Blogging With Third World Mentality

One of the most frustrating factors affecting lots of bloggers who are trying to build up their blogs is the lack of true information that has been time tested and proven to work. While many kind hearted bloggers have revealed their own strategies hoping that it might be useful for their readers, the fact remains that most of those tips are kind of geographically limited, which means, tips that works for people in certain countries might be totally impractical to those outside their region.

The fact is made worse when bloggers have no other sources of information other than to rely on those tips, which are suppose to be universal in theory but unimplementable in practise. Unfortunately, many bloggers rush headlong into putting the tips that they have learned into practise without considering the fact whether it would work if they are not from that region.

Third World Bloggers Takes The Biggest Knock.

Taking the most popular topics being sought after by bloggers worldwide, making money online or making money from blogging, thousands or articles have originated from bloggers in advanced and developed countries where people are very receptive to new ideas, teaching how blogs can be made into a cash machine. Bloggers from less developed countries have lap up those ideas dry, like a cat with a bowl or milk in front of them, trying to imitate what others are doing in those advanced countries. Most if not all met with great disappointments and they are puzzled as to why things are not working out as it should for them.

What are the most propagated money making tips?

Adsense – If people here still thinks that Adsense pays equally for bloggers worldwide, they are still living in a dream. Even before Adsense decides to discontinue their referral programs for bloggers outside N. America, (though they made some rectifications later on) bloggers here were being paid far less that what bloggers in the US were paid for a referral. When I was still running Adsense, I had the privilege of referring some of my readers to download the Firefox Borwser and the Google Picassa pack. While it was stated that I would be paid 1USD per referral, it seems that this statement only holds true if you are a blogger from the US. I was paid a measly 10 cents for each referral.

I have strong suspicions too about Ads being served by them in blogs here. Rarely do i see clicks that exceeds 30 cents, while bloggers in US have been bragging openly about 50 cents to 2 dollar clicks. This is just a suspicion but the fact remains and I think we have to admit that blog readers from this region do actually have a low ROI.

Affiliate Marketing - If anyone of you have joined any affiliate programs like Commission Junction or NeverblueAds, you will come to realize that those tips that you have read about making it good with affiliate marketing do not apply for blogs or sites here. 90% of Advertisers side lines publishers from outside the United States and the 10% that accepts non US publishers pays pitifully low.

Paid Postings – Used to be THE real money maker for bloggers around the world because what Advertisers wants are link juice and not targeted traffic. It was good until the grand daddy of paid posting, PPP, somehow decided to let their clients geo target posties and that effectively killed off many paid posties from this region as most of their Advertisers preferred posties from advanced countries because they will get more value for their money spent. Of course all that is history now.

Widgetbucks and others - I don’t even want to talk about Widgetbucks. They even refuse to pay the paltry 10 cents (or was it more?) for every 1000 impressions to us people from outside the US.

Where Does This Leave Us?

We are left with nuts and crumbs, I guess. That’s what I am picking up anyway. Of course there are still many others from this region who still swears that they are making good decent income fro their blogs, but they are the rare few who has garnered a huge following from readers outside this region or they have many traffic targeted niche blogs that attracts high paying clicks. Personally I think there is where our hope will be, but with our difference in culture, in thoughts and in mentality, it will be a great challenge to write articles that appeals to people from a totally different mindset. What seems appealing to us might just be a great joke for others. Or maybe I am just suffering from a bad case of inferiority complex.