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   5/10/09

   timethief

   The truth is no quick and easy way to make money online, and it's unfortunate that you have not stated this truth. Making money online or offline involves hard work. And very few bloggers have the degree of expertise required to produce unique, high quality content that brings in the massive number of hits on advertisements that are required to make a minimal income from blogging. Moreover, the economic realities we now face mean that making an income from blogging is becoming increasingly more difficult.
   
   In the economic times in which we live easy credit is no longer available, so I think it’s reasonable to assume that some companies may trim or even severely cut back on their advertising budgets, and we can expect the number of people clicking on ads is decreasing.
   
   Worse still is the competition factor. Every day we see new blogs being created in the most over saturated niche and competitive niche of all - the make money blogging niche. What readers are experiencing is that many no quality and low quality blogs in this niche contain rehashed contents from A list blogs, plagiarized content and content stolen from other blogs.
   
   Unfortunately you have painted a rosy picture of anyone with a home computer being able to make money online with ease. The truth is no blogger can make significant income from blogging if they lack expertise in a specific niche and do NOT know how to:
   * be a skillful blogger;
   * create an archive full of unique high quality content;
   * structure a search engine optimized blog;
   * promote the blog via social networks and other means;
   * establish and maintain a faithful and growing readership (organic traffic).

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   5/10/09

   sammy65

   Ya buddy, what you said is true, but these are just a few of those things that i started out with. Yea this is not my forte since i made this for those who feel making money from the internet isn't possible.
   
   I maintain my own blog where i write about technology and blogging, so this is just my past where i had actually started to earn a little.

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   5/10/09

   GFG

   comment removed by the community.

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   5/10/09

   EntrepreneurNovice

   Didn't try squidoo yet, seems like hubpages though the difference is you use your own adsense account with Hubpages:
   hubpages.com/_hubpagesblog/hub/Adsense-Earnings-day-by-day

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   5/10/09

   sammy65

   The same works for squidoo too buddy. You can earn here too. I just gave it a try. Lost my adsense account before.!

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   1. 

      5/10/09

      EntrepreneurNovice

      Sorry for you if you lost your adsense account.
   2. 

      5/10/09

      timethief

      @sammy65
      Why did you lose your Google Adsense account?
      Which Google Adsense TOS section(s) and/or policies did you violate?
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   5/10/09

   sammy65

   Happened 4 years ago! My friend gave invalid clicks in spite of my warning. So lost it, Im using bidvertiser now

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   1. 

      5/10/09

      timethief

      Click fraud is a huge problem but the new Google Adsense Dart cookie, and tracking program that is now being used is in part designed to catch these unethical people and ban and blacklist them.
      
      Frankly, I don’t think there is a single best way to make money by blogging. I think the nature of the blog, the niche it’s in, and the quality of the contents are all factors that go into selecting the combination of advertising and affiliate plans that may be workable for any given blog.
      Twenty income streams for bloggers
      onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/01/22/twenty-income-streams-for-bloggers/
      
      I also notice that many make money bloggers either don't know how or don't want to take the time and expend the energy to increase their organic traffic. They always seem to be looking for the imaginary "instant traffic fix".
      Twenty five steps for bloggers to increase blog traffic
      onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/01/15/twenty-five-steps-to-increase-blog-tra...
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      5/10/09

      EntrepreneurNovice

      bidvertiser doesn't have anti-fraud detection ?
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      5/10/09

      timethief

      I believe that all get paid for every click advertisers do have anti-fraud detection programs in place.
      
      Bidadvertiser
      

      In order to prevent offensive websites from displaying our ads, we manually review each site. We also monitor sites after they have started displaying BidVertiser ads. If a site was found to violate our policies at any time, we will warn the publisher, suspend or terminate the account.
      BidVertiser does NOT accept websites that ...
      
      4. Sponsor "incentive clicks", are "pay-to-surf" programs, or use resident desktop objects such as bars and window frames.
      5. Contain an excessive amount of advertising in general.
      6. Include incentives of any kind for users to click on ads. This includes encouraging users to click on the ads or to visit the advertisers' sites as well as labeling the ads with text other than "sponsored links" or "advertisements".
      www.bidvertiser.com/bdv/BidVertiser/bdv_publisher_guideline.dbm