Making Money with Blogging: Don’t quit your day job!
Patrick, Arjen and I were playing with Google ads last night, comparing which sites in our collection of projects does best and why. We also changed some of the lay-outs tto see if it would increase revenue.
This morning I read a few posts on the Guy Kawasaki blog and the
Chris Anderson: Don’t quit your day job
The general consensus is that starting a blog to make money is close to impossible. Even if you havee 30.000 regular readers and are as famous as Guy. He made close to $4000 last year.
I don’t blog for money but I did earn something. About 5 dollars in Amazon referal fees and one Blackberry Pearl.
For tips on how to make more money with your log visit this post on BlogKits: Google Adsense A Huge Failure For Guy Kawaski’s Blog
funny that the business 2.0 mag a few editions ago ran an coverstroy on making money with blogging (‘blogging for dollars’ : http://money.cnn.com/magazines.....1/8384325/. the completed it wit some examples of guys making some seroius money with, like six figures….
USuggest.com allow the bloggers to make some extra money through recommended products directly from within their blogs, and hopefully directing their readers to online retailers. As such, the respective blogger would receive a commission from any sales generated through referrals!