Facts and myths about Making Money Online Blogs.

Few days ago I came across a discussion on blogcatalog.com that really got my attention, the discussion was about the high frequent increasing of “Money Making Blogs” and how that could be so much annoying for people who are visiting blogs for different subjects and interest instead they are distracted by MMO blogs that invaded the blogsphere . It’s not that I have a problem with this kind of blogs it’s just there are so many things that are way to far from the reality about this blogs that must be revealed.

In fact there are few things that are true about MMO but there is a lot of hidden triks surrounding this blogs, and marketing “charm” that spins your head before you know it and makes you believe that you can make thousands of dollars overnight by signing up for this affiliate program or join this or that… The sad truth, there are people that actually buy this stuff and believe that they can make easily and a lot of money with their blog without any effort, and when they try to make their own they don’t know witch topic they’re going to blog about, so they make a blog about how to make money online, and that’s why there is this huge wave of MMO blogs that crawled through the blogsphere very fast, and when they can’t make money at all they give up and let the next wave to break on the rocks shore of reality, most of these blogs last about two to three months then an other wave appears to the surface and so on.

The truth must be told, there are few people that actually made it and they are making a decent amount each month, not because they know a secret that you don’t know (well, as far as I know) it’s just because of their skills, determination, competent, patience and little love for what they are doing.

Advice:

Instead of focusing on how to make money online try to focus more about how to improve your contents it’s the core of your blog not the ads, next time I’ll try to put the spotlight more on how to improve your blog.

Good luck.

Multiple Affiliate programs a curse or a bless?

Multiple Affiliate programs a curse or a bless?

Affiliate programs such as Google Adsense , Yahoo Publisher Network , Chitika, Clicksor, AdSonar were yesterday’s news, they used to be the dominating companies of there sector ( The Web Advertisement), the World Wide Web is growing very fast, now it made the Web Advertisement much easier and available for everyone. Monetizing your blog it’s not a hard job anymore thanks to the diversity of the web and the new competitive small companies that made this possible for bloggers.

All you need to do to monetize your blog is have a blog, good contents, decent traffic and affiliates programs, choosing the right affiliate program is not hard as it was before you just need to pick up one, sign up, place the ads and start collecting your income. This looks like heaven to bloggers, but is this a curse or a bless?

These days the vast majority of bloggers pick up more than three affiliate programs to monetize their blog and to bring more income, it’s an easy way to promote company’s products on your blog or websites without bothering, because the company handles the transactions, the products, and the shipping, you only need to drive customers and get your commission, it is a bless because you can work from home, change the products or the company if it does not work for you, and you only need to drive traffic. Do you still believe it’s a bless? Think a gain.

If you have more than three affiliate programs to “decorate” your blog with, the visitors will lose focus on the contents of your pages and if you keep change the ads you never reach the minimum paying threshold, especially if your blog traffic is low, it may take years for you to get the minimum amount. In addition if you have an average or duplicate contents and a lot of affiliate links will make people think that you are only interested in money not providing actual and helpful information.

The advice I can give you is: don’t put to much ads on your blog and always try to choose just two affiliate programs to run on your blog, it’s easy to manage, and more focus on the niche you are targeting. After all affiliate programs could be a bless as much as it could be a curse.

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