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Originally Posted by Frans  The breakthrough of blogging came a few years ago, when Adsense ads became available for "content providers" (June 2003).
The webmasters who provided free content BEFORE June 2003, were idealists because they earned nothing with their site, on the contrary: they had to pay to share their knowledge with other people.
These people had the right to say: "it's about helping people".
Would you proceed with your blog if you wouldn't earn a penny with your site?...
If your answer is "no", then please refrain from statements as "it's about helping people". |
Dude, I just threw ad-sense on my site and a "donate" button to allow people to contribute if they want to. I haven't pushed to monetize my site or to try to make a killing from it. In fact, since I launched it in April which is 9 months ago I've made a WHOPPING $16.32 in adwords clicks! Yet, knowing that I'm still writing articles this week. Do you really think I've spent 9 months of my time to make $16? I can make that in a matter of minutes at my job, why would I waste my time? The reason I run my blog is to help people first and foremost. If it generates money, great, I'm not going to complain but that's not my primary focus.