And I’ll say “Thank You!”
A Reality Check about Blogging for Money
Short and sweet – it is mho that those who attempt to sell you on the ease of making money blogging, full time money or more, are the ones who are selling something that will benefit them much more than you in the short term! Yes, short term…
“While the occasional blogger has a fast rise to fame they are the exception. Building a successful blog takes a long time (it takes time to build readership, to work out how to monetize it etc) so take a long term approach and …read more

I received an email this morning about Darren and Andy’s new updated blogging course, titled “Six Figure Blogging”. The fresh new course covers new material such as text-link-ads and new innovations from Chikitka, Amazon and Google.

We also tackle questions such as:
- With all the blog networks – is there still hope for six figure blogging?
- How long should you test a blog before you expect
income and search hits?
Plus:
The 10 Reasons Why Blogs
Don’t Make Much Money
(these may surprise you)

If you’re looking to earn a buck on the side then checkout the affiliate program available.

Bob: How come people don’t visit my blog?
Me: Well Bob, do people know about it?
Bob: I’ve read all the articles on Problogger and Performancing. I’ve created pillar articles just like Yaro said and I do what everyone boasts is the key to gaining traffic, I post content on a daily basis!
Does this sound like you?
I can think of three primary ways of driving traffic.

Regular readers (Includes RSS subscribers)
Search engine traffic
Advertising campaigns such as YPN or Adwords

If you haven’t mastered any of these, then you’re not going to have much luck earning any revenue from your blog.

Regular Readers
Successful blogs that gain …read more

When blogs first came around, no-one thought to create bots to spam them. Spam came in emails, who would have thought they would target blogs? Our precious blogs that allow us to portray thought, story and message. Our own personal haven.
But they found and managed to destory our haven, however we will not give up!
Spam Karma 2 has done wonder’s for the blogs I run. It’s efficient, easy to install and has a nice interface to manage comment spam.
And the best part? It’s free.
Askismet, the non-free spam protection also seems to be popular. However it seems Darren from Problogger …read more

When organisations are formed, whether it be a web 2.0 startup, religious or music group, it’s important to look at your home base.

My accounting lecturer one morning asked a question to the 400+ students that sat before him. It was a question that sparked a few brave souls to put up their hands and answer. So you can follow the story I had better tell you the question.
“Why do businesses exist?”
One brave student put up his hand and answered with;
“To provide goods, services and employment”
“Wrong” said the lecturer. “For that is a charity. Businesses exist to increase the wealth of the owner“.
Now apply this to blogging. Do blogs exist to increase the wealth of an owner? I guess it all depends on …read more

A friend came to me recently and asked me why he wasn’t making much money from adsense. I asked him what his blog was about and he said blogging and how to make money online. I then proceeded to tell him the following;
BLOGGERS DON’T CLICK ADVERTS
If you’ve had any experience with running websites, tweaking ads and performing search engine optimization – you’ll notice that we become blind to adsense. When we read a blog and see adsense adverts plastered left right and centre, we understand that the author is attempting to create a revenue stream.
We will often criticize the website …read more

Ever since I setup a system on my personal blog that allows me to post photos from my phone straight to WordPress, people have been asking me: how exactly do you do that?!?