Are You A Blogging Scammer?

by Peter J on August 25, 2010

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This is a guest post by Peter from Ideas Bubble raising a question: Are You A Blogging Scammer?.

We’ve gotten used to all those scam emails that come into our inbox every single day trying to sell us horrible products that are way to good to be true.

Aside from all those rubbish products, the same is actually quite true for blogging. Are you a blogging scammer?

Writing blog posts that you say will change others as bloggers. Those amazing topics and discussions that sound so good and important, and yet have nothing and do absolutely nothing at all.

Blogging is about standing up to an expectation that is of true quality and writing something that might be of value to someone. What about you? Do you write rubbish content that no one can actually do anything useful with.

People, especially bloggers and internet marketers are constantly trying to sell you their secret success tips that are not completely true. They try and tell you how to make a million dollars from affiliate marketing. The truth is, most of these are scams and the people who are publishing them probably have never actually made a single cent from their blogs and are hoping that through fooling you they will make some money. This is their million dollar secret, Scamming.

Scamming Won’t Get You Anywhere…

Scamming (in the blogging sense) actually achieves nothing and if you want to build up a readership of people who actually care about your blog then you need to avoid this disaster as it will not get you anywhere. All the successful and rich bloggers used conventional and proper means to attract readers. But you will never reach this stage if your blog is a scam.

Here are some tips towards finding out whether you are on the right path towards successful blogging or just another try hard attempt at making yourself something worthwhile out there in the blogosphere.

1. Trash The Poor Quality Promos:

A great way to attract readers towards subscribing to your email newsletter is to provide a free, pulled together eBook in 2 minutes  which is supposedly meant to deliver big on something but when they read it does absolutely nothing for them and wasn’t even worth providing the email.

Then are the big end eBooks scams that serve the purpose of luring people in. They have no intention of doing anything, just getting a few extra mailing list subscribers. Do you honestly think that bloggers are dead set on helping people by giving away their eBooks, No, they have ulterior motives. If they truly where then they would give away what they write for free, without asking for an email or a subscription.

2. Write Only Of The Best:

The best way to write the best quality content is to avoid writing so frequently. Absolutely no one is that active in their minds to be able to write blog posts daily that are of good quality but also timeless.

Reducing posting means you can focus on writing better content that is actually worth reading. Instead of writing and publishing once you are done, reducing how often you post down by one extra day means that you can spend that time working on improving that post. In the long run, you will always end up with something better.

3. Only Write To The Same Level As Yourself:

So many people think that they are experts in their field. And then you get the scammers who try and show off as though they know so many skills, the people who try to teach you how to make a million dollars through blogging.

The best way to look professional and avoid looking like a scammer is to live up only to what you know yourself at. This means, don’t try to tell people how to make a million dollars through Google Adsense if you’ve only made few hundreds dollars. People think they know how to teach you to be rich when they have no skill at it themselves because they are not even rich. Don’t tell people straight lies and you wont look like an absolute scammer through your blog.

Conclusion:

The best way to make yourself look like a professional blogger that readers can actually trust is to avoid doing poor quality blogging jobs that are so obviously rubbish.

All the emails and scams we get in our daily lives have taught us to pick out what is quality and not.

If you are a blogging scammer you will fit into the no quality area and never succeed at blogging.

The more you focus on providing something worthwhile, the further you will go in the long run.


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Onibalusi Bamidele August 25, 2010 at 10:37 pm

Really great post Peter,

I am definitely not a blogging scammer because scamming won’t take me anywhere.

The real joy of blogging is in providing value and when you launch or promote a product you will be amazed to see people respond!

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Kevin August 25, 2010 at 10:54 pm

you have been talking a lot about rubbish content, now i am forced to talk about it. My question are very simple! 1. If someone is very interested about Blogging but he is not that good in English? Why do u consider those blogs as rubbish content. Well, In my view everything depends on interest not only the knowledge ‘how much that person has gained’. You are good in English, but that doesn’t mean that your are providing good content. Stop blaming other and concentrate what you have to do. There are many people who wants to blog but dont know much English. At least you should be proud of them, even English is not their mother language but at least they are trying to blog. If you dont agree with me then you can ***CENSORED – Please Don’t Use Abusive Language. Everyone is free to comment but not in that manner. – Typhoon***

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Peter J August 26, 2010 at 2:22 pm

I’m sorry if this sounded a bit like i was stereotyping specific people. I agree and support what you have just said.

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Peter J August 27, 2010 at 5:37 am

“Please Don’t Use Abusive Language. Everyone is free to comment but not in that manner.”
Exactly…
Your trying to abuse me using some petty language and then tell me that i don’t support the bloggers that have english as their second language. I never said that!

