Blogging for cash

There's a strong possibility you have mixed thoughts about using your blog to make money, if you think it may be immoral, unethical or even uncool then the best thing to do is not commercialise it at all.

But if monetizing your blog doesn't offend your sensibilities then go for it, or if you think otherwise and you consider it evil, that's fine too.

But you have to be absolutely clear in your mind that you want to do it before you even begin because making money in this way is difficult enough, without self-sabotage kicking in and making your attempt somewhat half-hearted.

It should feel pretty good making money from your blog, there really is nothing wrong with having an urge to succeed.

If in your opinion your blog has real value, then you deserve to earn something from it.

You can't be timid about the whole thing though, if you're going to put up ads, really put up those ads it's the same with requesting donations, you can't be too obvious with these things.

Some people might complain, they always do when you commercialise a free site.

Is it possible to make a proper income online? Absolutely. It will take longer if you have a day job but the possibility is there.

The ins and outs of Niche Devil

In the words of the developers themselves it is for, "Making money by feeding the Google Monster exactly what it wants whilst you barely lift a finger".

A cool, if overlong tag line, but it's not about that, it's about whether or not it's worth the money!

For the initial setup they recommend you purchase MANY domains, hosting and Niche Devil, you then install the Niche Devil onto your hosting account, then you run the script and insert your chosen keywords and affiliate links for the store you want to build and abracadabra, Niche Devil spits out a site with content and products in about 37 seconds. Got to be witchcraft, now all you need is a few spend-happy customers, and Niche Devil can even promise that with the aid of pinging, before you rush off and get your hands on this wonder, let's see what makes it tick.

The script that you upload to your server/hosting account via ftp will mean that it will have to meet certain minimum requirements.

If nothing else, it is a glorified niche store builder in the same vein as BANS stores, remember them? Niche Devil makes a lot of hype about it's "ever refreshing" content, pulling/scraping content from the Internet that relate to your chosen keywords, which works fine and looks pretty good but there may be issues over copyrighted material being used.

Niche Devil is promoting itself as with statements such as, "Hurry up, only available for 14 days" which can only raises various issues.

They have restricted the time it is available, why? Is it to make you purchase now or is it a case that they're worried about what happens when experience of the product kicks in and why sell a product that apparently makes money so easily and not use it themselves.