This is a question that I get asked more than any other. I was brought up not to really talk about money and what you earn so I’m always hesitant to do so – but due to the large interest in the subject I’ve from time to time given some indication (it can be vague) of what kind of money blogging brings me.
Keep in mind that I have numerous blogs and these figures are not just for ProBlogger (in fact this blog is one of my smaller earners). I also use a variety of income streams including AdSense, Chitika, Text Link Ads and Amazon Associates (to name just four of the main ones).
update: here are my top earning income streams from my blogging..
Here are a few of the more recent posts I’ve done on the topic:
– Earning a Six Figure Income from Blogging
– Look what Blogging Bought Me – the house that Google Bought
– Network Blogging vs Individual Blogging
– I’m a Six Figure Blogger
– Chitika eMiniMalls – How much do they Earn? – the day eMiniMalls became my number 1 earner!
I should clarify (as its a misconception that I often come across) that my earnings do NOT just come from this blog – rather I have 20 or so that I work on plus am now involved in various others through b5media which I am a co-director in.
I also earn my income via a number of courses including the Adsense program and especially Chitika’s MiniMalls.
I also always like to emphasise that blogging is NOT a get rich quick thing. To balance the links above (and before you run out and quit your job to become a Pro Blogger) I also STRONGLY recommend you take a look at some of the links and information that I mention in my ProBlogger Public Announcement Post.
I haven’t seen any money from my AdSense ads, and I’ve submitted to numberous websites. Any ideas on what I can do to get into Google’s listings?
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How to Make Money from Blogging
When I talk to people about blogging for business, which I tend to do (a lot!) it’s usually only a matter of time before someone asks me ‘How do you make money from blogging?’ or, more directly, ‘How much are you making from this blogging activity?…
I’m not sure if you have the time or interest, but I find this topic interesting so I decided that I was going to track how much I make blogging less as a total number and more as an hourly pay rate.
So far I have put about 10 hours, including research into the topic my blog concerns and how to make it pay. And including today’s 23 cents, I have made a total of $1.29. That’s an effective rate of 15 cents per hour. Yeah, I have a way to go before this manages to be a feasible replacement for my day job. LOL
But anyway, the point of this comment was that perhaps you could post your hourly rate for each month somewhere on problogger for all to see and be inspired by along with a nice methodology for calculating so others could do the same. It could become a blogosphere wide trend! (I read that word “blogosphere” today. Aren’t you all impressed by my quick grasp of the lingo!? LOL) Anyway, I bet you spend a lot more hours working on this than even you think.
Boy, and I haven’t even thought about expenses yet. I haven’t got there yet, but I’m sure there are sections in problogger about expenses. Perhaps in your hourly rate, you should calculate expenses out of the rate too. I’d be curious to see what number that would result in. I know mine is impressive. LOL I’m closing in on a quarter an hour!! YEAH!
Soo… I’m rambling now. Best of luck everyone!
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I’ve been blogging since 1998 and have seen plenty of rewards in terms of writing experience, web know-how and even some freelance jobs and interest garnered thanks to my blog. But making money directly off my blog has been a…
What is better, ad-sense or some kind o PPC co?
congratulations for your success with blogging…………..
i browsed your site for like 1 hour now tho and saw almost no ads!!!! curious…
thanks debtblog – there are a few ads here – but my other blogs are where I earn most of my income.
“I was brought up not to really talk about money and what you earn…”
Funny, so was I. I wish that were not the case though. Why are people so secretive about this? It seems people are more open with their sex life than their financial information. Isn’t that just plain wrong?
Some days its less than a penny an hour. :) I think that even if I made the minimum wage blogging I would prefer it to regular work.
Hey Darren.
Why don’t u cover adbrite type ads, or those image ads that u see on gizmodo or engadget. Engadget has these text links that they put on themselves. They are putting text ads manually. won’t that be a total hassle.
How does one get those image ads. I saw a Victoria secret ad on a illegal torrent site. How is that possible. How can an illegal torrent site get a VS ad.
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How Can Filipinos Earn on the Internet?
Thanks to the availability of internet in the Philippines, Filipinos now have another way of earning dollars and this without leaving their country thus preventing “brain drain”. Making websites and writing blogs with affiliate programs such as adsense on it is profitable even if it is just earning $10 to $20 per month since the dollar exchange rate in the Philippines is high. And with the advent of blogs, even those without knowledge in writing html now have a chance to get their work published and read worldwide. Filipinos have a passion for writing. Why not make money out of it?
But publishing online is still in its infancy in the Philippines. I know a lot of Filipinos have already encountered advertisements about “making money on the internet” when they go online to read their emails but got discouraged after finding out that they need to have a website. That was my case a year ago having no knowledge of html whatsoever. But the idea of earning dollars and marketing to the entire world kept coming back to me and I just cant let this opportunity pass me by so I decided to go for it.
After countless trial and error, I am now on my way to earning decently on the internet. But without someone to rely on but my inquisitive self, its not easy. Especially the part about getting traffic to my website. I hope my fellow Filipinos having the same situation as mine dont get discouraged immediately. After all, we really cant get something for nothing.
