The Internet is chock full of get-rich-quick books and CDs about how to make "$60,000 a year" from your blog. There's so much of stuff, I wonder if I should be selling books too.

I found a site today called, "Blogging for Dollars", after seeing a banner ad with this guy saying, "I earn $6,000 a month from my blog". Being that I'm in this business, I had to look at it, just to satisfy my curiosity.

Here's what it said...

1. Start your own blog site using your BlogToolKit. There is absolutely no technical experience required! The site is completely set up for you!



2. Begin writing about the things you enjoy; your pet, your favorite sport’s team, etc. Rest assured that there are people who share the same passion and want to read and participate!



3. Your BlogToolKit will automatically help you setup advertising offers on your blog in just a few easy steps. Then when people visit and read your blog, they will click on the ads and you will make money!

This is exactly what I do already. Except I don't need "BlogToolKit". Google AdSense sets up these ads automatically, as well as Yahoo Publisher. You can also set up similar rotational ads from Commission Junction, or create your own ad rotation from a wide variety of scripts.

The difference is that this site, "Blogging for Dollars", is selling you an instruction manual telling you how to do this.

Folks, don't buy this stuff.

There are already thousands of blogs and websites that tell you how to do this for free. There are hundreds more web forums devoted to this stuff. I'm telling you how to do this for free also.

In my town, there's this gal who's in the same business as I am, building websites and blogs, and making money from the ads. Except she spent tens of thousands of dollars on these books and CDs, on how to get rich from the Internet. She purchased memberships to other websites that sell this information. She spent more money travelling to conventions (air, hotel, meals), just to learn what she could have learned for free.

There's this guy named, "Joel Comm", who apparently has made millions of dollars writing blogs and monetizing them with AdSense. He's really famous in this line of work. But the fact is that he's not actually exceptional with AdSense, he's no more skilled than I am. He's just a guy who sells books and CDs, that teaches people how to do this. That's where his marketing expertise lies, taking advantage of people's desperation.

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