Blogging for money
14 May 2007The word Blog comes from a play of words of Web Log. You log in some words and ideas in the web, hence weBLOG. People from third world countries like our very own Philippines find out that they can make more money from publishing blogs rather than working that nine to five minimum wage job.
A 350 peso daily minimum wage may gross you 7,000 pesos per month on a 20 day work month, and may net you even less than 5,000 pesos. Hence, this translates to only roughly $5 per day, including weekdays, as your blog is up 24/7. For this type of income, one has to approximately receive around 10,000 pageviews daily, thus producing out those random click thru ratios of visitors to clickers which actually rings the register.
The secret to blog marketing is actually the indexing capabilities of search engines like Google. Those ones and zeros working in their cooled servers have pre programmed robotic scripts called spiders, scouring the net for valuable and relevant keywords. So if you signed up for Google Adsense and placed their ad banners into your blog, their bots will really spider your article for relevant keywords that will be placed in YOUR blog banners. Any viewer that clicks on those banners will bill the advertiser for google to collect. If you clicked the Intel banner, google as the middleman agent will get paid for the click, and you will get an undisclosed small portion of that click.
Thus, a regular blog may not bring home ample bacon for the average first world country citizen, as they get paid much more in their daily wage lives.
There are many types of bloggers:
1)the blogger who blogs with a passion for writing - most, if not all, articles are genuine, restricting the cut and paste merely to quote sources. They are happy to see hits on their sites and being read by people from all over the globe.
2)the professional media writers - these are the media men, professionally employed to write articles on newspapers, magazines, or even host television programs. They seek to organize and collect their articles in one section of the web for all to see and place all their work into blogs for archive as well.
3)the cut and pasters - occasionally, there'd be some original articles, some events attended, some thoughts on some subject matter, but 90% of content would be just researched rehashed copy pasted articles to circumvent what is technically plagiarism galore!
4)the MFAs - MFA is Made for adsense. Each quality blog or website should come with a purpose to inform, and to earn from Adsense only a secondary afterthought come-on. MFAs are the bottom of the dregs of society of the web world. They disguise themselves as blogs or forums or websites, but if you go to their pages from clicking an ad from another page, all you will see are google ads only, and no content. These MFAs are costing google millions in click fraud damages returned to advertisers, and even more millions to the advertisers themselves.
Enter Filipinos who have discovered blogging as an added income boost. These are the types that handle many blogsites for the purpose of spawning many identities as a precaution against getting caught by google or any other advertiser. Those bot spiders actually blacklist a website that has too much copy paste and too little original content. MFAs if caught, also have their domains taken out and banned.
Quick research on the net states that keywords like student loan, porn, and mesothelioma, which means cancer from asbestos, are one of the top paying keywords out there. And, you guessed it, clever bloggers scour google for articles on mesothelioma just to copy and place them in their blogs, to get their keywords hit and spidered by google. What's the purpose of that, but just to make money? Nobody is helped, to productivity contributed to society, only personal gain.
To sum it all up, a blog set up just to make money from hitting keywords might not be too reader friendly in terms of final output. It is kind of like Bruce Willis picking up that used cigarette butt and smoking the last ounces of it, pretty low.
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