StevePavlina.com was launched on Oct 1st, 2004. By April 2005 it was averaging $4.12/day in income. Now it brings in over $200/day $1000/day (updated as of 10/29/06). I didn’t spend a dime on marketing or promotion. In fact, I started this site with just $9 to register the domain name, and everything was bootstrapped from there. Would you like to know how I did it?
This article is seriously long (over 7300 words), but you’re sure to get your money’s worth (hehehe). I’ll even share some specifics. If you don’t have time to read it now, feel free to bookmark it or print it out for later.
Do you actually want to monetize your blog?
Some people have strong personal feelings with respect to making money from their blogs. If you think commercializing your blog is evil, immoral, unethical, uncool, lame, greedy, obnoxious, or anything along those lines, then don’t commercialize it.
If you have mixed feelings about monetizing your blog, then sort out those feelings first. If you think monetizing your site is wonderful, fine. If you think it’s evil, fine. But make up your mind before you seriously consider starting down this path. If you want to succeed, you must be congruent. Generating income from your blog is challenging enough — you don’t want to be dealing with self-sabotage at the same time. It should feel genuinely good to earn income from your blog — you should be driven by a healthy ambition to succeed. If your blog provides genuine value, you fully deserve to earn income from it. If, however, you find yourself full of doubts over whether this is the right path for you, you might find this article helpful: How Selfish Are You? It’s about balancing your needs with the needs of others.
If you do decide to generate income from your blog, then don’t be shy about it. If you’re going to put up ads, then really put up ads. Don’t just stick a puny little ad square in a remote corner somewhere. If you’re going to request donations, then really request donations. Don’t put up a barely visible “Donate” link and pray for the best. If you’re going to sell products, then really sell them. Create or acquire the best quality products you can, and give your visitors compelling reasons to buy. If you’re going to do this, then fully commit to it. Don’t take a half-assed approach. Either be full-assed or no-assed.
You can reasonably expect that when you begin commercializing a free site, some people will complain, depending on how you do it. I launched this site in October 2004, and I began putting Google Adsense ads on the site in February 2005. There were some complaints, but I expected that — it was really no big deal. Less than 1 in 5,000 visitors actually sent me negative feedback. Most people who sent feedback were surprisingly supportive. Most of the complaints died off within a few weeks, and the site began generating income almost immediately, although it was pretty low — a whopping $53 the first month. If you’d like to see some month-by-month specifics, I posted my 2005 Adsense revenue figures earlier this year. Adsense is still my single best source of revenue for this site, although it’s certainly not my only source. More on that later…
Can you make a decent income online?
Yes, absolutely. At the very least, a high five-figure annual income is certainly an attainable goal for an individual working full-time from home. I’m making a healthy income from StevePavlina.com, and the site is only 19 months old… barely a toddler. If you have a day job, it will take longer to generate a livable income, but it can still be done part-time if you’re willing to devote a lot of your spare time to it. I’ve always done it full-time.
Can most people do it?
No, they can’t. I hope it doesn’t shock you to see a personal development web site use the dreaded C-word. But I happen to agree with those who say that 99% of people who try to generate serious income from their blogs will fail. The tagline for this site is “Personal Development for Smart People.” And unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your outlook), smart people are a minority on this planet. So while most people can’t make a living this way, I would say that most smart people can. How do you know whether or not you qualify as smart? Here’s a good rule of thumb: If you have to ask the question, you aren’t.
If that last paragraph doesn’t flood my inbox with flames, I don’t know what will. OK, actually I do.
This kind of 99-1 ratio isn’t unique to blogging though. You’ll see it in any field with relatively low barriers to entry. What percentage of wannabe actors, musicians, or athletes ever make enough money from their passions to support themselves? It doesn’t take much effort to start a blog these days — almost anyone can do it. Talent counts for something, and the talent that matters in blogging is intelligence. But that just gets you in the door. You need to specifically apply your intelligence to one particular talent. And the best words I can think of to describe that particular talent are: web savvy.
