Blogging to Make Money or Making Money Blogging

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The Difference Between Blogging To Make Money and Making Money Blogging

You know, there is a huge difference in how you approach making money online depending on what your ultimate goal is. There comes a point where all of us have to ask ourselves, are we trying to make money with our blogs, or are we blogging to make money?

On the surface, these two things may seem very similar. But dig down a bit and they reveal two underlying philosophies that are fundamentally different. And it is good for each of us to identify which philosophy we subscribe to. So let's examine both of them more closely:

Make Money Blogging:

A person to wants to make money blogging is a specific kind of person. This kind of a person has a blog or two. He puts his heart into the blogs, he has designed them just right, they are beautiful and appealing to the eyes, they are easy to read and attractive. He puts his soul into the content, not just any content but "quality content," original stuff, good stuff, opinions and tips and suggestions and reviews, meaningful posts that add something to his readers life. He is concerned about things like the "stickiness" and "bounce rate" of his website, the appeal and value his blog offers, he believes that "Content is King" and aspires possibly to one day become a problogger where people hang on his every word.

He wants traffic to come to his website, he spends his time commenting on others websites, trying to get his link on their blogrolls, researching his next great post, and reading all his favorite blogs.

He also wants to make some cash off his blog. So he does all the research he can, like a dutiful problogger. Trying out different advertising networks, different affiliate programs, every new system that comes out the door. He signs up for adsense, and puts one or two advertisements on his site- in aesthetically pleasing locations that is, along with well placed affiliate advertisements. He dreams of the day when advertisers will be calling him to place an ad on his website.

In general, he is a happy fellow, and his followers and RSS subscribers like him and have a relationship with him. They submit his carfully crafted posts to social media sites, and he dreams of his content "going viral."

The other group of people are people who:

Blog to Make Money:

People who blog to make money are different from the above group. These people also go by the name of Internet Marketers. They have no desire to create beautiful websites, flashy content, quality or crafted posts, viral comments, or gain RSS subscribers. They couldn't care what people thought of their websites (notice the plural on website's'), and they wouldn't shed a single drop of sweat trying to become a "problogger." The only thing these people care about is money. Visitors are only numbers to them, the more the better since that means more ads that will be clicked on. These ones know darn well that when you read a review of site build it, most of them are scams and frauds.

These people spend their time creating websites, hundreds of them. They whip them out in cookie cutter formats and slap them on the web. They carefully research keywords, niche compitition, adwords payouts, and places where they can leave links. They spend their time writing crappy articles and posts, as many as possible, and putting them on their websites and submitting them to article directories, as many as possible. They build farm blogs, worry about things like C-class IP addresses, anchor links, PR, backlinks, duplicate content, footprints, Google in general, niche SERP rankings, new niches, marketing tools, and ad placements.

They have a system to make money, and they stick to it. More often than not it is adsense with a sprinkling of affiliate, ebay store, or clickbank thrown into the mix. They dream of attaining #1 position for their primary keywords, getting high PR backlinks, and their ultimate goal is to have enough online profit and online income coming in on a regular basis from the internet that they no longer have to work at all.

These guys tend to be a less than happy lot of people, kinda greedy, very sneaky, and a few of them are very very rich.

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It is important for you to decide which philosophy you want to live by. You can't half-ass both. Well you can, but it would be... half-assed, and you would not succeed at doing anything of note. Neither path is wrong, but decide which path you will follow and stick to it. This will make your goals clear and give you a direction to head in.

This is the Internet Privateer signing off.

Reading about Making Money Online

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Reading Online Income Blogs Addiction

It's my guilty pleasure... I'm an addict, and I can't stop, and I'm sure I'm not alone in my addiction: Reading Make Money Online blogs. It's one of my favorite ways to waste time. I'm thoroughly addicted, and I don't think I can stop. I read everything I can about making money online. I read the posts, I check the comments, I follow the links, I share my thoughts, I do just about everything except what I should be doing: Grinding away at making online profits.

