The most common “make money blogging scam” revolves around using a blog as a publishing tool. A blog is an excellent Content Management System (CMS) for small site. With the underlying infrastructure and the blogosphere, a blog is suitable for anyone who have a passion to immediately publish their own thoughts online and get found.

Conventional CMS indeed makes content publishing very easy. Yet it lacks many features that only a blog has.

A blog allows readers to interact with the blogger.

It is not uncommon that a blog got traffic the same day it was started. Search engine spiders are known to crawl blogs within 24-48 hours since the first entry was published. Some blogs take longer, but still it is a shortcut to getting listed in major search engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN Search.

Back to the blog scams thing, there are a few fundamental concepts or principles that make this possible:

1. Online users are searching for information.
2. There are many untapped keywords; ones that are not very popular but will add up soon if enough keywords exist.
3. A blog lets anyone quickly publish information.
4. A blog allows publisher to get their site or blog crawled at record speed by the spiders.
5. Frequently updated blog tends to rank high in search engines.
6. A blog lets people find you in many ways.
7. There are some advertising networks that allow any publisher to cash in on their content almost immediately.

Armed with these principles and the facts there were many holes that smoothen the process, it became possible to earn quick money from blogging. Although some of these techniques still work as this writing, they have become very ineffective compared to a year ago.