Blogging to the Bank the Unethical Way
Call me cynical, but sites like Blogging to the Bank just attract gullible people who think that they can earn thousands of pounds by following ‘hidden truths’ to make money on their blog. I found this site within Google Adwords, and had a good giggle.
Quotes like “The One Technique No One Else Is Telling You about on How to Build a Multi Million Dollar Blogging Empire†and “Earn six figure sums from my underground techniques†just make me laugh, and unfortunately people buy into this crap.
All of the testimonials are from people who are promoting similar ‘I’ll make you a millionaire’ type schemes, and none that I could see are from genuine bloggers who have bought this resource and have earnt the kind of money it raves about.
Personally, I’d save your money and read blogs like ProBlogger, and Daily Blog Tips [plus Blogged Out of course!] which to be honest is probably where most of this content comes from because from my experience in blogging, there’s certainly no underground hidden secrets.
Sites like this piss me off, and will probably just promote splogs, where some lowlife, creates a blog, and then steals all of your content, and includes Google Adwords and other advertising revenues to earn money from your hard work.
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Filed under: Blogged Out on August 2nd, 2007
Hi Darren,
I definitely share your frustration on this issue. Blogging seems to be the latest get-rich-quick craze and the kind of website you mention really casts a shadow over the practice of blogging as a whole.
In truth, splogs might make a few dollars but the only sites that make real money are the result of hundreds of hours of hard work. That’s not what the get-rich-quick kids want to hear but it’s the truth.
That is exactly the subject I approached on my last blog post. It’s not an easy job, but people all over the net seem to use the fact that the hope to get rich quick makes people pay 10-15$ for some ebooks that are mostly copied content from relevant articles you can find all over the net.
I guess that is MARKETING…
Tavi, it’s not called marketing its called COPYING someone elses COPYRIGHTED material. People think that the net gives them the right to steal content.