Fair enough you dont want to sell crap – false claims’ stuff as you have already opposed, but there are plenty of genuine sources out there that will help you site to grow….and not just slowly.

It is a fierce market out there, but only because there are alot more consumers now. If you started ‘facebook’ 20 years ago, would it have worked?

The best thing about the internet (right now) is its still rising with users and subscribers. Its a growing market and still has some way to go, unlike buying a shop and grinding it out for years.

All the best dude.

That is really funny. I really enjoyed your comment because you wrote it from the gut. You did not write it for personal gain, you didn’t leave a link back to your site, you simply wrote it because that is what you felt like writing.

You are right. This blog is quit negative (the website is just factual). But that’s not my fault. I am just writing how it is and how I feel.

The website shows how difficult it is to make money with a website. And this blog describes how I feel about it.

When I started I was beaming with positivity and excitement. Based on what I read on other websites I thought I was going to make lots of money and that it was going to be easy. When it turned out to be otherwise, my attitude adjusted.

And that’s what you see here. Me writing about the fall from a high place, a high place built by the exaggerated claims a person new to ‘making money online’ is lead to believe.

I have been at it for over 2 years now. Progress has been a lot slower than I expected but I am positive. Things are progressing – traffic keeps going up and revenue keeps increasing. When I finally start making lots of money and am sitting on the beach sipping Martinis I will write about it on this blog – hopefully that will motivate you “to do just about anything in life.”

The point is, everything is possible. Even with the internet pumped with billions of webpages offering just about anything (saturated in every niche probably), there is always opportunity. By telling readers that YOUR website wont make them rich (yet its a money making concept), you may as well point the gun at your foot and pull the trigger.

That being said, this whole idea of writing a detailed daily or periodical blog is dead. The online community is moving into packaged, standardized and user-friendly formats like facebook and twitter and the new Google one that has just started. They will kill blogging much like Netscape and Explorer killed the once promising BBS concept.

Moreover, as regulation of the internet increases, you’ll start to see more and more fees, restrictions and taxes imposed on website owners. The purpose and effect of these will be to start squeezing out the little guy in favor of big corporations as the internet is already too cluttered with all these mickey mouse websites all over place. It’s much easier for the powers that be to have the flow of information concentrated in a few places rather than have a disorganized and unpredictable open forum as the internet is today.

I predict that in 10 years most website traffic will concentrated among a few major sites like Wikipedia, Amazon, Google, the big SNS sites and of course corporate websites. Individual blog sites will be the realm of hobbyists only, will operate at a cost and of course be subject to content restrictions.

One hundred years ago, the radio market started out relatively free and open and a lot of homebrew radio operations started up at the beginning with individualized, local and unregulated content. As we see today, the radio market is now solely in the hands of major corporations and the only a few remaining ham radio operaters still manage to broadcast themselves, albeit at their own expense. The same can be said for publishing, a handful of companies in each country control the printed media market and the idea of writing, editing and distributing your own book at a profit is all but impossible. Every form of media in human history has followed this pattern.

The internet is headed in this direction too and if you can’t smell the wind you’ll keep wasting your time posting your thoughts into the empty ether. If you have the spare time to write and post your thoughts I recommend you switch to Ham radio, it’s much funner and you don’t have to pretend that you’re doing it to make money. If you can’t affort a Ham radio license just tweet all your meaningless daily interactions and follow the rest of the herd into the abyss of simple mindedness.