Making Money With Blogs

Posted by Lizz Shepherd Aug 15, 2008

There are an incredible number of ways that people can make money from their blogs. I've already put together an article or two about monetizing blogs, but there is also a way to make money from other people's blogs.

When you read someone else's blog, you probably look at the name of the person who wrote it and consider what their life experience is like and why they keep the blog. What you may not know, however, is that the blog may be ghostwritten by someone else entirely. Ghostwritten blogs keep the main ideas that the blogger wants expressed, but are written by copywriters and freelance writers.

Because the blogger has bought the rights to the words of each post, the blogger puts his or her own name on them and the readers are none the wiser. This happens far more often than many people believe, and it can be a lucrative freelance writing gig if you can get it. I've ghostwritten for so many blogs at this point I literally couldn't tell you how many.

Some bloggers outsource to a number of people, farming out topics to each writer, and some hire one writer for their blog and rely on them to write for the blog and to keep it updated. I've done both and both can be a fun writing challenge. Blog writing is generally less formal than other kinds of writing, so it goes a little faster than other freelance writing projects. Most of the time, it's a nice break from other types of writing.