If only blogging for money was this easy.
How many of you started a blog thinking it’s an easy way to make money and do almost nothing? So you start your blog and it didn’t take long for you to realize that doing almost nothing will get you nothing to show for it. So you try to do just a little bit more and … still nothing. That, my friend, is where 90% of bloggers give up.
There’s just so much information (and misinformation) on the web today, how do we sort through all the garbage and find the real useful stuff that will actually help us earn an income by blogging? Let’s set the record straight on some common myths.
Top 5 myths of blogging for money
- You can get rich quick. Not at all! In fact, it’s the opposite. If you poured your heart and soul and every waking moment of your day into your blog for a month straight, you would probably making more money flipping burgers during that same time. Whether you plan on being a full-timer or a hobbyist, your blog site is still a business, one that requires nurturing and time to grow. In the long run, you will out-earn a short-order cook but it will take plenty of time on your part.
- It is easy to make money with a blog. Also totally untrue. Anyone who tries to sell you a “secret” to making money fast is a scam artist. So let me add a caveat to my previous myth: you cannot get rich quick unless you are a scam artist, then you have a small chance. Not only will growing your blog take a lot of time but it will also require focus and energy. You will have to pay attention to it closely and perform many experiments. Then you have to find solutions for your problem areas, which require creativity, patience, and lots of trial and error.
- You can start your money making blog for free. Of course you can start a blog for free but if you want to make money, it will cost you. It’s an investment in yourself, after all. Your upfront costs are a domain name and hosting, usually less than $100 for the year combined. However, before your first year is up, logos, themes, email service, and advertising are among your other costs, which can add up real quick.
- There is a recipe for success. There are general road maps but there is no “system” that works for everyone; there are just too many variables. Even if you were to try to reproduce the niche, the strategy, the tactics, and the theme of a successful blogger, the timing isn’t the same. Furthermore, you don’t get to see what strings are being pulled from behind the curtain. Take the time to learn from experts, digest the information, and as Simon, Paula and Randy would tell you, “make it your own”.
- Once a blog is successful, it can be put on autopilot. The internet is organic. As a result, there is no autopilot button that would work well long-term. Let’s say you were able to create amazing success after a few months or a year, in order to continue that success you would have to keep up with trends, adapt to changes, grow existing relationships, create new relationships, rethink your strategies, fine-tune your tactics, continue to market your blog, perform regular SEO and tweak your ads. And did I mention that you still have to write fresh content?!?
Not exactly what some of you want to hear, is it? There’s a bright side to it. I’m not trying to de-motivate potentially great bloggers, rather, save bloggers who wouldn’t make it anyway several months of their time.
So, if you still want to blog for money, go for it. Now you know what you’re up against.
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There are plenty of people selling “ready made blogs with 647 income streams, making $10k per day” over at sites like digital point etc for just $30. The problem is…people believe this! They think that they can make a free site and put a little work in, or just spend $30 and get a site which will make them rich!
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Hi,
It is a very nice and interesting tutorial.You explain the truth in this post very well and I am now bored with such myths.
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Gabe,
I couldn’t agree more. I have been on my journey as a blogger for income since 2009. Last November I made money on some old family recipes. The analysis that followed taught me more about the power of smaller niches and long tail keywords. Ever since my adding several niche blogs, I’ve been getting income.
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I really agree with your dave. Success cannot be achieved in a day. It takes some hard work to reach our
I think the most important part is stick with what you are an expert on. There’s too many blogs out there which are basically filled with crap content which is pretty much useless and sometimes not even understandable.
If you know what you’re writing about and you have a good degree of persistence within you, you can make it happen.
Interesting post is a key here. In turn, writing a useful post in the existing diversity of thought is difficult, the main criterion for writing an article should be
clarity, brevity and obviously accuracy is desirable.
nice post. thanks for the info, I want to learn online business. blogs are one medium that can do that. Online business to be one solution to get income. I do not know where to start.
Great list. In Myth #3 you mentioned making money with a blog and posed the question, “do you need to make $50,000 a month to consider your blog successful?” Income is a great metric by which to gauge success; however, we can also use traffic statistics to measure popularity, comment frequency, and the simplest metric of all (and also very important) personal enjoyment. So far, I’m only measuring my successful by the enjoyment factor; however, I would love to make $50,000 per month — even $50 a month would be nice.
you’ve touched on some great points, I especially think the first point about getting rich quick is ignored by a lot of people and can get them into all sorts of problems.
