Make Money Blogging – Is It Possible?
This is my first quest when I started blogging about a year ago. Can I really make money by just ramblings about anything? I’ve got so many question circling around my head. Questions like how did AdSense works, is Yahoo part of Google, are those John Chow’s cars? What the hell is blog? How to setup a blog? These are questions that came out from my head when I looked at John Chow’s monthly income report.
This is a question that most of the people wanted to know about. Let’s get back to the question, is it possible to make money blogging? Well, the answers are yes and no, and it is all depend on what your blog is all about. If you want to make big money blogging, you’ve got to be different in all aspects. More specifically:
Blog aspects..
- Good SEO Optimized (On & Off Page)
- A lot of subscribers
- Highly Page Viewed
- Huge UV
- Content is King
Self aspects..
- Patient (HUGE)
- Braveness
- Interest
- Creativity
These are essential and compulsory things-to-have to attract advertisers to buy your services which include space for advertising, pay per post or link selling. I made myself some money by blogging, you can check them here: September Online Income, the highest so far is: April Online Income
Sometimes, “self aspects” is much more important than SEO. John Chow’s blog is not “SEO’ly” good (though he managed to land on the first page of Google SERP way back ago). He ranked on the 5th page for “make money online” key phrase, but still he managed to get thousands of subscribers (mine is on the 18th which is technically more worse) from his braveness to be different. For those who didn’t know what Chow did, you can always check out his blog.
Being not so good in SERP doesn’t mean that he can’t get a lot of money from blogging. Instead he managed to get approximately 30,000USD monthly for just sitting in front of his computer typing things that he prefer. And this result does not come in a night, he started his blog in December 2005. With simple calculation 
that is 3 long years time. I mention John Chow a lot in this post, he inspired me and I learned a lot from his blog.
So, if you ask me, is it possible to make money blogging? It depends on how much longer can you wait
Have you make money online by blogging?
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i agree with that. It take and need a lots of brave and need to know more knowledge. We cannot try gambly..
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How come you don’ t seem to have any kind of adsense or private ads on this blog? Are you waiting till later or are you just not going to do it on this blog?
I have adsense, but have only got an 0.53% click through rate, so…
Might sell private text ads sometime. I don’t really like banner ads.
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Blogging takes a lot of sweat and tears before you start to make some revenues as you need to build traffic before money starts to come
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Agreed with getting traffic to get money. I think also getting traffic to a blog and then converting to clients is a much easier way to make money!
I like the patience thing, it’s hard to have much patience when you don’t know if what you’re doing is working…
I agree with that. We cannot try gambly…
@ihateher & @Downloadic: yea, we shouldn’t do that
@Joel Drapper: I have adsense on my other blogs, I just don’t want to put it here as past experience shows that I tend to have fraud click if I put it on my personal blog.
@ZK@WebTrafficROI: yea, those are the hard parts to develop.
@Tertius: believe me, patient is the most important thing to have!
I was once earning online, but there are things I learned that seizes me to earn now. I made a big change of my blog (contents and design), and had been for awhile not posting that stops updating my blog. Thus, made me weak not earning..
Overall, I agree that we can make money online, just be patient and savor the very moment that you start to earn so we won’t lost the opportunities.
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Very nice post. I agree with you that it takes much more than just a knowledge of SEO to make a blog. You must have a lot of personal qualities as well.
Great post!
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I work part time and make a good living from my blogs and websites. Patience is huge, and the “sticking with it” factor gets you a long ways. I’ve seen a lot of blogs die when they were just shy of becoming popular (and profitable).
Make sure you pick a niche that is broad enough that you won’t run out of things to write about!
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that is true….patient is a virtue, work hard and i guess we all can earn something from google.
p/s : How do fraud click on you own adsense ads? Is it accidental?
It is definitely possible to make money blogging but it will take a lot of effort and time. In my case, it’s more of a hobby but I get enough from my blogs to pay for my fuel.
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waa. you really serious of making money online huh. Ehm, i prefer with blog and play with seo. Hope i can learn something.
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john chow. mcm penah dgr. ala2 irfan khairi gak kan… huhu.
Its always possible to make money online, but be sure you go right way. Making money blog is also easy ie by ads or anything always keep in mind to post god articles.
ai..cik diya. Sampai ke sini awak ye..
Yup. Its possible to make money using blog. I already approved it.
@Athan: Well, I hope you come back and get some good earning online!
@Tushar Dhoot: Thanks Tushar!
@Lindsay: Yea, forgot to mention that, “sticking with it” factor is equally as important as the patient
Thanks Lindsay.
@Terabai: That is so true about patient. About the fraud click, I got a friend who’ve been penalised by Google as a reason of fraud click from ads that he put on his personal blog. This probably a ‘sabotage’ from people, IMO, it’s better to concentrate on MFA rather than personal blog.
@Adam: Yes, a lot of efforts needed to make money from blogging. Not to mention a good idea and content writing skills. Glad to hear that it helps you pay the bills
@appleblogger: SEO and blogging can result in huge money potential. Keep experimenting, and read Matt Cutt’s blog of course!
@diya: To be honest, Irfan and Chow is way too different. John Chow is making huge money from blogging while Irfan is making money through other sources. As far as I’m concern, Irfan does not make huge money from his blog.
@animal pictures: yes, content is everything in blogging, that’s what determine the quality of your blog.
@titan: Congrats titan
PS How can I get that little cloud before the comment link on the blog? Is that Haloscan and Blog template?
Of course irfan not earn money from his blog. But i think he already try nuffnang and twitter. Its another marketing stuff to promote his business and show off about himself. He definitely use his blog for marketing and promotion.
Yup. Thanks norhafidz.
interesting site it really learns me a lot.
@ihateher: that is one of features available in this theme. You can check them out at DIYthemes
@titan: Yes indeed he has. But as far as I’m concern, His source of income is not mainly from his blog.
@royvaldeavilla: Thanks! I’m glad you like it, hope to see you here often
so far, we can make money from blogging as long as we know the rules and method. But not too greedy.
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