Problogger.com Forum and your Home Business
Friday, October 2nd, 2009If you work online running a small business then you have probably heard of Darren Rowse and his popular blog called Problogger.net. The site is known for giving blogging tips to would be bloggers and really has little to do with starting and maintaining a successful online business although the owner claims to teach bloggers how to make money with their blogs. The tips are rather thin and rarely add anything concrete as far as operating a small business online is concerned so it was rather amusing to see that Darren Rowse feels he can charge a fee for joining his new blogging forum.
If you read his blog he tends to dispense advise like “don’t give up”, “write about something you are passionate about”, “10 tips on making your blog fresh” and so on. Hardly the kind of nuts and bolts info a novice can use to actually get a start up small business off the ground. In essense Problogger makes his money selling advertising on his blog that comes from having a large readership and he intones that others can do the same if they follow his advice. The problem is that he started long before there were other bloggers and the chances of someone else duplicating his success is remote. In fact if he was to start today he would not have the following that he currently has. His material is fluff for the most part and he shows no knowledge of SEO (search engine optimization) or keyword targeting. These are by far the biggest factors involved in Internet Marketing today. You have to know what keywords people who spend money online are searching for and then you have to know how to rank on top of the search engines in order to get the traffic.
Sadly he doesn’t discuss either of these concepts on his blog and isn’t likely to discuss them on his new forum either and for that reason it isn’t recommended that you pay money to join. Keep your money and seek out advice from legit online marketers who will teach you about SEO and Keyword selection. They are hard to find but they do exist and you can start by reading Griz’s Problogger.com post and then head to his archives to begin your learning. It’s free advice and worth heeding as he ranks on top of the search engines for all the make money online keywords. You can’t do that by accident.