As I was getting ready to create a new blog the other day, I was thinking – is it really possible to create a money making blog today?

Of course, I know it’s possible to create a money making blog, but what I’m talking about is a “big money” making blog.  With all the blogging competition today, in every imaginable category, can someone really create a blog today that can bring in 5 figure incomes each month.

Or, is the blogosphere diluted so much, that money that would have been earned on a high traffic blog a few years, is now spread out among several blogs on similar topics?

For example, if you do a Google search on the phrase “make money blog”, including the quotes for the exact match, 2,550,000 results are returned.  A number of years ago you may have been able to create a blog using that term and been ranked high in Google and could have made some good money.

Today, it would be foolish to create a blog using those terms because it would be nearly impossible to get ranked well enough to have any success.

I think it is still possible to create a big money making blog today, but I think it would be much, much more difficult today, than it was a few years ago.  You would have to find a hidden golden nugget niche that had a lot of traffic and relatively little competition.  Do those niches still exist?

Today it seems that most marketers, who are trying to make money blogging, are building a number of niche blogs, using long tail keywords.  The theory being if you can build a large number of niche blogs, each making a few dollars a day, you can make a nice blogging income.

But, can you update a large number of blogs often enough to keep them up to date, without using others people’s content?  Or, do you use other people’s content and throw some of your own content in once in a while?

It has become much more difficult to create a money making blog that earns big money.  I just hope there are still some of those golden nuggets out there and hope I find one :-)

Mike

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