It disappoints me to see the a lot of the true colors shine in a lot of people within the Make Money Online community. Here is a screen shot of an email the John Cow sent me:
To me, in the mainstream of things, it is my perception that the Make Money Online niche is no longer about helping, educating, or informing readers. Blog authors fail to understand that if these things were done beforehand many of their internal statistic would increase. People want to always cheat. People cheat PageRank, Alexa (which sucks anyway) and now it has come to how they can game FeedBurner.
John Cow emailed me wanted to know Garry Conn’s opinions and thoughts? I am glad he asked. The Make Money Online Niche is one of the most dry, sneaky and misleading blog communities within the blogosphere. Majority of the people in this niche lie and say that they’re experts when they really are not. Many people say that they make a ton of money when they don’t. More so, many people blog about how to make money online and how to optimize your blog and market your blog for search engines when they have no clue.
Unfortunately, these effects carry down to their readers. In any given situation in life, there is always a leader and a follower. The same applies with blogging. The blog author is the leader (The Expert) and the readers are the followers. Readers copy everything their leader preaches. Why? Because they are followers who seek the advice of their leader (the blog author). When people who are in a leadership position take advantage of many things, it harms the community and it harms the people who follow in their authority.
I would personally like to see many in our MMO community clean up their act and stop gaming the many systems of ranking and stop misleading their readers who follow and bank on what they write.
Sorry for the blunt wake up call. There are many people who do want to help others. But, there are more people who are fake and game the system for their own benefit and will use their readers along the way. This sucks for all the people who are being brainwashed and tricked and having their time extremely wasted.
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Date/Time: 11-11-2007 11:18:03 Comment #6486
Cheating the system (any system) is as old as prostitution. If there’s a buck to be made at the expense of others, it’s going to be exploited. With the MMO blogs fast becoming just another way to exploit this method of “success”, this is an opportune time for others to rise above it all and establish themselves as true experts.
Date/Time: 11-11-2007 12:09:20 Comment #6487
This reminds me of an old saying, “Just be yourself and hope nobody notices” haha.
Date/Time: 11-11-2007 12:14:41 Comment #6488
Sometimes the lines get so blurred that I wonder if the niche itself would be brought down by these acts. While I try to share with my personal friends how they can make an honest living online, the next moment you see reports in the media about another scam.
Date/Time: 11-11-2007 12:16:54 Comment #6489
Millions of people? “Make Money Online” gets about 200 uniques a day when in the top of SERPs.
I think Make Money Online blogging is a huge circle jerk in the first place and only survives because people blog about making money online to readers who blog about making money online and nobody is actually making money online except for a couple of people in the first place.
This tool is smart if you do not abuse it. Like someone said already, if you’re opening a blog (especially NOT in the MMO community) this will give you an immediate edge to persuade new subscribers.
Advertisers do not care what happens behind the scenes to make your audience larger, the just care about the size of your audience in the first place.
Date/Time: 11-11-2007 12:18:55 Comment #6490
I guess everyone is an expert at something… to bad some of those “experts” are in taking advantage of unsuspecting readers. Thanks for the post. Scott
Date/Time: 11-11-2007 13:57:05 Comment #6491
“…The Make Money Online Niche is one of the most dry, sneaky and misleading blog communities within the blogosphere…”
I agree 101% – This is partially the reason that my blog has NO advertising. IMHO, a blogger that has a blog plastered with Adsense, paid-reviews, paid text-links and pop-up’s can’t be trusted. I think most of the “make money online” guys are just out to make money online FOR THEMSELVES ..
Date/Time: 11-11-2007 15:17:00 Comment #6492
Hi Garry,
I couldn’t agree with you more.
Although, I think there is a bit of a double standard in every story. I am sure John Cow didn’t start off his blog by saying “Hi, I am John Cow, and I have no idea how to earn money, but I will try to teach you how to do it.”. He rather started of his blog teaching people while he most likely learnt a lot along the way.
So did John Chow, ProBlogger, ShoeMoney and everyone else.
Now don’t get me wrong, I am not saying any of them cheated, I am just saying some of them had to tell a white lie or two along the way to get to where they are right now.
Date/Time: 11-11-2007 16:36:19 Comment #6493
gary I agree on our niche, my blog is just simply a journal, and your right to the fact where we want to help others and others just want to cheat to gain a dollar
this is the best:
“Many people say that they make a ton of money when they don’t. More so, many people blog about how to make money online and how to optimize your blog and market your blog for search engines when they have no clue.”
I agree so much on this – I see this all the time and when I get a chance to talk to them via aim or call and ask simple yet specific questions they can not back themselves up, freeze. I understand we are all learners but dont be fake
Date/Time: 11-11-2007 21:53:15 Comment #6498
“Many people say that they make a ton of money when they don’t.”
Can we name some names? I’d like to know who they are.
Date/Time: 11-12-2007 13:36:43 Comment #6513
Amen Garry. Most of the MMO bloggers couldn’t care less about the people that read their sites. All this PR trickery only hurts the people that are trying to learn the business.
Date/Time: 11-13-2007 07:07:24 Comment #6524
I agree with RSS Xplosion. It’s a circle jerk. The reason it survives though is based on the old idea that people want to get rich quick with hardly any effort. Con men have used this psychology for ages and get away with it 90% of the time because it’s so basic an emotion.
Trying to earn a living is hard work in any kind of work. Whether you’re a construction worker or a blogger, learn and work. The goose with the golden eggs does not just materialize in front of you.