Blogging - is it worth the effort ?

Some people have strong personal feelings with respect to making money from their blogs.

If you think commercializing your blog is evil, immoral, unethical, uncool, lame, greedy, obnoxious, or anything along those lines, then don’t commercialize it.

If you have mixed feelings about monetizing your blog, then sort out those feelings first.

If you think monetizing your site is wonderful, fine. If you think it’s evil, fine. But make up your mind before you seriously consider starting down this path.

If you want to succeed in blogging, you must be congruent.

Generating income from your blog is challenging enough — you don’t want to be dealing with self-sabotage at the same time. It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog — you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed.

If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it.

If you do decide to generate income from your blog, then don’t be shy about it. If you’re going to put up ads, then really put up ads. Don’t just stick a puny little ad square in a remote corner somewhere. If you’re going to request donations, then really request donations.

Don’t put up a barely visible “Donate” link and pray for the best. If you’re going to sell products, then really sell them. Create or acquire the best quality products you can, and give your visitors compelling reasons to buy. If you’re going to do this, then fully commit to it. Don’t take a half-assed approach.

Either be full-assed or no-assed.

Now it is practically up to people on what they choose...

Viva - la - blog !!



Some easy references.........

The bloggers checklist

http://marketing-affiliater.blogspot.com/2007/07/article-submission-directories.html

http://www.marketingaffiliater.com/article-directories/

http://affiliatescrawl.blogspot.com/2006/06/pings-and-blogs.html

http://affiliatescrawl.blogspot.com/2006/06/article-directroy-pro-and-adsense.html

http://www.freelancemom.com/submitarticles.htm

http://www.seocompany.ca/directory/web-directory-lists.html

http://blog.sponsoredreviews.com/?p=47