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" (recycled here). 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" (recycled here too) 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 for making 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.
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Nice post…I've actually started recycling some older posts on one of my blogs. I find I can really improve on some of my earlier posts made back when I was a blog newbie!
One of my blogs goes back 6 years with 400+ posts. Time to get rewriting!
The most I've done is over $200 in a month, then google went and changed, in June 2008 and it all changed. The traffic dried up.
It's just a question of perseverance and you'll get there.
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Yeah I love the idea of post recycling, it builds you sold backlinks to old posts and gets some new content up there for G .
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Nice idea, I will give it try…
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Blogging is undoubtedly the easiest way to start making money online, I started off with a small blogspot blog but have now moved onto bigger things, blog provide an excellent starting point for any online entrepreneur.
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Great Post On recycling those old posts. I have just completed redoing my post titles to have my main keywords in all my posts titles.
Now I need to go back and redo the posts to have better SEO to improve my Google rankings and hopefully get the best ads possible in my blogs to make money with.
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Thank you for sharing your story. As a new Blogger, it is very helpful for me to have the advice of someone who already have success in his blog. This post describes the steps along the way. Thanks.
It's hard to make a lot of money just with Adsense. Adsense income is just a function of traffic.
For bigger income, you need to branch out into affiliate marketing. Start recommending products.
It's not as hard as you think. Affiliate marketing requires more work in my opinion. But then of course, I know how to write for both people and search engines.
Good article. Adsense money is easy to make, but you need a lot of traffic to make significant money. Blogging should just be one part of your marketing effort.