Sometimes a person can get discouraged when “it takes time” because there’s so much garbage out there that distracts people from just buckling down and doing what they need to do. When there is a high percentage of get rich quick sites, it adds credibility to the perception that it is possible. So good people get misled, discouraged and then disillusioned with all of it.

Instead we need to nurture the vision of online business as being just that, business. More accessible to the average Joe or Joanne, but still business.

There is one ad out there on the traffic exchanges these days that just irks me. You may know the one I mean, it’s written all in caps, red of course, and says something like THIS BUSINESS IS DOUBLING EVERY DAY, THIS IS NO HYPE!!!

Right. He or she must be related to Dubbya, thinking he can reinvent the language to suit his own definitions.

Also, splogs aren’t just “a lot of bad quality posts” (like, for instance, a repeater would do). They’re conscious, active attempts to “fool” search engines, get hits and/or increase some other site’s PageRank. In other words, they’re dishonest, not merely low quality.

Unlike most people, I don’t think you have to choose between quantity and quality. Or, to put it in another way: I didn’t mention quality here (I do so in the series, though) because it’s implied.

Quantity, here, doesn’t mean posting 10 times a day even when you don’t feel like writing and have nothing to say - so you simply link to other articles (as you say, becoming a repeater). That is, of course, a bad idea (though I’ve seen a lot of people doing it.) It means, simply, that you’ve been blogging for years, instead of weeks.

Also, I didn’t mention it in this post, as it’s stated clear in Darren’s article, but another consequence of this is that one shouldn’t give up because he or she is only making $1 a day after 3 months, even though the posts are of good quality. As we said… it takes time.