One of the most common questions I get asked when people hear about my blogging earnings is ‘how long has it taken’ to get as far as I have?
The short answer is that it’s taken a considerable amount of time. I’ve been blogging since November 2002 and started to experiment with Adsense in September of 2003 – two years ago.
You can see from the following graph (of my monthly Adsense earnings since September 2003) that the growth has been pretty steady with a couple of blips along the way. The first ten or so months were very slow going but the growth since then become quite exponential as I’ve been able to dedicate more and more time to blogging and have learned more about how to get the most out of Adsense.
The motto of the story is that it takes time. As I often say – if you’re not in it for the long haul you’ll probably never see significant earnings.
PS: every time I use a graph like this people ask how I made it – the answer is Keynote – an Apple Presentation tool like Powerpoint.
