Don’t believe the hype. Whilst it’s still absolutely possible to make a very good income from legitimate professional blogging there are far too many so called pro bloggers out there all plowing a very tired and very familiar field.
Their game plan goes a little something like this…
The first step is to fill your blog with affiliate adverts for click through programs and text ad networks. Next, post some astronomically high income figures and blog about how easily you make big money with the affiliate programs you are advertising. Finally sit back and hope that some newbie bloggers with dollar signs in their eyes will click your links and do all the work for you while you take a small percentage of their income.
It’s a shame to see the professional blogging corner of the blogosphere get clouded with fraudulent claims that do nothing but give false hope to the uninitiated. In my mind they are no different to the mainstream “pay me money and I’ll show you how to make money” scams. They just rob people of their time and effort instead of taking their money directly. The end result is the same though, a lot of work for little or no return.
The cold hard truth is that blogging, when done professionally, can still generate a very healthy income. It takes hard work but the rewards are out there for the taking. The potential is virtually limitless as long as you have a reasonably scaleable blogging plan.
Just make sure that your hard work isn’t making money for someone else.
Easy tiger,
You’ll end up p*****g up someones wall again and get them all ratty and irate as ‘they’ will be convinced ‘they’ are the subject of ‘your’ post. :0)
That ‘they’ are the scammers that you are referring too… again.
Of course we all know that you are just talking ‘generically’ and making a very fair and very valuable point. :0)
Just concerned how it might be interpreted given your current ‘difficulties’ with the other ‘thing’.
But that aside. And I for one assume you are talking generically here, and not referring to anyone in particular, agree with everything you say. Up and till a certain point, I myself was taken aback by all these staggering claims… then you read more ‘respected and trusted blogs’ and you realise there must be a catch somewhere.
So it’s good to point this out, as you say, for the uninitiated.
Now back I get to learning more PHP. Is there a level below Dummies as I am getting lost on the first few pages of the PHP books I Have. Oh so daunting.
Graham Smith
ImJustBlogging.com
“Web & Blog Ramblings from ‘my’ Gutter”
I wrote a 6 part semi-satirical series about how to do this on my blog called Secret Guide to Social Blogging Success. I compare a lot of it to the way old school MLM’s worked where you dazzle the newbies with your amazing wealth and money making skill while encouraging them to pay for your business building advice.