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Why Blogging for Money Isn’t Rocket Science
As I was browsing one of my fellow bloggers sites, I came across an titled: “Why I Don’t Sleep: Blogging for Money isn’t rocket science.” While I really don’t believe that she doesn’t sleep, she does make some very valid points that I would like to expand upon. These ideas came from a panel of the world’s top bloggers, namely John Chow, Jeremy Schoemaker, Stephanie Agresta, and Neil Patel.
The first idea was that none of the 4 started their blogs off to be a money maker, and simply started them in hopes that others would have similar interests, and to encourage discussion. I agree and disagree with this idea. Of course, as others have mentioned before, to set out for the sole purpose of monetary gain is perhaps an unrealistic idea. It is my opinion that although money shouldn’t be the sole motivator in ones blog, it shouldn’t be left our either. If you’re going to try to build a community with similar interests as yours, you should still include appropriate advertising, such as Adsense, or affiliate advertising that might appeal to your target audience.
This way, you’re not slapping ads all over your site - cause face it - chances are no ones going to pay to be on your blog with little no to traffic anyways - but at least you are making the most of the traffic that you do get. In this day and age, where even a service such as Twitter is not immune to spam, ads are everywhere, you deserve your piece of the pie too, even if it is just a small piece. After all, your time and insight is still worth something isn’t it?
Fun is a key success to the aforementioned bloggers blogs. Yes, true, bravissimo, da!!! Nothing is worth doing unless it’s fun! Think about how many of us drag our butts to work every day, to do a job we hate just to make a paycheck - you don’t want your blog to become like that! But in all honesty, as fun as blogging is, you should still try to think of ways to improve, and deliver new and better ideas to your readers, as in the end, they will be more likely to come back for innovation, not merely a good time.
The top 4 bloggers are a perfect example of this, as although they all have fun doing it, people such as John Chow and Jeremy Shoemaker and popular because they teach people innovative ways to make money online, not just about how much fun they have spending all the money they’ve made, or something along those lines.
Be consistent - fairly self explanatory, and I don’t have much else to add to this. Keep to a schedule and stick to it. If you don’t think you will be able to post for a day, write a bit extra, and set those articles to publish on those days you won’t be able to make it to the computer.
Last but not least is networking. At the very simplest level, the internet is your network, and you must make as many connections as possible through interaction with other blogs and communities to promote you, your ideas, and your vessel (the blog). At a more complicated level, it is attending conferences, and meeting fellow bloggers and learning from their successes and failures. Start small, but think big.
The one thing I would like to add, that maybe wasn’t covered by the previously mentioned panel of experts, is to bring something unique to the table. People like John Chow, and Jeremy Schoemaker started the blog monetization revolution. Now everyone and his dog wants to give it a shot, and who could blame them with the numbers these guys throw around! But at the end of the day, they were the first to do this, and it paid off. Often imitated, never duplicated, is an idea that comes to mind.
So although the above 4 points aren’t rocket science, the fifth and final idea that I’ve added is somewhat more of an interesting question. What do you have to bring to the big table of the world wide web that makes YOU unique? Why will people want to imitate, but never quite be able to duplicate what you blog about? Now that’s something to think about, and maybe even lose some sleep over. 
Happy blogging!!
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I totally agree with you. But monetizing your site is no issue if you don’t over do it. I hate pop up ads as much as every one else and also Kontera and will never use it.
If you write unique content then trust me other bloggers would want to duplicate it.
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Doesn’t this method get you in trouble with your affiliate program? Biting the hand that feeds you?
You would think it would eh??
This taking away a potential lifetime referral source for some quick dollars.
It all depends on whether its found out or not. If you notice some get away with it, some don’t
Hi Taris. It’s good to see you at my blog.
I think what all bloggers need to aim for (and what I try to do) is to get a different and highly original style evolving. Get a good writing style and a purely individual take on your niche and you can become popular even if it is a very broad subject.
It is what i’m aiming for as I live a lifestyle quite different to most who read my blog. So far so good. Oh and as i’m sure you are aware, dofollow is always a help to get those comments coming in!!!
Thanks for checking out my blog!! I’m not sure about this do follow thing you speak of - what’s it all about???
Imagine you have learned about dofollow by now? Do all my blogs that way. Haven’t pushed them much as dofollow yet.
I had installed a no nofollow tool. When i right click i get a option of nofollow, don’t know what it means.
@Taris- would be interested in hearing your thoughts on dofollow now that you have had some time to hear more about it.
I would not recommend adding dofollow till he gets a PR. He can’t share the link juice just yet.
Agreed, uniqueness is needed terribly, especially in MMO. A lot of redundancy is out there.
Good points in this post, but, I have to say that Shoemoney teaches nothing of any value about MMO, his popularoty is all in the name, and that pic of the adsense check!
