Blogs bad or good?

[r.figueroacintron]

Blogs I called the great idea of home business!. This type of information is great for everyone and at the same time people know you, learn from you, and the best of all you can make money. Article marketing is my prime form of advertising, and it's completely free. Identify your niche and select the market you want to cater to and start from there. Provide information that people need to read about, express yourself and how you feel about your article. Then people start sharing your ideas or start hating them.

If people like your article they will look to your profile and look at your marketing and that's how you start making that money everybody likes.

BLOGS ARE THE BEST IDEA TO PROMOTE YOURSELF AND YOUR BUSINESS.

I'm a newbie in this home business and take any suggestions. THANKS

[Steven_D]

blogs are good for the moment, and only the moment. Every freakn person on the net is making their own blog @ the moment, there must be about 500 new blogs starting every hour.

Problem is that anyone can start a blog, even a hill billie with down syndrome can start a blog claiming to help people in a certain niche, and readers have no way of checking the writer to see they know their stuff or not.

What is going to slowly happen over time is people will stop referring to blogs etc for info because for each good post there will be 10000 bad posts.

And then a new form of online advertising / writing / free stuff will come along, and all the bloggers will jump on that band wagon and start again.

End result, bloggers etc, make shit money, and work hard. You wont find a blogger who makes $250,000 a year working only 40 hours a week.

if you want to scrape by, maby earning a max of say 5K a month, go for it lol. If you want to get rich, take some time, make a decent site, sell your info to people, make sure its quality so those people keep returning and send their friends.

I would rather have only 250 people a month reading my info and charging them $50 each ($12,500 a month), than having a blog post, maby getting 5000 visitors a month, and getting paid lol 0.5c a click on my advertising space lol, what a joke, it so cracks me up thinking about these people, making sites, writing blogs and articles, link exchanges, staying up till like 4am trying to get back links, to get paid 0.5c or even 0.50c a click, and when you first start its like what 02c a click or something.

I was helping this guy last night get hooked up to paypal so he could take payments, and his site just allowed any programmer in the world, to make a small application for the net, and list it on his site. His site then sold it to people who needed code and took a comission for the sale.

Now that was a good idea, and i bet he makes more than 5K a month within 6 months.

To get rich, you dont have to dig for gold, just stand on the side of the road and sell pans (Gold pans) let everyone else do the hard work. Be an intermeditary, sell something that belongs to someone else and take a cut.

[garysims]

I agree with a lot that Steven_D says, blog are good, they are a good communication tool, they are easy to setup, they are easy to get into Google's index (I recently started a blog on blogspot [link removed] and it got included in Google index the SAME DAY) and they are very popular.

BUT, the biggest problem with blogs are that they are easy to setup, they are easy to get into Google's index and they are very popular.

The real question is how do you make your blog stand out from the rest.

Gary

[MrCat]

Blogging is a great way to earn revenue. Regular postings and "pinging" helps your blog get indexed by search engines. Remember to provide your audience with informative and interesting contents for your niche. Always keep it fresh and updated. Pinging is essential after every update as this sends out signals to search engines' bots to go to your site so that the new contents gets indexed in the SE's lists.

[Trapped]

Originally Posted by Steven_D

End result, bloggers etc, make shit money, and work hard. You wont find a blogger who makes $250,000 a year working only 40 hours a week.

Nothing to comment about the rest, just about the quoted i wanted to let you know that John Chow's August income report was slightly under $18k and the previous months were all $10k + , so the story about making money from blogging is not possible is untrue. But than again, what is making money for you? For someone making $500 a month is money, for someone thats just half of the expenses he plans to invest in another project.

As many mentioned, blogging is a great communication with your customers or readers. If you intend to make a blog just to make money you have already kinda failed, but if you make a blog to communicate with your customers (if you run a online business) or if you blog just to express what and how you feel of a certain niche/topic without thinking about the money you might succeed without even being aware of that.

It is tricky indeed, but it is a pleasure to know that someone is actually reading what you are writing, and even more pleasure when you get your readers to comment on your blog because they really do appreciate what you have wrote.

[Business Blogger]

Originally Posted by Steven_D

To get rich, you dont have to dig for gold, just stand on the side of the road and sell pans (Gold pans) let everyone else do the hard work. Be an intermeditary, sell something that belongs to someone else and take a cut.

I agree with Steven D here. Blogs to me are a great form of communication and a useful marketing tool to promote bigger and better ideas. If you are starting a blog to make money from it you should probably look in other areas instead.

[Steven_D]

Originally Posted by Trapped

As many mentioned, blogging is a great communication with your customers or readers. If you intend to make a blog just to make money you have already kinda failed, but if you make a blog to communicate with your customers (if you run a online business) or if you blog just to express what and how you feel of a certain niche/topic without thinking about the money you might succeed without even being aware of that.

Yeah that is a nicer and easier to read version of what i was trying and failing to communicate.

Also, would be dumb of me to say that every blogger in the world is poor, obviously there are those that started first, and have the best position who will do well. Its kinda like a MLM system, the first people in do the best and genreally the later you start the less you make before it all topples over.

