Have you ever wondered why money making online scams keep fooling people year after year? Have you ever wondered why there are so many scams online? It is a simple answer really: it is because they work. And why do they work? Because people are lazy and want the easy way out. They are convinced there is some miracle system of making money and they want it. They are willing to get scammed a handful of times before they give up.

I knew when I started this blog that very few people would catch on and realize that I was giving away good information that could really help them make money with getting survey referrals. Oh, I hoped I was wrong and that a picture of a real big check on the front page might motivate some but so far I don’t think it has mattered.

People look at the check, say “that’s nice”, and then move on to the next blog after reading a couple sentences of mine. In the end, they would rather work at MacDonalds making $8.00 an hour than try to get backlinks to a blog. They understand flipping burgers at MacDonalds while they just don’t give a rats ass about backlinks, blogging, article writing, and link exchanges.

Some of the other people who come to this blog are here purely to spam or to leave their CashCrate referral link. LOL LOL LOL. These jackasses don’t have a clue that the blog they are trying to spam (this one) can teach them how to make real money whithout having to comment spam. And they are too stupid to know that there is no chance in hell that their comment is going to get through. Do they really think I am so stupid to let their referral link through? No, they don’t bother to think about anything because spammers are stupid.

I always planned to make money with this blog. How? I know that most people won’t read much of what I write and they will want to leave. One of the reasons my posts are so long is to bore the hell out of people. For those who really care, there is good information in them worth reading. But for most, it will be a situation where they say “this is boring how do I leave?” and then they click on an ad.

Hopefully someday I will have Adsense on this blog and they will leave by clicking an Adsense ad. That is one way you can make money online. Bore people so that they click on your ads to get out. For others who are really interested in learning, maybe a few of them will sign up and try to learn.

Before any of that can happen though, I have to get some good targeted traffic to this blog and it has been difficult especially since I picked a few bad keywords to target. I think my keyword selection has been poor and there might not be as much potential in what I picked as I once thought. I will still keep plugging along with some of them though and I am close to the first page for “paid online surveys”.

The second you land on her blog you know that the blog owner really cares about it (and likes pink). The main reason I chose her blog is that it has the makings of a real flagship blog that she can use down the line to join affiliate networks and make money. It is better than 99% of the other CashCrate “blogs” which people slap up on Blogger.

This blog looks pretty and it looks coordinated and you can tell that someone has spent a lot of time putting it together. Most of all, the pink color helps to give it a personality and that is a good thing. The blog looks alive, it is updated regularly, and through it you get to know a little bit about the person called TriNi.

 What Is The Goal Of The Blog?

The real question though, is what is her goal with the blog. Many people like to blog and just like having a place where they can record their thoughts and maybe have someone read them. They don’t care about making money. Other people blog because they want to make money and that is the only reason they do it. A third group might fall somewhere in between those two. In other words, they like blogging and would probably blog for free but they would like to make some money too.

I am going to assume the one and only goal of this blog is to make money in which case I have a few suggestions. The first is to do away with as much of the “clutter” as possible. If you have a blog that you want to make money with, you need to do away with as many of the distractions as you can. Your sole purpose with the blog is to get targeted traffic to it, have them sign up for an offer, and then leave. That’s it. Come, sign up, leave.

Get Rid Of The Clutter

In my opinion, the PayPal piggy on the right sidebar needs to be taken out because I bet not one person has ever donated a dime. It looks great but it is a waste of space and a distraction that will never make any money. Same thing for the Associated Content widget as that makes no money either and it a way people can leave or get distracted before they sign up.

I also do not like Twitter (I might be in the minority about this) and would take out the “Follow Me On Twitter” and the Twitter updates at the bottom. This is purely my opinion but I just don’t see how Twitter will ever make any money for a blog owner. An argument can be made that it does help legitimize the blog as a “social” blog but then again if you want to make money you are not going to do it with social traffic. I understand the reason for leaving it in but I just wanted to make the point that the more things you have like Twitter that distracts the viewer from signing up for offers, the less money you might make.

I would also try to consolidate the categories in the middle widget that goes way down the page. Holy cow, I have never seen so many categories on a blog and all the bottom ones only have one entry! Again, all those categories serve as a distraction. You want things simple so that they arrive on your blog, sign up for something, and leave.

