There are millions of blogs out there on “the internets”. There are hundreds of ways that you can supposedly make money with your blog. A search on making money with a blog returns an impossible amount of articles and information.
In regard to this site, I have thought things like:
“This is good and funny. Lots of people will pop by and check it out”
But I was very very wrong. After some thought about it I have connected some dots that have been right in front of my face the whole time. Isn’t it strange that every site that I visited while researching making money with a blog, seemed to be a blog about blogs. I never figured out that normal people who like silly goofy junk will just go to big name funny sites that have money to advertise and get their name out there and not search far and wide for it. The people who are looking up new blogs are looking at computer related materials. They are people who are around their computers a lot. Why? Because they are the poor suckers like myself who want to know how to make some extra cash with a blog.
The Secret Truth
To make money with a blog you must start with one of two things. First you must write about how to make money with blogs. Blogs about blogs are extremely popular and the suckers will lap up whatever you are throwing out there. Blogs about blogs are also very redundant and pointless so be ready to bore yourself. (That is my opinion)
Second, you must write tons of lists about computer products and services. “Top 10 free “, “20 ways to get Vista to ” etc. This type of writing is more useful and can be more entertaining as well. The main thing to remember when using either of these methods is that you are writing for computer nerds because everyone else on the web is either barely on the internet or they are looking for salacious material.
You may say to yourself, “No I will get all my friends to come check it out all the time.” Well if your friends are all as computer nerdy as you are, then you’re in luck, as long as you have thousands of friends. Otherwise, you will ask your friends to check out your sweet material and send everyone else by, and they will visit twice and never tell anyone. It’s a hard lesson, but your friends suck, and you cannot rely on word of mouth for anything. The only thing that will help you is to write about nerd stuff and hope that nerds digg it.