There are many people who profess to being blogging gurus out there. They have all of the answers to every question and supposedly make tons of money with their blogs each and every day. Do they really make all of this money from their blog or is the main source of their income the blogging products that they develop and feed you through Clickbank?

I get proposals to be a Joint Venture partner on many blog related products and most of them I turn down. I turn them down because I take a look at the product and see that its just a bunch of old re-hashed garbage that has been on the net for years or because I read the salesletter and they are showing all kinds of “proof” of income, but they never actually show you one of their blogs that is supposedly producing this income.

This so-called “proof” of income is usually just a shot of a Clickbank account. Did this money actually come from sales on their blog or is it from their last product launch. I guess they can “legally” get by with saying that they made that money in the blogging niche because the product they sold was blogging related. But what I want to see is proof from the blog itself.

Show me traffic figures, click-thru rates on your ads posted on the blog(s)… Something that shows you actually that you possibly could have derived that  income from your blog… Hell, just show me that you actually do blog and aren’t just out there searching the internet and publishing ebooks from that info that you want to sell to me for $37!

Don’t get me wrong, there are bloggers out there who make tons of money every day. People like John Chow, Perez Hilton and others. They have built their brand and have tons of readers who visit their site daily, click their ads and buy their products. They don’t need to force feed their readers anything, the money just comes naturally from their loyal readers. Building one of these types of blogs takes a lot of time and effort… It’s not going to happen over night.

There are other, faster ways to make money in blogging. If you seek out niches that haven’t been overly exploited or do not have much competition, you can quickly build a profitable blog site.

You can also enter into niches where people are looking for answers to specific problems like; acne, migraine headaches, garden pests, etc. If you build several of these niche blogs, you can make a pretty decent living from the income they provide and it doesn’t take long to get each of them making money.

Don’t expect to make six or seven figures immediately. It will take time to build enough of  these niche sites into an empire that will make you that kind of money.

I’m not trying to scare you off from blogging… Just know this… You can build a profitable blog in a very short time, but if you are looking to get rich blogging, it is going to take some time, whether you are building one super blog or an empire of niche sites. There are plenty of so-called gurus out there that may tell you the opposite, but until they show you the blog(s) that they used to do it… Don’t believe them. Anybody can show you a screenshot of a Clickbank or Paypal account…

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