I’ve just deleted my original April fool’s day post. The working title was The reverse funnel atomic pay per click blogging secret to a six figure blogging income in just four minutes per week.

It was quite clearly a swipe at the pro blogging establishment. Here’s a quick excerpt from the text that I just deleted.

It’s here. The most anticipated blogging method ever released. Fresh from the amazing minds at the Chorowphoriss institute comes a mind blowing set of secrets that will show you how to make a six figure blogging income working just four minutes per week.

Nicknamed the four minute work work by one of the writers, Tom Fariss, this method is a bullet proof, fool proof, flame proof and idiot proof way for anyone to make money with their blog with absolutely no effort at all. All you need to do is sit back, preferably in a hammock on a remote beach, and let this magic system make you thousands of dollars every second.

Why didn’t I post it and let it run as a regular post?

Because I found that the copy I had just written, copy that I tried to make as farcical and obvious as possible, sounded just like the kind of scam that is all too prevalent in the pro, and not so pro, blogosphere. And although I know that regular Upstart Blogger readers would have spotted it as a joke I just couldn’t take the risk that someone, perhaps someone who hangs out at the blogs of the fictional Chorowphoriss institute, might just have fallen for it thinking it was a genuine offer.

Furthermore, a quick scan of a handful of typical scam blogs revealed similar copy in sales pitches for various dodgy schemes. Maybe those sales pitches were, in fact, April fool’s day pranks themselves. Maybe, but somehow I don’t think so.

When there is little difference between a spoof sales pitch, designed to poke fun at those who write that sort of thing, and genuine sales pitches being presented on screens all over the blogosphere it’s definitely time for a re-evaluation of the worth of the pro blogging old guard.

Or is it just the case that a fool and his money really are easily parted?