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I was watching the news on TV last night and there was a warningabout buying puppies as Christmas presents. There's nothingworse than visiting the kennels in the new year and seeing allthose unwanted dogs that were chosen as presents because theywere so cute at the time. It reminded me of people who start ablog in the hope of making some money online only to give upafter a few days or weeks when things don't work out.

The average blogger makes around $20 to $50 per month. So, ifthat is the average, it stands to reason that some people makeless than that and some people make more. The amount ofpotential income that can be generated by blogging dependsentirely upon your ability to build a loyal audience of peoplewho have money to spend.

There is no point in creating a blog and then looking for anaudience. Your first task is to identify a hungry market andprovide it with high quality information. Once you haveestablished your blog and created some interesting content, yournext task is to attract your hungry audience to your blog. Thereare many ways of attracting traffic to a blog site includingbanner adverts, ezine advertising, pay per click traffic, linksfro other web sites and submitting your site to the specialistblog search engines.

There are literally hundreds of blog sites that lay desolate andabandoned like an old frontier town with tumbleweeds blowingthrough on the breeze. Their owners failed to identify a hungrymarket, they failed to attract visitors or they simply gave upposting fresh new content to their blogs.

Blogs are dynamic web sites, they require time and attention.Search engines love them because they are frequently updatedwith fresh new content. People love them because they regularlyprovide new and interesting information. But you have topersist, just like any other business, online or offline, youhave to work at building up your content, building up anaudience of loyal readers and creating a portfolio of productsand services that will appeal to your readers and generate someincome.

There are many ways of generating income from your blog. Severalpeople have created successful niche sites that offer productreviews including books, software, videos, DVDs and otherpopular products. Other bloggers earn their income from the saleof advertising space and yet others generate income through payper click systems such as Google's Adsense programme.

There is now another way of building a profitable blog. A brandnew hosted blog service - http://www.Blog4Cash.com has married afully featured blogging service with a two tier affiliateprogramme thus allowing you to build up a residual income fromeveryone who signs up through your referral. This provides agreat opportunity to build up a regular income to supplementyour regular blog profit.

So remember, to become a truly successful blogger you must takea long term view and seek to provide interesting content for ahungry market with money to spend. Don't expect to achieveprofit overnight and plan to build a portfolio of income streamssome of which have a residual element that will provide you willa recurring income.