Three Myths about Making Money Blogging

There is a lot of myths concerning making money blogging. Some are outrageous claims while a few are closer to the truth. I am sure many bloggers have heard most of these myths, but I would like to tackle three of the more prevalant ones.

First, many people believe or have heard that it is impossible to make money blogging. This is just simply not true. Many people make money blogging every single day and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. As is often repeated, content is king in the blogging world. If your blog has great content, a decent layout, and some advertising, bloggers can make a profit quite quickly.

So why is this myth always told and re-told? Because many people have half-heartedly given blogging a chance with little success and quickly quit after starting when the money fails to fall from the heavens. In other words, some people incorrectly believe blogging will make them rich in a short amount of time. Unforunately, blogging will make you a steady income but rarely make you rich. Blogging has never been a get rich quick scheme. The bloggers that understand it takes time to build your blog into a must read entity are the bloggers who make the majority of the money in the long term. Short term bloggers rarely make any money because of that mind set.

Second, many people believe making money blogging is easy. They have heard of one or two people who started a blog six months ago and it was quickly bought for an unbelievable sum either by google or one of the other huge online businesses. Once again, this is simply not true in most circumstances, but it does occasionally happen. Making money blogging is hard work day in and day out for the most bloggers. When a blogger finally gets popular with a lot of readers, they will start to make a decent living.

Of course, this often takes years of hard work and dedication. People with unreasonable expectations about blogging spread this myth constantly. If the new blogger had a plan of action when they started, many bloggers would succeed before quitting. But since many have this unreasonable expectation, they give up at the first bump in the blogging road. You need to come in with a plan when you start your online money making blogging business, just as you would with any other type of business. Would you purchase a retail store without a business plan? Of course, you wouldn’t. Blogging is a business also and needs to be treated as such.

Third, many people believe there are short cuts to making money blogging online. Many people have wasted time and money setting up autoblogs. These autoblogs scrape content from around the web then posts it on the autobloggers site. Generally, most major search engines will ignore autoblogs completely. Many are de-indexed in a short time and never make a cent. If you want to make money blogging, just remember you must not take short cuts. Hard work is the only way to make a successful blog. Although you may get away with it for a while, you will be caught and your business could collapse overnight.

Although this just touches on a few of the myths surrounding blogging, these three are the most prevelant. It just seems these have withstood the test of time because many people are looking for an easy and fast way to make money online. Unfortunately, hard work and dedication are more often than not, the only way to make a decent living online.