Welcome to the 102nd Money Hacks Carnival: The Building a New Blog Edition.

Let’s not beat around the bush here. Many of you reading this are thinking wtf is Passive Income Now? Most of you have probably never heard of PIN. It’s all good. This is the fun part. Growing a blog/audience from the ground up.

I hope you all enjoy today’s theme about building a new blog.

Editor’s Picks:

debt kid presents What Is A Debt Snowball posted at Debt Kid.
GLBL presents Famous quotes about money posted at Gather Little by Little.
Kyle C. presents Can you Build a Credit History Without Getting a Credit Card posted at Suburban Dollar: Personal Finance Blog from a Suburbanite’s Perspective.
Jeff Rose presents 10 Tips for Budgeting in the New Year posted at Jeff Rose.

Economy: Getting new readers.

Arguably the most funnest and most difficult part. This is the part that involves social media, networking, and lots of guest posting. It seems like every day a new personal finance blog enters the blogosphere. Not only does this make it more challenging to find new readers, but it facilitates creativity.

Bucksome presents Do Baby Boomers Know How to Find A Job? posted at Buck$ome Boomer’s Journey to Retirement.
jim presents S&P500 Dividend Aristocrats posted at Blueprint for Financial Prosperity.
20smoney presents Long Term Outlook For Wal-Mart Is Excellent posted at 20s Money.

Income: When will the money come?

I’m not worried about the income yet. I find that too many new bloggers immerse themselves in the whole blog monetization system that they forget about their readers.  Not PIN. Priority number one is to build an audience. Once PIN begins to add value to the readers and builds a community, money will be thought about. For now it’s time to just enjoy the ride.

Tom @ Canadian Finance Blog presents How To Protect Your Online Banking Info posted at Canadian Finance Blog.
PT presents Tax Deductions Commonly Overlooked posted at PT Money.
Patrick @ Cash Money Life presents How Marginal Taxes Work posted at Cash Money Life.
Consumer Boomer presents Roth IRA Conversion Calculators: Should You Convert? posted at Consumer Boomer.
Wealth Pilgrim presents How To Increase Your Widow or Widower?s Benefits posted at Wealth Pilgrim: Money Management Advice, Financial Stress Management, & Resources.
Four Pillars presents 2010 Income Tax Deadline for 2009 Taxes posted at Quest For Four Pillars.

Frugality & Saving Money: What to write about?

Everyone always talks about how content is king, you need quality content to attract readers, and that a majority of your time should be spent on writing content. Here’s the problem though- what do you write about? I really don’t know the answer to this but I’m willing to work at it until I find out.

B Simple presents Simple Personal Financial Tip: Know your Score posted at Simple Financial Lifestyle.
Adam Williams presents 5 Reasons people don’t like free or discounted goods posted at RabbitFunds.com.
Fanny Seto presents How NOT to Pay Off Debt posted at Living Richly on a Budget.
The Financial Blogger presents Gathering $31,000 in 2010 posted at The Financial Blogger.
Laura presents Planning and Saving for Short Term Goals posted at Move to Portugal.
freefrombroke presents Where will you be financially in the next decade? posted at Free From Broke.
2 Cents presents How to Make a Budget: Your One-Stop Shop posted at Balance Junkie.
FIRE Finance presents A Simple Budget That Works? posted at FIRE Finance.
MatthewPaulson presents Tips for Breaking Your Spending Habit posted at Fine Tuned Finances.

Other: Spreading the word.

Hosting a blog carnival is a good way to get your name out there. Guest posts are also an amazing way to build brand awareness. But I want to know– how have you guys spread the word about your blog?

LeanLifeCoach presents If You Believe You Can Achieve! posted at Eliminate The Muda!.
David R. Lampsen presents The Best Free Budget Worksheets on the Internet posted at Personal Finance Analyst.
Craig Ford presents A Frugal Way to Train For Your First Half or Full Marathon posted at Money Help For Christians.

Check out the Money Hacks Carnival homepage for more updates!

As times go by I’m doing more and more research in hope of getting Passive Income Now off the ground. Today I just wanted to outline some articles that caught my attention:

Wanted to thank Fabulously Broke for including me in the Carnival of Personal Finance: #227.

Pat over at Smart Passive Income shares with us a step by step plan to rank higher in search engines. Wow a real eye opening post. Pat shows us exactly how he plans on building up his blog with certain keywords. The plan takes a lot of work but the results could very well be worth it.

Studenomics gives us money saving technqiues that work and ones that simply don’t. The “cold turkey” approach is hilarious because we all try this when it comes to personal finance or diet.

Good Financial Cents discussed Roth 401k for business big or small. Jeff goes on to explain why more businesses are offering the Roth 401k.

Lazy Man and Money talks about saving/making money with an iPhone. I personally have an iPhone and have no issues paying for it. It makes time to by 100x faster during my long bus rides.

J of Budgets Are Sexy asks if it matters who the breadwinner is anymore? J offers his take in this situation. I got no problem with women earning good money. Do you?