Make Money blogging

Have you noticed the underlying dislike for Make Money Online blogs? You can find bloggers in every corner that have absolutely no hesitation to tell you how much they dislike you and your blog without ever having read it. They base this on nothing more than your blog topic.

If you’re a Make Money Online Blog then you might as well be a convicted felon. You are accused, tried, judged and sentenced all in the blink of an eye.

Bloggers Despise Make Money Onliners

I have to admit when I started blogging I was really kind of naive and unskilled in the politics of the blogging world. I have learned a metric ton over the last few months but one thing became clear quite quickly and it bothered me a lot:

Bloggers despise Make Money Onliners.

At first I was taken aback and quite defensive about the subject. It really made me angry that people would dismiss my blog or myself in the blink of an eye and I wasn’t going to stand for it. I have had a number of heated exchanges on blog catalog and through the comments section of various sites, and I took the stance that I would defend myself to the end. Taking it too personally? Yep!

Guilty without a Trial

guiltyI recently signed up for the Perfomancing Hive over at Performancing to see what they had to offer. They have a welcome forum that allows you to introduce yourself to the community and say hello. I introduced myself and said hello and one of the first few responses one member asked:

“if you’ve only been blogging for 3 months then why did you choose to be a MMO blog? Why are you pretending to be something you’re not?”

Pow…Right between the eyes! He had never even been to my blog!!!

At first I was perturbed, then I became ticked off and finally I hit the homicidal rage level for a few minutes. Fairly soon thereafter I calmed down enough to answer his jab somewhat reasonably. I’ve never pretended to be anything that I am not, at least not since I tried to buy beer with a fake id when I was 20 years old. Guilty!

If I don’t know how to do something I won’t write about it. I admit my experience level and I posted my true earnings a few days ago for my first month of monetization. I assure you that someone who is a “pretender” is going to be post an income report of 420 dollars.

I don’t need to make money online, I just enjoy the challenge and I simply would never put my integrity at risk to make a couple of bucks.

Lessons from Sun Tzu

Sun TzuI have always found it to my advantage when attacked to put myself in the attackers shoes. Where are they coming from? What is their point of view? Why do they think this way?

I am a fan of history and one of history’s master strategists was Sun Tzu. He was a master at outsmarting his opponent with strategy and would often with a battle before it really had even begun. He took great pains to understand his opponent before going to battle with him.

  • Know your enemy and know yourself and you can fight a hundred battles without disaster ~ Sun Tzu

I need to understand where these haters are coming from if I am going to be able to overcome it.

I have perused dozens of MMO blogs over the last 3 months but I have found a very select few that I would bother going back. I have about 30ish blogs in my feed reader right now and I would say 10 or less are what I consider MMO blogs. It would seem to me that a MMO blogger would have a hundred of these blogs in the reader in order to make sure he/she was current as current could be.

Then it Hit Me.

Make Money Online Blogs are Crap

Make Money BloggingMost Make Money Online blogs are completely full of crap. I have come across hundreds and hundreds yet less than a dozen of them made my reader?

E-books, affiliate programs, inflated earnings reports, crappy paid post after crappy paid post. It was starting to become clear.

But wait a minute…the blog world is FULL of blogs that are crap. 99% of them are probably full of crap. Why the hypocrisy?

  • Self Help blogs - definitely full of crap.
  • Weight Loss blogs - yep, more crap.
  • Mommy Blogs - oh yeah, tons of crap!
  • Psychic Blogs - you guessed it….more crap.
  • Investing Blogs - Wow! more crap.

Why do none of these blogs experience the utter hatred Make Money Online blogs enjoy?

Garry Conn is a Madman

Garry Conn Dot comOne of the blogs that I recently added to my reader was Garry Conn. I read a post he made the other day where he was ranting like a madman against MMO blogs.

I enjoyed his rant and COMPLETELY agreed with what he had to say. I enjoyed it so much I took the time to comment, which for me, isn’t that common. I really need to come up with a better commenting strategy.

So here I am enjoying the heck out of Garry’s post, cheering him on and this Fecker takes a shot at ME! Where does the madness stop? Garry has a philosophy to build a great blog that will be popular and have enough traffic that he can make money via advertising…..which is MY plan!

He has a huge disdain for e-books. ME TOO!

He hates blogs that are nothing but affiliate pumps. ME TOO!

He hates blogs that pretend to be something they are not. ME TOO!

I can’t even get some love from a guy who shares my exact philosophy and point of view towards make money onliners.

The Answer

The answer to why bloggers despise MMO bloggers was found right in Garry’s comment section for that very post. I have excerpted the comment from Garry.

It does matter when you and others mislead people into thinking that they can learn how to make money online. You make money off the people who want to learn. You trick them into buying garbage eBooks and trick them into investing money into programs that offer false hope and dreams that will never come true.

How does that compare to my maturity level? I think your site looks identical to many other sites that publish the same garbage and noise. You don’t help people, you use people. Throw all the stones and daggers you want at me. In the end, I am the one laughing to the bank and you’re not. You don’t make money online just like the many others that pretend to be a “Super Star” expert in the business.

There it is. People are fed up to here with bloggers who know nothing about making money online yet try to pretend they do. They lure people in who are naive and desperate. They are praying on the stupid.

A 3 dollar e-book on DP forums isn’t going to make you a millionaire dummy. Get a clue.

Make Money Online blogs have become the same thing as email spam. It’s everywhere, it’s annoying as hell, it never seems to stop. They try to lure you in with false promises and incredible claims of living the good life on just 2 hours a day.

Pure Crap in it’s finest form.

If you’re a MMO blogger, do you really want to be considered the SPAM of the blogging world? This might sound harsh but it’s reality. It’s the reality that I get lumped into even though I try pretty hard NOT to be that kind of blog.

Redemption

I am by no means advocating that if the Make Money Online niche is what you enjoy and you feel you can bring value to the blogging world then by all means do it. If that is your interest then give it all you have and see where you come out.

Don’t try to blog to make money. Make money from your blogging! Blog about what you enjoy; what interests you and a topic you have something to offer. The haters will always be there but you can hold your head high if you conduct yourself with integrity and offer the best content that you are capable of producing.

Before I go…the original guy from the Hive….ended up coming to my blog and is now a subscriber. Vindication. :-)

So… What’s the Verdict? Do all Make Money Onliners have to die, or can a few of us live to see another day?

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