Making Money Blogging Tips - mostly useless or dishonest
Making money blogging is the modern way to get yourself an easy income by doing basically nothing. At least that’s something I’ve come across lately when I’ve been surfing the blogosphere looking for tips and information on blogging: how to produce good content, traffic and link building, blogging communities and also tips how to make money blogging.
Money making tips usually fall into to different categories
- Useless: “Get your self a blog from Blogger or Wordpress and get Google Adsense running, and your instantly making huge piles of money.”
- Outright dishonest: I’m not talking about linkbaiting or getting as many backlinks as possible here. I’m talking about tips that may not be illegal but at least immoral.
These tips appeal to your laziness or to the fact that most people are not up to producing quality content by giving you a “secret” easy way out. This easier way can be anything from posting links to 500 SEO-friendly directories and emailing everybody that you’ve ever met to developing interlinked blogs for getting a better Google Page Rank or even copying most of your content from other blogs. Seems to me that most of the sites that give this type of advice are only written to get any content for them to wrap their excessive ads to.
I’m not saying that all sites that provide blogging tips are useless or dishonest, just most of them. It is very hard for the Average Joe wanting to blog about miniature railways to tell which tips are genuinely good and which are worthless.
The only thing that works is quality content
Many of blogging tip sites and articles do start off by telling you that the only way to success is to create good-quality content that your users like. However immediately afterwards, they try to convince you that there are many easier ways that will make your blog an instant success.
The only way to get people read your blog and come back again is to post interesting material that your readers will appreciate. Simple as that.
Two good resources for bloggers
- Copyblogger - copywriting tips for online marketing that apply to blogging to get that content in order.
- Problogger - Sane advice on making money by blogging.
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Date: June 16, 2008 | Time: 4:33 pm
hi,
thanks for your information, your tips on blogs were helping me a lot .
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