Pretentious Attitude of Other Bloggers

"I wish people would get off their high horses and quit the snooty attitudes, especially when they themselves are “shilling” for money. Give me a break".

Tell me one thing, who among you guys don't want to make extra money in blogging?...and... What was your first reason in the first place why you started blogging? Did someone ever tells you why should I or we start blogging? Was there making money some sort of idea?

Was it not because of the phrase - "Wanted to earn money online / wanted to earn extra money out of blogging"? Let's get serious here, GET REAL!... If you will be given an opportunity to earn extra income are you not going to grab it? Whilst we know that blogging is an easy way of making extra money, and WHY NOT?

I tell you what, since I have started posting PAID POSTS, I AM EARNING 2 GREAT THINGS HERE - EDUCATION AND MONEY!! I have learned and would still learn a lot of things, new topics for me mostly....

I came to read this blog, she wrote about the Snooty Attitudes of other bloggers! What is wrong about blogging for pay anyway? I love this post:

"There is nothing wrong with blogging for pay. I earn a considerable income from it, an income we would otherwise not have. I cannot work outside the home due to disability, so blogging for pay is my entire livelihood. I am able to buy groceries for a family of 6 with my earnings (despite Google slashing my PageRank and severely limiting my opportunities). I work very, very hard. I try to write well and write interesting articles, and to keep my blog clean and neat and well-designed. What is wrong with blogging for money? And why are companies like PayPerPost or PayU2Blog mocked and scorned, but for some reason, Google’s AdSense is OK and is somehow more respectable and “holier” than PPP or PU2B? I absolutely refuse to have AdSense on my blogs. For one, I think Google is too big for its britches and are control freaks. Two, have you seen some of the ads they have– some of those links are extremely offensive! And three, who makes any money off those ads?! I hear stories of people *finally* getting their measly $20 after five years. Give me a break. But somehow, AdSense is more noble, more pure…. Personally, I prefer to read blogs with sponsored posts than blogs that are crammed with AdSense and other ugly stuff. I have found some really great deals and learned some great things by reading Sponsored Posts. I wish people would get off their high horses and quit the snooty attitudes, especially when they themselves are “shilling” for money. Give me a break".

An article of Kim Komado on Earning Money Online, who says:

"Some advertisers offer pay-per-post opportunities. You may receive, say, $10 to review a product on your blog….

ReviewMe, PayPerPost and Blogitive.com are three sites that offer these opportunities. Some have disclosure requirements. But I’m still not fond of these programs. Your readers may desert you if they think you are shilling for products".

THERE WAS ONE OF THE COMMENTS WHICH I DON'T LIKE, WHICH SAYS:

From Bas of Istanbul: "It’s all about ads not finding their way into the content of the blog. The programs mentioned infiltrate the content… and quite frankly, I don’t read blogs with paid posts, except if I come by one to drop on them. This is also why I’m quiting Entrecard. I read many blogs of bloggers who make a living (or who are rich even) because of blogging… They don’t use paid posts. I think paid posts is really bad for blogging to be honest. Good content should be the focus for a blog. I have one blog for my DJ mixes called The MiX-Files. I make some money through that blog because I occassionally link the tracks used in a mix to the place where they can be bought… This is a service and a legit way to make money from my content. My content does not depend on this. If you don’t fully understand my position, and the position of many bloggers alike, send me an email and I’ll explain it in full :-)"

.... AND I HAVE COMMENTED TOO!!!.....

Hi Rebecca, I salute you for having been able to bluntly expressed the reality in blogging world! I like you for being that… I do agree with you 100%… we are not in the position to say that paid blogs are not good, while you can actually learn fresh topics every now & then! I must admit, most of the sponsored posts in my blog are new to me, so I am earning 2 things here, EDUCATION & MONEY… so what’s wrong with that hey Bas!!!

I have both Adsense & Sponsored posts on this blog of mine, and I do get occasional featured offers from advertisers because of this rank I got which is 3, only after 4 months of blogging, there I started writing sponsored posts! But donnu until when Google is going to keep it… but it doesn’t really matter, I earned more money from advertisers than Google anyway, so why worry…

Entrecard helps a lot of obtaining traffic unto your blog, so nothing wrong with that, who doesn’t need traffic???

Keep it up girl, I like you though….

