Content Creation Secrets

For the first time I found some sensible advice which contradicts the lies sold for good money by Internet Marketing gurus.

Reading through the short but candid blog post and the endless comments certainly proves one thing.

You shouldn’t waste a single cent buying ebooks that teach how to get rich blogging. If you do, you become poorer instead of richer. You buy the ebook to make the bloke who sells it richer.

Think of it as throwing money down the drain for information which will not work – the money making part.

Let’s now get down to what the blog post is about. It is actually answering the one question that the 500k-a-year blogger often receives from his readers.

You guessed what the question is.

How do I make money from my blog?

The successful blogger provides a short answer.

You don’t make money from your blog. Yes, you don’t make money from your blog. Don’t ever try.

This is a rather strange reply from a blogger who makes thousands a month with his blog.

The blogger has a confession to make. It took him two years to start making money from his blog. I like the part where he says he was blogging even when nobody was reading it and when he was earning nothing out of it.

He then goes on to say he’ll keep on blogging even if nobody reads his blog in the future.

He also reveals the two ingredients he has thrown into his blog to make it what it is today.

Firstly, he started blogging out of passion as has been explained earlier. He blogged even when he was earning nothing and had no readers.

Secondly, he was generous. He gave away valuable information without expecting anything in return from his readers.

When traffic started building up, he started offering tools, seminars and other products to his readers. That’s how he started generating income from his blog.

It took him five years of passionate blogging to be where he’s today.

None of the comments disagreed with him. Most stressed the importance of passion and the spirit of giving.

One commenter is a blogger who has been blogging for two years before receiving a $100 check from Google. Another commenter has blogged for years before deciding to experiment with Adsense. The results are promising.

They just go to reinforce the principle that to be successful as a blogger, you’d have to blog out of passion and maintain the spirit of giving without expecting anything in return.

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