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Paid blogging is a great way to earn some extra cash, but it can also delay your own blogging success as you spend all of your time building someone else’s audience. There are thousands, if not millions of blogs that pay per post, as content is a valuable comodity on the internet.
Paid Blogging Makes You A Slave
If you fail to diversify, your paid blogging career will leave you with just a few large clients who provide you most of your work. If one person is responsible for 25% or more of your income, you’ll probably bend over backwards to make them happy. But, chances are, you left your full-time salaried job just to avoid this sort of dependency.
When you start paid blogging, make sure it’s something you’re prepared to do indefinitely or that you have an escape plan.
Paid Blogging Forces You To Start From Scratch
You can offer paid blogging services for years and become an expert blogger, but when you strike out on your own, you’re going to need to start from scratch.
No longer will you be working for an established blog with an established revenue model. You’ll have to build not just your blog but also your means of monetizing your content. That means, in many cases, writing your initial blog posts, writing your free give away reports, and setting up a mailing list.
If you haven’t worked on these things before, you’ll need to invest dozens or hundreds of hours into them before you can reasonably expect to begin making money from your blog.
Paid Blogging Means Not Writing What You Want
Even people who own their blog rarely get to write exactly what they want to write about, but as a paid blogger you’re likely to get the assignments the blog owner doesn’t want to write. That means you’ll get to write articles which are:
• Boring
• Research intensive
• Vague
• Disgusting and offensive
You’ll also probably receive assignments the blog owner thinks would require too much of his or her time. If you’re lucky, you’re familiar with those topics so you can write them quickly. If you’re unlucky, those assignments will take considerable time but you’ll accept them anyway because you’re dependent on the blog owner for a large part of your income.
Paid Blogging is For Today’s Pay
You work for a day and you get paid for that and nothing more! The content you produce is far more valuable than the dollar you earn today.
Here is an example of what one article can earn on a blog without even trying, and within one week.
I wrote this article about how George Brown from Google Sniper was giving away $5000 worth of products for free. I also linked to a previous review that I wrote about this Google sniper product. I am almost embarrassed to publish this article as it is extremely short and not up to my usual publishing standards.
Here are the results below. I made $177.00 from that article but two of the commissions are recurring. Not a bad start for an article that will stay on my blog for years.
The sad thing is that a paid blogger would only have earned about $10-$20 for this article (as it is really short), whereas I have made $177 plus more! This is a tiny example for me. I have articles on some blogs where I make $30 a day and others can make $100 a day. That is NOT a whole website, that is one piece of content that generates its own income.
Getting Out Of Paid Blogging
Getting out of paid blogging is easy-or at least it’s easy to say. Develop a business plan and start your own blog. You’ve had a great opportunity to work with successful blog owners, so learn from their examples and use your honed blogging skills.
But, most importantly, start with something simple which doesn’t require much of your time so, until your blog takes off, you can continue to offer paid blogging.
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You really opened my eyes and made me stop and think about it for a moment about what I am doing…Oh man! I’m just madly working for people and giving them my hard work for few bucks instead of putting it on my own blog…Thank you so so so much.
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Yes I have to be honest about this….I make loads of money from what people write on my blog…Although they don’t always give me money making posts, some can be converted and others are used to fill the content gap. (but I make more from what I write of course)
Your content is so valuable!
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Hi..Thanks for another wonderful article..I agree with your post especially where it says that paid blogging tends to get boring at a point..If you write about thing that don’t interest you..it will end up making you tear your hair out at a given point of time.
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Yes people do get bored from this as there is no real reward. I love writing articles because it is a challenge to make money and give people great content at the same time.
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Good writing but still i didn’t get the sense. I always thought that paid blogging is always for good. And now this piece of info made me very confused… O_o
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it’s really nice, thats why i think we should write for blogs, avoid paid content, as i have seen many example when people, write for someone and when they see their article going viral on internet but from other name they almost became mad
Hello Mitz,
You really did drop it hot here and i love it. i will have to put all this to consideration. Thanks
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Ha ha ha… I am letting the cat out of the bag!!! The content people are writing is worth more to them on their own blogs.
