Blogging for a second income - does anyone else here do this?

Sixer

Ewaf wrote: »

Ofcourse I am not going to reveal my niches.

The site I mentioned previous in the thread is treacling in abit of money each month, nothing groundbreaking. I am abandoning it now and have moved on to new niches. I learnt alot about making money through micro niche sites, utilising different income streams such as adsense/amazon/CPA offers/clickbank etc. I am really getting stuck into internet marketing, and enjoy trying to find new niches and rank them at the top of google. Theres still so much to learn, it's all about trying to put a spin on things.

Those who are serious about making money through blogging need to realise that people don't care about your day to day life/ramblings/experiences. Sounds brutal, but its true. Start with mico niche's, prehaps about something you enjoy, and add regular articles, say 500 published every friday (good for traffic), that focus on your targetted keyword. Eventually google will start crawling your content and hopefully you will climb the ranks. I am only lightly brushing over this.

I dont own this site but this is a good micro niche site:

http://www.wintercoatsforwomen.org/

The ads blend in well and I wouldn't be surprised if the owner of this site is making £500 a month from this.

Like I said I am only touching lightly on this. If anyone has any questions about getting started fire away or PM.

That site is spam and breaks several of the Google webmaster quality guidelines. It's just pay per click ads and fake links with fake searches and spun content. Surely Panda and its ongoing updates should put paid to high rankings for it?

Honestly, I spit if I find cack like that in search results.

Ewaf

Sixer wrote: »

That site is spam and breaks several of the Google webmaster quality guidelines. It's just pay per click ads and fake links with fake searches and spun content. Surely Panda and its ongoing updates should put paid to high rankings for it?

Honestly, I spit if I find cack like that in search results.

its not doing anything against adsenses rules. You dont really seem to know what you are talking about.

Bigbase

Nothing seems to be wrong with the site. Maybe unethical yes, certainly not illegal etc. This is how you make the real money tbh

Sixer

I didn't say Adsense rules or illegal. I said it's spam, which it is. I can absolutely guarantee you that site falls foul of Google webmaster's QUALITY GUIDELINES in several areas. Panda and its updates are exactly designed to penalise sites like that in rankings. The content is spun and it's not intended to help users, just attract traffic. If £500 a month can be made out of presenting worthless sites like that to the search engines, then I'm not surprised Google is putting so much ongoing effort into Panda.

http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=35769

Ewaf

Its a site designed to make money. Ofcourse it only focuses on getting traffic.

**Juice**

Hi everyone

I've noticed I've picked up a few new followers by signing up with things like Bloglovin and allwomensites etc to offer another way of following.

Sixer

Ewaf wrote: »

Its a site designed to make money. Ofcourse it only focuses on getting traffic.

No, it's a site designed to deceive users into visiting, thinking they might find useful content, but in reality created only to make money from ads and affiliates. The actual content is spun/superficial/common knowledge/unhelpful. This is the definition of spam.

I run a commercial website. I wouldn't spend time creating and developing it if it wasn't going to make any money. It's not my hobby. But I offer high quality and original content which aims to be informative and is the point of my site. I make decent money from ads and affiliates but these aren't the point of my site. These provide the income that enables me to spend time creating the worthwhile content that helps the people who find my site via search engines.

Sixer

Ewaf wrote: »

Not sure why you are mentioning you run a commercial website, unless it's a blog you are in the wrong thread.

Simply responding to you linking to a non-blog spam site, presumably in the wrong thread!

For other readers:

1) I doubt the site ewaf mentioned pulls in £500 per month.

2) Making spam sites in an environment where search engines are constantly trying to block what you are doing is not something the average person thinking of starting a blog is going to keep up with very well. You'll need the knowledge to quickly find new exploits for updated engine algorithms. It's just not that easy.

3) You'll be helping make the web a worse place for everyone else on it.

Sixer

Ewaf wrote: »

Your lack of knowledge amuses me.

I have no idea why you are getting so heated, the fact is micro niche sites make huge money. Don't taint other people's view with your complete lack of knowledge and down right retardedness. This must be above stay at home survey fillers (you).

Please don't be rude and/or indulge in ad hominem insults. I'm not at all heated. Heated is rude and/or indulging in ad hominem insults. I'm merely questioning a) the value of the site you linked to and b) the capacity to make £500 a month from similar sites on a permanent basis. It's a discussion thread and I am discussing; it just so happens that I have reservations about the type of site you are proposing both in quality and profit terms. Nothing personal!

However, I would say to other posters on this thread - spam is not good. It clutters up the internet with rubbish. It's the Kleeneeze (sp?) of the web. This, however, is by-the-by with regards to upping your income. With regards to that, I would advise that some of the sums that people tend to mention (such as £500 per month) are unattainable via spam sites for the average user. It is also difficult to stay ahead of search engine efforts to banish the type of worthless content you will be creating unless you have advanced knowledge of the techniques involved.

It is possible to make some pocket money via a hobby blog or perhaps even a Mediawiki website that you populate with interesting/high quality posts and which you support by networking. And presumably, you will also get some personal satisfaction from it.

Emuchops

**Juice** wrote: »

Hi everyone

I've noticed I've picked up a few new followers by signing up with things like Bloglovin and allwomensites etc to offer another way of following.

##

Hello Juice-thanks for the tip, I've just joined those two. Much appreciated.