A home business blog is a great way to earn money especially if you focus on a subject you are passionate about. If your subject is popular enough you can actually get paid to blog but you will have to be committed to the task. The most popular blogs gain their notoriety from posting good quality content and on a frequent basis. This is the commitment we were referring to earlier.

When you first create a blog some type of plan needs to be put in place as to how you will supply the content you will need on a regular basis. Your next step will be setting a strategy as to how you will attract readers to your blogging business. Great content will do you little good if nobody knows about it so assuming your content is excellent our next step is to promote it.

Here are 3 highly effective ways of generating blog traffic.

Frequent Posting

The absolute key to the success of any blog starts with the frequency of how often the content is updated. If your post are far and few in between your site will become 'stale' not only to your visitors but also to the search engines. When any new information is posted to your blog search engines are 'notified' of it and come to scan it. The more frequent and relevant the content you post is, the higher your search ranking will be resulting in more new visitors to your site.

Guest Blogging

With the quality of the information your site contains word will get out within your niche. In time you will have other bloggers visiting and proposing that you write some content for their site. When you write for another blog you can siphon traffic back to yours whereas the host blogger receives an 'infusion' of fresh content which pleases his or hers own subscribers as well. Everybody wins in a case like this.

Commenting on Other Blogs

Another way to become 'known' within your niche and to increase your own blog traffic is by visiting and participating in discussions on other sites. This will be second nature to you since the niche you are participating in is one you are already familiar with. Your comments, when left, will prove to be 'insightful' to other participants who will likely follow you back to your site to read some more about what you post. Of course your comments need to be warranted and obviously of value to everyone for this to be effective.

A home business blog can be both a lot of fun and very lucrative if you commit yourself to it. By picking the right topic and investing your efforts you can become one of the most popular blogs in your niche. At this point you can actually get paid to blog. To make your efforts easier however it is wise when you first create a blog to select a topic you are interested in. Pulling it all together you will want to generate plenty of traffic for your blogging business. By implementing any or all of the 3 techniques we spoke of above you should have little difficulty in gaining both readers and popularity within your niche.