Too Many Choices Are Bad

One thing you learn in advertising class if you have ever taken one is that you don’t want to give the viewer, listener, or reader too many choices. Many people make the mistake of covering their blogs with banner ads, text link ads, and any other kind of ad they can think of.  The mentality is “well, I just want to give my readers lots of choices and lots of variety of choices” and “maybe they will sign up for everything”.

In actuality, too many choices is a bad thing. When presented with a lot of choices, most people usually just move on because it is hard to make decisions. Making a choice between A, B, C, D and maybe more is hard because it requires you to evaluate things and that is more than most people want to do. Also, almost no one is ever going to sign up for several or more offers so putting lots of offers up hoping that people will sign up for them all is a dream.

I rarely have more than 2 or 3 choices on any one of my blogs that I hope to make money with. Again, you want someone to land on your blog, concentrate on the one or two things you have to offer, and then either sign up and leave or just leave. If you present only one or two options for them and they don’t like either one, they will leave and there is nothing you can do about it. But you want to make it easy for them by saying “this is what I am offering you: A or B and hopefully you will try one of them”.

All this being said, TriNi’s Make Money Online Fast  has 7 GPT sites that she hopes you sign up to but THAT IS NOT ALL BAD. In this case she is displaying the sites she belongs to and that is what her blog is about so it might be OK. I think the offers kind of run together too much and are a bit hard to tell what is what but that is just a layout issue. Again, make things as simple and clear as possible. I would maybe have less offers but that is a personal choice. I would for sure have the best performing offer on top and the second best one below it etc (which she probably does).

This Can Be Her Money Making Flagship Blog

One of the really good things about this blog is that she can write about anything money related and it will fit in. If she wants to change focus to some other way of making money or write posts about something else related to money it will look pretty natural. The blog looks great, as I mentioned before, and she can proudly point people to it and say “that is my blog” and get accepted into affiliate networks if she wants to. It is also something that she can continue to grow over time and hopefully be able to make into a money making machine.

In order to make it into that money maker though, TriNi will have to continue to get links, links, and more links. She needs to write articles and submit them to EzineArticles as well as a few other article directories. She needs to always leave comments on other blogs with keyword anchor text and not her name when possible (some bloggers will delete your comment if it is not your name).

Most importantly if I were she, I would try to do link exchanges with other bloggers. The problem here is that her blog is such a good blog that she doesn’t want to be linking out to many of the crappy CashCrate blogs that she might come across. 3 way link exchanges are best anyway and if I were TriNi, I would develop one of her other make money blogs  a little more, and then she can offer a link from one of her other blogs in exchange for a link to this blog.  If she has multiple blogs that are all decent, then she will be able to facilitate 3 way link exchanges more often.

It is too bad more CashCrate bloggers don’t have well thought out blogs they take pride in like TriNi does. If she works hard, she will be able to make it into a solid money maker and all her efforts will be rewarded. But in order for that to happen she needs a lot more anchored backlinks.

However, if you are serious about learning how to get paid for surveys and making money, you need to start building something of quality that will have a ton of anchored links. Someone who has guest posted on one of my other blogs just sold one of their main sites at SitePoint. Here is the link to the auction that ended with the site being sold for the “buy it now” price of $48,000.00.

Now that is not a blog but it really doesn’t matter. The reason it sold for so much is because of all the money making terms it ranked highly for. You can read the lengthy description and see all the keywords for which it ranked highly on Google. If you rank high, you will get search engine traffic which then equates to earnings.

Again, if you want to make money getting CashCrate referrals or from any other affiliate program, the sooner you start a flagship blog and start getting anchored links back to it the sooner you will start making money. After 6 years of getting links, Trent’s site was worth $48,000 which of course was in addition to all the money he had already made with it for the 6 years.

Can you make money online like he did? If you can write and strategically plan a blog around a set of high paying keywords or topic, you will, with the proper number of links begin to make money. It is simple. Get a real blog, start writing posts with lots of your keywords, and work constantly and getting links. That is how you can make some good money on the Internet.