Work at Home
When you work at home to generate your full-time income, there needs to be a lot of things to consider in order to make it work and be successful.
In this section of the website, I take this topic of working from home and look at the many ways in which it can be made as motivational while also being enjoyable as it possibly can be.
Of course there are many advantages as well as some drawbacks to working out of a spare room converted to an office in your home, so let's touch on those.
Pros and Cons of Working at Home
Pros
The main advantages of working in your own home for me are mainly to do with what I'm not required to do in a company office environment. These include:
- Not having a boss or supervisor looking over my shoulder
- Being able to work in my own time and not be restricted to someone else's chosen working hours
- Being able to take a lunch break when I want to for as long as I want it
- Being able to take a day off whenever I need it without having to plead for it
- No commuting
The dramatic reduction in stress is also a major advantage of working for myself and not for a corporation.
Cons
If there are any drawbacks to working from home, I can't actually think of any from my own point of view. But I can see there would be some for others, so here are a few:
- Needing to be self motivated and disciplined to get the work done
- No physical interaction with other work colleagues
- Having to do you own accounts and income tax responsibilities
- The risk of not making enough money to cover living expenses
For many people, going it alone can be a bit scary and the lack of personal interaction with other people in a working environment can be tough on some people. It can actually be a bit stressful when trying to make money online while working for yourself at home.
Specialized Subjects
I've been thinking on some ideas for this blog and it struck me that there is a lot of scope for expansion into the areas of specialized topics.
I've noticed a lot of sites or blogs appearing that have taken the stance that they will grow by accepting guest posters to boost the site's page count and content volume. That's good from the user point of view as it provides search traffic with a more worthwhile landing page where there is relevant and hopefully interesting and well written content for them to read.
Will I be doing this here on this site?
I'm considering it as an option for boosting the site's content for sure, but there is one drawback that I can see. That is one of trust.
Expanding Your Network
Generally, bloggers are looking out for one person, and that's themselves, so when they get a chance to guest post on someone else's blog, they are going to place at least one link in that post back to their own blog.
Now there's nothing wrong with that and its the least the hosting blog can do for getting some free content.
But that trust is more often than not abused by the posting blogger. Horror stories abound, where the guest posts a badly spun article that is showing up on a multitude of other blogs, thereby attracting a duplicate content penalty for the hosting blog. Then their linking strategy leaves a lot to be desired.
Why bloggers think that they have to place three links in every post they submit to other blogs is beyond me!
That practice screams "paid post" to the search engines who will come looking to scrutinize the hosting blog and maybe even give it a penalty. Whether the links are to legitimate sites is another cause for concern.
Some bloggers who submit bad articles all over the place are little more than spammers themselves and care not one whit that they might also be linking to bad neighborhood sites. When that happens, the host site could end up with a penalty or worse, like getting de-indexed from the search index for its trouble.
No Guest Positing Here
So allowing guest posters on here at the moment is not all that attractive to me. Unless there is an easy way to moderate what is being posted, I'm not interested in hosting duplicate crap that is full of links to other people's crap sites.
So my alternative is to write my own articles, which is what I do anyway, being a writer! To this end, I don't have to link out to anywhere if I don't want to and I know my content is original, relevant and interesting.
So I have made a tentative start by creating the first of my topics with a main article, called Zone Diets under which I will publish a series of closely related articles. Once done, I'll move onto another topic and build up that way.
Sure, its slower and more ponderous and it'll likely take a while to build this site up to anything like the content powerhouse it'll need to be in order to rank well in the SERPs for the terms it will be targeting. But at least it'll be all me and under my control.
Summary
Working at home on a blog or website to make an income can be greatly rewarding for a variety of reasons.
They include being able to set your own working hours, no commuting and being able to work in a comfortable environment where there is no boss looking over your shoulder.
For me, these are the most prominent advantages of being a home worker and I'll continue to do this for as long as I possibly can.
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