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Bloggers have it tough nowadays. An overcrowded blogosphere is filled with blogs in every niche you can imagine, social media is growing without driving blog traffic and posts suddenly need to be over 1,000 words to get search engine positioning. Creating a successful blog has become a full time job – even when it doesn’t earn full time pay.

What’s a blogger to do? Throwing in the towel is one option, sure, but you can build traffic to monetize your blog and create a career as a freelance writer from it, if you learn to work smarter. Here are 4 ways to blog smarter to build your traffic – and your income.