Lorelle VanFossen writing for the Blog Herald posted an article today which advises that new metablogs are doomed to failure by a market which is not only saturated, but also cram packed with highly respected veterans and outstanding writers. She then goes on to recommend that if you must metablog in 2008 to at least bring something new to the venue. It’s a good article, and I agree with it.
Because of passive income accumulation you can make hundreds of dollars per hour on the internet.
Several years ago I typed out a few notes for myself about construction codes requirements - my day job is contracting. Some time after that I reformatted those notes to serve as a cheat sheet for my employees to use, and eventually I posted them on my company website. At the time (almost 10 years ago) I didn’t use any kind of analytics nor did I know how to use server logs, so I had no idea how often users landed on my website or what they looked at once they did. When Google came out with Adsense, being fairly mercenary, I signed up and started making a few bucks a month in add clicks. [Read more →]
To make money on the internet you need to focus on a subject with these properties:
Why do so many people blog about blogging? Anyone who plays in this highly competitive space probably has their own reasons, but there is one very good reason to write about any aspect of webmastering or website development - metablogging speaks directly to the people who create links on the internet. Even if you only reach a few people with your metablog, they will almost all be people who already have a website or are thinking about building one - the linkerati. If you are reading this then you’re probably one of these people, and we all need each other to achieve our goals of high rankings and world domination. So, participate, comment, get to know your fellow bloggers and webmasters.
Another reason to blog about website development is that because of the following reasons metablogging is a growth industry with an ever-growing number of potential customers - readers like you.
If making money while learning about new things and helping other people to learn about the things that interest you sound like good ways to spend a few hours a week then you should consider building a website / blog.
1) How much money can I make? Darren Rowse at ProBlogger says “bloggers are earning anything between nothing at all and millions of dollars. The upper end of the spectrum is of course rare and those earning very little are in the majority” and yet a few talented and hard working bloggers have established incomes over One Hundred Thousand Dollars per year [Read more →]
