We can’t clone humans yet, but could outsourcing content come a close second? Your fingers can only type so fast; your brain can only grind away so long. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could hire someone else to think, type, and edit the same as you? At least, that’s
I overheard the following story at the gym yesterday. “I was a beast back then,” he said. He perched on a pec fly machine, gesturing at his friend. “Yup, I was a beast. I used to wake up at 3:00 o’clock, drive 3-and-a-half hours to the job site, work a
Blogging seems to attract a lot of cheapskates. Full confession: I’m a cheapskate myself. I used to interrogate my wife if she bought Honeycrisp apples at $3.99 per pound out of season. Did you double-check the Gala? Were the Red Delicious on sale? (I’m not proud of this, but I’ve
I’ve worried way too much about how many blog posts I should have. I lay awake at night wondering, puzzling and pondering: What’s the magical number to escape the Google sandbox? How many articles until Mediavine accepts me? What’s the minimum number of posts a blog should launch with? At
Hello Reader, Do you know why blogging is hard? Because you don’t exist yet. That’s right. You, Reader, are not even real. Not yet, anyway. Blogging: A Long, Winding Road As of January 20, 2022, FlubBlog.com has received exactly two clicks from Google Search. (hold your applause, please) Another one
This afternoon, I was enjoying a YouTube video by Income School, one of my blogging mentors. It was a recorded live stream. I was browsing some of the chat comments when I read this gem, submitted by user cxa011500: “I feel like an idiot. I’ve been a part of Project24
Tell me if this sounds familiar: “The number one rule of blogging is to pick something you’re interested in!” “You need to write on something you’re passionate about! If you’re not interested, you won’t write about it!” How did “interest” become the cornerstone of blogging authorship? In what other industry
One of my websites made $249.06 last weekend. The daily revenue high for the previous 30 days was … wait for it … $3.22. That’s three dollars and change, folks. If you don’t do math, I’ve broken it down for you: That’s about a … 120 bajillion percent increase. +/-
Today’s rant: the danger of a branded blog. Should You Name Your Blog After Yourself? There are four types of blogs: Personal blog Business blog Niche blog Affiliate blog Several online gurus, like Adam Enfroy, preach that your blog should be www.yourname.com. Naming your domain like your birth certificate is
Six months ago, I bought a website called [name redacted for privacy.]* It is currently on track to make about $3,600 a year. I think I can quintuple that number. (In a way, I already did.) *Let’s just call it TheSite.com Here’s my story. It’s a narrative interlaced with information