Anyway, I am sharing all that Ive learned in my blog. I started it with Filipinos in mind but everyone is welcome. And since I am constantly searching for more information about the subject, I will continually add more to it also.
Being a popular question, it goes to show how many people are blogging for money rather than interest? :)
Personally, I started with websites seriously almost 4 months ago (may go into blogging later on) for the sole purpose of making money. I’m a complete newbie with no formal web design/programming and SEO training.
I spent a lot of time reading and experimenting, and have started to fall in love with SEO. So much so that I decided to challenge myself to try and make $50,000 in 12 months. The result? http://www.larrylim.net
I’m still developing the site but the entire experience and gratification of really making money on the Internet (I was a skeptic, sue me) has been totally awesome!
So bottom line is I’d like to tell everyone to not lose hope – everything’s possible ;)
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I’m still building my blogs and need to study more about blog and search engine. It will be great to get income from blogs.
…I got an idea now !
Thanks for the good information !
hi,
i dint understand anythng abt this blogging and how it is going to make me earn …..just clarify the right point in how i can earn and what i shd do to make some nice earning from blogging actually
I am a new entrant to blogging. I come to know that I can earn some money in blogging.. Your article is interesting. Let me see whether I can increase visitors to my blogsite and earn some money. Thanks.
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what kind of site google intrested in ?
6 figure income from blogging?!?!?! wow!
Some bloggers are making money. Did you know that if you have some specific skill or expertise you can pitch your blog idea to one of the blog networks? This will get you a lot more exposure — and maybe some money down the roa
I’ve turned ProBlogger quite recently (about 3 months’ back). Since focusing on blogging to earn money, my Adsense earnings has increased quite significantly. Of course it is nothing compared to what you earn but hopefully by the end of this year there’ll be enough to talk about it :D
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Great tips and links. Thanks for being helpful!
keep up the good work.
also keep giving us ideas.
If you have time, please have a look at my blog website; tell me if i can do something to raise my revenue from ad sense.
Thanks ….& my best wishes !!
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I just read your blog entry – How Much Do I Earn from Blogging? — my partner and I are planning on setting up a review website – it will live on the home page of our site computer training. I am looking for versatility in that field and setup a comparison. If you can help with any insight or direction that would be great. I am also would like to hear about courses with computers that people have taken.
Hi Darren,
Your blog really differentiate from other blogs in that it is more than just a blabbing blog, which is what a lot of the other blogs out there are like, from the navigation to the writing style.
Here you specifically provide what other people look for, which is exactly how to make money with blogs. It’s not a saturated space. You definitely have a huge leg up here! Nice Niche!
With my work at a hedgefund, hopefully I can provide a new set of perspective to my readers on the pending housing slowdown, and also career choices!
Jack
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Do you also have some regular websites or only blogs? Do you think that blogs are more effective?
only blogs Frantisek
I thought AdSense didnt allow talk of earnings :S
you can tell some things but not others. You are not allowed to reveal impressions, CTR etc but you can give monthly totals. This was a change they made 8-10 months ago.
I guess you just have to find a niche and blog about it. Or make a really popular site. One of the few guys who live off (very well I should add) a single blog here in Brazil has one stupid, stupid blog with tutorials like ‘how to make an account at blogger’, ‘how to add music to your website (urgh!)’, a section of wallpapers, animated gifs, and all he blogs about are funny links. And he earns money because everybody goes to the guy’s site, so he put a script for Mercadolivre (Brazil’s eBay) that shows products from his site. And he lives off comissions that he earns from the sales within his affiliate link.
But, as far as useful content for anyone who is remotely familiar to blogging, it’s close to zero. But since he has a Google PR of 7, you search google for, let’s say, Digital Camera (in Portuguese, of course, our language here) and you get results from his website MORE than from the official Mercadolivre site (which is the most popular auction site here – http://mercadolivre.com.br ).
I guess luck is a factor too. I was never able to generate more than USD 200 in a month (not from Adsense) and never got much traffic, but I’ve had blogs (in Portuguese and English) that for no apparent reason got PRs of 4,5 in a matter of months. But my content is not ‘for the masses’ like this guy’s, and the niche thingie is not that hot here yet (that’s the reason Orkut is so popular among Brazilians, most people like sites that they can find all kinds of stuff like in Orkut communities instead of going to a specific forum about, for example, Playstation 2. they prefer to use the Orkut communities (which are half-assed forums) for this subject and all others they are interested.
Hell, I’ve written so much here, this will be a post in my blog, lol.
Cheers! I like your site very much, and I’d like to know which font you use here, if that’s not a problem.
I don’t get it ?
Firstly I doubt anyone will read this, I gave up after reading approx 10 wittering comments.
Secondly .. when people surf the web they generally have an intent.
I would suggest that if you carried out an experiment you woul dfind that almost 100% of people surfing the net even actually SEE the ads any more – it’s a natural brain function to block out unwanted information and try to focus on the intention !!
