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.

Gig Harbor, Washington

Spent the weekend in Gig Harbor near the beautiful Olympic Peninsula west of Tacoma, Washington.  We stayed at a AAA two star rated Days Inn in Port Angeles for under $100 per night – (AAA rates).  It was fresh, quiet, comfortable, and has a refreshing indoor pool and spa.  It was better than we had expected.  A great find.  It makes for a very affordable weekend jaunt.

Gig Harbor is quaint and charming.  It is very walkable.  There were many people out walking their dogs.  We found a fabulous restaurant called Thai Hut.  There is outdoor seating overlooking the harbor.  It was filled with local residents, a very good sign.  The portions were generous, and the service quite good.  I recommend the Pineapple Prawns in yellow curry.

Our weekend in Gig Harbor was to attend a newly created Silva Method Life System workshop.

www.SilvaMethod-Washington.com

I had taken the original workshop years ago when I was 19 years old.  Jose Silva was a visionary.  At the time, one of his core intentions was to teach his kids how to do well in school.  As I was attending UCLA at the time, I took the course to help me study.  I highly recommend it to all serious seekers of knowledge.  I brought my kids so they can do better in school.  The first time I took it, it was a 4 day course.  Decades later, they have decided to split the course into two workshops.  The first one is the Silva Life System, and the second is the Silva Intuition Training.

The Silva Intuition Training delves into the realm of psychic healing, from a very scientific perspective.  It is very esoteric for the adventurous, or spiritually inclined.  It is a practical grounded sensible approach to tuning one’s psychic abilities.

Out of all the workshops I’ve taken, this set has been the best. A great plus about the Silva Method is their intention.  It isn’t about the money for them, in fact it is quite a bargain, when you consider that you can take refresher courses for very nominal sitting fees (like $50) for the rest of your life.  Visionaries such as Wayne Dyer and Jack Canfield started here.  Check this link for workshops in your area.  The Silva Method is very popular in the Southwest and Latin America.

www.SilvaMethod.com

Gig Harbor is a beautiful setting for hosting small workshops.  There is a wonderful ambiance about the harbor.  It is close enough to the Seattle Tacoma Airport without being so close that you feel like you are still in urban sprawl.