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Anyone can start a blog. Yes, even if you have no technical experience at all.

In You too — yes, you! — can be a food blogger and LA Times reporter says: “This is the golden age of do-it-yourself publishing, and the bar for entry has never been set lower. Anyone with a computer, a camera and a fascination with the world’s most fascinating subject can compete with top food blogs such as Smitten Kitchen and Chocolate & Zucchini. The result has been a proliferation of great-looking blogs showcasing real life and real cooking. No wonder professional food photographers are looking over their digital shoulders.”

You can blog your passion, whatever it is, and make money from it too.

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If you got smacked by Google, and your PageRank tanked, relax.

There are many ways you can make money blogging without depending on text link ad sales.

Among other methods, How to Monetize Without Google PR : The Blog Herald recommends: “Buy, Build and sell blogs – There will be quite a few people looking to offload their blogs now, buy up at firesale prices then make them profitable. Grow blogs, attract links, get some subscribers, then sell. Think of it like property developing in the real world.”

Build blogs and sell them

You’ve heard the term “online real estate” before. When you create a Web site or a blog, you’ve built an online property which will increase in value over time, as you add content and acquire links.

I’ve got lots of sites and blogs, and keep meaning to sell some of them. But… I get attached to them, because their value increases, so I look on them as investments.

You can do the same. If you’ve just created your first blog, look on it as the first of many.

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One of blogging’s many benefits is that it lifts your profile and presence. How else could you display your expertise to millions of people?

Disruptive Telephony: My new employer is… reports: “Then I got this email from a CEO of a company I’d never really heard of who said he’d found my blog posts and that it so happened that they were looking for someone doing essentially the roles that I outlined in one of my posts. As they were growing strongly they were looking to expand their ‘Office of the CTO’ and add to their capabilities. I looked at their website and initially wasn’t too sure about what I saw. But as I dug in a bit more I was pretty blown away by what I started to see… and got back in touch.”

(Via How a blog can help you get that job).

Another example of how bloggers go on to bigger and better things because they blog.

You never know where your blog will lead you, but you do have to blog first. Blogging is a wonderful journey, so why not start your own blog?