I think it's a habit we all get into in this business. Since most of us are self taught, and the hard way at that, we have spent countless hours reading and searching on the internet for how to do things, what works, what doesn't, learning from others experiences. When we finally get enough information to do it ourselves... well it's hard to break the habit of reading those danged Make Money Online blogs.

You know what they are going to say, most of them recycle the same old crap, some actually do recycle the same old crap with PLR articles... but that's another story. I honestly just enjoy reading about how to make money online. But it is a HUGE time waster, like getting all involved in this social media craze. Fun as all getout, but adds no real value to your online income margins.

Don't get me wrong, reading make money online blogs is a very important part of staying in the game. You have to stay ahead of the curve, or at least not get left behind. So you have to keep up on the industry. But when it all boils down, how much time do we spend reading other peoples work instead of doing our own?

Break the habit! Do the work!

Earning income online is about hard work, it's about focusing your efforts, managing your time, and putting your head down and just doing it. This is a competitive game, and it is constantly changing. We all would do well to read a little less, and work a little more.

The whole niche about writing about how to make money online is a strange one at that. And now you have blogs (this one included) who write about writing about earning online income. And at this very moment I am writing about reading about writing about how to make online profit. How's that for a twisted little game?

My Favorite Four letter word: Balance

It's a balancing act. Reading and experimenting with new things to stay ahead of the game, and doing the actual work to stay IN the game. What has worked for me is to find just the blogs that really hit the nail on the head, that always are on the edge of this online money making game and read them. I don't waste my time on these other crap blogs and sites that keep spouting off: "Dofollow comments" "Directory Submissions" "Article Directories" "blah blah blah"

If everybody does it, know what? It's probably wrong.

Seriously, our time is better spent finding a niche and filling it with something of value. Putting well researched articles up that actually make us some money, instead of reading about how others are "supposedly" making money online.

Have a dang original thought instead of reading other's. For instance let's get real, more and more people are adblind! When is the last time you clicked on adsense? I don't even see the stuff, I hardly notice it anymore. If it doesn't work on you, what would work on you? Figure it out and do it. Facebook ads, Technorati's new CPC network, EXTREMELY targeted affiliate links, niche social media sites... Stay ahead of the curve. Don't waste your time reading about it. JUST DO IT! That's what all the big guys in this industry have done, and it is the only secret to making money online

Trust me, you will be better off for it.

Search Engines Are Dead

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Search Engines Are Dead
(They just don't know it yet)

Ok, so this post really isn't about making money online. Or is it? You be the judge. I am going to make a bold claim right here and now. Let it be known that on this day I, the Online Privateer, have stated that Search Engines are dead.

*collective gasp*

Why do I say this? Have you tried searching for something lately with Google, Yahoo, or even that one that used to have a butler give you results...? The results are filled with crap! Spam. Crappy sites that are promoting crappy products filled with crappy blog posts designed simply to sell you crappy stuff. The internet currently is the advertising goldmine. Almost every blog known to man has sold out already, and if they haven't they either don't know how to or are sticking to some outdated moral compass that just points to POVERTY.

It's hard to wade through the crap to find the good stuff. Would you dig through a giant pile of steaming horse manure to see what's underneath? Well you do every day when you type most anything in to Google. Spammers fill the search engines with fake sites, portal sites, throw away link farm sites. These are designed to promote their main sites, which are designed to make money. Everybody is doing it these days. Since the advent of blogger, tumblr, ezinearticles, wordpress, and any one of thousands of other free blogging sites, the shere amount of pure crap has risen exponentially. Google has a real problem on their hands. It used to be that spammers had to shell out some dough to register domain names, get hosted, and have a giant empire of sites. Now it is all free and automated. There really is no such thing as an Honest Internet Business Free actually can be a very bad word. And it is killing search engines.

