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Technorati says that there are over 175,000 new blogs started each day. I honestly believe 100,000 of them are on how to “make money blogging.” And that pisses me off.

What’s so wrong about this? There are a billion blogs on tech products, I don’t hate them (yet). Why do I have no love for “make money blogging blogs” (I’m going to call them MMBB from now on)? Because the vast majority of them make no money themselves.

I might as well give a shout out to the big dogs. Darren Rowse and John Chow. These two guys make a very good living talking about how they make money blogging. But guess what, they’re already making a living blogging so they get to be the experts. You’re not an expert because you registered the domain name www.imakeabilliondollarsblogginginmysleep.com and started writing about this new “ad sense” thing you discovered.

These guys have millions of readers each month. They both are living a dream (of sorts). They work from home, run their own business, are famous in their circles and make good money. I’m sure they both work 80 hour weeks, but that’s not the point. In the eyes of the blogging community they’re living the dream.

I’ve seen plenty of blogs out there with people who say they’re going to quit their day job and take up blogging full time. What do they blog about? Trying to make money. It’s pathetic and it’s going to fail right out of the gate. Why?

Let me learn you by example: Neither of those big dogs I mentioned set out to make a living blogging when they started blogging. In fact neither of them started a MMBB until they were already making good money off other websites. Darren started a digital photography blog to talk about photography. John Chow started a technology site to talk about technology. If they had started off saying they’re going to make money first thing they’d have looked like idiots.

It’s always going to be hard making money off a MMBB site. It’s easy to make money if you have a product or service to blog about. There are plenty of camera stores that will pay well to advertise on a popular photography blog. But who wants to advertise on a MMBB? Maybe ISPs? There are ebooks to sell and consultation fees to collect but on the whole there are very few services to sell to prospective visitors.

Mostly what annoys me about MMBB is the fact that they offer nothing new. They all post the same links to the same sites with their referral codes trying to get commission. They all claim to have the answers to every problem in your blogging life (see my stupid advertising slogans above) yet none of them has any experience in the field in which they’re trying to earn a living. They all either lament or brag about how easy or hard it is to make money online. It’s pathetic.

I hope someone finds this site after searching for “make money blogging.” They won’t. But if they do I hope they take my advise. If you want to make money blogging write about ANYTHING ELSE other than making money blogging. Write about a hobby, write book reviews, write about last night’s Laker game (P.S. I hate bandwagon jumpers, that’s another post for another day) just write about something you’re actually interested in. Then read the sites by the people who actually make a living blogging and learn from them.