I would like to find a successful blogger (money-wise) to review my blog and content then make suggestions on how to improve and grow it the next level.

Also, without charging $2500 to spend an hour or two doing a personal review. If I could afford those high fees, I wouldn’t need someone to do a review.

As far as the wordpress script, I’ve been searching for a decent gallery that is a plugin, has a plain interface and standard features such as Coppermine. I personally dislike all the lightbox type features or having to login to separate scripts just to view images.

mackie – figureshooter.com – nudes of modern women

Laurie Fowler
Tuscaloosa, AL

That still doesn’t change “what’s wrong with blogging”, which is too many BS posts and BS comments without substance just so the authors can work their way to a higher PR or subscriber list. The worst are the “Great site” comments with the ubiquitous return link, lmao.

This very thing has made blogging so boring over the years.

I personally would look at what you can earn from an ad network from AdSense in an ad position and then double it as your starting point for how much to charge and then work up from there.

No offense, but even ProBlogger lacks in really telling what we want to know. For example, I was just reading a post about getting advertisers… of course you didn’t talk about how much a new blog should think about charging. Sure, anyone can say that’s because it’s all variable and depends on the blog, but that’s just a cop-out.

In short, blogs have become another form of unauthentic BS. Especially blogging blogs. AND ESPECIALLY blogs that simply make “lists” every post.

People are social creatures, so blogging is a great opportunity for people to express themselves, to be heard, to feel appreciated, to make a difference, to grow and learn.

The most fascinating aspect of blogging is that no matter what you write about, you will a lot of people who think like you do.

The problem boils down to why people blog.

Blogging used to be pure in the sense that people started a blog to just be able to communicate with others, to share ideas, information, and expose themselves to new ideas, philosophies and cultures.

We are now seeing a rise in the commercial, monetization aspect of it. You can’t help but notice the millions of rags to riches stories of how people were out of work, struggling, in debt and now they are living their dream life only working a few hours a week.

With the world’s economy in turmoil, these stories are like catnip to a cat. Who doesn’t want to make more money?

I couldn’t help but chuckle at the above posts where people were complaining about traffic, bad info, millions of blogs, mass marketing, but put links to their sites at the end.

Two reasons for our present situation:

1) People wanting all the rewards without none of the responsibility. We want the millions of dollars, but don’t want to put in the millions of hours. So people try to take shortcuts, deceive, and manipulate to see results quicker.Making money on the Internet is a business and that alone translates into hard work. You have to love this business or you will fail. Like any business, you must build it a piece at a time. Those who have ever played RPG’s (Role-Playing-Games) like World of Warcraft should quickly see the similarity: You must create a character and make it stronger one level, one adventure, one kill at a time. There is no way around it. You have to pay your dues and be willing to commit the time, energy, and effort it takes to achieve monetary success blogging – and it takes all three.

2) Those who achieved a certain degree of success taking advantage of those wanting to make money. How many systems are there for making money? Literally thousands! Now I’m all for a person making money on the Internet, writing books on how to make money on the Internet and selling them on their website or blog. But to charge thousands of dollars for information you can find for free, charging other people to market your product with the promise of getting future residual income from it, then sending them a letter telling them not to complain about paying the thousands of dollars is just plain exploitation (the above actually happened to me). But people are doing it on the Internet every day.

Have you noticed that 99% of the complaints above all have to do with some way to make money faster?

If you blog because you have a passion and want to reach others with that same passion, it will stand the test of time and regulate itself. Your numbers will steadily increase over time and you will be rewarded for your efforts.

But if you are in it JUST for the money, then you will fall by the wayside like all the other ones before you.

That’s whats really wrong with blogging.

I compare it to using a microwave, I know how to make it do the things I want it to do ie heat food I don’t need to know how the heck it makes microwaves and does whatever it does to food atoms to make the food hot. Yet with blogging it feels like you have to master so much extraneous information before you can make your blog look visually appealing and get it on Google.

Another problem I have is with some peoples attitudes online. So many people feel compelled to hammer down the nails that stick up. If someone does well with a blog, someone somewhere will start some sort of big old hate campaign against them. Its as if people online feel on persons success somehow takes away from them and as blogs and blogging has become more about money and marketing it seems to me its gotten worse.

I’m not saying it is by any means, but that’s how the average man or woman on the street sees it.