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Blogging is probably the most mainstream way of making money online nowdays. Why is that? Simply because anyone can start a blog even for free and you don’t need know how to write a single line of html code. All it took was some posts of people saying how much they make blogging like those from Darren Rowse and the sale of Weblogs Inc with a couple of interviews from Peter Rojas and Jason Calacanis and everyone decided to jump in the blogging bandwagon.

The real question is how many of those actually were successful or are going to be succesfull in the future. My estimation is less than 0.5% and that is a big percentage. Why is that? One of the main reasons is that blogs are what a lot of webmasters call high maintenance websites (websites that need a lot of work) and most people don’t have the patience or the determination to keep them updated in a regular basis. Another reason is that most of the new breed of bloggers aren’t net savvy and to tell you the truth from various blogs that I read I have the feeling that a lot of the people giving advice don’t understand the first thing about internet marketing as well. Terms like keyword research, link development (most bloggers might think this is just link exchanges), competition analysis are unknown to most of them. This is the reason that we see all those gadget blogs from people that think that they are going to be the next Rojas.

In addition to that what a lot of people probably don’t understand is that even if you do your keyword research and link development for a blog it’s harder to rank for your desired keywords compared to a traditional static or semi static website. Why is that? Simply because the content of the blog is dynamic, the front page changes all the time and as a result so does the keyword density and if you think that’s not important in the eyes of Googlebot all I have to say is that one of us is wrong (it maybe me, who knows).

To be continued (You see what I mean? I wote just a couple of paragraphs and I am already bored)

Disclaimer: Written by a non native english speaker and not a guy making millions not even hundreds of thousands from his websites.

I have neglected this blog not longer after I created it mainly because from some reason what I thought would be nice to blog about doesn’t seem to interest me much anymore. However, I like this domain and I guess I will continue blogging but I will change the main focus of this blog to internet marketing and making money online. Of course there will also be the occasional post of how to spend those money in cool products