How NOT to earn money from blogging
I’ve been a blogger for more than 6 years now and I never really earned anything from doing it. Well not exactly. I got Mike to donate me a couple of dollars. Aside from that, nadda. Not a single cent. The Adsense on my sidebar is useless because nobody ever clicked on it. My Amazon Associate account never brought me revenue. And my textlink ad for RSS never got approved. With the advent of problogging and probloggers, the way I blog is probably as extinct as the Dodo bird. I can only drool as increasing number of bloggers in the interwebs receive paychecks or products for review. Hell, that bastard Darren Rowse who owns problogging.net was able to buy a house because of blogging. I wouldn’t even be able to buy a pack of chewing gum for my blog. I am hoping that would change in the future but as for now, I think I have enough credentials to give tips on how not to earn money from blogging.
- Alienate your audience. Talk about yourself as much as possible and don’t forget to mention your elite tastes in music, film, literature, art, and the likes. Believe that you are better than most of humanity.
- Make your posts non work-friendly. Display naked or half-naked photos. Make use of keywords such as porn, sex, bestiality, masturbation, incest and other sexual deviations you can think of.
- Graphics overload. Never resize your graphics nor make thumbnails. Graphics should be 300 pixels or more. By doing so, users on dial-up won’t be able to access your blog.
- Horizontal scrolling is your friend.
- Offend. Cover taboo topics and constantly criticize religious groups, race, advocacies, etc. For best effect, contradict yourself often. You don’t want to create a following.
- Hide your ads. Ads should not be easily seen.
- Turn off commenting. This makes the readers feel unwelcome. Another alternative is to password protect entries.
- Never promote your blog. It’s as if your blog doesn’t exist at all.
- Do not link. This makes your blog self-contained. If someone links to your blog, do not link back. Too much links in posts can be effective too.
- Sprinkle expletives often. Readers will surely love you for it.
December 4th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
That’s the spirit!!!!!!! :P. Who needs fans anyway? lol. I’ve sucessfully managed to keep my blof to a happy traffic minimum for months now…. developing a tendency to post depressing news and self doubt / traumatic personal evetns etc etc etc *g*
December 4th, 2006 at 11:05 pm
Personal blogs are not good money maker. Plus, those adsense ads shown in personal blogs are low-paying ones. It probably would take 1000 or more clicks before you can reach the minimum payout. Unless your blog is very famous and has a lot of traffic you’re better off without them (sorry to say that). Most blogs that do earn are technical blogs, product review blogs, etc.
I, myself, don’t see any adsense ads because I blocked it from my computer.
December 5th, 2006 at 10:41 am
Krystal,
Lol. Congratulations in not making money from blogging.
December 5th, 2006 at 10:44 am
Grace,
I think you are right about being better off without adsense. I still want to try my luck though. lol
December 5th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
Well I worked and worked at it,a nd have met with resounding success, indeed I’ve even wound up *spending* money on it. I’m so proud
December 5th, 2006 at 11:59 pm
ROFL. You are absolutely right!!! I also spent a lot of money for this blog.
December 6th, 2006 at 5:45 am
I never believed I could make money from blogging i’m already happy if somebody comments every once in a while, which apart from a few regulars like yourself i rarely get. I cannot crack how to drive some traffic to the blog either, although probably i don’t put that much effort either.
I’m going to take some advice from one of your points and add some work-unsafe content to the blog …. lol … i laughed at that one when i read it.
December 7th, 2006 at 11:49 am
Good post. It all depends who your audience is. I personally dislike my audience and tell them but they keep coming back.
December 7th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
Good for you. I would offer free sex to my audience but I know they wouldn’t take the bait.
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:31 am
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