Breakthrough blogs are usually started with a simple but a great idea. This should be coupled with a commitment to follow-through and a lot of hard work to get the blog off ground level. However, a great idea alone is not enough if you are blogging for money. If you do a search of your topic, you will probably find hundreds of thousands of blogs with the same idea as yours. Therefore, you must strive to do better than the other blogs. Give your readers high-quality content every time you publish something on your blog. The competition among bloggers for blog readers and followers is rather fierce so you have to continuously provide the best content that you can in your chosen niche.

By reading other successful blogs that have the same topic as yours, you can gain inspiration from their posts to help you in choosing your own content. Observe their most successful tactics to strategize on how you can make money blogging. These blogs are successful for a reason, and you will have to diligently study how they made it.

Most of the time, the most successful blogging for money websites became make it because their blogs have a great personality. Blog readers adore blogs with strong personalities. Do not go too far in emulating them though. While it is good to follow the success of another, it is never a good idea to copy their blogs blatantly. Doing this will only incur the ire of your fellow bloggers and you will be done in the blogosphere!

So far, everything written here has been direct!

By this time you should be on your way to creating that great breakthrough blog . Now it's time to talk about how to draw visitors to your blog.

We have tackled that blogs should begin with a great idea, a lot of elbow grease and a strong personality. However, these are not enough to make your blog into a success. You will also need a marketing strategy that is potent and at the same time, flexible. I highly recommend that you make use of social networking sites, link-building and social bookmarking to initially drive traffic to your site. Article marketing and leaving comments on blogs are two great strategies to use to continue drive traffic to your blog.