Has Paid Blogging Been a Bad Path?
November 6th, 2007 | by admin |Paid Blogging has taken the internet by storm. It seems like everyone has a blog these days on everything from celebrities to technology to their own personal family blogs. I admit, that I too have recently gotten caught up in the paid blogging world.
It is extremely hard to actually make a profitable income simply by blogging. Not only is it time consuming, but you have to have a blog with a lot of readers and traffic. This will place you higher in the google index rating system, thus getting you higher money making opportunities.
A few years ago people blogged about whatever was on their mind or whatever was going on in their life. The most popular blogs were those that resembled diaries with frequent entries about what was going on. Soon followed were blogs by people that informed you of things like the news, or celebrity sightings. Not much later, corporations and companies followed suit and created corporate blogs. They usually have an upper level employee or two add content to the blog about what is going on within the company such as new stuff, and old stuff.
Then the great idea came along that companies will pay people like me and you to put ads within their own blogs and pay them. The company makes out since they are only paying a few dollars for a lot of traffic and the blogger makes out since to them its easy money to throw an ad in between all the content already on their blog.
The problem now is that some bloggers have exhausted all of their opportunities and they sit around and check a few times daily for new or higher paying opportunities. Some people make it a full time job, as I have seen people make over $2000 per month on their blogs. However in order to do this, you would most likely have to have a few blogs of different topics, all with high index ratings, and voila, you are in.
Blogging is a great pocket money job for the average person, but for the more dedicated blogger, it can be a great opportunity. My only worry is that this paid blogging is a trend that will most likely phase out within a few years, leaving a lot of bloggers bored, or thirsty for more money.
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