Because this misconception exists, accusations are being launched that the only reason the people on the top of that list, myself included, greet newcomers to Soulcast and comment on other people's blogs is so the newcomers will get sucked in and read us. There is nothing further from the truth than that accusation.
So, I want to try to clear up this misconception about how making money on SC works.
- You do not make money by people clicking on your posts and reading them.
- You do not make money by people commenting on your blogs posts.
- You do not make money by people subscribing to your blog.
- To make any money on SC, you first must have a Google Adsense account.
- Once you have a Google Adsense Account, you make money if, and only if, someone clicks on the Ads on your blog page; however, those ads are shared between your Adsense account and Soulcast's Adsense account. (SC has to make money to operate folks).
- You do not know if the Ads on your blog pages are tied to your Adsense Account or to Soulcast's.
- Google will not give you credit for clicking on your own Adsense accounts; in fact, they will cancel your Adsense account if you do.
- Adsense only pays a small amount (a fraction of a cent, sometimes)per click or page impression to the ad itself. The amount paid depends on the Ad.
- Adsense only pays someone with an account if they reach $100.00 in their account, which takes a very long long time.
The only person I know on here with an Adsense account who got close to $100.00 in her account was Secretlife. She mentioned this in a comment on newcomer to SC's blog when they asked about making money on Soulcast. But, she also noted that when she got close to that $100.00 Google cancelled her Adsense account. So even she didn't make any money from the account. (BTW, I have read a few posts online--not SC--where people who got close to the $100.00 in their Adsense account also got their accounts canceled.)
I know Silver isn't making any money from his Adsense account. (I know him well enough to know that he would never lie to me about making money from Adsense. Actually, I know him well enough to know he would never lie to me about anything, period.) Neither am I. I have not once in the almost year that I have been here at Soulcast received a check from Adsense. And I don't know anyone who has, but I don't really care if anyone has either. So what if they make money by doing something they enjoy--writing blogs.
Yes, we each (Silver and I) signed up for an Adsense account. And while I will not presume to speak for Silver, I can tell you that while I do have an Adsense account, that was never the primary reason why I started blogging on Soulcast. Nor is it the reason why I have kept blogging on Soulcast. I merely figured that having the Adsense account couldn't hurt. If I made a little money along the way, good, but if I didn't so what.
I came to Soulcast because I wanted a place to write that wasn't a social networking sight in the way that MySpace or Facebook is. I wanted a blog site where the focus was on the writing (the text on the screen) and not the flash and bang that you can get from MySpace and all the distracting crap--themed pages, embedded audio that you can't always shut off, etc.
I stayed at Soulcast because of the community; because of the great people like Hunter Boyce Chandler, Silverwhisper, CreativeWoman, JadeLondon, Bloc, GrapeKoolaid, Quinduc (who sadly isn't blogging with us now), and many, many others. I stayed because of the camaraderie and genuine investment that people were making in each other's blogs and through them, their lives.
Do Silver and I great newcomers to Soulcast. Yes, we do. As do other people. Why do any of us great newcomers to Soulcast? Well, I would suspect that anyone who greets newcomers to Soulcast does so for the same reasons I do. We want to make them feel like they are part of the community that we were so readily and easily made feel welcome to when we first joined ourselves. We don't want anyone to feel like they aren't being heard or that that someone isn't listening to what they write or thinking about what they say.
That's why I subscribe to people. It's that simple. Because I want them to feel like part of the community. It has absolutely nothing to do with making money on Soulcast.
