Blogging for cash?

 Did you know you can make money by blogging but did you also know it will give you false hopes? Google adsense not only can and will deny you multiple times but it can also give you false hopes.

 Did you know with google adsense you get paid by the clicks not the views and then google adsense will not calculate everything correctly. 

It will also tell you that you need to fix an ad.txt file in which even when you do it does not correct itself and there is no number that you can call to get a walk through of it. You have to go through their community and wait for people  to answer the questions and concerns since no one at google will answer them and there is no direct line or contact to them. 

This basically sucks and gets you no where. They always talk about how you can make money from adsense on blogs but it appears it is not true. 

When I first got onto adsense it said I made a few dollars to cents but now it says I have not made anything. It gave me false hopes and don't get me started on affiliate marketing because that doesn't really make you anything either and I have been doing it for 8 years. 

This blog does not have google adsense on it but this one does so check it out. https://www.taintedreviews.blog/

You can make X amount of figures SCAM

 Running a blog is never easy. Sometimes it is hard to get traffic and so you have to promote it basically everywhere all while making sure your SEO is up to standers to be sure you are being seen and getting traffic all while using catchy titles and tags and labels.

Adsense doesn't always get approved sometimes you cannot make money on it so you have to find affiliate marketing links just to make a little.

The ugly truth is if your not getting views your not gonna get paid. Even if you are getting views does not mean your gonna get paid. People will say you can make so much from this and by doing this but it's not true. It's a scam and if you click on the links on their blog post they get paid and they are the ones giving you false hope by having you believe you can make so many figures by doing such and such but it's just click bate and a scam. I fell for it one to many times in hopes it's real but it's not. It's a get rich quick scheme people use to take advantage of people just so that they can get traffic to their own blogs.

 Also paying for traffic doesn't help. Don't use the paid sites to get views and traffic it makes them money and gives you bot views and no one wants that we want organic growth.

I have had my spicy review blog since 2018 and it has been ups and downs. It doesn't matter how many views you are getting. If they don't like it, they won't buy and it doesn't matter what it is. I have my side bars full of affiliate ads but they just sit there and linking the product in the post doesn't help either. 

Check out my spicy blog reviews 

If you are wanting to start a small business or blog I highly suggest dreamhost for hosting even though its a WordPress site that you can convert into regular websites also by uploading your own files, you can make it into a shop like I did. 

My book here!

Making Money Online (selling)

Surveys do not pay you like they say they will. Don't get me wrong there is lots of sites saying that they will pay you to take surveys but honestly, I have not found one to pay me yet. I only found ones that you refer people with and you get paid.

There are all kinds of articles for you to read on how so and so has made so much money or how they get paid but honestly I don't even think its real. I've tried and tried but they did not work. I got so fed up with it I deleted my account after 6 months of opening it due to it was not honest. Affiliate marketing could work if you get your audience but don't count on it because I've been doing it for a year and still have not made anything advertising for Rakuten marketing or Amazon. You get paid by selling things for them to people and you get a certain percentage of what it sold for. I have not even sold anything on either and guess what I had to go in and reopen my amazon affiliate marketing because it closed itself all because I didn't meet the requirements of selling something. There is a lot of work to affiliate marketing from posting advertisements that are appropriate while trying to figure out what people are into and it gets hard and frustrating because it is a lot of balancing trying to figure out what is popular and what isn't.

eBay and Amazon are nice but the fees get expensive and there is lots to worry about. There are honest people in this world but then there are people on eBay trying to scam people and try to get things free. Trust me we have ran into this recently and decided to shut down the store because it was not worth it anymore and sometimes the fees are more than you make which puts you in the whole and you barely make anything unless you price things higher.

Facebook market and sale groups and apps like let-go, craigslist, offer-up or any other sites you meet face to face are nice but sometimes it can take forever to sale something but its like this on anything you sell on.  ALSO BE SURE TO MEET IN PUBLIC FOR YOU SAFETY I!!! Sometimes you will have a no show and you waste your time and gas trying to sale things so be sure to message them and let them know if you cannot make it and be sure to ask if they are coming. We tell people the time and the kind of car we are in to let them know and then we tell them where we are parked.Not all people are like this but there are a couple. There was also a couple of people who have gotten robbed over a phone so be safe and bring another person with you. Please do not go alone if you can help it. You could also do shipping on these if you don't wanna bother meeting them just on the post put shipping available and make sure you charge enough to cover the shipping weight.

Mercari is nice and I love it! The only thing is you don't get your money until you ship the item and it reaches the buyer. This is a safety thing so that you cannot scam or be scammed.The app lets people know when their package is there and they have 48 hours to rate you and if they do not then the workers of Mercari rates you for them and you will get your money. I absolutely love how it is set up and it works great. You don't even have to hunt the shipping label because when something is sold and paid for it is emailed to you. It also takes it fees out of it for you so you don't have to worry and when you post the listing it will tell you how much it is taking.
(Sign up for Mercari and get $10 OFF your first purchase. Here's my invitation link : https://merc.li/ezdttMb)

Etsy is a site for handmade crafts but you can basically sell it anywhere not just there. i have an account but never sold anything. I felt it was to much of a hassle and you have to pay.20 per listing which isn't to bad but I just don't like the way its set up or the platform.