Introduction One of the advantages to blogging about your favorite hobby is that you already have the “passion” and will easily be able to create great content on a regular basis. Many bloggers pick a niche, they start out with good intentions, but quickly run out of ideas to blog about, this is the not case for the hobby blogger, because you are passionate about your hobby, it is not so hard to find the ideas and topics to blog about. A common thought is that the crafting and hobby blogs don't make money, they are there only to display someone's love of a particular subject. Well, that really isn't the case, lots of hobby blogs out there are making money, and some of them are making serious money. Wouldn't it be great if instead of your hobby costing you money, you could make money from your hobby. Funding your hobby can be expensive, so why not use blogging to bring in some extra money to pay for it. Other enthusiasts are looking for the same as you, that must have tool? Fabric? Wool? Kit? It is clear that there will be others out there who have the same interests and will be scouring the net looking for new ideas, resources, hints and tips or “how to” guidance. Writing product reviews can be a huge income generator on a hobby blog. When you find that must have “item” that you absolutely love, you can tell people about it on your blog, include an affiliate link to the product. Unless you have a really weird and not well known hobby like counting the spots on a ladybirds back! (no offense to ladybird spotters!) But as weird as it may sound, even that hobby could be monetized. So why not blog about your hobby, share your thoughts, ideas and passion with others and make some money at the same time too. Setting Up Your Blog In order for your blog to be taken seriously, you should consider hosting it yourself on your own website domain name and hosting. This is really easy to set up and it will set you apart from those who use free services such as blogger.com One of the things blogger.com doesn't like so much is advertising on their blogs, if you use blogger.com and they dislike your blog, they will disable it and all your hard work will be gone with the click of their mouse. The best hosting to host a blog is one that has “c panel” and “fantastic o” features, there are so many hosting providers that you will not have any problem finding one that you can afford. For less than $5 a month for hosting, you could be earning more $ per month back. It is easier to host a blog on Linux hosting than it is on Windows hosting. Before we delve into hosting – we'd better get a domain name registered. Think very carefully about what best describes what your blog is going to be about. A relevant name targeted to your specific niche will an advantage. For example my friend Pete loves fishing now if he wanted to start a blog about his hobby if he went and registered petelovesfishing.com he wouldn't stand a chance in the search engines, his traffic to his site would be dire. One important thing to remember is that a blog is a personal site, so try to get your name and hobby into the domain name you are going to register. Let's look at my friend Pete again, his full name is Pete Clapton, so his best site name would be peteclapton.com or peteclapton.co.uk depending on where he lives. Pete's one lucky dude, his name is available to register, but what if it wasn't? Well then he'd have to brainstorm a little and find the nearest ideal name available. Let's think about what he's going to blog about, his love of fishing, so we'll add those into the mix too, we'll search again and find that peteclaptonsfishingtips.com is available. That is even better because not only have we got his full name in the URL we also have the description of what his site is going to be about “his fishing tips”. It doesn't matter too much that is is a long URL to remember, if people like his site, they will bookmark it and add it to their favorites. The key here is your name + your hobby – get the idea?

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