Story of a Blogger Entrepreneur

I enlisted in Yaro Starak’s Blog Traffic Tips newsletter and so far, all of them have been really beneficial to me. The one I received today had no exception and for every netpreneur or blogger aiming to gain revenue via ads online especially if you’re a Blogger user then you better read on.

Yaro highlighted a friend’s experience with the free blog publishing service and decided to use it as advice for anyone planning to blog seriously for money. It’s nothing bad about the service but the danger of having it suspended indefinetely.

I’ll tell you a story about Steve. Steve is a niche blogger. He set up lots of little blogs on all kinds of topics (niches) aiming to make a few dollars from each blog by placing Google AdSense advertisements on them. Google pays you when
someone clicks on the ads.

After a few months he did really well and built up his income. None of his blogs had a lot of traffic, but they got enough from search engines that each blog earned between $1 and $10 per day.
In total he earned over $2000 per month from his blogs – not a bad effort.

One day he turned on his computer and all his blogs had gone. Disappeared. Vanished without a trace…

What happened you ask?

He was using one Blogger.com account to manage his blogs and Blogger.com determined that what he was doing was violating their terms of service.

They thought all his blogs were what are called “splogs” – SPAM blogs.

Splogs are blogs set up to get traffic to other sites. They are usually automatically generated and the owners have no intention of producing a useful website – they just want to get traffic.
Essentially they are the SPAM of the blogging
world.

Steve contacted the support staff at Blogger.com to explain that his sites were not SPAM sites but it was difficult to convince them and he never got his blogs reactivated. Overnight he lost his regular $2000 per month income in one hit.

The conclusion and advice from Yaro which I think is the best advice for anyone really serious in gaining an income from ads through their website or blog should be to Own Your Own Blog/Website.

It’s not expensive to start out especially in Malaysia. There are reliable packages less than RM150-RM200 and the prices are still going down. Even without an excellent website design, you could just need to consider on deciding a blog layout and the position that would make everything happen on its own.