Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blogging. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 4, 2018

You want money from YouTube and blogs? Get a job

I'm sick and tired of people who say "You are a blogger, you have blogs and a bunch of YouTube videos so you must get a lot of money doing (almost) nothing" "If you are a blogger and a vlogger why do you go to work? You make more money online" "Blogger and volgers get so much money today"
For all of these people who are living with the impression that bloggers and vloggers get super rich I posted a print screen of my AdSense earnings.
I have more than 7 blogs , a YouTube account, facebook, twitter, instagram, tumblr and everything I can have online and I earn something like 3$ in one year. The content posted online has little of no views until the user who has created it is spending a bunch of money on advertising, more than the amount of money that com from AdSense. The internet today is nothing like the internet of the 90's  when there was no facebook, instagram youtube, wordpress, etc and it was not that easy to make a website but once the website was online you could get millions of visitors. I miss those sweet times of the beginning of the online world. Now people must pay to Facebook or other websites if they want their content to be discovered by people, or else the posts will be viewed only by some friends and people who already know about that blog/ youtube channel/website.
This is the truth about blogging and vlogging not what the press is telling you. You can blog and vlog as a hobby but not as a real job or business. People who get real money from blogs and vlogs are already famous so people search for their content online and that's how they get millions of views online. If you think blogging and vlogging will take you out of poverty and you do it for money give it up and get a job. It's a waste of time and energy.

Thursday, December 28, 2017

The worst enemy of blogging

When I check mu stats I notice the trafiic on my blog is lower than 10,7 or even 5 years ago and it tends to get lower and lower and even if my blogs and websites are optimised for search engines and they appear in many searches, on the first page, the number of visits from search engines is gowing down and now more people come from my facebook page than from google search. People are no longer googling and surfing the internet like before and they stay on facebook instead.
10 years ago blogs have represented the voice of the poeple, free to express their opinions. There were governments and people who have the political or economic power who have tried to silence them and fortunately they didn't succeed but there is something on the internet that is slowly killing blogging: Facebook.
Facebook is the worst enemy of blogs and idenpendent sites, killing the rest of the internet, making visible only promoted (with money) content, that's how they have grown, not because the site was better than myspace, hi5 or yahoo 360. On facebook to get an audience you must pay to facebook, lf you don't you are just wasting your time posting. In the happiest case 20% of friends view your post and posts from pages are hidden by facebook and can be seen only by the people who go to the page if they are not promoted. Facebook is changing the internet but not in a good way, making it a place where money means power and people who don't have enough money to promote their stuff will be like those who speak alone in a park, nobody will hear them, nobody will read what they write. This is bad especially for nonprofit blogs, for people who just write, without the intention to sell something, for poets, for people who write about the problems of the modern society, science etc.
I miss the times when there was no facebook or twitter and when I was building a website  in HTML and CSS that website had so many visitors from around the world. I miss the internet of the 90's or early 2000's.
I advice you not to waste your posts on facebook and start reading and writing blogs.
This is one of my oldest websites. Yahoo Geocitoes is gone but the website has been archived