Posts Tagged ‘MMO’

A Bit Quiet…

// June 12th, 2009 // No Comments » // General

I have been a bit quiet lately – not much blogging has been happening! This is because I have been flat out with a few freelance projects, and getting organised for my 40 day tour of Europe before I head back home to Australia after spending the last 3 years in Ireland.

It is a busy time, and I will be flat out until at least September the way things are going. I will head off on holidays in a few weeks, and then leave Ireland for Australia via Europe in August.

Before I go I want to redevelop Explore With Me. It needs a total revamp and I have some good ideas which I think will work well – and we have a travel company that has sponsored 25% of our tour so we want it to look good as it will get some good traffic in August.

When I do blog is all seems to be about BuddyPress. That is because my life seems to be revolving around it at the moment. Between Explore With Me and my freelance work, that is all I seem to be doing. I have not really had the chance to concentrate on making money online through my websites so there is not much to blog about there – but FYI I am making a few dollars here and there.

It’ll be back to normal soon – I promise!

Faking It

// March 19th, 2009 // 2 Comments » // Making Money

I have been recently been thinking about why we trust top bloggers such as John Chow, Shoemoney and the like. These guys have been telling us for years how much money they have made online, showing us their Google payments, posting how much they made from affiliate marketing and telling you how you can do the same.

What is it about these guys that makes us instantly believe what they are telling us? I know when I first starting blogging I was motivated by reading other peoples success stories. I was curious about making money online.  These guys told me how much money they were making, so I wanted to do the same and I believed them – there was no reason not to.

They told me what I wanted to hear, they showed me photos with them holding massive towers of cash. The “proof” was there.

Millions of people visit make money online websites daily to get the latest news, tips and tricks and see what their latest schemes entail. Millions of people also believe that these same people are making hundreds of thousands dollars a year blogging, developing websites, running contests and whatever else they do – and I am not doubting that they do and are successful.

However, aside from then telling us how they do it, posing with Google cheques and posting about how much money they make each month, why do we believe what they say and trust that they are telling us the truth?

If your friend tells you “I made $20,000 yesterday” would you believe him with asking for proof? At least they could show you the expensive car they brought, new kitchen, new laptop, massive 6 burner barbecue or whatever else they brought with the money they made.

If I told you I made $10,000 today from affiliate marketing would you believe me? I could edit someone else’s cheque in Photoshop and post it online, or create a new blog with the headline “How I made $10,000 in 24 hours”. I could take a screenshot of my affiliate reports and edit the figures in Photoshop. It would be very believable wouldn’t it? Why would you doubt me?

I bet if I did the above my hits would massively increase and everyone would flock to my blog to get my advice. I would be “the next online millionaire” overnight – and it all would be a lie, but who are you to doubt me? You have no proof that what I say isn’t true do you?

So why do you have so much trust in MMO bloggers? I am curious to know…

Ads for Niche Blogs

// October 15th, 2008 // No Comments » // Making Money

I have struggled to find some good advertising campaigns for this blog over the past 6 months that actually convert. Out of all of the ads on this site, only a few of them get clicks and even less convert into actual sales.

I mentioned this in another post that the reason why I think it is hard for MMO blogs to make money off affiliate ads and links is because other MMO bloggers are the ones who are visiting the site in order to learn how to make money on their own blog therefore aren’t going to click your links.

Since I have started “Project: Explore with Me” I have found so many ads that suit the niche of the site and also ones that will appeal to other users – not bloggers. The site is rarely going to be visited by bloggers so hopefully users who come to the site looking for information will click the ads which will convert to sales.

The ads I am going to put up on the site will all relate to travel and they are services/websites that I have used before or will use in the future.

I am a big advocate of recommending products or services that I have used myself or someone I know has used in the past. I don’t understand how some bloggers review and promote products that they have never tried themselves and expect people to buy them.

If you are thinking of starting an MMO blog my advice is DON’T! It is too very frustrating and difficult to make revenue; Most of the biggest money making blogs actually have nothing to do with making money online.

A proper web development as well as clean web design is mandatory for successful search engine optimization, all that in the presence of dedicated web hosting.