Paid blogging is very easy, so there are a lot of terrible paid posts (and blogs) out there. But just because they are bad does not mean that the concept of paid blogging is bad. There is no difference between writing a sponsored post and linking to a series of links so you can get a commission. Both are selling something through their blogs, and both are doing some kind of blogging for pay. And if you write a post about your affiliate links, there’s a sponsored post that has “infiltrated content” right there. You did say you knew people who have gotten rich by blogging. The richest blogger I know is John Chow, and guess what– he does paid posts! Google killed his Page Rank, too (up and down) yet he has a base clientele so he still makes the money. “Good content should be the focus for a blog.” Who determines what is “good content”? See, it’s all an illusion, an opinion. I write good content, sponsored or not, although I have my “off” days, sure. So when you say “I don’t read blogs with paid posts, except if I come by one to drop on them” (that is, if you have something to GET from going to such blogs, correct?), and then you also say “Good content should be the focus for a blog” you are immediately making the assumption that no sponsored posts have good content. Au contraire, this is what I mean by a snooty attitude. To this kind of narrow thinking, all sponsored content is not good, therefore there is no good sponsored content. Somehow, all sponsored posts are immediately branded as “not good.” What if a person writes good content for sponsored content? And how do you know anything written is good is you refuse to read it? Is that still bad content, a bad blog? See where I am going with this. It’s all a preconception and circular reasoning. It’s like saying, the only kind of good articles are in encyclopedias, as these don’t have sponsored content. So magazines, newspapers, and short stories are immediately dismissed as poor reading material, because they have sponsored content. That’s ridiculous. This same snooty standard is upheld like some kind of kingly law in the blogosphere, but not in reality anywhere else…

Please read the whole article on the link above.... Enjoy reading, this is pretty much interesting!!

Make Money Online With a 13-Year Old

WOW! This was my first reaction when I came across to read this blog "Making Money Online with a 13-year Old".. and he's a young Filipino blogger, Carl Ocab is his name... Go go go Filipinos!

What an incredible standing he has got on Google! Read his full profile, he is such an inspiration to me, motivates me on becoming a full-time blogger in the near future!

At the left top side of his page says "I'm on top of Google for the keyword "Make Money Online". I may be number 1, 2 or sometimes number 3 - Depends on what Google data center you are on". Carl Ocab dot com is currently #1 on Google for the keyword “Make Money Online”.

Hello fellow bloggers, I know we all wanted to get the same, take note, only if we are willing to spend money (to pay on google adwords, to advertise)! But you don't have to pay to be able to earn, I should say, for me its only a matter of knowing all the basics and treating Google like a 3 year old boy looking for the cookie jar in a big kitchen (says Carl)...

One reader says:
I am playing the odds here. But, barring readers like Brian Clark, Andy Beard, Michel Fortin, or Dean Hunt, I am reasonably sure that this 14 year old kid from the Philippines blogs better than you do. Probably makes more money than you do too. Sad yet?

In fact, if you didn’t know his age before you checked out his site, you’d never in a million years guess Carl Ocab was so young. He has better delivery than many people trying to make money blogging who are 3 times his age. He has a grasp of blog marketing that people doing this twice as long as him still haven’t mastered!

PPP Opps, At Long Last!!

I was approved on PPP about two months ago but since I've had noticed back then that all opps were mostly open to US residents, so I never got a chance to get even one, until I decided not to bother of checking anymore! I was just concentrating in writing on my own blog. Moreover, it really made me wonder also as to whether why most of my friends' blogs don't have google adsense ads? Do they make money at all, I ask myself...

Talking more about PPP, I wasn't so convinced either to earn thousands of bucks because I have noticed that every opps normally offers at $5 only.... uummm how would I make money then, I used to say... Anyway, I didn't really bother until I was chatting with Belle (thanks my friend), and she gave me all the infos about earning real money in PPP. She made me convince and believe all the possibilities.

I tell you what? I have managed to get 3 since yesterday and have written about these two opps I managed to reserve. It made my day :)... Let's see if those will be approved then.

Joining Affiliate Programs - Another Way of Making Money

These past couple of days, I have been busy reading and trying to figure out about this "Affiliate Marketing", another way of making money. For us small time bloggers, we must admit that we need some help to keep going in trading our blogs on the Internet. I want to share this with you guys the whole article about, "the top affiliate programs", one way or another would help us to earn money.

"No affiliate links involved, feel free to click and learn. Most of these affiliate programs are easy to implement so there should be no confusing “systems” to get started".

Enjoy guys...

Moreniche - Become An Affiliate

Hey friends, I am inviting you to join the MoreNiche network, this is a real money! I have discovered a great program that offers all the tools and materials you will need to make easy money online. I signed up last week and I'm really impressed with the resources and tools they give, it's so easy to make money with them. When I created my account with them, the offer of joining was only $25, and I have already earned that plus, the amount of money you could get if people have joined through you as a referrer.

You can sign up too, here's the link. They are giving away up to 45$ for new signups as bonuses! I only wanted to share this blessings, you could earn more too...

Happy blogging....

The Real Blog Mastermind

We all want traffic, aren't we? From just being a hobby, and sooner or later we all realize that it is worth paying much attention to it, and even buying and paying these traffic booster packages, which I think would only work on money generating blogs, like travel companies, wedding companies, etc...

