Blogging is for everyone who wants to get his/her voice out there in the www. A student blogger can make lots of money from blogging depending on how he or she views blogging.
What is a blog?
A Blog is a website that allows users to reflect, share opinions and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts.
Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses etc.) Entries (also known as postings) typically appear in reverse chronological order.
Blogging is a way or act of renewing or adding new posts/pages/images/videos etc to a blog.
To illustrate further the meaning of a blog, let’s take the below story for example.
On a very good Saturday, I came back from work and I was feeling this slight headache.
Who is a student blogger?
A student blogger is an individual who is still in school and also a blogger.
A learner who is also into the blogging industry is known as a student blogger.
Furthermore, an individual who is also a learner in a formally recognized institution of learning that is good at sharing information online through the use of blogs can be recognized as a blogger.
I didn’t know what triggered the headache, so I picked up my phone to ask Google what exactly was wrong with me.
When I typed into the Google search bar, the pains I was receiving, Google brought out for me, lots of links leading me to a solution to my headache.
I began to go through the links one after the other and while I was going through the links, I noticed that almost all of them were saying the same thing.
Those different links Google presented to me were telling me that it was either I was suffering from stress or malaria.
Now enough of the story. I just want to point out one particular thing.
Those links Google presented to me are a set of blogs owned by different people who had written in the past information regarding what I was suffering from.
Now that you are reading this, let me make it clear, this post you are reading now is a blog post written in nekenwastories.com
Can a student own a blog?
The honest and shortest answer to this question is, yes, a student can own a blog.
Apart from being a student, who else can own a blog?
Any person who feels he or she can solve a specific kind of problem for the public can own a blog.
If you have a device that can give you access to the internet, and you can write what people can read and understand, then you can own a blog.
How can a student blogger mix education and blogging?
It all depends on the student and how he/she wishes to manage his/her blog.
The joy of blogging is when you continuously write about what you are interested in.
When you write in a niche (topic) you are not good at, you are likely going to stop blogging.
Mixing education and blogging can be possible only when the student is good at time management.
This is why I always advise my students to have a personal timetable.
Having a timetable and strictly adhering to it helps the student to have time for his education and his blog.
It is very easy therefore for a student blogger to effectively manage his academics and blogging. This is possible when he drafts and strictly adheres to his timetable.
Can I make money as a student blogger?
These days, no one goes into blogging for passion but business.
If you are moving into blogging as a student, try and ask yourself – am I doing this for fun or seriousness (the money involved)?
The response you give to yourself here would determine my response to the above question.
Yes, you can make money as a student blogger only if you see blogging as a business.
There are many things you can do to make money from your blog.
Difference between a Passion-minded blogger and a Business-minded blogger
| S/N | PASSION-MINDED BLOGGER | BUSINESS-MINDED BLOGGER |
| 1. | Making little or no money. | Possibility of earning a living |
| 2. | The continuous flow of writable topics | Topics to write are hard to come up with. |
| 3. | Good knowledge of what to write | Must learn from external sources before knowing what to write. |
| 4. | Constantly uploading new items | Irregular in a blog update |
| 5. | Ideas might be useless sometimes | Ideas are well researched and we’ll write |
If you need to make money off blogging as a student, I think you should consider blogging as a business.
Summary
A student Blogger can make money from blogging.
I can promise you that if you know what you are doing as a blogger, you can build your dream house and buy your dream car while you are still schooling.
You can make money from blogging. So what you are waiting for is what I still cannot comprehend.
