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Choosing Your Path.

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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.
  • 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?

 

Do You Have Problem To Write A Post?

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There is a reason why I ask this question.No..it is not because I face this problem,and I do hope and pray that this will not be a problem to me in the future because it can bring some effect to my blog and have to make me think back if this is certainly the things I want and love to do.

The Reason I Start Blogging.

Before I start about the title of my post,lets just share a few things.I started blogging early this month,not with this blog,but with another that I started because I was thinking of making money with it.After two weeks doing it,I found out that it is not that what I really want.No..I didn't stop and abandoned it after just two weeks,instead I still write my post once in every two days just like when I started it,the only difference I made is in the content.Rather than writing about how to make money online,I write about things you must expect if you want to make money online,and reminding people not to become victim of scams that make believe you can make money fast and easy online.

The Reason People Start Blogging.

When I see other people blogs,I look for when it was started,how frequent the posting was,what the blog is about,the quality of the post,what is there on the blog.Through all this,I came up with this three reason why people start a blog and keep on blogging.

  • They want to share things happenings in their life,or things that they find interesting and share it with others with the same interest.Most of this blogs have been around for at least a year.There are a few new one too,and some of it I find interesting.
  • They start blogging because it was taught by the Internet Marketing Guru's as the best way to start making money online because blogs are free.They write randomly and with variety of contents because they don't have any specific interest other than making money.Their blog have less or non quality contents,and even if it has,it might be articles from other sources.It is full of ads banner,text ads and links to money making sites.
  • They first started blogging because they love to,but seems to be getting nowhere,or lost interest on their blog,and make a turn around when they realize that blogging can actually get you some cash through GPT programs(Get Paid To..click an ad,surf the web,do surveys,read emails.you can even get paid to post!)
Do You Have Problem To Write A Post?

I came across this girl problem in one of the forum I joined.She ask if any one can gave her any suggestion on what to write on her next post.Two things come to mind immediately.

  1. She really needs help.
  2. She is using the forum as a platform to promote her blog.
I respond because of the first,and I will give my view on the second later.I view her blog.Looks nice to me.Her latest post was about her thoughts on something,what interest me is the variety of her posting.It is a new blog,she has post about a movie review,book review and other things.I think she hasn't decide what her blog should be before she started it,and by looking at it,I think she is trying to imitate what other blogs is about,and try to squeeze it into her blog.There is nothing wrong about it,but looking back at her question,and looking at her blog,I think she must look back at the reason why she started her blog.

  • Don't start a blog just for the sake of having a blog.
  • Don't start a blog having it will make money for you attitude.
  • Don't start a blog to imitate what others are doing.
  • Don't start a blog if you actually don't have anything to share.
  • Do start a blog if you have something that interest you and you know there are lots of people who you would like to share it with.
  • Do start a blog if it is really something you love to do.
  • Do start a blog if not getting anything from it doesn't bother you,and even after getting some rewards from it you still do it because you love to,not because to gain more rewards.
The reason you start a blog will actually have an impact on what you will achieve with it.

What People Will Do Just To Get Attention(And Traffic)

People join forums for a lot of different reason,but most of all is to get traffic by exposing yourself and your blogs to other forum members.Some would do just anything to gain this,by posting simple question like that girl did,by replying to as much thread as possible,and in the shortest of time(They hope people will look up to them because of the number of post/their status in forums),self promoting threads(Some forums doesn't allow this and you will be banned),and so much more.Join one and you will know what I mean.

One thing that I see most people forget is,you won't have such a big problem to drive traffic to your blogs.You can have any approach,with or without ethical value,its up to you,and you will see results.But what is the point of driving thousands of traffic if you don't have anything to show?Most people that are seriously trying very hard to drove traffic to their blogs,or websites are people involve in making money programs,because the Guru's taught them TRAFFIC = MONEY!What a lie and who would be a fool to believe this.Traffic means people VISITING your site,if you cannot turn them into CUSTOMERS,you don't get MONEY!If your site are just like thousands or millions other site promoting the same thing,what makes you think you are different,and that people will buy or join from your site?

Blogs are about content,and people everyday are looking for contents that interest them,can add value to their life,or to the knowledge they already have.If you can provide this,and provide it consistently,then you will have TRAFFIC and LOYAL READERS.

I certainly have to thank that girl,because of her forum post,I can make a post to my blog today!Just my point of adding how looking at things you do daily can provide source for your blog.