Earning a Six Figure Income from Blogging?

Darren provides outstanding value in Pro Blogger, and I would guess he does that all across his repertoire of blogs. He’s a living testament that it CAN be profitable from the little guy’s perspective. One day Darren may not be a little guy any longer and instead be a bloggonaire, but he’ll be that with the knowledge that he has helped to create a lot of people who could make a good living while doing something they’re passionate about. Having a lot of money is wonderful, but helping others get further and do better is priceless. Good on you, Darren.

We are just starting out, but we get inspired and keep going forward when we read about folks like you that can make a living doing what you like! Excellent!

for the past to years I having been making 6figures from blogging

It amazes me how anyone can get angry over you earning a living over blogging? For petes sakes, we allow athletes and movie stars to make obscene amounts of money for practically doing nothing. I find bloggers to be infinitely more useful than some of these morons who make scads of money.

At least what you do is INTERESTING and USEFUL.

Thank you for this site. It’s given me some great ideas to pursue.

Great site. Hope I can absorb enough from here to start earning something from my efforts

Wow! Well done man! It just goes to show anything is possible!
Alvin Narsey

Darren, I am interested in starting a small business through blogging. Please keep me in mind as a group participant in reference to:

“I am currently thinking through a way of teaching a small group of people what I know and helping them to start up entrepreneurial blogs. It will include some teaching, group learning, individual coaching and me promoting your work. If you’re interested shoot me an email and I’ll put you onto the list of those interested.”

I really wish I can make a portion of the revenue you get… But my site lack traffic… and lack enough good content…. >.

question: – have you ever looked into the profitability of just having literally hundreds of pages with adsense on – each with a different static subject that never changes?

reason i ask this is that i kjnow of someone who’s just started doing this – he’s started with 25 blogs using blogger.com and just replaces the template with a static page – it takes him less than 10 minutes to make a blog and he links them all together.

each blog has niche content on it and the adsense does react well to the content.

My question is this: in the aim of making the most money possible with the least possible work, would it be better just to spend a year creating say 2000 blogs all with static content and then just let the adsense take care of itsself, or is it actually more worthwhile just building up a handful of sites that have to be updated regularly?

I wouldnt worry about the negative responses. I have been contributing freely to the web for many years in the dhtml, graphics, and javascript areas, which tends to cost a deal of money in terms of server costs and time outlayed. I dont see anything wrong at all from making money on a per click basis to cover costs,software and put some food on the table. After all its still the user choice to click through or not.

There’s nothing wrong with being open about your income, but what would be perhaps more interesting and usefully illustrative would be a break-down of income according to different criteria, ie, contextual advertising, affiliate schemes, indirect consultation fees, etc.

I fear too many people are looking for easy money and will expect blogs to be a substitute for hard work. If it were shown that the main income streams come not simply from maintaining a blog, but from maintaining an information-rich and authoritative blog, working on multiple income stream, then perhaps that would be helpfully educational?

Simply 2c.

Thanks for sharing that information. You deserver to have a decent income from all of the hard work and time you put into your blogs and the service you do to the blogging community.

Derrick

I think the question fascinates people because the idea of making a living off it (blogging) is one of great freedom. And if you’re making money off it, then there must be thousands of readers out there – so an odd sort of fame.

But like most things, it’s no more accessible than any of the other ways of making money in a creative free-thinking job. If you happen to be good enough to have that many people reading your stuff, then you’ve got what it takes to write, so you could be a writer in another form anyway.

What it does do is remove the prerequisites to publish. There’s no rules. You can just do it. Where-as if I wanted to start of a job as a journalist for a local paper I’d need a degree and they’d be an interview process.

This anyone-can-do-it is good, but it doesn’t read, everyone can make money off it.

In short the people who are successful are actually top writers, with maybe a little bit of their success owing to the blog form: in that, maybe if the blog phenomenon was not here, they wouldn’t have chosen, or found the way to, writiting.

I just wanted to applaud you for what you have done/are doing. I think your site looks incredibly professional and very cool … making me real jealous as my (experimental) one is a total dog’s dinner. I live in hope!

Keep up the great work.

Hi,

I don’t have a website right now…but i was reading you file, and i would like to know a litle more about you. I want to be a business owner as well, but i really don’t know how to start. Any help or tips…

You earn how much!? How dare you… That’s almost as much as I paid my plumber to unblock the toilet…

*blink*

Computer consultants, decent web designers, and others can easily earn thousand of dollars a day, most don’t, but some do. Personally I say good on you. I’ve wondered around serveral of your blogs recently as it’s all good solid content and information.

No one is forcing people to click the banners etc Anyone taling offense are you earning a living this way should be ignored for the petty individuals there are. Sadly, there are always those who find it easier to destroy than make the effort to be creative.

I’ve been blogging for fun since High School and I’m glad I found your site. I’ve always believed in blogging and I really think you can make a living off of it if you dedicate yourself to it. Thanks for the site!

Thanks for being open about how the fact that it’s possible to make money with blogging. I’m already doing nicely with Google Adsense on some content sites, but am now considering developing my Blogs to include Adsense too. Think I’ll take a look at your course too – might as well learn from the business experts!

Great thing fou you. I am not upset that you do make a 6 figure income from the blogs. I find many sites do not give enough information,and if you do sell there products, many testomonials are far fetch.
We are new to marketing on the net and going into more of it. I have found that blogs give you more info, and you are able to say yes or no.
Yes a person is able to make a living from blogging. It does take work and time. Took our blog down to do major up grades to it. Made some money, and misakes with it.
Now some forums do not allow you to put affiliate links in your sig files, only your own site. We need to do things differently now.

This is the post that inspired me to setup my blog. It’s great you so generously share your knowledge with others Darren.