Every once in a while, I receive emails from people who stumble upon my blog and got hooked. They tell me how they got to my blog and why they liked it and eventually add me to their daily reads or RSS feeds.
For those who do not blog yet, (most of the time) I am able to convince them to go blogging as well. For those who already have an existing blog, I introduced them to the wonderfull world of Google AdSense and tell them how they can earn from their passion that is blogging.
On some occassions though, I get emails from non-bloggers asking me tips on how to earn from blogging. Apparently, they are more interested about the earning part instead of the blogging part. That is something else altogether.
… everytime someone comes to me about blogging not for the love of blogging but for profit, 99% of the time, that venture does not succeed. First, because you need regular readers who will support you (via comments) and add interaction within your blog. Second, no one will link back to you when they see that your blog is all about profits. Linking is an essential ingredient in SEO. Third, you need a sizable amount of legit traffic to your blog via the search engines and this takes more effort again.
AdSense is great. I know a lot of bloggers who are earning more in AdSense than their day job but all that was because they had blogging as a passion first rather than an online cash-cow.
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Transparently. I agree. ;D
There will always be people interested in one aspect of things rather than the whole…
It’s like the one artist that created a certain look for a website, focusing on the box edges, the top of the page so that it meshed with the rest of the site…
Then you have the programmer who made it possible, and focussed mainly on making it accesible, valid and that everything worked.
And then there comes the customer who doesn’t care at all of these things, only that the site looks “good” and what he seeks is there!
@ Luis
Yes, I know. Even Jason Calacanis of WeblogsInc started blogging about RFID and similar stuff for money.
magkano mag pa host dito sa atin sa pinas? gusto ko sanang magkaroon ng sariling website para sa mga pictures ko pati siguro sa blog na rin. Anong company ba ang dependable (good service and customer service) at mura (big emphasis)
You might wanna take a look at http://www.ploghost.com
Hi cool site friends!