An excellent post! One thing I would say is that there is so much content that you can GET AWAY with repackaging it. Eventually though, those people run out of ideas as they are not creative. Like anything you have to wait it out and you'll see the real deal separate itself from the garbage and come to light.
MMO is not explained on most blogs. You cant read blogs and think you have learned all there is about making money online.... BHWHAHAHA
Have you bought any high ticket courses training you? In the last year ive bought 5 from $497 to $2,000
You cant expect to find the 'real' ways to make money online splattered over a few people's blogs
Chris Guthrie
· 1 year ago
I think the MMO market is saturated as well... which is why I offered some alternatives to using MMO as your blog tagline. I wrote about it two days ago (obviously some are a joke):
No matter how much someone can say their blog has it all, it doesn't. Most blogs just have information that everyone else has. There are very few blogs that have content and posts that add real value. I find this can only happen if the writer writes every post from his/her point of view. Make it unique and be creative and no, it is not about the money.
Most people forget that it's not just content that is king, but Fresh, Original Content...rehashing what everyone else is saying only serves to drown out your voice.
What cracks me up is that a lot of the people who read the make money online blogs start a blog about making money online when they haven't actually made any in the first place. :roll:
There are so many other things people could write about, that have a much larger audience. :mrgreen:
I agree with you 100%, so much of the same info being regurgitated, and muc hof it is good, too, yes.
I have over 83% of my visitors to my blog this month adding me to their favorites, so I think that wriitng about subjects that are timely and timeless are very important.
Also, writing about things that are near and dear to you will definitely make your content unique.
Seems like everyone else rewrites some PLR to use as blog content.
Now, my blog isn't like Doshdosh except for the fact that every once in a while I write a really long post, see this one here.
That link goes to a post that is 5k words, is 100% unique content, is near and dear to my heart, and gets a decent number of comments. It doesn't overtly sell anything and it lends character to the blog.
One thing that sets Cow above (or is that aside from?) the rest is the element of FUN. John Cow does it for fun. If you aren't having fun it's probably gonna flop. So many people are blogging out of a need for cash and desperation not to have to work a day job. How fun is that? (Of course it's not mutually exclusive. But really it's more attractive if you hide your desperation and flaunt the fun, don't you think?)
You can make money online by blogging about it. But it's not easy, nor is it really the best idea to start with. It is unfortunately the most natural idea to start with, because when you're blogging you want to speak your mind and what's on your mind is quite often making money online... So if you are serious about this you are going to have to work a lot harder to convince everyone that you're not just being clueless newbie about it.
My blog posts are probably 90% about MMO, personal development, blogging software, blogging habits, and other stuff that's all done to the death. Hopefully I will be moving away from this in the future. Unless by some strange coincidence I suddenly really do become an authority about all that stuff...
I think making money online (ie. the generation of revenue using the web, in part or in whole) and the "MMO sector" (as bloggers like to talk about it) are not really the same thing.
Blogging about making money, for a lot of people, is a way to avoid doing anything that will generate revenue long term.
The same goes for a lot of the IM "gurus" that spout off advice 24 / 7. If anything, much of their advice (given for the sake of making money for themselves) leads to a narrow view of what it means to setup a business that generates revenue, as well as a sub-culture that is anything but entrepreneurial.
The MMO niche is clogged, and seems to be beating a dead horse. I suggest people branch out. Start a niche blog on hunting or sewing. The home mom could start one on parenting. A stay at home mom could post reviews on house hold products like the new swiffer mop or something. Also hot deals/coupons and watch out for triple coupon days at the local Kroger. Find something you know you could talk about daily for the next few years and put your heart into it.
lol, you know what's really great? The majority of people who are agreeing with this post write blogs about making money online. Kind of reinforces the point. :grin:
I'm starting to question the article's point though. Writing about MMO is a symptom of thinking about it. Thinking about it leads to doing it. So perhaps your run-of-the-mill MMO blog is in fact an incubator for other types of blog. Just treat the MMO side of your site as a nonprofit personal thing (maybe a general traffic generator) whereas the real money-makers are the niche topics. For me that could be worm farming or something fun like that.