Thus the reason I make this statement. The giant search engine system is already dead it's just going down kicking and screaming. May it someday actually rest in piece... I mean peace.

So where is the future? Where will people turn to for information?

Social Media. Human powered search engines. Self submit and voting sites that are run by real humans and a real community of supporters. But! But! I am NOT talking about giant social media sites like Digg. It is great, but it is becoming a target for spammers and people to game the system. The real future is in niche social media sites. These niche sites have dedicated followers and community, they have real people looking for real information that has real value. And it is voted or deleted by the majority. This is why Wikipedia, for all it's faults, is so sucessfull. Websites like Sphinn.com for internet marketers are going to be popping up more and more and more for different niches.

A case study for the travel blogging niche

There already is a new travel community site called Globetrott, and other nich communities are are being created every day. Sites like Globetrott are good because they focus on a small niche on the internet. In this case travel blogging, travel destinations and the travelling community. If they can build up a decent audience of travelers, well then they've got a really good thing going for them.

The trick is getting the amount of members they need to keep the site alive. It takes a couple thousand extreme adventurers, perpetual nomads, globe trotters, travel enthusiasts and world wanderers for a site like this to become self sustaining. He's got a tough job ahead of him as the niche is still pretty small. Even though travel is one of the most searched for subjects on the internet. This is where to look to start promoting your websites. Do you have a travel or destination related post on one of your sites? Submit it to Globetrott, look for other social media sites to submit to in different niches.

Real quality places where you can go to discover real quality information. They will be small enough to not be an easy/attractive target for spammers to game the system, and self policed enough by dedicated members to shoot them down when and if they do decide to do it. But don't just submit your site and forget about it, become an active contributing part of the community, network with likeminded people, you may find that you will get more free backlinks than you imagined if you get in with the "community organizers" of a niche.

So, how does all this pertain to earning an online income? Well, how much of your money and traffic do you get from search engines? Could you live without it? Are you active in your niche communities? Have you networked with those people? Perhaps it could be that you would be making more profit online if you started becoming more active in your chosen community niche.

Heck, go crazy and find a niche and create a social media drigg or pligg style website or two for it. Promote it any way you know how. You never know, maybe you could become the next Digg.com for your niche. Welcome to the future of the internet.

Secret to Online Profit-Get indexed in a day

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Key to earning income online

Get indexed by Google in under 24 hours

So, you've got a great new blog and you want to get indexed by Google. Great! That is the first thing you want to do. But how do you go about doing it? I know this is nothing new, but for some reason it is a question that is constantly asked. You can't just sit back and expect Google to find you, you have to go to it. If you want to start earning online profit fast, you have to get indexed by Google fast.

Now, there are 10000000 tips and tricks to getting indexed by Google. They all work, to varying degrees. Go ahead and waste your time trying these out if you want, or you can follow my advice and get your site indexed by google in under 24 hours. I created this website and got it indexed and crawled by the big G in about 12 hours. How did I do it? I'm going to tell you.

First and formost, submit your website to the google search engine through their free submission option. This puts you in their queue which can be anywhere from 1 week to 20 years in length... or maybe that's the DMOZ queue... I forget.

Next sign up for Google's Webmaster tools. Submit your site AND SITEMAP to it. But wait... you don't have a sitemap? There are tons of auto generating sitemap apps out there, free and online you can create a quick sitemap of your site. Or if you use wordpress, use a sitemap plugin to generate one. "But I'm using Blogger!! I am cut off at the knees when it comes to anything technical on blogger..." you might be thinking. And you would be right. But oooh sooo wrong. You can actually submit your websites feed to google as a sitemap if you use Blogger. Just copy the rss feed url and paste it in for the url of your sitemap.

Next submit that awesome article you just wrote to dofollow social bookmarking sites. Try digg, reddit, propel, and mixx to start. These are loved by Google and will do wonders getting it's little itsy bitsy spider onto your website.

