8 Benefits of Blogging to the Blogger

This post is the remaining part of my earlier post, 8 Benefits of Blogging to the Blogger.

5. Blogging gives you new contacts
Blogging opens the door to new friends who come to you through the internet. I have friends from India, Phillipines, South Africa, US, UK, Nigeria just to mention a few.

6. Blogging makes you healthy
Are you wondering how?
Well, expressive writing like blogging produces many physiological benefits. Research shows that it improves memory and sleep, boosts immune cell activity and reduces viral load in AIDS patients and even speeds healing after surgery.
A study in the February 2008 issue of the Oncologist reports that cancer patients who engaged in expressive writing like blogging just before treatment felt markedly better mentally and physically as compared with patients who did not.

7. Blogging will enhance your CV and get you a job
Simply having a blog that you spend time on shows positive aspects of your personal character.
Employers want to see that you are motivated and have some degree of intelligence. Regardless of your blog’s contents, a blog shows you have some degree of intelligence.
Just write blogging and the address of your blog at the hobby side of your CV. Also mention your blog in the interview to get the employer to read your blog. If it is a good blog with good grammar and clearly articulated views, be rest assured you are one leg through.

8. You become an entrepreneur and make money from blogging
Someone there will ask how, well this is how
Some people blog to make money. This implies they are entrepreneurs because they have a venture or an enterprise and this venture is the blog which is to make money for them.
Maintaining a money making blog is like maintaining a business. You require innovation, hard work, discipline, perseverance etc.
This is how they make the money. You have a blog say about religion and you have many readers i.e people who read the blog so you advertise the sale of religious wears for a company and the company pays you money for the advertisement. Do you see the trick?
Google also offers a service where you can sign up for free. After that any person who visits you blog and clicks and I mean just click the advertisement, they pay you some few cents. The more people click on the advertisements, the more money you make. You need to have many visitors to your blog in order to get a reasonable amount of money.


I have a compilation of some blogs and how much they make. By the way not Ghanaian blogs.
Perezhilton.com makes $111,000 a month
Techcrunch.com makes $240,000 a month
Boingboing.net makes $ 1 million a year
So you too can make it.