Oh man, if you are the "older blogger" online at 30, what does that make me at 45?
I think you really hit the nail on the head here Garry, of course we both know we have talked about this before. Some of the experts have excellent advice, and they are certainly worth subscribing to. However, you are right, you can not just copy what they are doing, talk about how much money you are making and expect to then make the money. I find it funny to read blogs that claim some sort of expertise in "Online Income" only to find out they barely make $100 a month.
With that said, I also know that to some $100 is a lot, heck, a little over a year ago I struggled to make that and I was reading everything I could. One thing I learned is what you said here, ya gotta think outside the box. If it was as easy as duplicating an experts blog, we would all be rich. But it's not.
I posted about this today, you can make money on even a static site if you work at it a little, and then build it from there.
A year ago I was struggling to clear the $100 a month mark, but with patience and a little work, I have been able to grow that to over $2000 a month. As I have stated before I work a "day job" 50 hours a week, and until March I was also working a part time weekend job. So I obviously did not have a lot of time to put into it, but, I was still able to get it going.
And I think a big part of that is I never blogged about "how to make money".
Matt Jones
· 2 years ago
wow Garry that's a real motivator, reading that makes me want to start up ANOTHER site... oh boy.
Garry Conn
· 2 years ago
Hey Matt,
In general, comments typically illustrate expressions poorly. It's hard for me to decipher whether your comment was communicating on motivation to start a second site or if your comment was sarcastic? Either way, speak you mind, I am open to discussion further to how you feel and look forward to your response back. :)
George
· 2 years ago
Great post Garry. I agree. I started in the make money online blog world back in 2005, since then it has grown to be unbelievably competitive. If I were to start over, I probably would have chosen a different niche. However, since I started so long ago, at least my domain has some authority.
Good luck with your new blog, I am going to go check it out.
All the best, George
PS. Good job scaring people away from my niche :-)
Liz Strauss
· 2 years ago
Hi Garry! You're not old! And as I hear you talk about your business, I know you know that age is irrelevant -- almost, except that experience counts. You have that. It shows in what you write.
I wonder though what would happen if you not only choose something different, but slso something that you love. :)
sapheyerblu
· 2 years ago
Old? Please, you're just a youngun. I'll be 39 next month. Trust me, when you know you're staring 40 in the face, that's when you get to claim to be old.
Great article, hon. A few points kind of hit home, but at the same time, made me think a little. Well done.
Matt Jones
· 2 years ago
Garry sorry if I came off as sarcastic. I didn't mean to be at all. Your aticle got my mind racing and coming up with new ideas. I was saying "oh boy" as in "dude I have lots to think about!".
George
· 2 years ago
Liz makes a great point!
My love for Internet Marketing is what has lead me to focus more of my time on my "canimakebigmoneyonline" blog, as opposed to some of the other blogs my wife and I started.
Do what you love! Great advice.
Gerald Greene
· 2 years ago
Hi Garry, If there is one bit of good advice that every blogger who hopes to make money online should read and take to heart it is that which you have covered in this post. Great job.
Your Blogwheels.com site is a perfect example of how to make money with a niche site. The niche must be focused yet be in a big enough market so that you can get some decent targeted traffic to the site with SEO. I'm sure that you will do well with it.
I see you are using the Prosense Wordpress theme now for www.garryconn.com I'm using it for several financial related blogs and others and am really pleased with my Google rankings. I use it with the All In One SEO Plug-In and am regularity showing up on page one. Cheers!
Liz Strauss
· 2 years ago
Hi George, If nothing else, it makes it a whole lot more fun!
SELaplana
· 2 years ago
older blogger? well you are not alone. I am already 30 too.. by the way, I am wondering when will you find the right theme for your blog. it seems that you always change blog's theme
uncle sha
· 2 years ago
as they say "young at heart" .. keep on doing what u love
i myself am 28 going on 29 ... how time flies
Jo
· 2 years ago
Okay Garry now you are making ME feel old and I'm only two years older than you! lol. To be honest, I was shocked when I found out how old you are. You seriously come across as someone older and wiser than we are "suppose" to be in our early 30s. Kudos to you.
As for making money, I've accepted that I'm never going to make much money with blogging no matter how much I want to. Why? Because I'm just not able to focus on one thing for a long time. That's why I just stick to my blogs about notta lotta. lol
David Cooley
· 2 years ago
Ok, your all kids. Damn. Where are all the old folks?
It is possible to make money with a "Seinfeld" blog, you know the type, just like the show, a blog about nothing.
It takes a little more work, but if you focus the individual post, build up a good archive of material, a good PR and have good SEO practices, it can make money.
George
· 2 years ago
David,
I am 40, so at least I am closer to your age. The demographics for the whole money making market is quite young.
Tejvan Pettinger
· 2 years ago
interesting points Gary.
My experience is that my most profitable blogs are those with low RSS readership and you just blog on a profitable niche. It so much harder to monetize a blog about blogging and making money!
I'm curious why on all your blog posts they have a popularity of 1%? it doesn't look too good :)
Garry Conn
· 2 years ago
@ Matt,
Good deal man... expressions within comments can be hard to recognize sometimes. :)
@ Liz,
Thanks for the above compliments about my writing. That's really cool to say!
@ SELaplana,
I don't know... what do you think about this current theme? I do change my themes like they were going out of style... wait, maybe they really do go out of style. :) All kidding aside, I may add a cool graphic to the top of the site, but pretty much WYSIWYG.
@ Uncle Sha,
Good to see you back and commenting.
@ Jo, David, George,
With how fast paced my life is going (seems like around the area of twice the speed of light LOL) tacking on another ten years will go by just like the last. It seems like yesterday when I met my wife and we had our first son. Almost ten years later we have our youngest daughter and she is now 16 months old. Time flies... it really does!
