Blogging Newbie

I moved all my blogging newbie rants over to Blogger because WordPress does not allow for Ads on their  site.

Check out my Blogger Blogs:

• icontoo.blogspot.com
• lakeoswegomom.blogspot.com

I am a newbie at blogging, and am experimenting with these 3 blogs.  The good news about my WordPress blog is that it has been picked up by an RSS feed.  My Blogger ones have not, at least to my knowledge.  WordPress dashboard features allow me to figure this out.  I found it under Comments : Spam.  I followed the link, and sure enough, I am being updated on the RSS feed about health.  Maybe it is the subject matter.  I’m not writing about Health on Blogger.

The reason is that WordPress makes money by the Ads they sell, and it is part of their agreement with their Advertisers. Again, there seems to be a lot of WordPress blogs which do have Ads.

The fine points in the Word Press Terms of Service is that if you have your own websites, you can blog on WordPress about your own business.  What you can’t do is blog advertising through sites such as Blogsvertise and Google AdSense.

How do I know?  I wrote to WordPress directly.  Anthony repiled and gave me the scoop.

So what is with the WordPress blogs who do use Ads?  The proceeds either go to WordPress – or possibly these are older blogs, who signed up before the Terms of Service changed.

Wild Cherries, Wild Cherry Bark and Karma Cleanse

Okay.  Now that we’ve estasblished that this is not the place for Blogging for Money, but I can write about what’s going on, let me say that I’ve opened a blog on Blogger.  I’ve decided to write about being a newbie blogger on my Blogger blog.  I’m calling it:

LAKE OSWEGO MOM

Concious Threads in a Chaotic World From Life to Near Death and Back Again

I’ve crosslinked my WordPress and Blogger blogs, and added links to my websites on my Blogger blog in my About Me.  I also added Google AdSense to my Blogger blog.  It’s all very new to me.  At least I’m a seasoned software developer, so at least I have some clues to where I’m going.  Adding links to my websites on these blogs should give them more visibility.

Back to building my website.  I am working on adding more content about Karma Cleanse for my EdgarCayceOnline.com and NaturalAlternativePath.com websites.  I went out and did an image search, and found lots of images of  Wild Cherries and Wild Cherry Bark. 

Wild Cherry Bark

There were lots of photos of products made with Wild Cherries and Wild Cherry Bark, which is the main ingredient in Karma Cleanse.  This brings back memories of taking Vicks Wild Cherry coughdrops as a kid.  They are so good.  I have alot of Edgar Cayce research about the ingredients in Karma Cleanse since it is made from his recipe.

I will be writing about my findings on my websites about Wild Cherry and Wild Cherry Bark health benefits.  Edgar Cayce was a pioneer in this field.  Now that scientific research ahs caught up to his findings, I plan to write comparatives on NaturalAlternativePath.com

NO Blogging for Money on WordPress.com

I got an official answer back from WordPress support.  No blogging for money on WordPress.com  If we want to blog for money, download the WordPress.org app onto your own hosting site.

I got word that Blogger is a better place to go for Blogging for Money.

So there are lots of you that do Blog for Money on WordPress.com.  If you started a long time ago, the rules may have changed, and you are grandfathered in.  Lucky you.

This still leaves me with the  Blogging for Money vs Websites for profit question.

Then there is the other alternative of writing iPhone apps.  There are fewer of us who can pull this off.

Blogging for Money vs Website for Profits

While at the Silva Method workshop last weekend in Gig Harbor, I googled Silva Method Weight Control and came up with an interesting article on Blogging for Money.  The article reviewed Blogsvertise as a place to sign up to blog and get paid for blogging.  It sounded so simple and easy.  I started my first blog yesterday here on WordPress.  I have been writing for a long time, so I thought I could apply my writing talents to blogging.  My kids blog all the time.

Since Monday, I have been researching this at night after a full day’s work as a .Net software developer.  By night, I build websites for my friends and for fun.  After reading some of the blogs on WordPress and elsewhere, it is unclear whether WordPress allows such blogs on this site.  Some threads say No. Others appear to be doing it anyway.  I wrote to WordPress support, and will hopefully get an answer soon.

Some of the blogs I read on Blogging for Money wrote about strategies as sophisticated as one would find for SEO for websites.  So what is this phenomenon?  Are blogs like mini-websites?  What are the best sites for new bloggers to start out in the Blogging for Money biz?

If it takes just as much strategizing to Blog for Money as it does to have a Website for Profits, what advantage is there?

If the answer is neither, and it is a wash, maybe writing iPhone apps is the way to go. Like others, I want to leverage my talents.