Personal Finance Buzz

Successful bloggers give their advice on creating a site that makes money.

As usual, with any carnival, it’s hard narrowing it down to the posts to be included. But with the Best of Money Carnival I’m required to only select 10 posts. So, a lot of good posts have to be left out. But that’s what makes this carnival great.

There used to be a time, in the not-to-distant past, that $1 million was considered a pretty good nest egg. This is no longer the case. I've lost count of the blog posts I've seen in the last year, questioning whether or not $1 million is enough.

The most popular leadercommunicator blog posts from 2011--on internal communications, leadership, and more.

I've had a lot of people ask me how I make money blogging. Instead of continuing to write up a new email for each of them I thought I'd put together a series of posts telling what I think are the best practices and ways to make money blogging.

One of the keys to making money with a blog is creating great content. Once you do, you'll need to optimize SEO, promote your posts and generate traffic.