I’ve been researching topics for a new blog, looking though blog catalog and mybloglog, and I realized just how many defunct blogs there are littering the internet. It’s of no real concequence except maybe to the people paying the hosting bills or the person who wants to claim the url for a defunct blogspot blog - but it’s staggering how many blogs you can find that haven’t been updated for months (or years).
I’ve tried and learned a lot over the last several years. Maybe one of the hardest lessons to learn is that you can’t just slap up AdSense on a random webpage and then expect the money to roll in. Many of the defunct blogs that I visit have a few posts, and a lot of ads. Google, Amazon, AuctionAds… They’re all there. It’s pretty obvious that these people thought “I will slap these up and then I will be making money!” - then 3 days later when they realize that even their own mother won’t visit their blog, they throw their hands up in disgust and walk away - leaving their blog to float in the abyss of the internets.
It’s been said a million times but I figured that I could write it down here so my tens of visitors could read it: You have to build traffic. Without traffic, you will not make any money. Build quality content. Build traffic. If you accept this, the money will eventually come. If you try to do it backwards, you will get nothing.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
I couldn’t of said it better myself. Nice post my friend, well said.
-Brad
October 17th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to comment. Always appreciated.
-Chris