What Really Makes Money Online
Cutting Through The Crap And Making A Living On The Internet
Over the last few days, Make Money Online bloggers and Internet Marketers have been popping up all over the place telling us that they have had enough of the ’social’ aspect of blogging and just want to concentrate on actually making money online.
The reasons for being a little more ‘anti-social’ are many.
- They include being shafted by some of your own (less loyal) readers, as happened to Victor Franqui when he was trying to show his readers how to Make Money Blogging.
- They also include a suspicion that you may have set Google alarms ringing with your extremely helpful posts on link building techniques, as has happened to Grizzly whilst doing his very best to show How To Make Money Online For Beginners.
- And even more recently Courtney Tuttle has written about how those undertaking Internet Marketing have got it wrong in following a too literal interpretation of the saying ‘content is king’. According to Court, it’s not so much about content (quality or otherwise), it’s about well-targetted, well-keyworded backlinks. (See additional note below about where this link now takes you…)
None of these bloggers have benefitted that much from producing a large number of posts for their regular readers. In fact, in the first two cases at least, having regular readers has probably been a hindrance to making money on the net. And in the third case, although Court has gained authority from his site and has been able to make money from the personal coaching in internet marketing he advertises there, even he is bemoaning the fact that out of nearly 400 posts on his blog, less than 20 of them have produced most of the traffic.
And when you get right down to it, writing a blog just for regular readers can actually cut into the time you need to spend in order to make money online.
True, you may enjoy writing what you hope will be quality content. I bet I am not the only one who enjoys being told that an article she has written is excellent, or thought provoking, or whatever…
You may also enjoy the social aspect of building up a ’social blog’. After all, it’s a cut throat world trying to make a living on the internet, and it’s good to have other blogging friends to compare notes with. It’s nice to get comments on your blog and to make comments on theirs.
But none of this actually makes you any money.
Where is this leading to?
Well, over the last few weeks, along with continually buiding new adult blogs and sites, I have been building a number of blogs in quite different niches to the MMO niche. In fact, some of these are niches even those who know me would not believe… But these blogs are starting to get some decent traffic and my stats are giving me some pretty effective keyword terms to target. For most of them there are also some pretty nice affiliate programs which I am now ready to try.
So… I have decided to really concentrate on these blogs, building up the backlinks, targetting my keywords specifically in line with both search terms and sponsers and seeing what this brings. I am very hopeful of decent results.
The downside of this is that I will not be commenting much anywhere for a while and I will not be producing more ‘thoughts’ content for this blog, at least, until after the other niche blogs are working effectively. However, you may see the occasional ‘make money online’ post here, if I find something I think that search engine visitors might like.
But please don’t raise your hands in horror over this, my few regular readers. After all, it’s all about Making Money On The Internet 
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Addition:
When I made that post, Courtney Tuttle was riding high on the Internet, the article I originally linked to was receiving gave credit from internet marketers (and some controversy in the comments). However, shortly after that post was published, Court appears to have had a spot of bother with ranking in Google for his key terms (and even for his own name!).
As a result, Court took down the original post which argued that content isn’t king - backlinks are. He substituted it for the obsequious post you will find in that link. Basically saying “I was wrong, content is king.. yada, yada….”
When you are an experienced (and usually successful) internet marketer like Courtney Tuttle, and this is your main source of income, I guess you have to try to ‘put things right with Big G’ or go under completely (at least for your ‘flagship site’ anyway…).
Do I believe the sincerity in Court’s ‘updated’ post? No.
Do I think he was ’slapped’ by Google for writing it? Perhaps…. but perhaps not. There are many reasons for receiving a ‘Google slap’ and there could well have been others here, but it is not the point of this addition to my original post to suggest what they are…
I would hate to think that Google can play ‘Big Brother’ to such an extent that ‘it’ doesn’t allow ’subversion in the ranks’, but there again, who knows…? Being the cynic that I am, I do think this is an entirely possible scenario. However, in Court’s case, I don’t really think this is the real cause of that ’slap’.
I’ll leave that up to you to decide…
