Why Blogging For Money Sucks

Instead of including a few introductory paragraphs I’ll just go straight to the point and use Darren Rowse’s poll to show you why blogging for money sucks.

Here’s a quick summary of Darren’s poll “How Much Did You Earn In October 2007 From Blogging?”:

a) There were 3054 responses which, in my opinion, is a big enough number to allow us to rely on the results as being very accurate.

b) There are actually some good earners who blog for money:
- 9% earn over $15,000 per month
- 7% earn between $2,500 and $15,000 per month

This leaves 84% of bloggers earning less than $2,500 per month from blogging for money.

If you want to go one step lower, then 81% of bloggers earn less than $1,500 per month from blogging.

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Five Reasons That It’s Easy To Get Links With A Blog

Having your blog and regularly adding useful content to it enable you to quickly build a small authority level in your niche.

You most likely won’t achieve total financial freedom with your own little blog, but you will be able to establish some authority in your niche; unless, of course, you compete with all those money making blogs.

It’s actually much easier to get incoming links and establish some presence online with a blog (especially Wordpress) than if you build a large, static website.

Why?

Because … Read more

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Top Commentators Special Thanks

I’ve decided to organize a special thanks for all of those who contribute to this financial freedom blog by commenting on the posts.

There are 3 main reasons why I am doing this:

1. I want to thank the best contributors for making this blog more interesting

2. I want to encourage and inspire the readers to achieve financial freedom

3. I want to give someone a chance to try Site Build It for free for 1 year

Sitesell.com offers only once a year a special promotion where they offer two SBI packages for the price of one. This promotion starts just before Christmas and runs for about two weeks.

I plan to buy my fifth SBI site at that time and I will get another one for free. Sitesell.com allows the buyer to give the second site to a friend or a family member.

It’s the second free SBI site that I want to give away this year to someone with the most valuable comment on this blog.

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The PPL Strategy - How To Make The Most Of Your Time And Talents

First Parkinson’s Law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

If you are not aware of this law and you are a typical blogger doing your own stuff, then you probably start your day by checking your stats and your RSS reader to see what’s new in the blogosphere.

And what usually happens is that this time spent reading other blogger’s posts expands to fill in almost all the time you have left.

Eventually, you either have to go to work or to sleep or do something else and you realize that you haven’t really done anything that day.

You haven’t moved one step closer to obtaining financial freedom, being an A-list blogger, having a pagerank of 6 or fulfilling whetever your desires may be.

It’s the Parkinson’s law that got you.

In order to escape this law you need to follow the PPL strategy.

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Why the Recent Google Pagerank Bitch Slap Was Just a Warning of Things to Come

As you probably know, the recent Google Toolbar pagerank update showed that many prominent websites have lost their visible pagerank. But this is only the beginning and here’s why.

None of the websites or blogs witnessed any loss in traffic from Google. This means that their real pagerank is still there; it has not been penalized.

It’s only the green bar that now shows fewer green pixels.

Darren Rowse, in this update, has found out that Google has been after the paid links; Google wants to prevent buying and selling links based on the pagerank of the website.

Are we supposed to believe that this is all?

That Google just removed some of the green pixels on the Toolbar, even though you may have gotten high rankings in Google, for violating their webmaster guidelines about link schemes?

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How to Play and Win Big in the Google Game

Many people have been exposed lately who were not so good at playing the Google game. They broke the rules of the game and Google has let them know that.

At first, Google hit the bigger directories like Aviva, Alive and others.

Rand Fishking wrote a great post about how Google was penalizing big directories, so I recommend you check what Rand had to say.

Google then hit some of the more visible internet marketers like John Chow, whose blog dropped from PR6 to PR5 and was actually not being found even for the “John Chow” search in Google.

The latest “victims” that I know of are Andy Beard, who wrote a post about being defamed by Google, and Courtney Tuttle who also reports about losing visible pagerank. He also lists some other websites which lost visible pagerank.

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How to Become an Expert in Internet Marketing

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”

Niels Bohr, Nobel prize winner for physics, 1922

If you want to become an expert in anything, not just internet marketing, you need to try your best to do things right by focusing on 3 keys.

You need to experiment, make mistakes and learn from these mistakes.

I first instinctively used these principles when I was learning to play competitive tennis.

I would play practice matches with my friends and think to myself: “Let’s see what happens if I approach the net with a cross court shot. I’ll do this about 10 times and see whether this will work in the long term or not.”

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Try This Widget To Get Targeted Traffic To Your Blog

John Reese has just released a cool new widget for blogs that will supposedly increase traffic to your site.

I say “supposedly” since we’ll all have to test and see whether this really works.

As you can see I have added the widget below my Categories section and you can see some related articles in that section.

If you click on one of those articles my blog will be credited with 1 point and one of my articles will appear on one of the related internet marketing, money making or financial freedom blogs.

There is also a 10 Tier referral system so it’s best if you sign up early to get some people under you which will help you get more traffic.

If you haven’t signed up yet you can do so here.

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7 Link Building Tips For Newborn Blogs

Since I started my main tennis website 2 years ago I have met and made many tennis friends among the internet community.

If I decide to start a new tennis website, I can just send a few emails and I’ll soon receive good quality links.

Not so with the Freedom Ideas blog. It’s my first internet marketing related blog and I basically have to start from scratch.

The Freedom Ideas blog is only 2 months old I am still very active in getting quality links to it.

Here are some of the ways I am building links now when this blog is still a baby:

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The Inside And The Outside Of Freedom Ideas Blog

I finally decided on a design(-er) of this blog so here are some things that make this blog run efficiently from the inside and what makes it look good on the outside:

The Inside

The blog of course uses Wordpress as its main “engine”. It’s not my first experience with Wordpress since I already use it with my tennis blog.

Then there are all sorts of useful plugins:

1. Akismet spam plugin which comes with the Wordpress install files and just needs to be activated. It’s doing a great job.

2. The All in One SEO Pack takes care of titles and descriptions of the pages and makes sure that there is no duplicate content on the blog

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