Does This Imply that you cannot make money blogging?

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Read the following paragraph and then tell me if you think it implies that blogging cannot be used as a good source to make money online.

"It will always be tough for you to make significant growing residuals online, make sales, achieve signups, for the long haul unless you have.....

Your Own Web Presence.

Blogs won't do it. Sure there are people that make very significant income
with blogs. But you know what, that is far and inbetween."
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I personally think it does but on another forum I'm talking with this girl and she is completely set on websites over blogs, I keep telling her that you can make just as much money with a blog then you can with a website.

I say this because it doesn't matter if you have a blog or a website, if you don't know how to make sales then you'll never make any money online.

I told her that I've met people with very good looking, decent traffic websites that were making almost nothing, while I was making more with one of my shittier blogs.

What do you think?
 


I think whoever you're citing is probably pretty close to the money. There are probably less than 500 people on the internet that can make a decent living simply running a blog (mind you, I'm talking about a single blog, not a blog farm).

I'm talking about making enough to live off just your blog. These days thats like $3k/month, about $100 a day. Not a lot of standalone blogs can accomplish that.

Besides, a blog IS a website and vice versa. I've seen plenty of complete sites built on wordpress or movable type platforms. Blog is just a simple way of saying linear CMS.
 
move to a third world country, then your $300 a year adsense income will be big time moola! problem solved. i here haiti is nice. maybe liberia?
 
I agree that it would be hard to live off one single blog, making $100 bucks a day from it would be hard but I'm different I use blogs to make money online but I have several of them, dedicated to their each niche and I like using them simply because its easy.

Well for me building websites is just as easy but I find it easier to write content when its a more relaxed blog feel, I just got the impression that she was trying to tell me that I could not make any real money blogging when I'm already making money blogging.
 
Yeah, I guess I interpreted the quote that you posted to mean that a single blog doesn't really stand a chance, but a single website presence might. I still don't know if I care for the distinction between one and the other.

For instance - does zefrank.com operate as a blog or a website? I'd argue that it's a little of both (combined with a videoblog model, which is something else entirely).

I wouldn't give quotes like that much credit. It sounds mostly like sensationalism simply to get someone to click on a link and buy an eBook. :/
 
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Yeah, I guess I interpreted the quote that you posted to mean that a single blog doesn't really stand a chance, but a single website presence might. I still don't know if I care for the distinction between one and the other.

For instance - does zefrank.com operate as a blog or a website? I'd argue that it's a little of both (combined with a videoblog model, which is something else entirely).

I wouldn't give quotes like that much credit. It sounds mostly like sensationalism simply to get someone to click on a link and buy an eBook. :/
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WoW I only gave you a small part of the whole discussion and you managed to nail it directly on the head, by the end of her entire post she wanted people to sign up with some online program where she would build you a website and add things to it for no cost, except the fact that I'm sure she would be placing her own adsence and/or affiliate products in that website without people knowing.

It's a good tactic because newbies that don't know how to create a website would not be able to tell the difference, I however can tell exactly what she was doing because I've seen it done lots before.

I don't think she has really went up against anyone with my web development experince before or she just thought I was another newbie, one way or the other I think that by using both blogs and websites together you can make things happen a little easier.
 
Why would you want to make your entire living off of a single website/project/whatever anyways?

The biggest dowside to a blog has nothing to do with the income pyramid, it has to do with time. The only reason I can write my blog is because these are things that pop into my head or are running through my head all day. If I was given a specific topic like "teeth whitening" I couldn't do it.

So.. with an affiliate/content site, you can often set it up and let it go. I've got one site that really took 2 days of work, and has been making money for years. Its at about $20 a day now. That $20 is almost irrelevent at this stage for me, but the fact that I put in so little time is what matters. If that was a blog I had to write for every day, forget it.

If you really enjoy writing about your topic -- and can just write off the top of your head, go for it. Blogs have great advantages beyond income. The big one: influence. Journalists are lazy. They read blogs for ideas. A blog gives you an identity in your industry even if it is tiny and doesn't directly make you a penny. Indirectly, a single blog can play a critical role in making you a lot of money... if you can put in the effort with everything else.
 
Andrew you make some good points but I do have several areas of income, not just from blogs.

Yes it does take a lot to update a blog each and everyday to keep readers coming back, sometimes its not even worth it but for the ones I enjoy writing on I keep those updated really well and for the things I don't like updating every single day, I create myself a website to promote those products or services, so I've been able to find a personal balance with my work.
 
I think that the internet, along with offline businesses, is adapting to the massive influx of individuals trying to make money with it.

The days of "one site fits all" are over. There's no reason that a blog, or a network of blogs, couldn't make a decent amount of income.
 
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