I usually check out about 10 to 20 new blogs a day. Partially because of my ‘scoring system’ to comment and establish relationships, but also because I am as curious as the next to see someone elses take on blogging. I am always keeping an ear to the ground to spot the newest trends in earning income, and to see how I can apply them to the other blogs which are more monetized than this one. We are all trying to make money online.
One trend that is driving me absolutely nuts is people boasting and making claims there is no way they can back up. Today, I stumbled upon a very nice and informative blog. It has a slick layout, some good content, but in the header and logo it says it is ‘THE Money Making Site on The Web’. As in this blog author is claiming he is the authority.
Simple research tells me that this website is not doing that great traffic wise. Comments are slow, Alexa rank is middled, and I cannot find all that many links going back. In fact, of the 197 links, almost all of them were comments he posted himself on other blogs.
This type of boastful activity makes me not want to read this blog consistantly. I get the feeling that this person is just grabbing information from a high profile blog, and regurgitating it almost word for word. Maybe when a new blogger happens upon his site, they will feel he has some sort of authority, but quickly that illusion is shattered.
There is nothing really new in the make money online field. Everyone is pretty much just saying the same thing, maybe with a personal touch. Boastful claims just make you look cocky.
That is why I visit websites like the http://www.bloggingexperiment.com. They are getting results, but they are not boastful, nor do they ever claim they are THE authority in anything.
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