Following straight on from the last post Hacked Again, which looked at the problems faced by bloggers who are the victims of hackers, here I want to take another look at the whole idea of community spirit and how it can only be beneficial to what wedo online in order to make money to fund our pleasurable pastime of writing in our blogs.

Well there are plenty of social sites out there for bloggers to get together and share their stuff and I’m quite sure that most bloggers who have an inkling of what they do and why they do it know all the major social community sites that are available to make the best use of.

So what do these social sites actually give bloggers? Especially those that for one reason or another are trying to make money from their pastime. Well, the answer to that is two-fold.

Firstly, most bloggers don’t make any money blogging. They might want to, they might even need to but as long as they keep believing what they’re told by certain A-list bloggers they will remain in cyber-poverty probably until they give up in disgust. That would be after they had probably spent a small fortune buying every eBook and bought into multi-level marketing scam there is and are probably worse than broke. Their credit cards have probably taken a hammering too, so now they’re in debt.

Secondly, the rest of the bloggers who are not doing it for money are the ones that have got the right idea. They blog because they simply enjoy writing for the people that come to their blogs and read what they’ve written. For them, the social blogging sites are perfect to meet new friends, swap ideas, photos and music and generally enjot the great online social system that blogging has brought about.

So as for the larger and better known social sites that we all know and love, there need be no introduction here. However, there are plenty of newer, not so well known social sites that are cropping up that all offer many benefits to bloggers who are keen to take full advantage of the social reach and facilities that are available. One such social site, 3gb.biz is well worth having a look at if you are in the market and want to join 3gb community 3gb.biz, is perfect for joining groups, swapping information and photos as well as getting to know a lot more people online.

So where does that leave the bloggers who are struggling to make a few dollars here and there from their adsense ads that no one seems to want to click? Or all those flashy banners littering their sidebars or footers? Why aren’t all these visitors that they’re attracting from stumble or digg clicking their ads and making them a fortune just like all those nice, friendly, well written, honest, benevolent A-listers want them to believe?

Well, if you are one of those A-listers, then you are probably sitting pretty with a nice income from selling affiliate eBooks and services to all your readers, so where’s the problem? Its a numbers game after all, so if your getting a thousand noobs show up on your blogs every day, then it stands to reason that if you slingenough mud, some of it will stick.

If, however, you are not one of the chosen few, then you’re not getting anything like that amount of convertable visitors to your blog. You might be getting a few hundred visits a day, but those visitors will have already spent their money on the A-lister’s sites and will not be interested in pruchasing an eBook from your sidebar - they probably already have it and realized it was another worthless piece of junk. Just like all the rehashed regurgitated garbage that teh A-listers sell, that hundreds of their blind followers also try to sell in the mistaken belief that they’ll make a fortune just like their heroes do.

Its sad really, when you think about it. People are so easily taken in.

They want to believe that there is a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow and no matter how many rainbows they follow that end up with nothing but a rock or a clump of trees, they still keep right on chasing more rainbows.

Why?

Because they see one person who writes a blog make a lot of money from it and they think they can too. No matter how many visitors they get to their blogs that don’t buy anything, they still sit there waiting for those sales to come flooding in. Because if Mr Chow, or any of his contemporaries says there’s money to be made from promoting this or that, then it must be true. After all, they’re doing it, aren’t they?

Well, aren’t they?

Terry Didcott
Make Money