Meta blogs
I don’t care how many top ten lists are posted and couched as invaluable, insider how-to advice on how to blog and make money, it’ still just SPAM. I don’t care how good your SEO is; I don’t care how visually appealing your theme is; I don’t care about anything except that if your content sucks I’m not gonna come back. And neither is anyone else with any sense. Trust me, I know. I’ve had a lot of people not come back over the last many years.
Of course your theme and search engine optimization are very important, but the bottom line is that any blog about how to make money blogging = SPAM! If you read those sites you are reading spam. No matter how much you want to believe, it’s still spam.
It’s like a wiener in a bun advertising how much money can be made from selling chili dogs. Put some chili, cheese and onions with mayo and mustard and some dill relish on that wiener would you? If you can’t dish out some relish, you are in trouble. If you get into blogging solely as a means to make money, you are a silly fucker; you have bought into a scam. You probably already have paid someone some money, I bet, to learn how to do it. You think you are getting in on a scam on a bunch of idiots when it is you who are, in fact, the idiot. Now I may be mis-underestimating things, but the pool of available idiots is not big enough to sustain all the other idiots trying to sucker them. See pyramid scheme. See Maddoff. See Social Security.
People who write a blog because they love to write and have always wanted to write, and they somehow wind up with a big audience and are able to make some money, those are the guys who inspire me and I am simply amazed by all the fucking morons who buy in to the idea that they can throw up a web page using this trick or that strategy and that they will somehow rake in huge amounts of money–or even moderate amounts of money. These people are likely the same ones who purchase hair transplants or male enhancement pills. Call ‘em a bunch of Smilin’ Bob’s. Such pie in the sky delusions makes Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds seem pragmatic. Come off your trip already!
Want to know how to make money blogging? I’ll tell ya. This is the best advice you’ll ever get: Consistently provide a bunch of great content that people want to consume and that people will want to come back to consume more of. Consistent means over the course of months and years, not days and weeks. See InstaPundit. If you can throw up decent content week after week after week, a Google blackball can’t stop you. You could serve the dish from a 28K dialup line and people would figure out a way to get it.
A series of never ending top 10 lists on how to create a blog to make money, on the other hand, bores me to tears and tends to make me belligerent.
You know who you are.