I know what you're saying and I agree with you; however, the knock-on effect is that I'm starting to feel slightly irritated by the number of bloggers complaining about the saturated MMO market - it's getting repetitive, y'all - we're all complaining about the same thing. So now, not only do I have to contend with the amount of shite MMO blogs out there, I now have to deal with the increasing amount of MMO bloggers repeating the same complaint over and over and over again.
I get it. 99% of MMO blogs are shite. University Kid said it. BloggerNoob said it. You're saying it.
I get it. I really do. Most. MMO. Blogs. Are. Shit. NOW STOP ALREADY.
Interesting. I just posted to my blog where I basically referred the readers to other blogs - I just couldn't bring myself to attempt to rewrite what has been written so many times, and written well, on basic tips for GPT. I believe explaining why this is important and then saving them time (many people just don't want to do research) is beneficial. What is most important is that the information is in my blog - not that I wrote it. As well, I'm sure those bloggers/webmasters won't mind the plug. This may work sometimes when we don't have an original, creative spin to the topic.
Agreed. I'm really getting enormously bored with the whole MMO thing. I hear another "I'm gonna make a million quid and post about it online" site has been created and just yawn. There are more fun things, like going on motorcycle rides and waving at the cows.
whenever someone visits that site, the registered owner makes money, it’s called traffic. For every person that visits these sites and every sale that these sites make, the owner is paid a commission. Which pretty much sums up what this Jeff Paul program is
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There are so many other things people could write about, that have a much larger audience.
:mrgreen:
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I have over 83% of my visitors to my blog this month adding me to their favorites, so I think that wriitng about subjects that are timely and timeless are very important.
Also, writing about things that are near and dear to you will definitely make your content unique.
Seems like everyone else rewrites some PLR to use as blog content.
Now, my blog isn't like Doshdosh except for the fact that every once in a while I write a really long post, see this one here.
http://www.danielmcgonagle.name/internet-market...
That link goes to a post that is 5k words, is 100% unique content, is near and dear to my heart, and gets a decent number of comments. It doesn't overtly sell anything and it lends character to the blog.
Point being, that's what it takes to be different
Thanks,
Dan
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You can make money online by blogging about it. But it's not easy, nor is it really the best idea to start with. It is unfortunately the most natural idea to start with, because when you're blogging you want to speak your mind and what's on your mind is quite often making money online... So if you are serious about this you are going to have to work a lot harder to convince everyone that you're not just being clueless newbie about it.
My blog posts are probably 90% about MMO, personal development, blogging software, blogging habits, and other stuff that's all done to the death. Hopefully I will be moving away from this in the future. Unless by some strange coincidence I suddenly really do become an authority about all that stuff...
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Blogging about making money, for a lot of people, is a way to avoid doing anything that will generate revenue long term.
The same goes for a lot of the IM "gurus" that spout off advice 24 / 7. If anything, much of their advice (given for the sake of making money for themselves) leads to a narrow view of what it means to setup a business that generates revenue, as well as a sub-culture that is anything but entrepreneurial.
Just my 2 cents...
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I'm starting to question the article's point though. Writing about MMO is a symptom of thinking about it. Thinking about it leads to doing it. So perhaps your run-of-the-mill MMO blog is in fact an incubator for other types of blog. Just treat the MMO side of your site as a nonprofit personal thing (maybe a general traffic generator) whereas the real money-makers are the niche topics. For me that could be worm farming or something fun like that.
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I get it. 99% of MMO blogs are shite. University Kid said it. BloggerNoob said it. You're saying it.
I get it. I really do. Most. MMO. Blogs. Are. Shit. NOW STOP ALREADY.
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