Well, it has been a bad night. Not that this is particularly important to you, but tonight is just sucking it up. You see, I like to work at odd hours. I can not always work at night due to my day job, but when I have the opportunity to throw my sleeping schedule off — like right now during the Christmas holiday break — I tend to jump at it. I do not know why I prefer to work the graveyard shift, maybe it’s that I really don’t like people all that much. Who knows… But I am going somewhere with this. You see, I do like dogs. I like dogs a lot.
So, tonight after submitting a few articles to Ezine Articles I decided to go for a late night drive. I think pretty well in the car and I had a couple of things to think about. I was on the feeder road to the interstate highway near my house when out of nowhere a dog darted in front of me. And I hit the dog. I ran the dog over in my car. Damn. That sucks. Now the night is ruined because I like dogs.
So, that said, I am going to switch gears and talk about why I like blogging because that’s what I want to write about. I just wanted to mention the other thing because this is my lousy blog and I wanted to tell you what a lousy night this is and I know that that is neither here nor there.
But I DO like blogging. There are oh-so-many reasons for this, but the main one is one I already alluded to. I can blog whenever I want (like right now at 5:56 AM) and from wherever I want. And, folks, this is a huge part of the appeal. In addition to working better in the middle of the night when there are no distractions, I also work better out of the house. Where I live in Texas there are several independent coffee shops that are open all the time. I find that if I head over to my favorite Austin coffee shop I can park myself in a comfy stuffed chair and work on my blogs around the clock. I will say that this is one thing I like about living where I live as there are many coffeehouses with free wifi — FU Starbucks — that are open after midnight and a few that never, ever close.
This is why I want to be an internet marketer. Yeah, I’d like to make the kind of money that Griz and other IMers make. But the money is not the real draw. The real draw is that I can work at 4 in the morning in the quiet of the night at a chill coffee house where they play music that I would never buy. I like that.
Another thing about blogging that I like is that there are no bosses. There is nobody that you have to report to. There is no person who holds your financial destiny in his hands. There is no kissing ass to get ahead and there is no ironing your khaki’s so that you look like you “belong” in middle management. There is no laughing at the boss’s jokes when they are not funny. There is no freaking boss! This makes the whole prospect of blogging for a living much more appealing.
Well, I should probably stop to remind you that I really do not blog. Blogging is what people do at the Huffington Post. I write content but I don’t write quirky, witty, ballsy, interesting, fascinating, hilarious, incisive, snarky content. I write boring, informative content on various nonsocial topics. So I am not a blogger in the traditional sense. But I prefer the word “blogger” to “internet marketer” so I tend to use it even if it is really not entirely applicable.
I never wanted (nor do I think that I will ever want) to be a famous blogger. I don’t use my real name on any of my websites. I have made up more fake people than you could imagine. I do not want to be famous and I hope you never learn my name. What I want to do is write informative content on topics that you find off-putting. I want you to find my blogs because they rank well and I want you to ask yourself “Who would start a website about THAT?” Because that’s what I do. I start websites about ridiculous topics. I like to find niches that no internet marketer would want their name attached to and then I start a blog about it because I never wanted you to know my name in the first place.
I love niches that are a little bit sleazy, but not adult, because I know that no “serious” company will ever try to compete with me in the SERPs. If you were a reputable company would you want your company’s website to come up for “lactating man boobs” searches? Of course not. When I stay in the muck I compete against other mucksters but I don’t have to worry (generally) about some media giant plopping a page into my SERPs. Though there are some niches and keywords that I wouldn’t want (or even know how) to monetize. But if the keyword is somewhere in sleaze between pawn shops and abortion pills I will try to hit it.
So, if you are reading this, you may be curious if I am making any money yet. At this point I can only report that I am not there yet. I am putting up sites all the time, but in my whole making money online journey I am probably only at breakeven. I have wasted a lot of money in the past year buying make money ebooks, worthless domains, blogging products, and muchmuchmuch crap. I have burned through many, many domains for instance and most of the blogs that I started did not even get past $10 in adsense. So they were money losers for me. A lot of the problem was that I would put a blog up, write one article and then move on to the next one. I wasted a very long time without a strategy. In fact, the domains that I bought were so useless that I had an Ebay auction and sold a whole lot of them for pennies on the dollar. I lost a lot of money. The domains were terrible though. I felt bad for the poor guy who bought them even if he did get a 90% discount off of their face value.
Anyway, you may be wondering why I am writing this blog post right here. This blog post about blogging is not going to make me any money. I am writing it because I need a break from “work” for a little while. Because I just ran over a dog, hello!! The point of it is that this post will make me NO MONEY. But there is another reason why I am doing it. Besides writing boring crap blogs in sleazy niches I am also trying to build authority-type sites in a few pretty competitive niches. I am building a network of thematically related support sites which, once they all have some Page Rank, might help me eventually rank among my significant competition. But, realistically, if I want to speed up the process, I am going to have to squeeze out some decent links from other internet marketers. Now, these might be tough to get. I don’t really know how likely it is that the competition will link to me as I am not in a position yet to contact other IMs and negotiate an exchange. But, one thing I did notice while browsing Grizzly’s Get Links listings was that a great many of the marketers maintained sites in the make money online niche. Certainly not all of them but a considerable percentage. It got me thinking that one asset I should equip myself with is a blog in the MMO niche of my own. If I had a blog in the MMO niche myself with PR that might come in pretty handy down the road.
But, I don’t think that I want to be a MMO blogger. I don’t make money online yet so nobody will listen to me anyway. But, in a year or so this could be a nice site to have in the arsenal. So, you will, from time to time, get quirky, hopefully-interesting posts like this one that do not make me any money and are not meant to induce a click.
Seeing as I do not yet make much money online, I do not have to worry about talking strategy. I could probably tell the newbie what not to do, but I certainly can not tell the noob how to make $20,ooo a month in IM. Maybe one day I will be able to. But, I should probably point out, even if I did make $20,000 a month online there is no way I would tell you explicitly how I was doing it. I mean, why would I? If a strategy works the best way to muck it up is to tell everyone about it on a blog. So, when I talk about how I am trying to make money, I am going to always talk in generalities because to do otherwise would probably hurt me.
The last thing that I want to say is that I am looking for link exchange partners for this site. If you have a site in MMO and you would be interested in an inpost link exchange send me an email: karl.jetta((guess))paycheckblogging.com.
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