How to Start a Successful Entertainment Blog

Starting a successful entertainment blog is about handling writing more seriously than the personal blog. On the personal blog you can write down all your ideas and, much like a journal, keep it relatively quiet unless you are famous. But an entertainment blog isn’t a personal blog. It's a blog of ideas on popular media comes into play. You don't need to focus on celebrity scandal. Your entertainment blog can have a more natural touch to it, more centered on review and commentary on the arts.

Instructions

1. Earn money blogging, but understand the risk. They say 50 to 100 writers make a living solely off writing novels. Now, without doing any research, can you guess how many people make a living blogging? The number of people making a living off blogging dwarfs those who write novels. It isn’t always the best paying career, but rarely will you have to push people the wrong way just to get your paycheck.

2. In order to get the right kind of topics for your blog, consider looking into some of the more popular articles on the Internet. No, there is no need to fill up an article with how you hate or love a given celebrity. That may win you some readers, but it may lose twice as much. Readers want good, short reviews and commentary. Articles that overuse keywords or seem forced get skimmed.

3. Generate hits on your blog. You will need to build up a large library of posts for your entertainment blog. You will do best to think of this in the long term, getting hits through hard work on a daily basis. Use different keywords, for example, to get different kinds of readers.

4. Develop a distinctive style and opinion. If you have an opinion others will want to hear it. Consider the more popular topics when you start out and write about them in an interesting way. Copying what you read on another site will never allow you to stand out.

5. Study top sites. Stay in touch with what’s popular by looking to sites like the NY Times list of most popular keywords, or looking to see what entertainment articles are on top of popular sites (Salon, Slate, Associated Content). Don’t go blind into the blogging field. Study what your entertainment topics may catch a reader’s eye.

Tips & Warnings

• Watch out, if your entertainment blog succeeds you will find more than just money—you’ll have a blast.