Any way of generating money takes a great deal of time and effort, you have to WORK for everything, I know some friends that bought some “push button profits” style products, and now they’re just in debt, and have no money.
I’m a big believer that you get out what you put in to something, and if you put nothing in, people should expect to get nothing in return.
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Government makes money (literally). But then there must be something productive done for a society to prosper so people serve each other through some service or product. However as such I or you cannot create money to pay for someone’s service/product. How is money created by governent released in market, on what basis government releases money? What is role of RBI ? when government releases moeny in market is it buying something in return but then who does it buy from ? Somehow, somewhere services/products created by society are finally getting to RBI (so that it can release money) but how ? Please explain.
Mostly blogger wish to earn lots of money form blogs but it is not easy as you think.This types of work takes time to generate revenue.First you make your credibility in blogger then if some one think you are good blogger then their is a chance you start earning form blogger.Every one want unique information either it is blog or website.
Pretty good post. I just stumbled upon your blog and wanted to say that I have really enjoyed reading your posts. I hope you post again soon. Finding real ways to make money online is good career start.
The best way to start a blog is by doing it like a hobby, and not thinking that’s a way of making money. If you dedicate to this hobby work, slowly but surely money will come aout of your work.
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Blogging is here to stay. Isn’t really just an online journal but now they are geared toward particular industries and topics? I like blogging both the writing and the create the scripts to do so. I just wish I could pull in traffic so that I could perhaps help support the addiction of it.
Blogging is here to stay. Isn’t really just an online journal but now they are geared toward particular industries and topics?
I like blogging both the writing and the create the scripts to do so. I just wish I could pull in traffic so that I could perhaps help support the addiction of it
Amazing to see how blogs that actually started as information resource end up more profitable, than bloggers starting a blog with the goal..making money. The best blogs actually happen.
i’ve started a few new blogs recently.
they are all about stuff that i am knowledgeable about and enjoy talking about.
since it is fun to me, i will continue to update the blogs frequently. maybe one day my blog will have so much traffic that it will lead to me making money off of it (one can hope, right?
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If you are enthusiastic about your subject and have some decent content then that’s all you need
I really loved the way you have designed your site, it’s simple, neat, easy to get around and very easy on the eyes. Could you tell me which theme or designer did you use.
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Good points. There are far too many sites out there attempting to sell you the recipe for success. As you pointed out there simply isn’t one. If you write quality content that people want they will come but there simply isn’t an easy way.
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I really agree with your dave. Success cannot be achieved in a day. It takes some hard work to reach our
If you are enthusiastic about your subject and have some decent content then that’s all you need
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Dave is absolutely right. Success comes to those who endures come what may. some may accept you for what you are, someone yrying to earn a crust. Others despise you but they know nothing about you nor your circumstances. Give me a break, uh?
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Yup, no secrets. There’s a lot to learn but and methods are better than others but there are no magical shortcuts.
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Very true, making money online and with blogging takes time, but it’s all worth it!
There are always new ways to earn income from blogging. However, most of us have at least five sources of income per site. There’s a snowball effect where essentially the rich get richer.
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Breaking it down. Awesome article. Very good points. Definitely no auto pilot feature. Internet scams are everywhere.
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Well, I’ve read about some software that help you generate some quick cash. Making money blogging is 100% free. I disagree to your point above. Use Blogspot instead.
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I know that it is not easy to blog and earn a lot of money. But I continue on learning new things by continue blogging everyday. I agree that I could blog for free and I have to invest if i want to monetize it. Instead of taking new recipe for success, I am trying to find some new ways to continue learning something new from writing meaningful post. Thanks for sharing your insights.
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Blogging to earn money is tough. I personally think it all boils all down to content and giving added value. and much perserverance. Thanks for the tips
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There are so many people out there trying to get rich quick. It’s good that someone keeps people in check with an article about blogging for money. While you can earn some cash at it, I prefer to stick with trading stocks. I’ve been trading stocks for 5 years now and love doing it especially when I’m making money.
Wow, Its great, Now earning from blog is not too hard…. Thanks a lot for the ideas.
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Certainly it is not an east task to earn a lot of money through websites but you can earn considerable amount of money if you try hard and i have been doing it also.