And yet you can’t even provide a link back to your blog so obviously you have nothing better to offer.
Next time, actually prove to me that you have something to offer and not just winge about other people’s writings when you can’t even stand up for your own.

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Typhoon August 27, 2010 at 2:23 pm

I think he writes at http://www.designersdigest.co

It’s not “.com” it’s “.co” only..No confusion in that :)

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James Pruitt August 25, 2010 at 10:59 pm

hey Peter, although I agree that there are a lot of these scam type blogs, not all of them are. I promote and teach others through my blog how to promote affiliate products properly.

Not everything can be free. although I agree a lot of what people publish is rubbish, readers also need to learn how to determine if they are being scammed or not. It is a sad but true fact of life that scammers are out there. That has been true for thousands of years, and it won’t change.

I think part of the problem is so many of the fake experts telling people that you have to be an expert to do anything. I never claim expertise, and in fact downplay my expertise regularly. Yet I get a lot of people coming to my blog all the time.I share what I do know and what has worked for me. I do hold back for my list subscribers, but they get even more value than the people who just come to the blog.

My list subscribers get more high quality content, free reports which will tell them how to do something, and I will often promote a product through that report, but they still get a lot of value from the report. one thing that I was told early on, and try to remember is to ask yourself “If someone reads this and never buys through me, did they get something that they can use?” IF the answer is no, then you need to go back to the drawing board.

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Paras August 26, 2010 at 12:21 am

Nope i am one of the real bloggers in Forex Related industry and i have experienced the same bombardment of emails related to get rich scheme in forex. Funny part they manage the blogs as if its serious business niche.

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imran from earn money online August 26, 2010 at 1:50 am

Very interesting post. I really like your thoughts. The scamming all around us and also in blogging. There are only few people who are earning thousands of dollars and then teaching others like john chow etc. But most of other people are just trying to sell their dumb stuff.I agree that genuine and great quality posts cannot be created very frequently like daily. Thanks for good post :-)

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Murlu August 26, 2010 at 4:12 am

Waiting to write a blog post is vital because you’re absolutely right – when people write every day you have to wonder what real-world experience are they truly bringing to the blog.

If you take the time to pick up a few additional skills, learn a little bit more about your subject and put it to the test you’ll be able to give a much more valuable post than just throwing out theory, ya know?

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Alex from SQL Training August 26, 2010 at 2:50 pm

I think you are right, there are many people out there who just scam telling that they will help you earn millions of dollar online but while on the other hand they have even hardly earned a penny from the same method. I think all these kind of bloggers do is just lie around to increase the quantity of their posts.
One should give time and write a quality post even if he needs to wait a few days.

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Colleen from Kennewick Homes August 26, 2010 at 9:47 pm

“The truth is, most of these are scams and the people who are publishing them probably have never actually made a single cent from their blogs and are hoping that through fooling you they will make some money.”

Amen brother! I see so many articles being written about how to make huge chunks of money, when there are only a slight few actually making enough money to pay the bills. I think if a person really wants to make money online they need to develop an offline business and use their online expertise to make the real money.

Nice post Peter! ;)

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Colleen from Kennewick Homes August 26, 2010 at 9:49 pm

Ok, gotta know what plugin is being used that links phrases within my comments to another source. I can see all sorts of good uses of that for my own blog.

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Typhoon August 27, 2010 at 2:11 pm

The plugin is very helpful in interlinking inside your blog..It is called “internal link building plugin”

Download here: http://seoroi.com/downloads/ilb-2

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Colleen from Kennewick Homes August 28, 2010 at 12:30 am

Thanks Typhoon. This is huge for interlinking content. I’ll give it a try. ;)

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Darren August 27, 2010 at 12:32 am

I totally agree it is absolutely no good getting those scam emails every day. Its all about building trust with your visitors, and giving them quality content. and once you have built that trust they will always come back.Thanks for the post it is a reminder to us all!!!

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Dean Saliba August 27, 2010 at 5:08 am

When I read the title of this blog post I thought to myself “pretty much every comment will start wit hthe line “I’m not a scammer”.

I like to think that I am not a scammer, I only push products and services that I have used and have worked for me.

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Jaja August 27, 2010 at 6:45 am

Thanks for posting this one, Joseph! :-)

I get around 30-50 emails a day from internet marketers promoting their affiliate links and none of those programs work. ;-)

Anyway, what do you think of John Chow?

Do you think he’s a scam (I hope not). He tells people he’ll tell them how to earn money but bloggers are complaining that there’s no article in his site that tells so.

