Comments on: Why Make Money Bloggers Do Not Reveal Their Secrets

By: Mathew Day

Mathew Day — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:39:45 +0000

Great post, very straightforward. I think blogging and the internet game has changed so much ever since the “make money” niche has gotten so popular.

By: Serge@CarTransporters

Serge@CarTransporters — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:51:49 +0000

Great post, great tips Ruck. As a newbie let me ask you is it worth the time to start a blog for money making purposes? Can a blog really make enough money to quit your current job? And if yes is this every blogger goal is to make money, what happen to just blogging as a hobby?

By: Ruri@Free article submission

Ruri@Free article submission — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 09:14:54 +0000

In my opinion, People can make money with website or blogging, it is just matter of time. If they keep building and do an action, they will success one day. Building website simply create good content, doing SEO, link building, email marketing and build reputation. That’s All..

By: andrew wee

andrew wee — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:41:33 +0000

The other reason why some don’t reveal their earnings (aside from privacy and confidentiality) is that many are “theory” bloggers.

Sounds good on paper, but when it comes to reality, no dice!

By: SkyWatcher

SkyWatcher — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:05:44 +0000

Long term income streams are always going to work because they’re not tricks or techniques but solid principles tested and refined over the centuries and are more reliable than all these fly-by-night techniques.

By: andrew wee

andrew wee — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 07:49:34 +0000

Depends how you brand yourself.

I see myself as a blogger, but more a “business building” blogger than a “make money online” or “make money blogging” type of blogger.

Again, it links back to my post re: WSOs, that the difference is that I want to focus on long term income streams and on methods that work for the long haul, rather than some silly CPA or adsense trick that works for a couple of weeks, then abruptly dies, bringing your income with it.

Oh, and the secret is hard work, testing and keeping your eyes and ears open.

By: Beerhat

Beerhat — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:06:33 +0000

So you’re saying all of you don’t wear black hoods and chant incantations for the super-aff initiation?

Tell them about the blood drinking Ruck, tell them!

By: Eran

Eran — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:55:56 +0000

Great post but I think that there is also the luck issue – lets say that when you begin in IM you fall on someone that wants to make money and sets you on the wrong path from the beginning.
Or lets say you got it right but you made some bad decisions in the beginning: bad niche, bad solution, bad traffic channel thats where most people give up.
I completely agree that after you succeed its easier to duplicate and continue with whats working, but a big question (even if you work on it 24/7) is when success hit you

And that my friends i believe is the factor of luck – but hey its not really up to us
So all we need to do is keep trying right? :)

By: sparky

sparky — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:25:59 +0000

Ruck, can you say “come to jeezus!?”

I knew you could.

Persistence isn’t one of my strong suits and one (ex-) boss characterized me as a 90%-er. That is, I did 90 percent of a job and got tired of working on it. And, worst case- lol, I came to Internet Marketing with exactly the attitude you make fun of here… “I’ll just slap up some pages and make a bazillion dollars and it’ll be great!”

Now, I’m learning that while there are certain tasks I can do on “autopilot” I really have to attend to what I’m doing if I’m going to make it anywhere here.

Some tools make it easy; google adwords will adjust their ads to whatever’s on the page. Neverblue will put together a rotator that’ll wind up weighting the ads that get the higher CTRs. But the end story is, it’s all about me and my “100%er mentality.”

That’s why I haven’t put together a press release for one of my newest projects; I have to figure out what I’d consider a 100 percent “ready to go” site. It’s frustrating but I just want to release it and go on with my life!

By: Famook

Famook — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:37:33 +0000

Great Post and so true. I spent a lot of time reading forums looking for that magic. I guess the good thing was I didn’t have the money to spend on endless new tactics so that kept me grounded. It wasn’t until I stopped reading and started doing that any money came in. Now its just a matter of keeping a schedule which I usually do.

By: Ruck

Ruck — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:30:11 +0000

@ Zac – “Sometimes even worse then jerk comments, is when you write (what you think was) a killer post… and you barely get any comments at all!”

That is VERY frustrating indeed. It’s the worst feeling I get when blogging.

@GoKarter – I wish I had been blogging a year ago too. All those forum posts are just sitting in forums I am no longer a part of :(

By: Gokarter

Gokarter — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:22:51 +0000

Great post Ruck !!!

Your turning into like, one of those cult leaders.
But in a good way.

Dude I wish you would have had this blog and forum doing a year ago ,when I started then i wouldn’t have wasted all that money ,but instead prolly would have made that money 9 fold.

Now this year is going to be another story.I have set realistic obtainable goals.That once I get thing in place and get the ball rolling, I should be able to quit my JOB in 4 years, if not sooner.

Thanks Ruck I owe it to YA

LMAO All hale the mighty RUCK

Jason

By: Zac Johnson

Zac Johnson — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:14:16 +0000

@ Chris: You are definitely right. Even in my posts I’ve said the same thing… do this, and I know 98% of you wont!

Sometimes even worse then jerk comments, is when you write (what you think was) a killer post… and you barely get any comments at all!

By: Ruck

Ruck — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:42:33 +0000

Yea but you have great persistence Chris. After awhile those “aha’s” are going to add up to a very nice income :)

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:23:27 +0000

I think even if the big money-makers came out and said, “Do exactly this, this, and this” to make tons of money, 90% of the population would STILL sit on their asses and do nothing.

Better to try something out and fail at it than to never try at all.

Hell, even I’m starting to make a little bit of money…but I’m failing at stuff every day. It takes me about 9 failures to get 1 “AHA!”