You have already make a choice when you decide to blog.There are so many reasons why someone starts a blog but to me,it all ends up into this 4 categories.
- To become well known/popular.
- To get lots of readers/subscribers/followers.
- To become an authority figure.
- To make money.
In which category do you fall into?If you ask me,I want to be all 4 of it,because if I am well known or popular,I will surely get a lot of readers who will subscribe to my feeds and become my followers and this will make me an authority figure in the niche I choose and since to monetize your blog you need traffic,and I have have lots of it,I surely can monetize my blog.
I wish it is that simple,but the truth is,blogging is a very long journey if you really set those things as your goals.It is not just a long journey but also full of obstacles and hurdles that you have to carefully manoeuvre so you won't get stuck among the obstacles and fall while attempting to clear the hurdles.Most blogger are afraid or not ready to go by this path yet they want to achieve those goals,so what did they do,they choose an easier path or maybe a short cut.Why bother taking the longer route that you don't even know if you will reach your destination if there are other simpler and shorter routes.
There is nothing wrong in choosing other path because there are a lot of path to choose from and the choice is all yours,nobody will stop you in choosing your own path because you decide your own destiny.It is easy for all those A-List blogger to say this and that because they are already there,we are the one who are just starting the journey and at the time when those A-List blogger start theirs,they don't have as many choices and path as we now have,so how would they know.
They know because they have gone through what we just started to experience,they don't have the luxury that we have know when they start blogging but still they have to make a choice which path they want to use.Maybe you don't want the 3 things,you just want to make money,sure you can make money with your blog,it is easier now with ads,GPT,reviews,affiliate programs.
I wish it is that simple,but the truth is,blogging is a very long journey if you really set those things as your goals.It is not just a long journey but also full of obstacles and hurdles that you have to carefully manoeuvre so you won't get stuck among the obstacles and fall while attempting to clear the hurdles.Most blogger are afraid or not ready to go by this path yet they want to achieve those goals,so what did they do,they choose an easier path or maybe a short cut.Why bother taking the longer route that you don't even know if you will reach your destination if there are other simpler and shorter routes.
There is nothing wrong in choosing other path because there are a lot of path to choose from and the choice is all yours,nobody will stop you in choosing your own path because you decide your own destiny.It is easy for all those A-List blogger to say this and that because they are already there,we are the one who are just starting the journey and at the time when those A-List blogger start theirs,they don't have as many choices and path as we now have,so how would they know.
They know because they have gone through what we just started to experience,they don't have the luxury that we have know when they start blogging but still they have to make a choice which path they want to use.Maybe you don't want the 3 things,you just want to make money,sure you can make money with your blog,it is easier now with ads,GPT,reviews,affiliate programs.
- Paid review.You can apply to PayPerPost and once you are accepted,you can start writing reviews and will get paid for it,but don't blame Google if you suddenly lost your PageRank.Later on you might wonder why your readers suddenly decrease so does your subscribers and even your bounce rate are getting higher.I won't bother reading something that you know are being written because it is paid for,but if it comes with the pro and cons and from someone who you know knows what he/she is writing about is a different thing.
- Duplicate content.Just copy other people work as long you have a post to show to your readers,and make sure you copy some very good article because this will make more people want to read your blog,more people = more money.This will also get you banned,not only you don't get anything,you can even get fined for it.
- Free articles.Why bother doing research for your post,you can easily get free articles on whichever topic your choose,people don't care as long as they see you post regularly on your blog.Once people know you only create your blog to make money,they will leave your blog until you give up and abandoned it.
- Spamming.Shamelessly promoting yourself when leaving comments,in forums.It will make you famous for a while,but only for a while.
- Lying.No one knows who you really are online,you can lie and people won't even know,maybe not now,but sooner or later they will know and once they know it,it will spread like wildfire on the Internet and that will be the end of your day.
- Illegal.You can do all sorts of things illegally online,getting traffic,doing your SEO,I read last week you can even hack the number of your blog subscribers,but sooner or later people will know but you are in greater trouble if the search engines know you are cheating them.
Some blogger choose the above path so they can make money with their blog,but for how long?Why just aim to make money and I don't think you will be rich by resorting to those methods.Why not choose the correct path,it is much longer and harder,but if you can reach the end,not only you will earn good money,you become popular and most importantly,you gain respect.
So which path do you plan to choose?
So which path do you plan to choose?