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these are reasons why i just believe in personal blogging rather than paid blogging. but it is still worth if it pays you more
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I do not see how it is worth it at all? I have paid as much as $65 for a 500 word article and actually booked in more from another blogger at $100. (but that depends on their reputation)
I can pay this because I know how much money I can make from one piece of content.
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Completely agree with your opinion and one should blog for himself . Paid blogging can bring you some money but what about passion ?
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Yes and paid blogging does not leave you with an asset in the end either.
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The best way to take advantage of paid blogging is to start your own blogging career. You have information that others want to learn, so why not make money from it.
Your passion will take a backseat while some money might come in your wallet. I will never recommend anyone to move towards paid blogging unless he is in some financial crisis. The content that you produce will give you long term income if you could use it on your blog or website.
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Paid blogging is a great way to get into the industry but then you must realise the value in content.
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yes. i totally agree with you mitz..
i would rather believe my own blog instead of paid blog..
Thanks..
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I agree with You mitch. But I have seen my Friends that they get paid more since they started Buying Articles and Got more time for Daily schedule. Also they were able to give new faces to their Blogging Business. These are the Some very great advantages
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Paid bloggers are getting ripped off in my opinion. Having your own blog and writing your own content is the way to go. You get revenue from your content that is already optimized with backlinks and keywords right?
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I do not think paid bloggers are being ripped off. It is money for work that people need sometimes…But we must be aware that the content can become far more valuable to the publisher. A writer has a choice here.
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You are right. Especially if the content benefits the readers. I find your content very informative! will be reading and implementing your tips to my blog.
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If you want a job done right then you have to do it yourself. Great article.
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hello admin,your post has been very enlightening and full of learning…I\’ve been greatly motivated by your post….i m a new blogger and would greatly appreciate you advice and important tips regarding bloggingthank you
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never go for paid blogging. People take links in article and if they need to change something in their blog then they can not do it as link has to be for 1 year, you have got some very nice points here and appreciate this a lot.
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I was almost going to hire someone to pay for me. Good thing I didn’t.
There are so many factors too like will the blogger be writing unique content? Will the blogger copy stuff? etc…
If you do your own blogging, you get more control
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I never said not to hire someone…I have some awesome writers that work for me!!! This article just gives the option to branch out and tells you why writing for others doesn’t really pay well compared to blogging.
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Hi you really said all the truth in your post paid blogging is really boring, you cannot write what you feel you write only for what you are paid for. Thumbs up keep writing like this.
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Hi,
I agree with you. I think everyone want to earn money so some people follow paid blogging. If you want to good writing skills we can write blog and earn money.
great info.
Thanks for share with me!!
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very nice article Mitz,
As i can think of the paid blogging, it is a waste of time, because in the same time one can work in his blog and can earn money., in my opinion one should take blogging as freelancing and be their own boss.
very nicely written and highly motivating article…
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i never done guest blogging and also not invited guest posts on my blogs.
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This is not about guest posting?
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Hey Mitz,
Thanks for another excellent post.
My blog just started attracting paid post and I think it’s a good way to generate income but then, I have to mind the content I accept
Good content again Mitz
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Thanks Mitz , This is very interesting topic which many don’t know , it really helps a lot for bloggers . You have presented very beautifully so that it pulled my attention to read completely . Thanks for sharing with us and hope we can see more from you.
I know this thing very well. I did paid blogging for 5 years and take my words, it is not good. You creativity and talent starts to vanish. You are forced to write about something that you don’t even like. For this, I started my own website and blog. It took time but now I am very happy and contented with my efforts.
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Good on you! I think many writers waste their talents by actually writing for other people. If you need the money it is good to try and work on your own business also.
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I definitely agree with you! Though I am not a pro-blogger but writing content is one of the most challenging work. So for me, writing content for a topic that does not interest me is really worth boring. I better try to write article for my own niche rather than writing an article for somewhat that will benefit over me.
