I’m on the quest to make the most massive blog on planet Earth, so I need a lot of megs before I can achieve it. You know – da competition doesn’t sleep too.
It will be a lifelong quest and maybe someday, I will reap the rewards, but really nobody knows how da megablog will perform.
Some people would consider me nuts for writing so much for free, but whatever – there’s nothing to do anyway. I’m not going to go to drink beer in the bushes.
Wish me good and happy meggin’.
You don’t have to come up with ideas, blog posts that are valuable for others – especially if you are working for free.
Something being valuable just for you is enough purpose to continue writing.
Many people assume they have to craft a valuable blog for others and for free – remember: you don’t owe the internet content. There is already abundance of content.
Fun is a pretty valuable thing. And you can create so much just by having fun.
If you’re a writer, your job isn’t to write, but it’s actually waiting for an inspiration to kick in and over the years I noticed that it becomes easier to write when you keep writing.
It’s like a muscle that you flex.
You don’t have to write all your book in one day, or create a blog in one heroic session, you can fill your blog when da inspiration strikes.
So, wait for that meg! And accidentally you can craft the most legendary meg!
You don’t have to bet everything on a single blog post. And you don’t need to stop at 100 blog posts.
So the answer to successful blogging is just more blog posts.
You might accidentally craft the legendary post which carries you whole blog.
You can’t know beforehand which blog posts will perform and which won’t.
So in the end you will have to write all of them, which is cool in itself.
More blog posts is more chances to be discovered.
Since this is da megablog, I call blog posts megs and blogging = meggin.
Because every day I’m making da megablog more mega.
So, it’s just a funny word that makes blogging more fun.
You don’t have to have a traditional vocabulary for your projects. Although you might have issues with discovery, but whatever.
You can’t start a blog and say I will make 5€ a day, because it’s an uncertain goal, but on the other hand you can set a goal that you control which is I will write da megablog.
Goals that you control are more achievable than goals that are uncertain, most rewards online are uncertain because they depend on many factors.
But adding posts to your blog is something you can control.
I’m not saying you can’t make 5€ blogging, you can, but it is uncertain.
Nobody can predict traffic, ad rates or donations or anything in between.
When people start creating content they think creativity is money making, but there’s just too many variables for creativity to be profitable.
Sure the title sounds clickbait, but it’s not.
I actually made an enormous archive of content by 5 minute intervals.
You have a thought, sit down to create it and you repeat it many times, this is how huge archives are built, not by having one heroic session, but having many short sessions.
You don’t owe anybody 5 hour long articles just because most people’s attention span is limited and only handful of people will read through it.
You can actually make an enormous archive by committing to 5 minute work intervals, and on a blog your work actually compounds unlike on social media where post is engaged with for a few hours or days. So don’t feed the feed and feed the blog – just because it’s better this way.
The work compounds – will you do it?
I blogged online for 16 years and I made donation money and generally broke even.
So the problem isn’t the fact that you can’t blog – you can.
The reality is that most bloggers blogs are not monetized from day 1. And donations, tip jars are lousy ways of making money because most people are indifferent and they won’t support you.
So the good way of making money is getting ads from day 1, so that your visitors got used to the blog with ads, don’t say them: I like blogging that’s why I blog and then ask for support.
You can write a blog because you like it, but most people these days don’t waste time blogging because they like it. Blogging has evolved and it is a business.
Nobody would pay for hosting just to work on a blog for free, because you can blog on Facebook and pay nothing.
So the way to approach blogging for money is to get into ad program from day 1, then when you build some traffic introduce some affiliate link.
You don’t have to review every single item you don’t have on Amazon for affiliate marketing to be worthwhile.
But most problem people make is they post about their lives, nobody is searching for you online unless you’re some celebrity.
You can’t monetize your personal life with ads because nobody would bid on your posts or the ads would be very low paying.
I’m not saying you can’t monetize personal stuff, but it has to be an angle rather than the fact that you ate a cookie.
Many people waste years writing about their lives and wondering why their ‘business blog’ doesn’t boom.
Writing about your life is such a waste of effort. I know it because I did it, the problem isn’t the fact that you have interesting thoughts and ideas, but the fact that majority of people don’t know that you exist.
The other fact it that most people’s content isn’t competitive and compelling.
If you want to rank #1 on Google you need to have the best article for a search term, that’s it.
So instead of doing random articles and hoping they will rank, go to Google in incognito mode, and actually see what is written and consider if you can make a better article.
You see if you write articles, that are not searched for, people just won’t find you via Google and other search engines.
When you don’t have an audience search is crucial. Back in the day blogging wasn’t competitive because the web was small, today the web is HUGE and it’s getting HUGER.
So to sum it up: monetize with ADS from day 1, add affiliate later, don’t write about personal life and you title should be the EXACT phrase people search for and write helpful content that solves a problem, or entertains, then later someday when you have 1000000 email subs you can write whatever the hell you want, because you will have an actual audience.
16 years of making content I was monetized just with donations, and to my surprise it did work to some extent, but the sheer amount of work it required to do was just ridiculous.
Over 16 years I just made around 2000€ from donations, these included direct deposit, not PayPal.
So to have a rough estimate on traffic and donations. It would approximately take 100000 YouTube views for 1 donation of 5-10€. You would make 1000€ from ads alone if your channel was monetized and you’d follow the guidelines, unfortunately my channel was not monetized.
The problem is that most people consuming your content are indifferent. They might enjoy your show and all that, but only handful of people will actually donate any money.
I didn’t get any grants to advertise my IBAN for free, so I relied on organic traffic from the content I created.
Donations could work if you’d be Wikipedia and push donations hard but if you just leave an IBAN or PayPal link on the sidebar of your blog, you wouldn’t get much because most people are in and out as soon as they milk you.
When I first started creating content for the internet I had a website. I didn’t sell anything nor I had ads and whatnot, but I wanted views.
So then I decided to advertise my website, I got the attention but it costed me 100 Litas back then.
But the problem wasn’t the views, it was that I didn’t sell anything.
If you are thinking of advertising your website which is just some blog, or some other social media post – don’t do it. Attention is fleeting, people who pressed or engaged with your ad will disappear as soon as you stop paying for the ad.
Ideally when you buy ads, you want attention to convert into a return of customer acquisition.
Typically the return of an investment is 10%, but if you don’t sell anything the return will be 0%. So you will be losing money for attention, views, likes, comments and these are vanity metrics which don’t buy kebabs for you.
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