When Amanda first started The Blog World she had mentioned interest in creating a pro blogger website. Her dream of making a website like Pro Blogger (not worth the link) transformed into a site to help you make a site like that. She gained a lot of interest and did a lot of research. When she told me about all this and about how you could make thousands per month from a blog, I had mixed feelings. First was a “Woohoo, I blog! I can make money!” and another was “Isn’t there enough advertising in my face?” One of the things I always liked about surfing sites was that I could go there, enjoy the design and content, and not be bothered to buy prescriptions, or clothes, or whatever else you want to sell me.
Have you ever seen the movie Minority Report, with Tom Cruise? In this movie, as he walks around, these things scan his eyes and pop up with an ad to suit his specific needs. And they talk out loud to him. And everyone else on the street, in the subway, and in stores. And everyone’s just walking around ignoring them because they’re so common place. I see the world heading there, and I see pro bloggers helping.
I don’t want to be surrounded by advertising everywhere I go. I don’t want to go to my friend’s personal blog and have her try to sell me something she doesn’t even believe in. I don’t want to go to a website to look up how to change my faucet sprayer and have ads cut through each paragraph on the page. But for many people, this has become normal, and they’ve learned to just skip over them.
I’ve decided I’m going to focus mostly on website creation, blogging, and nonintrusive advertising that actually relates to the topic. I give Google kudos for trying to do that. Some times their ads are way off, but mostly they’re pretty relative. Don’t just sell ads to make money, make sure it’s actually something you would like for your visitors. In the end, you may find it benefits you more in ways you wouldn’t expect (possibly even monitarily).