If you're looking to become a professional blogger that earns affiliate commissions etc, I would strongly recommend having your own blog. Even though we have traffic on-site (LeoFinance/Hive), it's not targeted- or niche specific traffic which is vital when it comes to making sales.
Even though LeoFinance might be a "niche specific" community, "Finance" is way to big to monetize properly as a blogger.
Having your own blog also comes with doing your own brand building, promoting your own site and yourself in various ways that doesn't even come close to what we are doing on Hive.
That being said, you could use Hive/LeoFinance as a "backup" in terms of generating some traffic/getting upvotes to your own site, if done correct.
For instance, if you get a deal where a company want you to write a review for there super-awesome product X. Do that on your own blog with keyword research and all those things and make a post about that on LeoFinance/Hive.
"I have just got paid $XXX for making a review of super-awesome product X - This is what I had to say about it!"
Have some minor details about it, snippets of your review and things like that and push the traffic towards your site from LeoFinance/Hive. That would still benefit LeoFinance/Hive in the long haul, as it would generate backlinks back- and forth to & from your blog to LeoFinance/Hive and the other way around while you still have the chance of being rewarded for your contributions on the blockchain.
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Yes. I have pretty much come to this conclusion :-) Wish it weren't so, but it is what it is.
Thanks for this valuable advice!
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It is a bit unfortunate. Would've been great to utilize the traffic on-site instantly while building your audience here etc.
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I still may find a way to come up with some hybrid. I am slow sometimes, but very persistent :-)
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