Previous Experiment in Blogging to the Bank
As I’ve said, I think that the new version of Rob Benwell’s Blogging To The Bank is a much more practical and even more honest book than his first one. That’s mainly because I think its methods will have staying power as far as continuing to pull in profits from creating monetized blogs.
Nevertheless, the handful of blogs that I set up using his old methods are still drawing a small but steady stream of cash for me. For example, the following three Blogspot sites continue to produce affiliate sales for me, as well as some AdSense income:
I remember that at one point, Google/Blogger’s automated “splog” (spam blog) sniffer flagged a couple of these for deletion. I sent an email requesting a human review, and after someone had looked them over, the blogs were allowed to remain.
The lesson, good yesterday and good today, is that you can use your blogs to sell things, and even be fairly aggressive about it. But give your visitors some real meat, too. With the blogs listed above, I tried to provide some genuine content–and I’m sure that’s what saved them from becoming victims of the chopping block.
