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2 days ago, i was thinking that MMO (make money online) blogs failed to show readers the practical side of Making money online. It was all “talk talk talk”, all theory, and no practical stuff, there is nothing concrete like ” i applied this strategy using these steps and i made xxx amount of bucks!”.

Now, yesterday, Custodio, a fellow portuguese blogger that makes a living online, created a post that supports what i was thinking.

Theory

He says that MMO blogs don’t show effectively  how to make money. T

he majority of the posts are theoretical, and don’t show you practical results. He even says that a probable answer for all these theoretical posts, is because these bloggers don’t really make any decent money to show…

I couldn’t agree more with him.

Talking theoretically on ways to make money is easy, even for bloggers who don’t know nothing about this niche. You just need to read blogs from this area, recycle their articles and give them your personal touch and giving no credit to the original author.

Shocked? It is a common practice…

A popular Portuguese saying

- “Those who know… Do… Those who don’t know…. Teach” -

And this saying fits like a glove to many MMO bloggers. Those who know, put their knowledge into practice and make a decent buck, while those who don’t know, will tell you how to “theoretically” make money online…

Off course, some of you, actually make a decent amount of money online, and like to create posts on theoretical ways to make money, because you simple don’t want to show how you really make money. After all… You don’t want a new competitor right?

In my opinion, MMO blogs should embrace the Bologna spirit.

The Bologna Process

For those who don’t know what Bologna process is, a quick read on wikipedia will explain you:

“The purpose of the Bologna process (or Bologna accords) is to create the European higher education areaacademic degree standards and quality assurance standards more comparable and compatible throughout Europe. It is named after the place it was proposed, the University of Bologna, with the signing in 1999 of the Bologna declaration by Ministers of Education from 29 European countries in the Italian city of Bologna“

A fundamental objective of Bologna process is to make the student, learn from himself by putting in practice what he has learned.

So when i say MMO blogs should embrace the Bologna Spirit is because i think bloggers need to loose a bit the Theoretical posts, and put into practice the theories they learned, showing almost a step-by-step post. Showing their readers what have they done exactly to make xxx dollars from affiliate marketing, what have they done to make a site a success, or what secrets do you have  and how do you put them into work.

Final Consideration

Im not saying MMO bloggers should reveal all they know or reveal their niches. That wouldn’t be a wise decision.  As Custodio say’s, a blogger should show 95% of the process, the other %5 depends on the reader.

Readers want something concrete. Something they can put into practice right away- Practical Examples!

And by the way… Don’t be afraid to show your failures. We all learn from mistakes…

Wow, almost 6 days without publishing anything here at the blog! I don’t like to do this but my situation demands it.

It is the final week of my internship at the health centre and a project that i am doing for the internship is taking longer than i expected, although i am at the final steps of it, but still i need a couple more days to have it at the necessary stage.

Sadly this is making me fall behind on some jobs i have pending such as new bans stores, mini sites and reviews…. :\

So while i don’t post a decent topic here i will let you read some posts of blogs that i read:

How to find a niche for your bans store - Flimjo

Speed up your blog - The Net Fool

Bill from TheBlogentrepeneur says that you should treat your niche sites like Business.

And finally, Building A Famous Blog Is Like Writing A Hit Song is brought to you by Tom from Standoutblogger.

Have fun reading these posts and ill see you in the next post!

Besides the Making money niches (most know as MMO blogs) there are other kinds of blogs we should read, one of these blogs is Stylish Design, which is a Web design blog.

Stylish design is a blog run by Robert and Andrei that focus on web designing and related stuff to that subject. You can find information about search engine optimization and web directories, but also, CSS and website templates.

With the recent Google page rank update, there are some articles that you might find useful, such as “Fighting for more page rank” or “You can never find out the true PageRank”.

These are just a few articles in this blog that I read, but I found more interesting posts, which I will let you to discover.

I decided it was time to spend some of the money earned and went on a “buying spree” this month! So. if i look at my earning stats this month they are in the deep red! ouch! But you know, in order to make money, you have to spend some.

SO what i have done this month?

I decided to buy OIOpublisher and BANS. Bought advertising at some interesting blogs and sponsored a contest.

Time is money, and right now, time (and money) is what i lack. So the return on my investment will be slow (at least i hope to have some return).

But let’s head to subject of this post.

I decided to buy Buildanichestore this weekend (if you don’t know what BANS is, just visit their website), and posted a topic on bloggeries, saying that i was considering buying BANS through an affiliate link of a selected member of that forum (since i wanted to buy, why not make someone earn some bucks with it?). Surprisingly, i had only one response to this offer. I was thinking that an offer like this would attract some members, because it was an easy $44 deal just for giving me an affiliate link!

So, i bought BANS and the member that replied me with his affiliate link now is $44 richer.

Now, i have spent some time configuring the BANS store on an old domain (well, not that old… lol) that i had. It is called dietsforall.com. I must say that i haven’t done any keyword research or anything else. Just wrote some original homepage content and nothing more. I will not rank well on google with this site, nor im planning on doing some extensive link building for this one. It is only test purpose.

I will do some experiments with this BANS store, and others that i will create. I plan to do an on going series of posts about BANS and setting up a new store, as well mentioning some good articles about it (there is no point on creating a new article when there are already good ones to read).

Another thing that i plan to do is to release some free CSS templates for bans. Unfortunately, there are not that many CSS templates available for download.

A few days ago i stumbled with an interesting site called Focial.com

This site is an auction site specialized in selling advertinsing for your blogs (but not only that!). If you know ebay, than all that was said about ebay its in focial.com except focial.com is a niche auction site.

What can you do there:

• Buy and sell advertising
• Advertise for guest bloggers and become a guest blogger for someone else.
• Focial has paid and free listings
• Advertise your graphics skills
• Sell anything else that could help bloggers

If you register you will have a free $25 credit to use in your auctions. You can use them to feature an auction for example.

This site is relatively new and has few members., but a think this site can evolve a lot, and i want to be one of the first there.

I have made some auctions and let’s see how it will go for me.

oh, and by the way, if you register please consider placing lossehelin has your referrer