Blogging for Dollars Blog

If you want to become a blogging entrepreneur, that is, someone whose online business is based on blogs, you can questions, lots of questions. The primary question you have is — how do I pick a blogging topic that will make me money?

Well, luckily someone else has already done the work for you, and has picked topics for blogs that lend themselves to monetization – the blog networks. If a blog in a network doesn’t pull its weight, it’s discontinued.

Here’s a list of blog networks from Blog Herald that you can browse.

If you’ve got a topic in mind, the easiest way to see whether you can monetize it is to type the topic into Google, and see whether that topic attracts advertisers. You also want to know what KIND of advertisers – do these guys have money, or are they penny-pinchers?

For example, I love paper journals, but when I typed “paper journals” into Google, the advertisers were thin on the ground, so it’s not a good blog topic. HOWEVER – if I really felt passionate about paper journals, and wanted to create a wise, witty and outrageously funny blog about them, I could get away with the topic, because once I got a high readership of say 10,000 unique visitors a week, I could go get my own advertisers, or run affiliate ads.

Get the inspiration and know-how to make money blogging from my ebook, Blogging for Dollars — it’s a complete package.

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Is your content being stolen by Bitacle? My writing blog’s content was republished without my consent for Bitacle to make money, and many other bloggers have been ripped off, and continue to be stolen from.

Get up to speed on the controversy at Stop Bitacle.

Lorelle on WordPress in “The Bitacle Battle of Blogs” writes:

To try to get around the issue of copyright infringement, over the weekend, bitacle added “Articles are copyrighted by their respective authors” to their templates. Sorry, folks, this doesn’t work.

You put ads on full post contents with copyrights that clearly state “no commercial use, you are violating the copyright. White washing it with a copyright statement that they may think acts like a “hold harmless claim” only proves how stupid they are. Both the statement and the usage of the content violates copyrights, so who is fooling who. Don’t let it fool you.

She tells you how to find out whether Bitacle’s ripping YOU off. If you’ve got a blog – go check.

Unfortunately scammers and spammers are like the Hydra – cut off one head and it’s replaced by two new ones. However, it’s important that these sleazes know that people are aware of them. With luck, Google will de-index them.

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Another funny cartoon from hugh macleod at gapingvoid.