Make Money Writing About News

Starting a news blog is more exciting than writing about topics that are already old, such as article directories. Most the articles you see there are too old to be interesting, and that's the reason why most of them have less than one reader, which means zero.

To write about news you need:

1. A platform.

2. Sources

3. A lot of work!

First we have the platform. Based on my experience you should either use Hubpages or Blogger. Do not use Wordpress because Wordpress dot com does not allow you to make money with your blog and the Wordpress dot org means you have to spend money with domain and hosting, something totally avoidable since you have Hubpages and Blogger. I would stick with Hubpages because it is faster and easier to start your news empire.

Second you need to have a lot of news sources. What are you going to write about? Most people like to read the news about everything so I would stick with general news websites that have news about everything. Subscribe to the site RSS, subscribe by email or subscribe to keywords using Google alerts. I would not use Google alerts here because most of the times the results are of lower quality when compared with CNN for example. Subscribe to all the news and write about them as soon as the news is published to maximize the income. Writing about old news is not only unwise, it will just be a waste of time.

News make more money than general articles because the demand for news is much higher, just compare the amount of news readers compared to the amount of article readers.

Google News is able to fetch news from the most important websites and is a great addition to your sources. The advantage is you can get news from a specific topic and the disadvantage is you need to know that being too specific reduces your audience.

A news blog should be updated every hour!

The demand for your article will go down just a day after you publish it because people want information in real time. Writing about news will ensure that your blog is always up to date and also interesting to read. No one wants to read about things that happened last century.

Since you will be writing in real time and there will be almost no time to manually select the ads you need an advertising network that performs well and that is fully automated. The best advertising network is the network that sells the most and makes you the most money. The best advertising network is also a network of high quality ads because you do not want to advertise junk.

Google Adsense is the largest advertising network and you should give it a try, however, there are also other networks such as Advertising.com which is huge and if your blog has millions of page views a month this is the perfect network to make as much money as possible. Bidvertiser, Adbrite, Tribal Fusion, these are smaller networks that will also make you some money.