How much effort does it take to blog for a dollar, In the old day's I suppose you could sing for your supper providing that were not totally tone deaf and the audience is not armed to the teeth with rotten fruit.
So the internet start to fill with blogs about everything under the sun, including ones about the sun and page of the sun. Now its no use just picking a popular subject and doing a quick blog and sticking some Adsense on it. The trouble is you've still got to get people to your site.
What you really need is qualified traffic and lots of it now that does not happen overnight. You have to use every trick in the book and some that are not either. There are lots of tools that say I'll get you traffic for your site but it'll cost you an arm an a leg to get it.
You feel very frustrated that if it's going to cost 10.00 dollars for 5,000 visitors and only 1% click on you ads and buy products your not going to be going to the Ferrari shop this week. So you try all the normal sources making links applying SEO tactics.
You look at the top site for the keywords that you have and look at how good the top site is. You check the links in and how many its got and if they are from well established official sites. Then you look at H1 tags and other factors and decide if you can out maneuver the sites.
Then you find that over night you are back down the bottom of Google again you find that your completion has got a load of more new quality links from all kinds of sources and your left scratching your head how they have done it.
It's like a big game the efforts can sometimes be easy to get money and sometimes not it all depends on a few things. You have to decide on your ethics. If you want to make real money on the net then your going to have to employ the dark side and work the ways that are sometimes frowned upon.
To do this you will have to enter the black hat world and your still going to have to do a lot of learning, learning is the key to all making money and adapting to the new changing environments on the net.
Look at the new methods like social bookmarking find out what it is and how you can exploit it to make cash now. Social bookmarking you may have noticed strange new symbols appearing on the internet with things like dig this.
It's all part of the new game and new marketing tactics if you want a slice of the action its now a good time to read up on this and find how your niche market can turn up the heat using social bookmarking.
Back to blog me a dollar so I'm back to reading and studying and maybe divulging into some dark sided tactics to boost my internet income.