[Hostnetric]

First I want to say that you make some good points Steven.

Next if you are going to blog make it worth your time and post something that you are passionate about and honestly enjoy writing about. I would rather make a post once a week then make 10 posts a day to simply get content on a site and have nothing that is worth while. Blogs only become successful when they actually provide good content. Good examples of blogs with good content in my opinion are John Chow and Problogger. There are other good blogs out there, but these people write about what they feel strongly about most of the time and others notice this.

[Steven_D]

Originally Posted by Hostnetric

First I want to say that you make some good points Steven.

Thanks man.

Also agree with you, if you are passionate about your topic, people will pick up on it, and respond positively.

Believe it or not, the world doesnt come to read your blog just because you took 15 mins to write it.

I would be interested if anyone is running google analytics on their blog (If you can I dont know) to see the stats for visitors and average time on a page, i would think they would need 10 mins to read a blog page, give or take.

Its my experience that the average human has a attention span of around 25 seconds, and i bet that there are bloggers who check the number of views and it goes something like this

"OMFG im a legend, everyone loves me, i cant believe it, i have 100 views on my blog today, omg i must be like a super editor, maby i should work for vogue, omg, i better get another blog up so they come back, quick what should i write about, omg how to keep snails of your garden, excellent, now it doesnt have to be long or smart or helpful because im famous"

Auctual breakdown of the 100 page views
21 Spider bots or web scrapers looking for content
7 people ended up there while looking for porn
50 people came, looked at the first 2 lines, giggled, and left
19 people came because they saw 50 other people visit the site on digg or delicious, realise that it was a mistake, left to find porn
1 person, read it, thought was helpful, may come back, leaves to go watch russian girls snogging

[Hostnetric]

You are right in the fact that you only have so many seconds to capture the interest of the person visiting your site. Also I agree that to much is put into page views as a measure. I am more interested in seeing the number of uniques and also the amount of time spent on a given page. I think that the goal of writing should be to maintain the interest of the person reading it and getting them to recommend your site and to come back themselves.

[jmoe]

I would have to agree that if you are going to have a blog, it should probably be something that you know a bit about or are interested in. Blogs allow more of your personality to shine and this can help increase the interactivity on your blog and keep people coming back.

[MrCat]

Originally Posted by jmoe

I would have to agree that if you are going to have a blog, it should probably be something that you know a bit about or are interested in. Blogs allow more of your personality to shine and this can help increase the interactivity on your blog and keep people coming back.

Knowledge is the key to everything in this industry IMO. Pair it with hardwork, enthusiasm and creativity and you will do just well

[coolguy27]

Originally Posted by r.figueroacintron

Blogs I called the great idea of home business!. This type of information is great for everyone and at the same time people know you, learn from you, and the best of all you can make money. Article marketing is my prime form of advertising, and it's completely free. Identify your niche and select the market you want to cater to and start from there. Provide information that people need to read about, express yourself and how you feel about your article. Then people start sharing your ideas or start hating them.

If people like your article they will look to your profile and look at your marketing and that's how you start making that money everybody likes.

BLOGS ARE THE BEST IDEA TO PROMOTE YOURSELF AND YOUR BUSINESS.

I'm a newbie in this home business and take any suggestions. THANKS

Blog is a good one way link for the site.. It is one of the popular strategy to promote a site...

[zagu060807]

Blogs are good, just use link baiting technique, your blog and the links listed in your blog can get higher traffic.

[Jeffro2pt0]

I think Steven hit the nail on the head on quite a few points. It appears to me as though Steve is a realist, which is a good trait to have. I am excited when I receive a new comment on one of my articles and I also get excited to see someone else linking to something I wrote. I hope that excitement over simple things such as those never leaves.

As for stats, if I see an article has reached 300 page views due to it being on StumbleUpon, I see it as a small drop of success. I don't engulf myself within my own ego. Instead, I try to review that article and figure out why that one was successful as compared to similar ones I have written, trying to learn so that the next one is equally as successful.

[Steven_D]

Originally Posted by Jeffro2pt0

I think Steven hit the nail on the head on quite a few points. It appears to me as though Steve is a realist, which is a good trait to have. I am excited when I receive a new comment on one of my articles and I also get excited to see someone else linking to something I wrote. I hope that excitement over simple things such as those never leaves.

As for stats, if I see an article has reached 300 page views due to it being on StumbleUpon, I see it as a small drop of success. I don't engulf myself within my own ego. Instead, I try to review that article and figure out why that one was successful as compared to similar ones I have written, trying to learn so that the next one is equally as successful.

Thanks buddy, i often feel that i see things differently than everyone else so its good to get some positave feed back

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[Steven_D]

There are 7 points on the tour and not a one mentions making money, surely that says something to you about why blogs were set up in the first place.

[guinanie]

Blogs are good if it has content that is relevant to your main site and it is bad if it hurt the feeling of other people.

[samlauren1]

Blogs are just an online diary with entries made on a regular if not daily basis.
Blogging is a great way to earn revenue but You will have to regular update this thing.After every update Search Engine notifies it and Index.