Can Blogs Help You Make Money?

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Well this is a great question by one of my childhood friend. He was very curious about how blogs can help people make money. In all honesty, blogs CAN’T make you money, and although they can help, it’s just not as easy as people think. Why? Well blogs first and foremost is a place bloggers where stuck their own notes and what they are putting their is all based on their OWN experience and opinion. You see guys put “Making money with PPC” or maybe with Website Flipping or so but the truth is it’s based on their own experience (most of the time). They have done it well so they can recommend it and in this way they can help you learn and gain some knowledge about it. But their’s no way they’re helping you make money, or maybe they do but it’s still up to you.

I don’t really have problems with this but it’s just that what worked for others doesn’t mean will work with you (or doesn’t mean it won’t work for you). Yeah, they are plenty of blogs there that provide useful and superb resources.  You can always read a good article about Pay Per Click and still suck at doing it. You can print a ebook about making money with articles but still fail. Bottom line is people do things differently and have different expertise. Or Maybe making money online is just not for you

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    12 Responses to "Can Blogs Help You Make Money?"

    • IronBlogger 02:38 PM 23/8/2008

      Understanding how to make money online, and actually making money online are two very different things. Just because you know how to make money doesn’t really mean that you can.

    • Vote for this article at blogengage.com 02:20 AM 24/8/2008

      Can Blogs Help You Make Money?…

      Can blogs really help you make money online?…

    • axioblogger 05:28 AM 24/8/2008

      Blogs will not make you money, but they can show you the shortcut to make money. If there are no blogs, how will you know you can make money online?  You can only use search engines to find website that tells you ways of making money online, but these websites would not give out the information for free.

    • Rockstar Sid 08:20 AM 24/8/2008

      Dont you make money from this blog ?

    • Melvin 12:14 PM 24/8/2008

      @axioblogger, yes but the point here is most people are too hype that if they read blogs that make money then they can too w a lil effort required which is not a good thign..
      @rockstar, not much, just enough to buy some clothes and tees… ;-)

    • Link Love | Da Blogger 03:55 PM 24/8/2008

      [...] asked if blogs can make you money. Pretty simple question, but it’s one to think about. I think they can, [...]

    • app 03:42 AM 25/8/2008

      It really depends on why you are blogging and how you blog, and how you monetize your blog.

      For example, if your blog is 100% original content worth reading, written with the purpose of establishing and proving yourself as an expert in some field (please don’t do another “how to make money online, now buy my book” blog unless you are a millionaire), and you monetize it by selling a book you wrote yourself (not someone else’s book), if you truly are an expert and have shown that to your readers, they will buy the book and you will make money. If they are not buying, then they probably think you are full of stinky brown stuff.

      But this is work…a lot of work. There is no easy way to just slap some random stuff on a page and make a living from it.

      Writing your own book is easier than writing a post every single day that proves you know what you are talking about. And we all know that writing a quality book is a ton of work, otherwise we would all have a bunch for sale on Amazon.com, right?

      The majority of blogs I see are worth about $0.10. If their owners have made more than that, they should consider themselves lucky and quit. All they do is take material from other blogs, do a poor job of saying the same thing, and throw it on a page and hope it will make them rich. There is absolutely nothing original, and definitely nothing fresh, new, or interesting to capture the interest of readers that are reading the same stuff on all the big A-list blogs, already.

      For example, you can’t get rich by doing a poor job of rewriting Lifehacker’s posts. It just doesn’t work. By the time readers get to your blog they have already read the original. Same with basing a blog on bad summaries of John Chow’s posts.

    • BlackhatWay 11:53 AM 25/8/2008

      Blogs definately can make money. It’s just that you usually make more money with a blog that isn’t made for making money than with a one that is made just to make money.

      Good affiliate program + Writing with passion = Money!

      Ganesh Reply:
      September 3rd, 2008 at 2:39 am

      Yeah. Knowledge is useless unless it is put into action. So Act now!

    • Melvin 01:41 PM 25/8/2008

      hmmm… I smell my blog working again.,…

    • gel 02:23 PM 25/8/2008

      MELVIN!!! GOOD TO HAVE YOUR BLOG WORKING AGAIN!!!~ Hallelujah :)

    • Step-by-Step Internet Marketing Strategies 06:46 AM 26/8/2008

      I think you are completely right! Blogging especially is NOT for everyone, it takes a large amount of discipline and dedication, far more than that of a static site, that does not need constant attention and updating.