Blogging About Blogging/ Blogging To Make Money Online

I've been blogging for a little over a couple of years now. This particular blog began as a journal of my quest to make money online by following suggestions from other more successful bloggers. Successful in the art of making money from Internet ads. I've since learned this from reading other blogs. Not all bloggers make money. Not all bloggers try to make money from selling Internet ads on their site. Most bloggers who try to make money online don't succeed. Not every successful money making bloggers advice is true, accurate, and doesn't always work for everyone. So we sometimes end up back at square one. That's where it really gets tough, because if you don't have the drive or perseverance to move on you'll fail.

Social Blogging
Social bloggers love attention. They relish in their RSS feeds and Twits or Tweets (whatever you call it). Their readership is mostly return visitors. Social bloggers don't make money with Internet ads because their visitors don't click ads. They might make a few bucks from selling some worthless e-book or software to an unsuspecting reader. Another money making scheme of the social blogger is to lure their readers to join a forum for a monthly subscription. The forum consists of other devoted readers (who aren't making any money) talking about how to make money on the Internet. Don't waste your money. I don't read these blogs.

Make Money Online (MMO) Blogs
These are the blogs that I read, but only from a handful of authors. These folks have proven that it is possible to make money selling Internet ads, and usually have some sound advice. Their advice and tactics don't always work for everyone because it is sometimes geared for the MMO niche. There are hundreds of thousands of other niches out there. This blog is the closest thing that I have to the MMO niche, but I don't advise or claim that I know how to make money online. I just tell you of my personal experiences. These folks often tell you to steer away from MMO because it's too competitive, which is true but sometimes you can fall through the cracks with hard work and a little luck.

MMO blogs can be confusing. They suffer from Google paranoia, and keep a constant eye on Google with a microscopic lens. You would think that big G would want for you to make money, but I read of horror stories of people losing their AdSense account for minor deviations or ignorance of their rules. What was good advice two years ago is bad advise now. Nothing is consistent in the MMO game. They tell you how to get backlinks to your site. They tell you how to link to other sites. They tell you what the good links are. They tell you what the bad links are, worthless links..on and on and on. What was a bad link two years ago is now a good link. Confusing. MMO blogs experiment constantly. Maybe that's the reason for the confusion.

Internet Marketers
You could call these folks a combination of social and MMO blogging. They have a following and also make money on the Internet selling Internet ads. An Internet marketer has several to hundreds of different web sites and blogs. Their primary purpose is to make a living from the Internet, weather selling click on ads like AdSense, or selling affiliate ads like Commission Junction and others. Their network of sites help each other out by providing links to one another. They don't have to do an e-mail campaign to beg for links from strangers (who rarely respond anyway).

The Bottom Line
Read other blogs. Try to learn something. Just be aware that they aren't always right. Avoid buying anything. Don't spend too much time reading about others successes and use that time getting links to your own site. Find a blogger you can trust and leave comments on their articles. Make friends with other bloggers, usually through the comments section. That's a good way to find link exchanges.

Speaking of link exchanges, I have a few questions built from frustration. Do people really want to do the ground work to get their site ranked high in the search engines? Do they not know that the fastest way to rank high is from embedded text links pointing to their site? The reason I ask is that I joined a link resource site. I got a few enquiries from people requesting a text link exchange. Three way links, one of the most powerful types of links. I e-mailed them back that I was interested. Never heard from them again. Makes me wonder if some people are really serious about making money selling Internet ads