In a perfect world, we'd all have our own website or blog and each of us would have the chance to interact daily with each and every blog out there because people would automatically know where they were. As it stands now, there are fewer websites/blogs than there are people posting to them and even fewer good websites and blogs.

Are you with me so far?

Now, the way to get people to read your articles is to write top-notch content and optimize it (called SEO or search engine optimization) so people can find it. There are hundreds of free programs out there to help you learn how to do it and easily more than that in pay-for-the-knowledge programs to do the same thing.

If you are not going to take the time to learn what you're doing, you're probably not going to make money doing this, at least not the kind of money that allows you to reduce the number of hours at your day job.

At the other end of the spectrum are those who are seeking to ride the coattails of every website and blog out there. I'll give you a hint on their identity: it rhymes with ham.

Yes, indeed, it is spam, the bane of the Internet. Here's why you should take exception to their behavior. You do all the work. You come up with a clever domain name, pay (usually) for the registration of that domain, learn some HTML or find templates that you can use to lay out your content, write articles and/or find interesting content to draw people to your site, optimize your site efficiently to make money on it, and learn how to publicize your site to create and maintain traffic.

You do all the work to this point.

Along comes someone who doesn't care that you have done all the work. They couldn't care less that you spent time learning how to put it all together so you could be rewarded for your work effort. Nope, all they care about is sponging off of you by using the comment sections of your site to post links that have no other purpose than to divert the traffic that your efforts brought to your site.

Some of them don't even try to hide the fact that their presence on your site is theft. Witness their butchering of the English language, unless they are simply cutting-and-pasting from a script, and their use of autoposting software to post their spam anywhere and everywhere they can on your site. Then, not unlike the dog that empties its bladder and colon on your lawn, they move on to find another site to spam.

It's almost enough to make you not want to have a website or blog.

Thankfully, there are people out there who are willing to meet you halfway and deal with the logistics of the website while all you deal with is creating content. This website is one of the better examples of how that is done.

As long as there are productive people in the world, there will be those lazy bums who want money but don't want to do any work to get it. Fortunately, there are ways of dealing with them so they don't pollute our sites with their spam and ruin our experience in this wonderful medium called the Internet.