It’s every bloggers dream to wind up being able to quit their jobs and live life a rock star solely based off the revenue their weblog generates. Anyone that keeps an online journal and says they haven’t thought about that is quite possibly lying. Personally, I make enough money off of my weblog to afford an addicting tattoo habit, but I never want to make that the prime focus of my personal weblog.
Because of this and all of the different “opportunities†(and I use that term loosely) that present themselves online, my eyes tend to roll across the floor when I find a site that’s geared towards nothing but that. Case in point? A weblog called “Online Income Opportunitiesâ€. Sure, I’ll review the site and boost your Google page rank, so more people will advertise on your site. Why not? Then maybe I can get rich for my superb writing skills and never have to work again.
The site loads and I’m instantly greeted with ads all over the three-column layout. A gigantic banner fills some of the top part of the screen, and a column listing all 15+ different sites where the author makes money while blogging fill one of the sidebar columns. It’s drab and boring. The most aesthetically appealing item on the weblog was some sort of widget the author of the blog has installed to allow people to review this site on the spot.
I wasn’t thrilled when I realized I was going to have to be reading entries dating back to September 06 that serve no purpose, but to make a few bucks here and there. The first post lets readers know that the author has been investing online for almost a year and she’ll be sharing her experience with the programs she’s joined.
Along one column of the blog, she mentions she lives in Bangalore, India. If that’s the case, it doesn’t really make much sense why she’d be blogging about house loans in the UK unless she was getting paid for it, right? And how the post written about the Beverly Hills Plastic Surgery office that she writes about and includes a nearly 600 x 500 pixel image of a photoshopped girl? This is the way about 99% of the entire weblog is written. The rest of the posts are the author telling the advertisers, I mean, readers that she’s going to be gone for a couple of days.
It’s a money-making blog. There’s no rhyme or reason to it. I can’t rank it any higher than I have.
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