I couldn’t agree with you more, i have seen his blog and must admit, its full of irrelevant stuff. When ever i went i either see T-Shirt Friday or Dot Com Lunch/Dinner/Breakfast/Tea/Brunch. Damn!!
Hhehehe - funny how that works eh!?
Or just rewritten Tech Crunch posts.
Haven’t visited Tech Crunch. Gave up on being cutting edge a long time ago. Imagine if I bought in on the BEOS hype back when.
Tech Crunch was fun intially but then it started to become too over. I mean they post about such hi tech stuff which i really don’t care about.
Yet for shoe and chow the numbers just continue to grow. The have built community, and that is a lesson for all of us.
John is not nearly as bad as Shoe, he’s been there from the beginning and does provide useful content, much of the time and his ebook on blogging that he gives away for free is excellent.
Totally - I always send the new bloggers to johns website to read the e-book! very useful info!!
Definitely, I really like his personal story at the end too and how he takes you through the whole Internet meltdown and Google beginning.
Johns blog does not earn him that much as much his forum earns him.
Any idea how much the forums make??? Crazy to think that is possible!! That guy is probably making over a million a year then!!
I have signed up twice under two different emails and I still can’t find where I put the eBook. Guess I will gave to do it a third time.
Haha, i did the same. I downloaded it, forgot where i saved it. Downloaded it again. Then i thought i had not downloaded it so tried to download it with the same email but did not work. Finally i downloaded it using another email and made sure i read it first. Thats when i added favicon to my blogs.
Didn’t even know John Chow had a forum site. Will look into that.
The Tech Zone is very famous forum of John Chow. Thats where he started making money, if you read his ebook.
@JR- am glad someone finds that Chow doesn’t do too many paid posts. Some people think one would be too much, but if he didn’t, he wouldn’t make the bucks. Then we wouldn’t follow.
I don’t say he does many paid posts, he does but sometimes he should space them out. Once i saw 3 in a day and that is too much i feel.
There is no beneft to downing people who made it. Regardless, how they did it, doesn’t raise us up. Just don’t read or follow them. There are plenty of A-listers I do not follow/read. But don’t need to go bashing them, doesn’t help me or others by doing it.
Like Yaro Starak, he posts noting but good quality content (except when pitching his products). It was too dry for me, writing style didn’t suit me. I unsubscribed. That’s that. Don’t need to go all over the Internet trying to prove myself right. Yaro has tens of thousands of readers and makes huge bucks. To get there myself, can’t spend time saying how he does it wrong. Obviously he doesn’t. I just have to find my own path to get there.
Hi Taris
Do a google for wordpress dofollow plugin. Basically it means that if your site is dofollow each comment left provides a link to who leaves it. Posting on relevant blogs that are do follow builds you masses of links. eg in a few weeks you can easily build a thousand links by leaving comments.
My site is dofollow so when you check your stats you should soon see that you have a link that google recognises from my site.
I am sure there is much more about it on jrs site. He is dofollow as well. I have links from his site from a comment or two I made.
Seriously, check it out. Tell people you are dofollow and you will get more visitors. You can also add your site to dofollow search engines.
Hope this helps.
For sure Three Dog, do-follow is a great way to bring readers and subscribers and also really adds to the community of the blog, because for me, it is a way to give back to my readers.
I have checklist for all my sites, one is to be sure install the dofollow plugin. My sites are all dofollow.
NoFollow is not all that bad. I will explain in detail sometime later. But you should comment on NoFollow too.
Thanks a lot for the heads up about the dofollow I’m going to look into it for sure!!
And good point JR - I always wondered why he didn’t have an archive section on his blog - now I know why hehehe!
For real, there is nothing to archive. Most of the commenters on his blog are there to yank some traffic and get to the top commenter link, all though it is is difficult and he rotates every week.
Have to disagree on the ads for visitors. If one is truly having a blog without thinking about monetization, why have ads anywhere? I know of blogs who do this (no ads), and that is pure passion feeding the site and community. Of course, none of these blogs are MMO.
Many bloggers just blog to blog, of course, but I think there are more bloggers who do it as a business and want to make money from their blogs.
I always look at it as make money doing what you love kinda thing!!
Good way to put it, I agree with that! And unless you are passionate about your blog it will not make money and will die a quick death.
I have seen some die a slow death. Those are the very sad blogs, because you know some is trying to keep them alive.
That happens when the owner puts half hearted effort to keep the blog alive.
The work and grit it takes to build a business, I cannot see how one could do it any other way. Gotta wake up loving it.
In MMO of course more people do it to make money, but I see a lot of blogs that people do it for a few months just to spout off.
It depends how much money they make and how much money it takes them to make that much money.