Blogging, primarily a medium of self expression has now become a real sought after money making machine. The proof? Take John Chow’s blog telling you how to make money online. The devil in person teaching you how to trick your visitors to harvest some pennies. And he surely wants to get himself called the devil lol, that’s no offense from me since he wants to get top ranked when you hit for “root of all evil” in Google.
In the Evil Nintendo Wii Blog Contest, I asked people to link to me using “root of all evil.†If you do a Google search for that phrase, you’ll see I am now ranked number three, just behind Wikipedia and RootOfAllEvil.com.
John Chow dot Com is not though a daily dose of resourceful material, sometimes you can read lots of shit about him enjoying I don’t know what vacation but then everybody waits for that next ground breaking tip that could help them to make money. Check these below which I find pretty thought provoking in the way the trap is setup for your clicks to generate revenue :
- How To Hide Affiliate Links
- Make Money Online From Someone Else’s Blog
- How To Get More Text Link Sales
- Hitting The Long Tail Keywords
- Evil Affiliate Marketing Trick Of The day
- How To Make Money Online With Kontera
And lots more that you can find browsing through the archives. I like reading John’s post because in situations where everybody is criticising such or that service, he finds ways he can use to his own benefits even growing from the negative responses he gets. Surely John’s blog can teach you a lot then.
All this money stuff made me think and that’s why I wanted to take you along a brainstorming session, kind of survey. Do you think making money online is the most sought after blogging lesson? This is all to know where you want to take your blogging : to the bank, a resourceful library of stuffs or an enjoyable place of fun for you and your friends. I’ve thus prepared a small survey to know what most of you would like to learn about blogging. Perhaps making money online is in the number 1 spot LOL 
, but how about telling me what’s filling the rest of the slots : the 2nd,3rd,etc position. Be honest with it and yourself, none of your personal details(like name,IP,etc) will be published. Please do take the time to go over it, it’s a short one :
Thanks for taking this survey. After collection a decent amount of feedbacks, I’ll let you have the reports having the results of this survey. Do let me know what you think on the issue of making money online or what you think is the most thought after blogging lesson through the comments.
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I do not see any problem with making money online.There are a lot of bloggers doing this.John Chow is one of them and he is doing it very well.Shoemoney is also worth reading.
The key to this is to have good writing skills,willingness to try new opportunities,good marketing skills and above all good seo.If you have the best content and not being picked up by Search engines it is useless…
@ josh
thanks for the link for Shoemaker, Josh. That one I didn’t know about
yup search engine listing plays a great role in that but I was asking myself about the quality of the daily posts from John? Would people read irrelevant stuffs for days just to wait for some tip there?
sure, i cant be tempted by thing but surely not sponsored by nomad
I’ve always blogged for fun. Never really thought about making money. In fact the materials written by me are not really of a documentary aspect! so blogging for money does not really apply to me.
check this The Blogosquare
your twin blog?
omg Omega lol!! square and sphere, both of our dear signatures in just two lines!!! bro, seems were not that original after all
(Although you are most impaired, he also got the blogo~ part ^^ )
erm nope, after 2nd thought, ours were there first apparently
@ Yashvin
lol the nomad referrer
perhaps they should have affiliate links like ads services have 
@ morinn
even for personal motives, displaying things relevant to your audience might really be fun too…
for e.g take if you like reading lots of books, perhaps you can be an amazon affiliates displaying a picture of the book ready to be bought on amazon. you see the ads sometimes entertain people too….. displaying such relevant books could allow you to show a collection of books you read or like reading, etc something like that
thanks indeed for your comment. Do keep in touch.
@ waz and kyu
I did come first with that name BlogoSquare and it is copyright lol. Infact that blog’s name is The BlogoSquare, surely having BlogoSquare in it but it’s not having the name BlogoSquare only, so I think he’s safe lol…..
thanks bro for digging us such goodies
There is such a thing as making money and making money tastefully. John Chow, in my opinion has crossed the line. Sure, great he makes money, however he also uses his loyal, (for reasons I have yet to figure out), readers. He can ask for money and the readers will practically throw it at him, with the excuse of, “well he has helped me make money.” Exactly how? From what I have read he blogs about the same topics you can find on 1000s of other blogs “teaching people” blog monetization. He gives the illusion of helping others, when in reality he is the only one gaining anything.
@ Beth
I think the fault isn’t the readers but the search engines lol, it’s the crawlers that are sending people, desperate to make money to his blog and he really knows about the importance of the link stuffs. No wonder why he’s aiming for the top position for the phrase, make money online.
At the end, it isn’t good relationships with readers or other bloggers, which earn him new visitors but his listing in the SERP.
As for those that are throwing money on him, perhaps they are all waiting for a favour, like a link, something like that person paid me so and I’ll review his blog lol. Have you heard about the latest evil trick, removing no-follow on urls on paid commissions
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I have taken the survey. To be the first thing I’ll concentrate is creating content that people want to read, then monetize the blog and finally promote the blog to make money with AdSense and affiliate.
Thanks for your comment Alan. That’s a good course of action
what’s your favourite affiliate deals?
I saw your review on John Chow’s site today and wanted to know if you would be interested in a review exchange. Please visit my site for for review exchange rules, let me know if you are interested in a review exchange.
Jason Neuman
sure
thanks for offering me this exchange deal 
I’ll get in touch with you.
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