It's time for a reality check. You can make money online with a blog, but you're probably not going to make a whole lot of money with ONE BLOG. Of course, your definition of "a whole lot" may be different than mine.


How to Make $100 Per YEAR with a Blog

Back in March of 2007, I wrote two articles. The first was titled "How To Make 100 Dollars Per Year Blogging". In that article, I wrote about how I'd made $100 (in US dollars obviously) in my first year of blogging without really trying. All I had to do was put Google AdSense on my blog.

A hundred dollars in a year isn't a whole lot of money, in my opinion. Even poor people in my neck of the woods, the Philippines, make more than that in a month.

The point is that you can make a hundred dollars per year simply by writing on a continuous basis. You don't need to focus on any specific topics and you don't need to practice SEO (search engine optimization).

How to Make $100 Per MONTH with a Blog

A few days after I wrote the previous article, I wrote "How To Make 100 Dollars Per MONTH Blogging" after I hit $100 per month for the first time. In that article, I emphasized good, quality content as a way to increase readers.

A hundred dollars per month still isn't a whole lot of money. Unskilled Filipino laborers can easily make that much in a month and it's barely enough to live on.

Again, you don't need to practice SEO to get to this point. You just have to focus a little more on specific topics.

Beyond $100 Per Month

More than a year later, I can honestly say that I make more than $100 per month from Google AdSense alone. I won't tell you how much I make — just start multiplying by 2 and 3 and 4 and keep on going.

Many bloggers are relying on social website traffic to make money online. While that's fine and good, it isn't consistent unless YOU are very good at drawing the visitors. Search engine traffic, on the other hand, becomes consistent as long as you practice SEO and write about things that people are searching for. It is then that you learn how to make quick money.

Doing the "make money online" thing with one blog is hard work. It really is. It's much easier to use one blog as your starting point and then branch out from there. You can call it your flagship blog or whatever, but it's not the website that's going to make you the most money even though it may be the website you put the most effort into.

Recycling Posts

This isn't a secret. I recycle and republish frequently, using articles that are more than a year old. As this blog ages, some of those articles are stretching beyond two years.

I'm recycling them because I wrote them while I was an inexperienced blogger. Most of the articles I'm talking about get looked at maybe once every other month. Really. While they may have some minute historical value, I see them more as fodder for more up-to-date information.

Recycling old blog posts may be something you might want to consider if you're starting to practice SEO and attempting to increase your ability to make money online.