Many of the bloggers I get to talk with ask me if they want to make money should they leave their personal blog where they blog for fun and start another one with the idea of monetizing the niche? I don’t have the supreme truth on that matter but I will tell you what I think.

Passion in blogs gets you money

If you are starting a blog so that you have your own space for your thoughts then it’s obvious you’re not thinking of cash from the start. From my point of view this seems to be the best way to make money online. Take as an example, someone that has a passion for every machine that can fly. He starts his blog thinking that he will post his thoughts and someone will comment them, which means he needs to have a dialog with someone that has the same hobby. If he is a good writer and manages to create a community of devoted readers, will address to advertising, sooner or later. I have a passion for gadgets and I own a blog with technology news products. I write because I like writing about it. It is monetized (minimum) but I don’t expect it to earn that much money right now. I am much more pleased to see a 20% increase in RSS subscribers rather than earning a few bucks more that day.

How about blogging only for money?

Many of us/you should understand that blogging for money is not some kind of a felony. If someone won’t like your blog they will leave. No one should accuse a blogger doing it only for money, of anything. Not even someone that starts a new blog with the idea of making money from it, in the near future (or not). It’s the blogger’s choice and if you don’t like that stop reading it. So those of you that start a new blog just to cash in, think that you may get penalized by your readers if they find out you’re only interested in what your blog earn, and not what your readers do.