Blogging for money won’t succeed
Aftering seeing many case studies of successful bloggers like john chow, who blogs to tell people how much money he is making online, alot of similar money making blogs are created, and that’s how to industry works. Money making blogs are blogs that are created for the purpose of earning money online and to teach people how to make money online. This type of blogs are rising into popularity this recent years.
Despite having so many money making blogs, there are only small percentage of them successful and actually succeeded in making money from their blogs. The remaining percentage just consist of bloggers that give up in the first few months after failing to monetize their blog and achieve the results that they wanted. Instead of being a webmaster blog from the start, this blog is started with the sole purpose of learning how to make money online by blogging. In the first few months, i have been blogging with the mindset of trying to make money off blogging. This mistake that i have made, lead to me having to face difficulty in pondering about what should i write the day after for my blog post. Also, it lead to me neglecting the blog due to the fact that i am not making much from blogging, giving up and falling into the category of the majority percentage of bloggers.
After my 8 months experience with this blog, i found out that blogging for the purpose of money won’t make you any money from blogging. That is when that i decided to transform this blog into a personal & webmaster blog. As i am web developer and designer, i enjoyed writing articles about webmastering. So i started to blog about things that i like, things that i want to share, things that i have experienced on and till recently, i could see a steady increase of traffic and returning visitors. With a steady increase of traffic and visitors, it also mean increase in revenue as well.
This has enlightened me to realise that blogging for the sake of making money actually backfires. If you do so, your quality of blog post will not be good, and content is what visitors looks for when they visit blogs. In conclusion, Do not blog with the mindset of making money, just blog on things that you like or have experience in and traffic will start increasing as time goes on.
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August 18th, 2008 at 5:12 am
True … I blog abt things i’m passionate about with no money expectations in the first place
Luckily for me, my blogs are well received, with a few optimization help (design + seo) to boost CPC/CPM/CPA
Good luck in your blogs
August 18th, 2008 at 5:40 am
@uncle sha, thanks and good luck for your blogs as well, nice meeting an internet entrepreneur from singapore like you. i visited your blog and i see that you are a self-learned guy and i really admired that. I faced similar problems like you before, like people doubted in my abilities, background, but perseverance and time is the key. All the best!
August 19th, 2008 at 2:10 am
I have been blogging for 3 years, I have no intention to make money from blog, even it does, it won’t earn you much unless you put a lot of effort building network and regconition. However, content is king and its always true. Hang in there, in long run, you will see result.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:17 am
@Kenneth: yea,time and patience will definitely pay off.
August 29th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
You are definately right. My thought is the content is everything. Bloggers has opened Information Highway even wider which has helped a lot of people including myself to have different sources of info on different subjects. So ithink if bloggers stick to what they know best, everything else including money will fall into place.