Finally, if you have another website, or a friend who has a website, add your link to their site. One tiny link can do wonders for getting your site indexed. Of course, if you are serious about making online profit and earning income online... well then you need hundreds and thousands more of these little guys. But one is a good place to start.

If you follow these three... or four... tips, then your site will be found by Google faster than you can say ratattoulie. Which by the way is a hilarious movie. Other websites will suggest submitting your sites to the DMOZ directory (which can take literally months or years to get into), and doing all sorts of other things, but these steps are proven again and again to be truly effective in getting you indexed by google in under 24 hours.

Thanks for reading all you Internet Privateers! Come back for more advice as I share the real secrets to making money online!

Make money online- How to make online profit

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Earn Online Income And Become An Internet Profiteer!

First of all let me give a huge shout out to my online profit teachers Grizz, JR, RT, Max, Eli, ZZ and many others. If you guys come across this site, know that your efforts have not been in vain!

Ok, now that shout outs are... out, we can continue.

I want you all to know that I am just like you yadda yadda yadda. All I want is to figure out the secret to harnessing this monstrosity called the internet and earn online income. If I couldn't harness it, then I was determined at least to hang onto its scaly back and go along for the ride! There is so much money floating around on the net right now, it's ripe for the taking! Or so we all have been told. But how the heck do you do it? So many people are out there right now telling you how to profit online, and how to get rich quick with the internet, how to 'game the system' so you can make easy money online. But still, I never gave up, I read the blogs, visited the sites, did the time, determined to find some real advice and actual valuable/viable tips to making real money on the internet. Let me tell you, it wasn't easy, but it is out there.

This blog is a compilation of all those online profit tips and tricks. I will be sharing them with you as long as you guys keep helping support me.

One thing you will (probably) never read on my site is how to make easy money online or how to make quick money. Making easy money on the internet is a secret that I have yet to find and I doubt it really exists without being totally evil. Although if any of you know about it, please share it with me! I'll make it worth your while (after you make it worth mine).

One thing you will read on this site is how I and others actually do make money online. I finally got frustrated reading these so called pro blogging websites, these get rich quick schemes, and the pure get wealthy crap that you scour out from the dreggs of the internet and decided to actually try something. And let me tell you, it takes hard work and determination.

Most of you probably don't have what it takes to become a real Online Profiteer. I'll put you through the boot camp, but I doubt many of you will come out and make real money on the internet. Why is that? It's freaking hard. It takes time. It takes patience. And you may not make profit online no matter how hard you try!

If this turns you away, then stop reading now. You won't earn online income at all. Get a real job. If you are still with me, then enjoy this blog. Just don't forget to support me in my efforts!

I am currently living abroad next to a sunny beach, living the life I have always dreamed of. I'm here to tell you, theses secrets to making money on the internet do work. I and many others have tested them and perfected them (as much as possible in the ever changing world of the internet). I'm going to share these secrets to you for free (although this very blog is part of how I make money online). Please be so kind as to link to me, spread the word, support me, and build me up. I'll only keep doing this as long as it is profitable to me in return. It takes a tiny bit of effort from you, a single click or two, but the rewards will be so high.

Coming up next:

How to make money blogging in under a month

(a real life case study)

Welcome to Making Online Profit and Income blog!

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There is so much profit to be made and income to be earned online!

Welcome to the make money online profit and online income blog! I am a dedicated student of making money online, making online profit, and earning big income on the internet. I want to share those secrets with you free of charge, out of the goodness of my heart. If I kept all these secrets to myself then I think I would explode. Also this blog will serve as a reminder to me, since there are just so many ways to make online profit and income that I couldn't possibly remember them all!

To be perfectly honest, this blog will also serve to make me money. I will teach you how to use a blog to make money online using adsense, earn income online using affiliates, and so many other tricks that you won't believe how easy it is! Please enjoy reading this blog, I will be updating very frequently. Please, show your support by helping me make money online and earn online income! The more support I receive, the more tricks I can share with you.