Of course we are not professionals.
If we are, we will have our own paid hosting, and our own blogs that generate thousands of dollars every month.
Some of the professionals are John Chow, and Problogger.
If anyone wants to learn serious blogging for big money, they have to learn from these ones.

You are right. Almost all of the members are not professionals rather they are beginners and using this platform to improve there English Language skills.

Some are here to just kill there time in a better way. Some take it as a part time job.

I think these sites are not meant for professionals because the rates here are so low and the professionals do not like to work at that rates.

Professional writers do not ignore standards.

Yes, to earn dollars online we will have to be declared ourselves professionals otherwise earning will be slow. One common affliction currently plaguing many aspiring freelance writers is that they start a blog because they’ve heard they should. Next, they fall in love with the blog, and then spend way too much time on it. All at the expense of finding the paying clients they need, and without examining what they’re blogging about or why.

Unfortunately, the typical diary-you-put-online type blog posts rarely attract many readers. And they don’t make a good writing sample for luring clients, either. Businesses want fact-filled posts written on a single topic, not random posts about your personal thoughts.

But it’s so empowering, pushing that ‘publish’ button on whatever you want to say…that it becomes addictive.

With the ongoing efforts of Google to exclude mass-content sites from its search results, the forecast is for less blogging-for-hire work in future. Most of the cheap, SEO-keyword driven, short-post assignments are drying up.

It’s a dying niche because semi-literate, half-baked posts you dash off in 15 minutes for search robots to index don’t work any more. They don’t drive traffic because they’re not turning up in search results. So businesses are not going to pay even $5 for them in future.

If you’re dependent on this sort of work for your living right now, it’s time to make plans to move into a new niche. You’ve got all your eggs in a vanishing basket.

I have to agree very much with you that such terms as “developed” or “developing” have little meaning when we speak of individuals from whatever country. Nor were they ever intended to be used in that manner. The main difference between countries labelled one way or another is the level of economic development and infrastructure has been achieved. A country that is considered developed tends to have a more stable economy, more developed industry and technologies, and offers more services to its citizens (public schools, universal health care, sanitation and transport, etc.) This is no reflection on the character of the nation’s people.

In any country, there are people who are well-off and those who are not. Similarly, there are those who are educated formally and those who have not been fortunate to have the education they would have wanted to have. And in most of the world today, the gap between the “haves” and the “have-nots” is getting bigger by the minute.

The internet is a force for equality, and this has been recognized by some governments who have put specific measures in place to help their citizens gain access to computers and internet connections. The internet is also a force for communication and for the education of people all over the world. It levels the playing field so that our individual personalities become the focal point, rather than our countries of origin.

Today, only those who fail to move beyond their own petty prejudices will hold up a person’s nationality as if it is some kind of a sign for good or evil. Most of us have grown far beyond that, both in terms of assuming that people from a developed country are in some way more aggressive or successful, and in terms of assuming that someone from a developing country is somehow too weak to think for himself.

A person’s nationality has little to do with his character or worth. Some very well educated and well to do people can be incredibly ignorant. By the same token, a pauper may have incredible insight that is sought out by many.

Well said Kyla. I am aware of the parameters that are used to categorise countries and these parameters are old and need to be looked at differently. Having said that I feel there is no need at all in the first place to place countries in categories. So much is missed out while doing this.
Happy that I have my own yardstick to judge and give no importance to whatever statistics that are produced.