@ Tejvan,
Thanks for your compliments. I agree with your comment. I have quite a few dot Com sites within different niches. On the question about popularity. The 1% you see are on newly published articles. I think any post I make that has over 10 comments and still holds a 1% popularity indicates that there are some really hard and heavy articles here with true interest. I have a formula used for weighting the articles I write. The formula keeps it real. I don't bloat, nor do I brag. WYSIWYG... If the article has 1% popularity, you can bank on that being accurate. If you stumbled upon a post I have written that has 25% then you should know what it is competing up against and that it is something that has truly put a ripple within the blogosphere. I keep my stats real. :)
Garry Conn
· 2 years ago
Gerald, sorry I missed your comment!
Thanks for the compliments about the article. And yes, the ProSense Series Wordpress Themes are very nice. They are clean, professional and I can see that a lot of careful planning went into the development. It's a very nice and stable theme.
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I think you really hit the nail on the head here Garry, of course we both know we have talked about this before. Some of the experts have excellent advice, and they are certainly worth subscribing to. However, you are right, you can not just copy what they are doing, talk about how much money you are making and expect to then make the money. I find it funny to read blogs that claim some sort of expertise in "Online Income" only to find out they barely make $100 a month.
With that said, I also know that to some $100 is a lot, heck, a little over a year ago I struggled to make that and I was reading everything I could. One thing I learned is what you said here, ya gotta think outside the box. If it was as easy as duplicating an experts blog, we would all be rich. But it's not.
I posted about this today, you can make money on even a static site if you work at it a little, and then build it from there.
A year ago I was struggling to clear the $100 a month mark, but with patience and a little work, I have been able to grow that to over $2000 a month. As I have stated before I work a "day job" 50 hours a week, and until March I was also working a part time weekend job. So I obviously did not have a lot of time to put into it, but, I was still able to get it going.
And I think a big part of that is I never blogged about "how to make money".
In general, comments typically illustrate expressions poorly. It's hard for me to decipher whether your comment was communicating on motivation to start a second site or if your comment was sarcastic? Either way, speak you mind, I am open to discussion further to how you feel and look forward to your response back. :)
Good luck with your new blog, I am going to go check it out.
All the best,
George
PS. Good job scaring people away from my niche :-)
You're not old! And as I hear you talk about your business, I know you know that age is irrelevant -- almost, except that experience counts. You have that. It shows in what you write.
I wonder though what would happen if you not only choose something different, but slso something that you love. :)
Great article, hon. A few points kind of hit home, but at the same time, made me think a little. Well done.
My love for Internet Marketing is what has lead me to focus more of my time on my "canimakebigmoneyonline" blog, as opposed to some of the other blogs my wife and I started.
Do what you love! Great advice.
If there is one bit of good advice that every blogger who hopes to make money online should read and take to heart it is that which you have covered in this post. Great job.
Your Blogwheels.com site is a perfect example of how to make money with a niche site. The niche must be focused yet be in a big enough market so that you can get some decent targeted traffic to the site with SEO. I'm sure that you will do well with it.
I see you are using the Prosense Wordpress theme now for www.garryconn.com I'm using it for several financial related blogs and others and am really pleased with my Google rankings. I use it with the All In One SEO Plug-In and am regularity showing up on page one.
Cheers!
If nothing else, it makes it a whole lot more fun!
i myself am 28 going on 29 ... how time flies
As for making money, I've accepted that I'm never going to make much money with blogging no matter how much I want to. Why? Because I'm just not able to focus on one thing for a long time. That's why I just stick to my blogs about notta lotta. lol
It is possible to make money with a "Seinfeld" blog, you know the type, just like the show, a blog about nothing.
It takes a little more work, but if you focus the individual post, build up a good archive of material, a good PR and have good SEO practices, it can make money.
I am 40, so at least I am closer to your age. The demographics for the whole money making market is quite young.
My experience is that my most profitable blogs are those with low RSS readership and you just blog on a profitable niche. It so much harder to monetize a blog about blogging and making money!
I'm curious why on all your blog posts they have a popularity of 1%? it doesn't look too good :)
Good deal man... expressions within comments can be hard to recognize sometimes. :)
@ Liz,
Thanks for the above compliments about my writing. That's really cool to say!
@ SELaplana,
I don't know... what do you think about this current theme? I do change my themes like they were going out of style... wait, maybe they really do go out of style. :)
All kidding aside, I may add a cool graphic to the top of the site, but pretty much WYSIWYG.
@ Uncle Sha,
Good to see you back and commenting.
@ Jo, David, George,
With how fast paced my life is going (seems like around the area of twice the speed of light LOL) tacking on another ten years will go by just like the last. It seems like yesterday when I met my wife and we had our first son. Almost ten years later we have our youngest daughter and she is now 16 months old. Time flies... it really does!
@ Tejvan,
Thanks for your compliments. I agree with your comment. I have quite a few dot Com sites within different niches. On the question about popularity. The 1% you see are on newly published articles. I think any post I make that has over 10 comments and still holds a 1% popularity indicates that there are some really hard and heavy articles here with true interest. I have a formula used for weighting the articles I write. The formula keeps it real. I don't bloat, nor do I brag. WYSIWYG... If the article has 1% popularity, you can bank on that being accurate. If you stumbled upon a post I have written that has 25% then you should know what it is competing up against and that it is something that has truly put a ripple within the blogosphere. I keep my stats real. :)
Thanks for the compliments about the article. And yes, the ProSense Series Wordpress Themes are very nice. They are clean, professional and I can see that a lot of careful planning went into the development. It's a very nice and stable theme.