Hope to hear from you soon!
Jaja

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Peter J August 27, 2010 at 3:28 pm

John Chow isn’t a scam, he’s gotten on and done quite a bit and he does make a huge amount of money. His main method of money is the affiliate marketing, and what he does is real. He’s just become hated for some reason???

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Jaja August 29, 2010 at 7:45 am

Well, I just hope he’s not.

And I do hope the people telling he is one will get over it already!

Bloggers are really getting confused >.<

Anyway, thanks for the reply!
:-)

It's still an awesome post!

Jaja

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akira07 from canon pixma reviews September 7, 2010 at 10:47 am

Where you heard that information? Please tell me the link. I’m fans of John Chow and i’m sure he is for real. For simple evidence, he ever made a contest with thousand dollar prize. Of course he can’t pay for the winner if he have no good business.

About spam email in your inbox, why not just unsubscribe or block the email?

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Biodun from UK Webmaster Forum September 2, 2010 at 2:20 pm

Great and quite interesting post, being a blog scammer is not the best as it wont pay your blog at the long run…

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tushar September 2, 2010 at 3:58 pm

quite right peter….i keep myself away from scams and cheats whether it is blogging or any contests because in that way you do not get satisfaction.

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Matt September 3, 2010 at 2:23 am

I totally agree with Peter, especially on number 2. It always to better to take the time to write something worth reading then put stuff out there to just put stuff out there.

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akira07 from canon pixma reviews September 7, 2010 at 10:44 am

Quality article need a time to be made. If one blog can make more than 2 daily update, i have doubt that their using PLR or just rewrite other article. And that’s mean their are blogging scammer.

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irfan from hollywood box office 2010 September 6, 2010 at 4:06 am

articles that inspire, i like it.

from my experience as a blogger is that we should write something useful, providing useful information and add insight.

if we hold the above principle, I am sure our blog will be visited by the bloggers or other visitors.

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akira07 from canon pixma reviews September 7, 2010 at 10:42 am

Nice article and happy me that i didn’t categorized as blogger scammer. Well, i’m only writing that what i actually do and i won’t tell lies. There is no good point of telling lies.

And very agree about the point no.2. I ever subscribed in a blog with 3 daily updates. In my eyes, it’s not professional but like a spam.

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Chris September 8, 2010 at 10:21 pm

Karma exists on the internet. If you try to take advantage of ppl they will see right through you. Instead i think the way to go is provide value to your audience. Actually try to help them you know?

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Emily September 9, 2010 at 9:52 pm

Scamming will only get you nowhere. I agree, you must have quality content in your articles to attract readers not only for today, but also for the next days when you post a new article.

I have also encountered e-mails on how-to-get-rich-quick schemes that are very suspicious. If it sounds too good to be true, then most likely it’s a scam.

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Visual~Tissue September 16, 2010 at 11:56 pm

i even twitted this entry, it was true.. and i really doubt those email spammer when it comes to their program’s efficiency. if they’re allready big why sell those stuffs? and why does their site’s script sucks a lot? this post was really valuable and is truly informative. nice post

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Usama September 28, 2010 at 5:34 pm

Hate scammers. But what can you do. Just like there are frauds and thieves in the real world, scammers are them in the internet world. Although love your article.

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anthonynlee February 13, 2011 at 11:32 am

Wow. So, normally I scour the Twitter feed consuming all manner of fantastic posts. Not that this wasnt well written, but its the first one I strongly disagree with enough to write a comment about it.
First off, I do agree with your points on not spamming blog posts, but enticing people with an offer of an ebook or report in exchange for an email is not a scam….its called commerce.
True, the people on your list will Ideally be monetized at some point, but only through welcome offers. Furthermore, if you wish to continue to receive the content you so enjoy and appreciate, you should want your Blogger to make a living. I have a free report I offer, but I also save my BEST material for my newsletter subscribers.
Next, your comment about writing less because nobody consistently creates outstanding material that writes everyday, I take issue with. Though you are a Blogger, clearly you haven’t studied much on the subject of copywriting. The best writers I know are profound, and write daily.
Lastly selling to your level. Yes, I will agree that you shouldn’t make false or misleading claims, but you don’t have to have already harvested a million dollar crop if you know you’ve planted it. What I mean is, how many Olympic coaches do you know that were also Olympic athletes?
You don’t have to have reached the top yet to teach people what you’ve learned about how to get there. Yea it helps…..but I personally have a friend who is absolutely an expert in the field of network marketing, even though he hasn’t made any serious money with it.
Just sayin…….

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