If you are very web savvy, or if you can learn to become very web savvy, then you have an excellent shot of making enough money from your blog to cover all your living expenses… and then some. But if becoming truly web savvy is more than your gray matter can handle, then I’ll offer this advice: Don’t quit your day job.
Web savvy
What do I mean by web savvy? You don’t need to be a programmer, but you need a decent functional understanding of a variety of web technologies. What technologies are “key” will depend on the nature of your blog and your means of monetization. But generally speaking I’d list these elements as significant:
* blog publishing software
* HTML/CSS
* blog comments (and comment spam)
* RSS/syndication
* feed aggregators
* pings
* trackbacks
* full vs. partial feeds
* blog carnivals (for kick-starting your blog’s traffic)
* search engines
* search engine optimization (SEO)
* page rank
* social bookmarking
* tagging
* contextual advertising
* affiliate programs
* traffic statistics
Optional: podcasting, instant messaging, PHP or other web scripting languages.
I’m sure I missed a few due to familiarity blindness. If scanning such a list makes your head spin, I wouldn’t recommend trying to make a full-time living from blogging just yet. Certainly you can still blog, but you’ll be at a serious disadvantage compared to someone who’s more web savvy, so don’t expect to achieve stellar results until you expand your knowledge base.
If you want to sell downloadable products such as ebooks, then you can add e-commerce, SSL, digital delivery, fraud prevention, and online databases to the list. Again, you don’t need to be a programmer; you just need a basic understanding of these technologies. Even if you hire someone else to handle the low-level implementation, it’s important to know what you’re getting into. You need to be able to trust your strategic decisions, and you won’t be able to do that if you’re a General who doesn’t know what a gun is.
A lack of understanding is a major cause of failure in the realm of online income generation. For example, if you’re clueless about search engine optimization (SEO), you’ll probably cripple your search engine rankings compared to someone who understands SEO well. But you can’t consider each technology in isolation. You need to understand the connections and trade-offs between them. Monetizing a blog is a balancing act. You may need to balance the needs of yourself, your visitors, search engines, those who link to you, social bookmarking sites, advertisers, affiliate programs, and others. Seemingly minor decisions like what to title a web page are significant. In coming up with the title of this article, I have to take all of these potential viewers into consideration. I want a title that is attractive to human visitors, drives reasonable search engine traffic, yields relevant contextual ads, fits the theme of the site, and encourages linking and social bookmarking. And most importantly I want each article to provide genuine value to my visitors. I do my best to create titles for my articles that balance these various needs. Often that means abandoning cutesy or clever titles in favor of direct and comprehensible ones. It’s little skills like these that help drive sustainable traffic growth month after month. Missing out on just this one skill is enough to cripple your traffic. And there are dozens of these types of skills that require web savvy to understand, respect, and apply.
This sort of knowledge is what separates the 1% from the 99%. Both groups may work just as hard, but the 1% is getting much better results for their efforts. It normally doesn’t take me more than 60 seconds to title an article, but a lot of experience goes into those 60 seconds. You really just have to learn these ideas once; after that you can apply them routinely.
Whenever you come across a significant web technology you don’t understand, look it up on Google or Wikipedia, and dive into it long enough to acquire a basic understanding of it. To make money from blogging it’s important to be something of a jack of all trades. Maybe you’ve heard the expression, “A jack of all trades is a master of none.” That may be true, but you don’t need to master any of these technologies — you just have to be good enough to use them. It’s the difference between being able to drive a car vs. becoming an auto mechanic. Strive to achieve functional knowledge, and then move on to something else. Even though I’m an experienced programmer, I don’t know how many web technologies actually work. I don’t really care. I can still use them to generate results. In the time it would take me to fully understand one new technology, I can achieve sufficient functional knowledge to apply several of them.
