How to Make Money Online with an Ugly Blog

Most people that want to make money online fail. The reason they fail is because they want to be an A-lister. The figure that because the A-list has thousands of subscribers that they make boat loads of money. This is a misconception. Most of the social traffic does not click on adsense and do not buy any of your products and if they do then the put in their own clickbank ID and you don't get the commission. So why do people chase social traffic? I think it is because people want to be famous blogger like Darren Rowse. Why? I have no idea.

But if you have started out in the make money online world and are currently chasing social traffic save yourself a lot of time, money, and grief. The real way to make money on the internet is to get ranked high in G. You can't achieve this by getting people to read your blog.

The reason 99% percent of people fail in the online marketing game is they want to write quality content for people to read. Well, when people are reading they aren't clicking on ads and you aren't getting paid. If you want people to read your stuff then be a blogger but don't have any misconceptions that you are going to get rich or even make enough to survive of your blogging. The people writing blogs for people to read will realize one day, hopefully soon, that they are not being compensated in any meaningful way for all their hard work and they will stop. Then they will have the misconception and tell other people that it is impossible to make money online. Well, this is true in a sense. You can't make money social blogging.

Another reason most people fail to make any money online is because they buy into the gimmicks. These gimmick sites are designed to sell you on a dream. What I am trying to do is make these slick salesman's life a little harder by providing people with real information for free. People hunger for real information but are easily suckered into the 'make $10,000 a day in a week without doing anything' sales pitches that play into people's laziness and hope that they will hit the jackpot. Well, I'm sorry to tell you folks, but this isn't going to happen. You could write cheesy ebook or membership site and sucker a bunch of newbies in and probably make lots of money off of people's ignorance but do you really want to live your life like that? Plus, you will have people like me calling you out and discrediting you and then your name will be mud.

If you want to get into the 'make money online' game, and you do or else you wouldn't be reading this, then do yourself a favor and plan for the long term. This is key, there are no easy or quick millions online like these other programs will tell you. Go ahead, go buy into their cheap gimmicks. You will just have to come back here and read through the rest of my posts later. So sift through my epic posts and get the knowledge you need for free without spending time and energy on the fakers.

And that's one reason that I wanted to create this blog. To actually help people get the information they need to make money online and to link them to other genuine people in the community. Because the make money online community is so full of scam artists, wannabes, fakers, snake oil salesman, A-lists, useless advice, and newbies acting like they are gurus. You really have to search far, wide, and for a long time to find real information.

So why an ugly blog? Because you don't actually want anyone to read anything you write. You are not a blogger, you are an internet marketer. And internet marketers don't write things for people to read (unless they are selling a product). They write for the bots. Bots aren't smart, they can't tell if you write well. They search for keywords and their long tails to be able to give people relevant information when they type a keyword into the search field.

The reason you want an ugly blog with no real information is because you are going to place ads in the money spot (top left) and all over the rest of the blog. You make money with an ugly blog because people will see the ugliness and automatically think that nothing this ugly has any relevant content then they will leave. You want to encourage them to leave by clicking out through something that gives you money either through adsense, an affiliate product, or to another one of your blogs that is monetized in someway. If you are real good at this technique you will have your own blogs linked a dozen deep all of which are ugly and provide no real information but make you money. This is how internet marketing is done. Ethical? It's somewhat of a grey area. But do you want to make money online or do you want to keep chasing a specter?

The tricky part of this technique is that you aren't supposed to make a blog just for the purpose of making money with adsense. And you actually need to drive traffic to it. You are going to have to use all the search engine optimization techniques we've discussed in earlier posts. And you are going to have to use your other sites that have aged, have page rank, and have relevancy to back link to your adsense blog. You are also going to have to write some content that makes some sense in case someone from G happens upon it. You don't want your adsense account banned.

So the basic technique here is to create an optimized blog that is ugly (but not too ugly), set it up so that the only thing that pops out is your adsense or affiliate ads, and then drive traffic to it using backlinks.

If that sounds simple that's because it is. It's simple but it is going to take some planning, some effort, and some time to build it and get traffic. But once you set everything up you will be making money as long as people are searching for the terms you targeted.

The best thing about this technique is that you can use a free blogger or wordpress blog to do it because they are already very ugly. Or, at least with wordpress, you can make it ugly.

The hard parts of making money with an ugly blog is finding the right level of ugly. You don't want to make the blog so ugly that people will immediately back click.

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