I was looking through the list of top 100 “Make Money Online” blogs and failed to see my blog on the list. Honestly, I wasn’t expecting it to be in the top 100, but the site 45n5 actually lists 346 blogs on their rankings. Not being in the top 346 is quite said, especially when you click through and look at some of the blogs and notice they haven’t been updated in months. And some of the blogs they listed don’t even exist anymore?

Why doesn’t make blog rank? For awhile I considered this blog a “make money online” blog. I posted tips on how to improve rankings and gain traffic. I gave my opinions on top Wordpress and Vbulletin plugins. I did just about everything most “make money online” blogs do. However, lately, I’ve steered away from doing that. This site has turned into just a regular blog where I write about anything. I mostly just post about how my network of websites is going. I can’t remember the last time I actually wrote a long “how to” post or gave tips on doing something that can help you.

The truth is, it’s not really worth it for me to do that. There are so many good “make money online” blogs out there, that newbs don’t need my advice. It’s best for me to just keep this site as a journal of my progress in the internet world. I enjoy helping people and mentoring other aspiring webmasters, but I don’t necessarily have the time to write long “how to make money” posts every day. I work a full-time job, am married, and run these websites on the side. It’s much easier for me to give my advice via email or IM on a personal level. If that means this blog suffers and never gets to 1,000 RSS subscribers, then so be it.

Those of you still reading my blog do so probably because you’ve been there since the beginning when I was making $0.50 a day and you like to keep tabs on what my websites are up to.