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Yes writing about stuff you hate can make you very disheartened with the job. We must be careful.
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Hey Mitz,
Nice post with great information, I am totally agree with you that paid blogging is a nice way to earn but with some more hard work in our blog we can easily earn large amount than we earn by paid blogging and in paid blogging we may forced to write post on topic in which we are not interested. Thanks for sharing this post.
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Hi Mitz,
I have never done any paid blogging yet but will try it once. So, I can see that if I am having time for my blog or not and if I am having a lot of time than I would stick with it.
Thanks for your post!
Regards,
Anurag.
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Nice article. I would love to get into paid blogging. I think I’ll give it a shot. If anyone has any additional advice on how to get started please let me know…
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Yes you can start by reading the article???
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Mitz, you are so right. I don\’t know if we can call guest bloggin but i wrote an article on SQUIDOO to see if i got any benefits from that. First of all
1. 3 weeks ago, After punlishing my article on squidoo, my article was still unpublished. The Squidoo robot forced me to add many things on the lense, like my bio, my pic, useless modules to publish the article.
2. Even if i tagged the article well, traffic is almost null. (3 visits last week). It is less than posting a post on a forum. It is less than anything. However, i posted original content with interesting point of view. However, my article is really well tagged.
3. they can unpublish my article at anytime ruining my job.
4. The page weight nothing and has no pagerank.
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Yes I dislike the idea of building any type of business on some else’s site. Seth has an amazing business model there but not so great for the people that publish there. Yes people make substantial amounts of money but I would not compare this to having your own site. In the end what are you left with?
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It’s really true. We can develop our own blog using those articles and the time which we burn to make other bloggers rich. However, as you have mentioned in the article, it could be helpful upto some point, which is to develop our blogging skills.
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You cannot use the articles you sell but you can make your own blog in your own time.
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Hi Mitz,
I wish my blog posts had made as much as that! I must have written hundreds of posts and articles. But in any case I am taking a break from that at the moment and blogging for interest instead. I suspect if there is a niche to be found there it will be very crowded, but at least the process is more rewarding, even fun.
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I am not a paid blogger but I am a paid developer and I can very well understand how we have to go an extra mile in order to satisfy our major clients. Sometimes it is too boring. Sometimes this routine is frustrating but in end it pays well so everything just moves on.
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Yes but if you developed for yourself you would still be selling the product over and over.
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Seriously, I’ve never thought of it. Thanks Mitz
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This is why I was never able to get into Freelance writing. I always felt I would be better off just building my own authority blog and building long-term profits.
Thanks for the information also and taking the time to write this!
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Hi corey
Yes the freelance option is very short term and does not build an asset.
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Hey Mitz,
Where does everyone write and get paid for blog posts? I have never come across anyone offering to pay – maybe oDesk or similar sites?
I totally agree that if you’re getting paid pocket change for an article that you have spent hours writing and researching just to give to someone else for them to earn potentially unlimited amounts of money from is crazy – as you said “the content you produce is far more valuable than the dollar you earn today”
Cheers,
Mark
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There is odesk and Elance and more! There are so many places.
It is a great way to make money, especially if you are talented and have speech recognition software to pump out the content.
You can make money that way but in this article I am just showing you the alternative.
Mitz Pantic recently posted..Selfish Content
If yo are not good writer and you want to start your own blog and become professional writer. Please no worry about that. Just start writing what you have in your mind. No worry about your mistake. In start every man facelot of problems but you can improve slowly as you will write more and more
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Yes I agree… Just go and write and you will get better as you go along. I agree not to worry about mistakes as the best way to learn is by taking action.
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Like the honesty. I want to be independent and I will sacrifice the pay right now. When writing for someone else, as you say, you are a slave to meeting those deadline with their specs. Thanks for the honesty.
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Thanks Mitz for such a wonderful write-up, I too think paid blogging is going day by day boring and offensive.
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What do you mean??? It is easy to get? Did you read it?
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