We all like to Make Money Online. It’s just too convenient! Reason and Capitalism offers some great advice on how to do just that. Looking down the list, you’d think a lot of these things would be pretty obvious, but they really dial and down and tell you what you need to know. It’s great to see some lengthy detail that actually includes examples and really dials into the specifics. I’d like to quote a small part:
Be Honest
People can see through an insincere writing style. You need to actually care about both what you’re writing about and the people who will read it. Otherwise, you’ll just come off as an arrogant jerk. Search engines hate, and I mean hate jerks. Well. Other webmasters do at least, meaning you won’t get as many links as if you were sincere.
I really wish people would take more heed to that. If you don’t care about enemas, don’t write a 200 word post about enemas…
November 13th, 2007 at 4:31 pm
I made that mistake with beer.pizza.tech, which is partly why I felt I wanted to sell it. I lost focus with it and let it become a jumbled mess where irrelevant paid posts started to outnumber my original content. I’ll eventually take paid posts on my Where to Get Paid blog (since it’s a blog about making money online) but I won’t be doing it for anything else. Moral of the story, if you must take ads or paid posts, keep them relevant and useful.