You mean people are making money off this???

Greg
http://www.DiCaprioBengals.com

I love ProBlogger — it’s my favorite blog on the Web — but this website is so damn saturated with external javascripts as to be almost unusable. It’s all ad systems. So in a way, the unnamed blog and ProBlogger are similar — I think that the user experience at this site has been really compromised by overzealousness of advertising.

That said, I’m not going to condemn Darren for trying to make a buck. I’m guilty of it too. Probably guilty of too many external javascripts as well.

But the posting frequency jab is unwarranted. I think that ProBlogger posts too frequently — it actually keeps me from reading the blog as much. Feels like I’m inundated. In Bloglines today I saw 100 unread posts from here (although half of those were dupes — what’s the problem?). That deters me from reading. I know there are different schools of thought on blogging frequency, but I prefer 3-10x per week.

About finding ideas…um, going for a walk is sth that really helps me. I can write more about that if you wish me to!

Best regards
Tam Hanna

All things considered I think it is more profitable to write good content, about subjects reasonable earnings per click, that people want to read about. It’s a threefold path.

Lord knows the web doesn’t need an extra “mesothelioma” blog, even though good old mesothelioma is the best paying keyword on the internet.

So just keep on keeping on, and rely on the network power rule n*(n-1)/2, over time you will suceed.

If you don’t like what you are reading, you don’t have to keep the feed .. but let’s be honest about it and less snobbish and hypocritical, Mmmmmmmmmm kay?

For some reason, blogging is not just sell things for your affiliate nor helping them to be a salesman or salesgirl, if once in a while, the post mentioned about the affiliate products or introduce, it will be understandable for readers that read it, but what sells most on your blogs, is actually the idea, and your own words in the blog.

Bringing in just one or two fresh writers can help you create new topics, too, just out of replying to theirs. My network of blogs is only 6 months old, but I’ve already brought in 4 new writers to help me create better opinions and a larger base of thoughts. My writing is actually UP in response to their varying opinions, and my traffic is well up (enough that I can financially compensate the other authors).

Don’t let a good blog die — just do what any business owner does and delegate responsibility to others. The best part about doing this is that it gives new bloggers an option rather than building from scratch, and it also gives you additional marketing traffic in how they drive readers to the blog.

Is it just me, or is it fairly obvious who it is?

Points well made either way though Darren. I think a lot of us, especially those of us that didn’t start with the idea of blogging for dinero, can lose sight of why we were blogging in the first place and just start being blinded by dollar signs.

It’s natural for me to be skeptical of anyone that promotes an affiliate. I realize that there’s nothing wrong with it – just as there’s nothing wrong with sales of anything – but I’d be a whole lot more interested in a product if someone suggested it and wasn’t making cash off it. A blog that is just affiliate touting is completely useless in my books – there are too many other blogs that find a medium.

K, no-one cleans the mess, they just become comment spam breeding zones.

So curious, as a non tech person, what happens to all the dead blogs (especially the freebie ones)?
Who cleans up that mess?

People say that the blogging world will become saturated, but the reality is that to write with frequency about a topic that is not self centered and narcissistic is hard work. So the quantity and quality is always going to be a scarce commodity and the earning opportunities will be with us.