Thriving on change
Your greatest risk isn’t that you’ll make mistakes that will cost you. Your greatest risk is that you’ll miss opportunities. You need an entrepreneurial mindset, not an employee mindset. Don’t be too concerned with the risk of loss — be more concerned with the risk of missed gains. It’s what you don’t know and what you don’t do that will hurt you the worst. Blogging is cheap. Your expenses and financial risk should be minimal. Your real concern should be missing opportunities that would have made you money very easily. You need to develop antennae that can listen out for new opportunities. I highly recommend subscribing to Darren Rowse’s Problogger blog — Darren is great at uncovering new income-generating opportunities for bloggers.
The blogosphere changes rapidly, and change creates opportunity. It takes some brains to decipher these opportunities and to take advantage of them before they disappear. If you hesitate to capitalize on something new and exciting, you may simply miss out. Many opportunities are temporary. And every day you don’t implement them, you’re losing money you could have earned. And you’re also missing opportunities to build traffic, grow your audience, and benefit more people.
I used to get annoyed by the rapid rate of change of web technologies. It’s even more rapid than what I saw when I worked in the computer gaming industry. And the rate of change is accelerating. Almost every week now I learn about some fascinating new web service or idea that could potentially lead to big changes down the road. Making sense of them is a full-time job in itself. But I learned to love this insane pace. If I’m confused then everyone else is probably confused too. And people who only do this part-time will be very confused. If they aren’t confused, then they aren’t keeping up. So if I can be just a little bit faster and understand these technologies just a little bit sooner, then I can capitalize on some serious opportunities before the barriers to entry become too high. Even though confusion is uncomfortable, it’s really a good thing for a web entrepreneur. This is what creates the space for a college student to earn $1,000,000 online in just a few months with a clever idea. Remember this isn’t a zero-sum game. Don’t let someone else’s success make you feel diminished or jealous. Let it inspire you instead.
What’s your overall income-generation strategy?
I don’t want to insult anyone, but most people are utterly clueless when it comes to generating income from their blogs. They slap things together haphazardly with no rhyme or reason and hope to generate lots of money. While I’m a strong advocate of the ready-fire-aim approach, that strategy does require that you eventually aim. Ready-fire-fire-fire-fire will just create a mess.
Take a moment to articulate a basic income-generating strategy for your site. If you aren’t good at strategy, then just come up with a general philosophy for how you’re going to generate income. You don’t need a full business plan, just a description of how you plan to get from $0 per month to whatever your income goal is. An initial target goal I used when I first started this site was $3000 per month. It’s a somewhat arbitrary figure, but I knew if I could reach $3000 per month, I could certainly push it higher, and $3000 is enough income that it’s going to make a meaningful difference in my finances. I reached that level 15 months after launching the site (in December 2005). And since then it’s continued to increase nicely. Blogging income is actually quite easy to maintain. It’s a lot more secure than a regular job. No one can fire me, and if one source of income dries up, I can always add new ones. We’ll address multiple streams of income soon…
Are you going to generate income from advertising, affiliate commissions, product sales, donations, or something else? Maybe you want a combination of these things. However you decide to generate income, put your basic strategy down in writing. I took 15 minutes to create a half-page summary of my monetization strategy. I only update it about once a year and review it once a month. This isn’t difficult, but it helps me stay focused on where I’m headed. It also allows me to say no to opportunities that are inconsistent with my plan.
Refer to your monetization strategy (or philosophy) when you need to make design decisions for your web site. Although you may have multiple streams of income, decide which type of income will be your primary source, and design your site around that. Do you need to funnel people towards an order form, or will you place ads all over the site? Different monetization strategies suggest different design approaches. Think about what specific action you want your visitors to eventually take that will generate income for you, and design your site accordingly.
When devising your income strategy, feel free to cheat. Don’t re-invent the wheel. Copy someone else’s strategy that you’re convinced would work for you too. Do NOT copy anyone’s content or site layout (that’s copyright infringement), but take note of how they’re making money. I decided to monetize this site with advertising and affiliate income after researching how various successful bloggers generated income. Later I added donations as well. This is an effective combo.
Traffic, traffic, traffic
Assuming you feel qualified to take on the challenge of generating income from blogging (and I haven’t scared you away yet), the three most important things you need to monetize your blog are traffic, traffic, and traffic.