Unless those ads are specific to your intent then they are going to be blocked out to your brain recepiticles.
And those things that relate to your intent will be, usually related directly to money or sex.
Money if you are after purchasing on the net and the intent being information about finding the best product.
Sex if you’re fed up of looking at words.
Unless you want to earn money from blogging you won’t even see the ads. I simply happened upon being here, I didn’t click a link to get here I belive I saw the words “ProBlogger” somewhere and typed it in the address bar -> and I won’t click a link to get outta here either.
I’d also say that I don’t believe I’ve EVER clicked an advert that had an image involved – I only EVER click on direct links (which appear in the status bar of browser). Why ? because I know I’ll end up with a load of popups or potentially hapzardous downloads utilising IE backdoors. If it’snot direct I’ll copy to clipboard and paste it into the address bar.
Steve.
Steve – I’ve read it :-)
in terms of people seeing ads. My experience shows that they do.
Some sites they see them more than others depending upon many factors, including the nature of the topic (this site for example gets a low click through rate because it’s on the topic of ads on blogs – ie readers are savvy and see the ads. On some of my other sites a much higher % click the ads.
I think you are typical of a pretty savvy web user steve – i know I’m similar. I don’t tend to click ads unless they are exactly what I’m looking for (or say they are) and if my need for what they are promising is great.
Having said that – I spend 8+ hours a day online and have become pretty cynical and hardened towards ads. Many web users are much more open to them.
thanks for sharing.
Hiya Darren …
Took a visit back here just to see if my last comments were edited (!).
Hey coool, I spawned a reply from the top dog !
Ermmm … yes, I’m actually a web developer so I spend a lot of time on line too.
And as a web developer I suppose I SHOULD be more up to steam on the ‘ol ads and links game … but I’m not.
Like I said, I’m a developer – not a marketeer.
Unfortunately I’m the only one in my company – so I have to be both (and everything else).
Unfortunately everything else takes second (if not 99th) fiddle to programming.
Thus I don’t actualy have a business, or sales, or clients (!!!).
:-(
And because I don’t have the waffling biz lingo crap trap of an experienced waffling “Content Professional” – I have a REAL hard time trying to actually get any web sites up and running.
They all look soooooooo empty (!).
I have a menu system that can generate any number of links in a fabulous dual, database driven, menu system. I have developed a content management system that allows fast searching of a an unlimited anmount of database storage space, and have developed
a portal solution to manipuate the modules within that CMS.
I have developed a datadriven e-comm cart system with the full works (login, user pref, search, paging, etc, etc).
All of this is using the the latest MS tech called .NET, which I have been doing since 2000 when it arrived on the scene as a beta product.
Unfortunately … I have all of this … but no content and an empty database !!!!
(and no clients either).
So …….. there is a use for ads after all.
Along with news feeds and sforth you can use them to fill out your web pages !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
But regards driving traffic to someones site through them, for speculative hits, your probably better off with a subtle domain like
http://www.cantremember.com (rofl, rofl, rofl).
Incidentally … what is a single click worth overall, on average … in nanocents ??
Regards, Take Care
Steve.
Darren …
Incidentally … that link I typed into my last message came up as a hyperlink in the webpage (oooohhh, and my name does !!).
mmmm … am thinking about giving you my REAL web address now :-)
Anyway … the point here is that these links take the user AWAY from THIS site.
You should add a small tag after the href, a tag called target=”_new”,
then a new windows opens and your surfers remain with a window open at YOUR site.
Any webby could tell you that !!!
e.g.
ProBlogger
byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Steve.
And this web page also tells us both that no-one has been here since my last visit at least a week ago.
mmmmmm …. very interesting
:-)
Steve.
in terms of opening links in new windows – I actually find that highly annoying. If I want to open a link in a new window I do it myself – I don’t force people into that. I think you’ll find many bloggers feel the same way.
In terms of how many people have been here since your last visit…. this is a post that was posted almost a year ago so it doesn’t get heaps of traffic (although it does get some). Just because there are no comments doesn’t mean there is no traffic.
average clicks – vary depending upon what the ad is worth. They can range from a cent through to numerous dollars.
Woooowww …. I thought we were talking like 5/6/700 clicks perhaps generating a buck !
(honestly, that’s what I thought)
Do they have to buy something in order for you to get anything at all … or will just clicking generate $$’s ??
Regards the open links in new window stuff ::
I open EVERYTHING in a new window (right click context menu in IE).
But sometimes I loose judgement/concentration and accidentally left click the link.
It’s just nice to have it open in a new window anyway ! (saves me hitting the back button and having to rectify the situation).
Where do I go on Google to find out about links ??
Got an url for me ???????????????/
Steve.
I should say – that the average click is not in the ‘few dollars’ range – they are in the few cents range. As I say – it all depends upon the topic of the ad (its a supply and demand thing and advertisers on some topics are willing to pay more than others).
The program you want to investigate for Google’s ads is ‘AdSense’.
You can see more about it here or if yu want to sign up under my affiliate link look for the blue button towards the top of my left hand sidebar. ;-)