I have several posts half finished for Thoughts On How to Make Money On The Net, but they are incomplete because they need more research and I don’t want to push them out just because I need to post here.

Actually, as this blog makes hardly any money for me, it wouldn’t really matter if I went for days without posting a thing, but it’s my personal blog, so I like to post something here fairly often.

Anyway, for want of something quick to post, I used Franks Link Luv Post Builder to scour the net for ‘Make Money Online’ blogs and see if I could come up with something quick and interesting.

Well, interesting it may be or not, but also quite depressing in a way and not quite what I originally had in mind.

First of all I found evidence that, as most of us realise, there must be thousands upon thousands of these damn ‘make money’ blogs online and most of them are utter crap!

Why do I think there are thousands and thousands of them? Well, with Link Luv Post Builder , I only found the latest ones, but most of these seem to have been started in the last day or so. Now, when you remember that this was only research on one day’s blog posting, you have to wonder how many of these ‘This is how you make money’ blogs are being started every day. The mind boggles!

I found opening posts all saying roughly the same thing:

I have created this blog to write about my experience in making money online

Have you really?

Ok, some people who write about earning a living on the net are genuine. I know that Vic, Griz and Court, as well as Frank are genuine when they tell you they are making money online. I also know that Splork earns some cash from his efforts, but would like to make more. I know that Day Job Nuker (who I will write more about soon) is genuine about making money on the net, because I have followed his progress asking questions about tools to use to help him and am watching him test the tools out (and posting the good and bad things about them). I also guess that some of his readers are clicking through his affiliate links to buy the tools, which is fair enough; he is checking them out,

I also know that Mohsin makes money by working on the internet, but not from his main blog - the one on which he actually talks about effective blogging. He has told us as much a few days ago .

More to the point, I know that I make money online, but mainly from selling porn (from which I do make a reasonable living), and I write about it in another blog . As to mainstream, I am close to getting some cash, such as it is, but haven’t yet received my first cheque. I also know it’s bloody hard to make a living by selling anything online and so do the guys I have just mentioned.

Which leads me to believe that the majority of the guys just starting out haven’t a clue about making a living from blogging or selling in any way online. They make it sound too darn easy!

And what really clinches that belief are the statements I see over and over again:

“If you really want to learn how to make money online really easily get my free book”
or:
“See the secret ebook on how to make money online”

If you are that good at making money on the net, why are you concentrating on selling poxy ebooks? Especially when in most cases you haven’t written those books at all…

And guys, please take down the header images of the fast sports cars. They never were cool and now they are just a cliche.

Oh yes, and as to those adverts you are linking to, for products which will help you ‘make thousands a month’ (especially the ones with the pop ups which try to hang onto you when you go to unclick - grrrr). Have you earned enough yourselves to afford them yet?

Didn’t think so…

But then my ‘investigation’ took another turn.

I was about to give up in disgust when I found a blog entry called Four Biggest Lies About Making Money Online which I found via a link from The Fox Hole who said “That link will be an eye-opener if you never knew those before”.

Well yes, it would, be… if the link didn’t take me a blog post of an article that was originally published by a guy calling himself Folusho Orokunle whose link goes to an advert for ‘Internet Marketing Television Videos’ (IMTV) (I’m not putting the link here - if you want to, check it out for yourselves). Here, in a very long ‘blurb’, readers are told of the ‘obscene money’ that ‘gurus’ are charging to teach them how to make money online… and are then asked to pay 97 dollars a month for the course offered by IMTV!

So much for what looked like good advice…

Now it could be that the writer of the blog where the article was posted just grabbed an article because he thought it looked good for a ‘make money online’ blog to post, but I am not so sure… So I checked out the blog a little more. It is quite a new blog (the ‘hello world’ post is still there) and I could only find one article of the type mentioned above. The other posts did appear to be hand written. There were a few affiliate links in some of these, but nothing much to be that curious about. I found out there were only a few posts by first clicking on the feed source in my browser.

But just out of curiosity, I clicked on the given link for the RSS feed… and it took me to the feed for a blog called EzMoneyOn.net. And yes, the people here are offering a free ebook with affiliate links to ‘online tools’, but at that point the ebook froze my pc so I couldn’t check the prices out,

Now I myself have changed links to RSS feeds on some of my adult blogs, but mainly because the original feed on the blog didn’t work, (If anyone is interested, I do this when the feed I have made myself from sponsor hosted galleries doesn’t validate because of a poor set up in links provided by a sponsor. I put the feed through feedburner, ’smart feed’ it, and then link to that. The subscribers are getting the same feed as goes to the blog, so it’s a trick that I have found works and does no harm), but this is a little different and I am curious as to why EzMoney are doing this (or whether it is them who are doing this…).

However, EZMoney are also testing ‘make money online products’ and they do appear to be offering fairly impartial advice, so I’m keeping an open mind, I also found out that they are followers of Vic who is himself an advocate of finding scammers out.

When you set out to investigate bloggers in the make money online niche, it gets to be a small world and it also gets damn complicated.

Not only that, my ‘research’ has produced another very long post. So much for a few quick thoughts on how to make money on the net!

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Update: Please see the comments where Simmone from EzMoneyOn.net explains just why the RSS feed is on that blog post.  I guess this is one of the hazards of offering free themes when you are trying your best to make a good reputation for yourself when making money online.  Sorry for my suspicions Simmone, but you can see why.

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