing your experiences or your skills – start blogging.
8. Build Network
Blogging can help you build network. Through you blog you can get an opportunity to network with many people either through the comments of your blog or through the emails they send to you.
There are in fact who build their network with very popular publications just by their blogs.
9. Get More Traffic
This benefit is for the people who already have a website through which they are trying to sell some products or services.
It was proved from many researches that consistent blogging will increase traffic to your website, especially organic or SEO traffic.
So if you are the one struggling with getting traffic to your website, then start blogging.
10. Collect Emails
Businesses use blogging as a way to collect email ids of their prospective customers and start promoting their products or services through email marketing.
When people come to read their blogs, they suddenly show them a pop-up or some other ways for collecting their email Ids, in exchange for something free like eBooks, email courses etc.
11. Differentiate From Others
Lastly, the other main benefit with blogging is you can differentiate yourself from others. There are many people who try to spend their free time on social platforms, watching TV programmes, eating junk foods etc.
So if you would like to differentiate yourself from such kind of people, then blogging for sure is the best way to start with.
Conclusion
There might be many other benefits with blogging, but I feel these are some of the important ones.
Please feel free to share in the comments below on how yourself got benefited from blogging. Please feel free to share your journey of blogging and various experiences you faced.
Happy blogging 🙂
