Why Do Most Newbies Fail at Blogging/Internet Marketing?

Yes, and most of the time it involves blogging to "crickets" for weeks and even months before Traffic can build up and an audience appears. That is a HUGE reason I see most throwing in the towel with Blogging.

The Crickets Concept lol



- Robert Andrew

Originally Posted by NichekwsBlog

A Report Says "More than 90% Blogger Fail"

I, too, would like to see that report ... if the OP would reply with a URL to it.

Waiting with bated breath here.

I'm not saying that you can't be successful blogging about something that you know nothing about. If you have the investment capital, that's not an issue because you can always hire people who are experts in that area to write for you. You can always learn the topic yourself as well.

My point is that a lot of new bloggers fail because they pick a topic to write about based solely on it's popularity, not realizing that there are literally thousands of niches and sub-niches that they could get into and profit much quicker and easier.

I'm also speaking from personal experience when I say that as a new blogger you shouldn't think so much like a marketer. You should think like someone who is blogging because they love to blog and because they have a true passion for wanting to provide unique, interesting content that is super helpful to others.

I got into affiliate marketing in 2007 and was strictly into list building in the "make money online/biz opp" niche. Within 2 years I had built a list of almost 50K and was nearing the 6 figure per year mark. I had never blogged up until this point.

I had the list building thing going great, and I wanted to try blogging because I knew a lot of people were cleaning up with that and so I wanted to try it.

I didn't want to blog about the "make money online/biz opp" niche because I knew the competition was insane. I tried other niches like dog training and hair loss and my first 5 or 6 attempts failed miserably. Finally, I started a blog about what I loved, which was building a list in the MMO niche and doing in-depth REAL reviews on many of the new product launches.

BINGO! I hit my stride with that one. Everything came easier. I actually began to enjoy writing the reviews. Not only that, I built a nice passive income for myself because lots of those reviews make sales on autopilot every month.

You say that having a passion for what you are writing about is the least of your problems, but I disagree.

I decided from the minute I started my review blog that I was not going to think like a marketer. I don't even do any SEO except on-page SEO. I simply put together incredible reviews that are 1500-2000 words, include videos, infographics, PDFs, audio files, etc, in every post.

I can write a review right now about an MMO product that launched today and within 24 hours my review will be on page 1 or page 2 of Google. Every once in a while I end up near the top of page 3.

With the exception of including my affiliate link in the article (obviously), I don't think like a marketer.

Instead, I put myself in the mind of a potential customer who is looking for REAL information about a product. It's not that hard to stick out in the MMO niche because 95% of the reviews are written by people who don't have the product so maybe that's why I can stand out from the crowd so easily.

Newbies fail because they try to break into niches and blog about things they know nothing about and don't really care about. They are only doing it for the money. And while we are all in it to make money, if something looks like it's written solely to extract money from a person, the person can usually sense that and they leave the site and look elsewhere.

The main key to success is providing excellent content that keeps people engaged.

It's certainly not technical knowledge, because WordPress is so easy to use that my 5 year old nephew could do it. It's not SEO, because people simply over complicate that.

All you really need to worry about is on-page SEO. If your content is awesome you'll get natural backlinks, which is what Google wants.

Blogging is simple. People who over complicate it or try to do it just for the money will always fail -- unless they have a ton of capital to put up front to pay writers, researchers, social media managers, buy paid advertising, etc.

I would say that 99% of new bloggers don't have that kind of capital.

So people need to keep it simple and yes, their first blog should be about something they love and care about and consider important.

If they can make that blog successful, then by all means they should then branch out into other niches.

Wrong. Not even remotely true.

I have no idea why you're stuck on that idea.

You only have competition when you target the same traffic as someone else with the same product/service. Even then it's not always the death of a salesman/business.

The same stuff being sold on ebay sells on Craigslist all day long with practically no competition on Craigslist while ebay is flooded with the same products from multiple vendors and magically all/most making sales.

The reason multiple ebay sellers make sales for the same product is some of them bring their own traffic to ebay from other locations/sites on the web. Everyone selling on ebay doesn't depend on ebay as a traffic source, some use ebay simply as a checkout cart and the rating system.

Also keep in mind everyone will not find every single seller and most will never comparison shop online.

Applies to the rest of the universe.

I wonder if she really has ever sold anything online herself.

I think she is one of those lifers that just hangs out on marketing forums. She talks about marketing all day, but doesn't do any herself.

Really? You also posted 6 months later.





More nonsense.

Like I said, go look at ebay, multiple sellers selling the same product on the same domain with public data showing sales.