Are MMO Blogs Just Sales Sites?
I have been looking at a lot of “Make Money Online” blogs lately to try and see what they are doing and I am not. A lot of these sites claim to teach other bloggers how to make money online, but are they just self serving or do they really teach us bloggers how to make money online?
If you look at all of the popular make money online blogs, without mentioning any names, you will see that most of their posts are just sales advertisements promoting products that they hope you will purchase so they can make money from your sale.
If you look at their monthly earning reports, most of these affiliate sales are their primary source of income and the reason why they are so successful. They do promote the likes of Google Adsense and other ad networks, but the majority of their income comes from you.
These bloggers tend to promote a particular affiliate network, telling you how great it is and how much money they made last month from it, so that gets the readers thinking they are able to do the same so they sign up using the blogs referral link.
For each user that signs up to that particular network using that referral link, the blog that promoted the network receives a percentage of each sale make from that user, contributing to their income and helping them make money online.
MMO blogs also promote certain products, especially e-books, which are all aimed at making a sale. These products and e-books are normally a great read and do teach you a thing or two about making a successful money making website, though if you buy it you are still contributing to their income.
Are these types of bloggers just the new age of sales representatives? They are no different to the Avon lady turning up at your door step at dinner time trying to sell you face cream, or the sales man at your favourite electronics shop trying to sell you a home entertainment system. They all work on commission, and an affiliate is just another word for a sales rep.
I do promote some products on this blog, however everything I buy and recommend to you I have tried and tested and I wouldn’t tell you to go and buy it if I didn’t think it was worth it.
I wonder sometimes how many of these other bloggers try the products they are promoting. Surely if they post about a different product every day they cannot be trying all of them and they all cannot be fantastic and make they hundreds of dollars a month. How come we never read a bad review?
What do you think? Do you think MMO blogs actually teach you how to make money? Or do you think they are self serving and hope you contribute to their income?
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