Upon registering to any of these paying traffic boosters (software or any program), all companies are guaranteed to have the following:

• 24-Hour Guaranteed Listings
• Easy Online Account Management
• A Dedicated Account Representative
• Monthly Search Engine Visibility Reports
• Ongoing Optimization of Keywords and Ads
• And Much More!

I received an email this morning about "The Blog Mastermind", however, like us small-timer bloggers, with non-income generating blogs or websites, and like me who is not willing to pay that amount of money, OURSELVES, our own TIME and PERSEVERANCE - are the real mastermind of our blog. I must admit, we all want to earn money out of this interesting hobby, but there are loads of free advertising companies out there, joining blog communities to get and increase traffic, and simply write posts and pay out of our blogs and also earn by referrals. Some of these paying advertisers, referral programs that I have encountered so far, are the following:

1) Smorty
2) PayPerPost
3) Bidvertiser
4) Pay2UBlog
5) BloggersReview
6) BuyBlogReviews
7) Blogsvertise
8) SponsoredReviews
9) LinkWorth
10) ClixGalore
11) GlobalTestMarket
12) Amazing Solutions
13) A.W. Surverys
14) Webstars2k
15) Bux.to
16) Entrecard

How to Make Money From Your Blog

Hello my dear readers, I feel tremendously fantastic after reading this full article about all the secrets of making money online (click this link). WOW I am so impressed with how he presented it in details. It is not difficult to understand, just take time to read.

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/

For those who have not come across to read his page, now take time to read this long article, yet very helpful for us, especially for new bloggers like me. You can either click the link above or copy the URL and paste it to your browser.

Enjoy reading....

Truth about BLOGGING!!

For those who still don't know the truth about blogging, here's an article for you to read. The moment I leaned about it, I started searching any article that explains why people are becoming addicted to blogging and how it works. I know you all agree with me, which you may have read this already... but it is worth reading this all over again if in case we all have forgotten.

Quick and easy self-publishing
You may not realize how insanely fast and easy setting up a blog can be. Using Blogger, and allowing them to host my blog at Blog*spot, I literally had my first blog set up in about fifteen minutes. And it was free with this particular provider. Thus, an obsession was born. A five minute post here, a ten minute rant there, add a feature or two on the public face of my blog, and soon I had a small body of writings that seemed like something almost substantial. I played with different styles or looks to the blog, and learned to tweak the underlying HTML code to have fonts and colours looking the way I wanted.

The next step was to tell others about it. I sent messages to two email lists inviting colleagues to read what I had posted. I had long been a prolific contributor to email lists, and could see how the blog would become my new outlet for professional news and opinions that might not be of interest to everyone on the lists. I also found some blog search engines and submitted mine to the mix.

Those fascinating web traffic statistics
One of my first readers told me how to track web traffic statistics: yet another free web-based application. Soon I was checking two or three times a day to see the number of hits, the popular pages, and where readers were from. I really get a kick out of seeing where readers are located. Bloggers don’t like to admit to it, but we all watch our stats like hawks. Any sudden increase in hits is a triumph; an unexpected drop is just discouraging. Thus the obsession is entrenched in our psyches.

Instant Expert
My own blogging has led to guest blogging on others’ blogs, regular participation in collaborative blogs, increasingly prestigious speaking opportunities, invitations to teach, requests to have blog posts republished as newsletter articles, and invitations to contribute articles to newsletter type publications. We often hear “to be seen as an expert, write a blog,” but how quickly this medium opens doors has really been a great surprise to many. It is not unusual for those blogging about professional issues to be invited to write articles, speak at conferences, and to take part in a range of collaborative projects. I frequently compare notes with fellow bloggers, and have found many have been approached to expand on the perceived expertise demonstrated in their blogs.

Testing out the SEO
For most bloggers, an increase in popularity is made in small increments. One or two blog posts receive some notice from more popular bloggers, and a few more people discover you. Or perhaps you happen to write a post title that jumps you to the top of the search engine results.

Taking this a step further, bloggers can watch their popularity according to links to their sites with services such as Technorati and The Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem. We are tracked, ranked and re-ranked, moving up and down according to varying esoteric means of measurement.

A Biblioblogosphere Community
The use of blogs as a quick, self-publishing platform for opinions, the quantifiable evidence of one’s own popularity with statistics services, the ability to quickly experiment with search engine listings, and an increased professional profile are all things that hook the blogger. Probably the best thing about blogging, however, is the community. I really had no idea a community existed until I actually experienced it. As bloggers discover each other, we contribute comments to blog posts, reference each other, and email each other support.


The Truth About Blogging
If you are about to embark on setting up a blog for the first time, you should now have a better idea of what to expect. The truth about blogging is you will be disappointed that a million readers don’t find you immediately. You aren’t going to become rich from blogging. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. On the other hand, you will likely be surprised at who contacts you and professes admiration. You will likely find it gives a boost to your career if you are professional in attitude and find your own honest voice. And there can never be too many clear, truthful voices on the web.