Trying To Make Money Blogging

Make money blogging is probably the most difficult nice to actually make money in, why people decide to start make money blogs baffles me. But who am I to tell people what to do? Over the months I’ve come to realize that there are many different types of make money online blogger. Some I like, some I find annoying, some I appreciate, some I feel sorry for and some I find funny. Below I’ve sorted out the types of bloggers I’ve come across in to groups.

Ambition Killers
For the most part, I like these types of bloggers and they do provide good information, but it’s the way they deliver the information that annoys me. They swear that what they’re telling you is the only way you’re going to strike it rich. They mock other people for trying new ideas and new things. If you question their methods or tactics, you will most likely end up been on the front page of their blog with a discussion about how much you suck. But who cares? This gives you free publicity. Because I’m a big fan of experimenting I try to stay away from blogs like this. Yes, the information is very valuable but it’s very easy to loose your ambition reading these types of blog day in day out. A blog like this would be Blogger unleashed.

Billy Bullshitters
I find these types of bloggers funny and I also feel sorry for them. They lie about their stats, they fake their RSS subscriptions and/or they make out that their blog is going to be the next big thing. One question I often ask my self is why? Why on earth make yourself out to be something you’re not? You will always get found out. Jason from theuniversitykid.com discovered one of these fake ass bloggers. Read about it here. This proves it does go on. Don’t always beleive what people are telling you!

The Pointless Blogs
These types of bloggers provide you with absolutely no information on how to make money from blogging yet claim to be king of the niche. These bloggers are very clever though, I’ll give them that. They lure in their readers by showing them their income for the month. Everyone loves to read about how much money you’ve made. Once they have their readers, they start writing paid plugs for ad networks and other money making schemes. Their readers then sign up hoping that they too can cash in, all they’re really doing though is giving Mr ”Pointless Blog” a nice referral fee. A good example of this is JohnChow. Why people can’t see what’s going on beats me. You will never learn anything or make any money taking in what these people tell you.

Ass Bandits
These types of bloggers are the JohnChow, JohnCow fan boys. They actually believe in all the crap Mr ”Pointless Blog” dishes out. If you question Mr Pointless, these guys will attack you like a pack of dogs. Their blogs are basically carbon copies of the pointless blogs. They too try to get you to sign up for the latest ad networks. Through ignorance or plain stupidity, they haven’t yet realized that the promotions Mr Pointless sold to them are old and all of the money to be made from them got sucked up by Mr Pointless months ago. These definitely are the bloggers I feel sorry for.

These are my personal opinions, I’m sure everyone else has their own. I’m sure many people won’t agree with what I’ve said, but who cares. Some people may find the above blogs and bloggers very useful. If you’re one of these people? I’d love you to show me how exactly.

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Today I had a nice surprise, I returned from my holiday to find I had a pr 3. This was something I definitely wasn’t expecting, but I must admit, I have been working hard to improve my backlinks. I guess my hard work has paid off.

Page Rank?
A Google description:

Google assigns a numeric weighting from 0-10 for each webpage on the Internet; this PageRank denotes a site’s importance in the eyes of Google. The scale for PageRank is logarithmic like the Richter Scale and roughly based upon quantity of inbound links as well as importance of the page providing the link.

The benefits of page rank

• Advertisers are willing to pay more to advertise on your site. As far as I’m aware, I’ve never charged people to advertise on this blog. Now I have page rank I think I might start to. The links that I already have on this blog will stay free of charge. Another benefit of page rank is I’m now able to go for higher paying pay per post jobs. I don’t do paid posts so this really doesn’t mean anything to me.

• Other sites with page rank may now want to do link exchanges with me. This means that I will be receiving even more backlinks of value.

• Google will crawl my blog more often. This is because of the number of incoming links I have. This should improve my SERPs because the more content Google indexes, the more keywords I can rank for.

I’m not a SEO expert so the information above may not be %100 accurate. I guess the biggest question now is how exactly did I achieve my page rank? Well unfortunately I don’t have the time to tell you how I achieved mine just yet. As I mentioned at the start of this post, I’ve just returned from a holiday and I still have lots of unpacking to do. In my next post I’ll explain in detail exactly what I’ve done.

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One thing I’m finding with blogging is that with each week that passes the more time and effort I need in order to keep things going and progress. Some people are lucky, they are able to run endless projects, write quality content, promote and monetize there blogs all in the space of the spare 3 or 4 hours they have after they get home from work. The reason I’m finding it so hard is because of my awkward work hours. I spend a lot of time away from home working my butt off. So on weekends, all I want to do is go out and wind down in the pub.

I guess the biggest attraction of becoming a full time blogger is it gives you option of working from home and working the hours you want. Plus, there’s no one to moan at you or tell you what to do. You control everything. All very well, but what a lot of people don’t realize is working for yourself is a very, very risky. I’ve often imagined myself quitting my job just so I can give my projects and blogs my full attention. But when I look deeper in to the idea, I realize that becoming a full time blogger/online money maker just isn’t an option. The way things are at the moment it just isn’t possible to support my self with my blogs and projects. I’m not even making enough money with my online projects to cover my monthly food expenses. This leads me back to the risk factor. If you don’t work you don’t get paid. Even if you work your butt off there’s a chance you wont make enough money to support yourself.

I think the people who tell you that becoming a full time blogger/affiliate marketer/whatever are talking out of their back sides. Yeah, you might make a fortune one month, but what about the month after when you make peanuts? Just because your working online for yourself, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you will lead a fantastic life and eventually you’ll make 30k a month from your blog. Stupidly, even with all of the doubts running through my mind, I still want to try and eventually give up my job and get out there and work full time on my blogs and other schemes. I’m going to set my target date, this time next year I hope to be working full time on the internet. This will mean I’m going to have to start saving money for rainy days, putting as much time as possible in to my work and I’m going to have to cut down on my social life. Bye Bye pub every weekend

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