3 Strategies to build a Money Blog

Strategy 1: The search engine optimization way - you focus your blog content on one specific topic, like f.e. swimming pools and do everything necessary to bring your content to a good ranking within the search engines over time.
Strategy 2: You create a cool blog about a buzz subject like f.e. celebrity news and build your traffic from people coming back to your blog again and again.
Strategy 3: A combination from Strategy 1 and 2. The most toughest way to get rich - but if you succeed you are a web hero! :)

All strategies have advantages and disadvantages.
And certainly there are even more and more specified ones.

I just wanted to give you something to think about in general, and that is:
Dont try to get your MONEY BLOG without a STRATEGY.

Statistical tracking is essential to make money

Not everyone is into figures and analyzing them, I know.
But - if you want to make money with your blog, you definitely need the statistics!
For this you just need to implement a plugin or some code snippet into your blog.
Usually thats very easy.
Check how many visitors you have, which are the top webpages on your blog, how people did find your blog and so.
I think you understand why its important to know that: to analyze your strengths and weaknesses and act accordingly!
I recommend Google Analytics. Its powerful and it cost not a single dollar! :)
But there is no doubt that it will pay off!

Why Wordpress is the perfect blog software

First of all Wordpress is easy to install and has so many options to explore and use.
Certainly you wont use them all right away.
But as your blog grows along with your knowledge of blog software, you 100% want to get the most out of it.
And Wordpress will give it to you. Best of all: its free! :)
With thousands of plugins and extensions to optimize your blog. Also for free!
I recommend to do some donations to the developers as soon as your blog become a MONEY BLOG!
Have fun with it! :)