Are You A Greedy Blogger?

From Desi Baba

Flaws of Greedy Bloggers

No Investing
You keep the money you earn, with it you don’t invest in your blog to improve it. Always relying on free ways to improve your blog isn’t going to get your site anywhere. No matter what, unless you get lucky with Google, your blog will need some financial investments.

Too Many Ads
Too many ads all over your blog can piss off any reader. I know I would be if I had ads covering 50% of every single page of mine.

Asking for Too Much
If you’re offering advertising in your blog, asking for too much money from your advertisers can turn them away. Don’t fluctuate your costs, give them a reasonable, low, flat-fee price.

Lack of User Experience
Having too many ads on your site can really lower your site’s user experience. A good example is this music site, http://ww.smashits.com/. As you can see they have ads all over the place; before they had 3-5 pop-up windows of advertisements every 20 minutes, which was very annoying. Also, avoid sneaking in ads every time users navigate through your site, like those intermission ads.

So, if you want to be an online entrepreneur, don’t get too greedy. Through experience, it’s better have happy advertisers and happy visitors than to extract money from them and show them a negative image of your site and yourself. One of the easiest ways to make a great blog, guaranteed, is making your site for yourself first and judging your site as if you were a visitor.