How much do you earn blogging?

My blog has been up and running since 2006 or so. First on blogger and then my own domain with WP. I have been using Adsense since the last 1.5 years or so. Unfortunately I have made only about USD 30 till now.

if you PR rank is above 4+ u get adds musham@gmail.com

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@Pawan, $3 a month means, you have to build your traffic

@Amitabh, congrats on crossing the $100 mark, I could not do it since last two months... it's dropping big time. Fortunately, my other monetization mechanisms are working well.

@Mr.R, congrats on moving away from wordpress.com and opening yourself to a window of monetization opportunities.

@Sugandha, they are very strict on the approvals of late.

@Malathy, 17 blogs, if they are well Search Engine Optimized niche blogs, should be fetching you $5000... Making $100-300 from niche blogs is not very difficult, I hear

I have been blogging since 2005 and I now have 17 blogs. I am making a decent sum every month. (don't ask me what do I mean by 'decent sum' )

oh not at all

 as these assense told me that they will accept my application only wen my blog is 2-3 months old :(

http://whysoserioustodsy.blogspot.com

if you have enough posts and enough traffic you would get accepted easily

Well , I have to wait and see , if i earn anything , something ..

Was in wordpress.com all the while few days back migrated to self hosted domain.. i guess i may have to wait 6 months to add adsense if am right ..

GingerChai.com 

Just managed to reach the payment threshold in July after 8 months. That is not a great achievement I suppose. But then this is the nearest I can get to becoming the next Dan Brown I guess.

I am talking of Adsense, obviously!

@Ritu, If you receive a lot of traffic you should consider monetizing your blog in multiple ways. But as you probably know your blogs on wordpress.com cannot be monetized by policy but you should certainly try to make the maximum out of phoenixritu.com

A few options that I use to make money has been listed on my blog (dollarshower.com) under the 'make money' tab. I have listed only those things that actually worked for me. There may be many others.

I have read all these opinions with great interest.  I get a huge amount of hits on both my blogs ... but they dont convert into dollars.  I am at a loss

@Pushpa, read Alfred's comment. It's not about the number of blogs but how much traffic they receive - especially from search.

@Alfred, you are right... Without having at least 25K pageviews (at least 75% of it from search, social media) there is no point in leveraging AdSense.

@Rajan, great to know that you have a lot of traffic. However, if majority of it comes from India, the AdSense income will be very low

@Ron, in the blogging world, disclosing the monthly traffic and income is not anything new. It was started by John Chow the leading MMO blogger. As for the western world, I have travelled/worked in a few countries (including US, parts of Europe) and it's mostly the westerners who initiate the most personal discussions :)

Ron, in the blogging world, disclosing the monthly traffic and income is not anything new. It was started by John Chow the leading MMO blogger. As for the western world, I have travelled/worked in a few countries (including US, parts of Europe) and it's mostly the westerners who initiate the most personal discussions :)

I'm skeptical of anyone who discloses the amount of money he makes on his blog. From my experience, those who revel in this exercise of telling others how they made six figure incomes on one month only want to attract people to their website somehow. Another interesting thing fact is that most of these guys want to dispell off their money making secrets through medium such as ebooks that they then pursue the unwary to buy through cheesy promotional offers.

Besides, John Chow sounds as obscure to me as Saint Nazarius. There's not any peer reviewed background information on him on Wikipedia. Besides, you would think that if he's such a prominent blogger, he would know how to properly write a blog. Boy, his website is an eyesore for a reader! Just a whole lot of ads all over the place.

Westerners are friendly people, but they do not initiate questions on your personal income, salary, property etc. That's a no-no, not professional at all. In my experience, we Indians tend to this behavior more. Not sure why.

I think this is a sensitive topic. Its the same as asking someone 'How much salary do you earn in your day job?" I realize that in India people don't see this as an etiquette issue, but in Western countries, you learn never to ask someone personal questions such as this.

-Ron

http://cozybeehive.blogspot.com

I have mainly four blogs 

www.simpletaxindia.org (pageview 54420)

www.tnsixthpay.blogspot.com(page views 46700)

www.ipl09sa.blogspot.com(page views51700)

www.paycommissionpunjab.blogspot.com(page views 61800)

last month (June 2009) Income from these blog and from other misc blogs are

Google adsense=$467

conduit Toolbar=$20

infolinks=$64

Dgm india=$30

Bidvertiser=$7

adbrite=$15

Mginger=$6

Total=467+20+64+30+7+15+6=$609

I am writing an ebook and I will reveal it on my free ebook how I earn. Will probably release this July. Well this may account to bragging but I earn for than $50000 a month from www.blogcastor.com 

That's just fantastic! Congratulations. I would be skeptic of those who claim this, but since you are on this forum, I tend to believe you.

@ prasad

I would say u need about 30k pageviews to make 100$

Personally, adsense if my biggest earner, it makes about 300$ per month for me. Other sources include, infolinks, textlinkads, kontera, sponsoredreviews, payperpost and many custom reviews i do for software

I have six blog stations and am blogging since two years, but I have yet to recieve a first payment...how adsense works is beyond my comprehension........

Pushpa

I could not get Adsense for my blogs which are all in Hindi, except Jaihindi Magazine.

Last week I put up Ads for Indians and have so far earned a princely and auspicious sum of Rs. 11!

@ajith

Thanks.

The thing is that calculations will differ for each depending on

Topic

aspirations

time devoted

traffic

I mean some body making 5L/annum may feel good about 38K/annum as additional income while some body making only 1K will be dancing with joy. So I guess the real reason to blog shoud be the love of it.

Anyways anybody know how many page hits or views to make say 100$ by adsense?

@HowDoWeKnow, If you get a lot of natural search traffic, AdSense makes a lot of sense :) It all depends on the traffic, keywords on your content and color scheme/positioning of the ad widgets.

@Prasad, nice calculation. Well, it all depends on what kind of a blog and content one has.

i tried adsense once. The money was not too great. They gave me little control over relevant ads, and i didnt quite agree with Google's choice of ads on my page.

It gave me a few dollars, and i tried it for a few months. However, when i tried to remove the widget (i never claimed that princely sum from paypal), it just wouldn't go! I got totally disgusted and changed my template. Only then did the widget go away.

I didnt expect technical errors from a google product. At the moment, i am sworn off moneymaking from that blog. Its good as it is.

I also tried review for money for a while. While the orders were decent and the money not too bad (abt 3-5$ per post), i just got bored. However, i personally endorse adsense over the paid reviews front.