Welcome back to Blog Subway, where I want to take a cold hard look at one of the ways of how not to make money online. Blogging in the subway doesn’t mean I’m blogging in the, erm actual subway, if anyone is wondering! This is really just an underground look at what’s going on in the world of blogging and where people are using blogs to make money from blogging. So what’s the latest to hit the cyber streets?

Well, it may or may not surprise you to learn that Mr Problogger has created a paid forum where noobs can go and be taught a load of totally useless stuff by more noobs. They can pay $2 for the privilege, too! Ok, $2 is not going to hurt anyone’s paypal account but it will surely make a nice bit of extra income for Mr Rowse, the blog/forum’s owner.

Some of the big guns have already come out blazing about how this is such a bad idea for noobs (although a very good idea for Darren Rowse) and that it’ll just create a whole new bunch of clueless noobs doing everything wrong while they try to make money online using the hopelessly inadequate ramblings of the so-called experts who are running said forum.

On the one hand, its annoying and might even have got a similar derogatory response from yours truly, but upon reflection, the more noobs that learn all the wrong stuff from the likes of problogger, then the lower the competition for me. I’ve actually gotten to the stage where I’m not even going to give out any more information on what you really need to do in order to make money online. Why should I? I’d just be writing a whole load of stuff that you can find on one or two other blogs that tell it like it is and don’t spout the same tired old nonsense that a thousand other blogger spout day in and day out. And for what?

To teach people how to take money out of my own pocket?

You must be joking! There are still many fine ways to make money from the Internet and they still work well and don’t cause anyone to get ripped off or scammed, so I’ll keep my methods to myself and keep you all guessing. Much better, methinks!

So this was an entirely non-useful blog post for anyone wanting to know the right way to earn an income online, except for one saving grace and that is I told you how NOT to go about it.

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