Just to throw out some figures, last month (April 2006), this site received over 1.1 million visitors and over 2.4 million page views. That’s almost triple what it was just six months ago.
Why is traffic so important? Because for most methods of online income generation, your income is a function of traffic. If you double your traffic, you’ll probably double your income (assuming your visitor demographics remain fairly consistent). You can screw almost everything else up, but if you can generate serious traffic, it’s really hard to fail. With sufficient traffic the realistic worst case is that you’ll eventually be able to monetize your web site via trial and error (as long as you keep those visitors coming).
When I first launched this blog, I knew that traffic building was going to be my biggest challenge. All of my plans hinged on my ability to build traffic. If I couldn’t build traffic, it was going to be very difficult to succeed. So I didn’t even try to monetize my site for the first several months. I just focused on traffic building. Even after 19 months, traffic building is still the most important part of my monetization plan. For my current traffic levels, I know I’m undermonetizing my site, but that’s OK. Right now it’s more important to me to keep growing the site, and I’m optimizing the income generation as I go along.
Traffic is the primary fuel of online income generation. More visitors means more ad clicks, more product sales, more affiliate sales, more donations, more consulting leads, and more of whatever else that generates income for you. And it also means you’re helping more and more people.
With respect to traffic, you should know that in many respects, the rich do get richer. High traffic leads to even more traffic-building opportunities that just aren’t accessible for low-traffic sites. On average at least 20 bloggers add new links to my site every day, my articles can easily surge to the top of social bookmarking sites like del.icio.us, and I’m getting more frequent requests for radio interviews. Earlier this year I was featured in USA Today and in Self Magazine, which collectively have millions of readers. Journalists are finding me by doing Google searches on topics I’ve written about. These opportunities were not available to me when I was first starting out. Popular sites have a serious advantage. The more traffic you have, the more you can attract.
If you’re intelligent and web savvy, you should also be able to eventually build a high-traffic web site. And you’ll be able to leverage that traffic to build even more traffic.
How to build traffic
Now if traffic is so crucial, how do you build it up to significant levels if you’re starting from rock bottom?
I’ve already written a lengthy article on this topic, so I’ll refer you there: How to Build a High Traffic Web Site (or Blog). If you don’t have time to read it now, feel free to bookmark it or print it out for later. That article covers my general philosophy of traffic-building, which centers on creating content that provides genuine value to your visitors. No games or gimmicks.
There is one other important traffic-building tip I’ll provide here though.
Blog Carnivals. Take full advantage of blog carnivals when you’re just starting out (click the previous link and read the FAQ there to learn what carnivals are if you don’t already know). Periodically submit your best blog posts to the appropriate carnivals for your niche. Carnivals are easy ways to get links and traffic, and best of all, they’re free. Submitting only takes minutes if you use a multi-carnvival submission form. Do NOT spam the carnivals with irrelevant material — only submit to the carnivals that are a match for your content.
In my early traffic-building days, I’d do carnivals submissions once a week, and it helped a great deal in going from nothing to about 50,000 visitors per month. You still have to produce great content, but carnivals give you a free shot at marketing your unknown blog. Free marketing is precisely the kind of opportunity you don’t want to miss. Carnivals are like an open-mic night at a comedy club — they give amateurs a chance to show off their stuff. I still submit to certain carnivals every once in a while, but now my traffic is so high that relatively speaking, they don’t make much difference anymore. Just to increase my traffic by 1% in a month, I need 11,000 new visitors, and even the best carnivals don’t push that much traffic. But you can pick up dozens or even hundreds of new subscribers from each round of carnival submissions, so it’s a great place to start. Plus it’s very easy.
If your traffic isn’t growing month after month, does it mean you’re doing something wrong? Most likely you aren’t doing enough things right. Again, making mistakes is not the issue. Missing opportunities is.
Will putting ads on your site hurt your traffic?
Here’s a common fear I hear from people who are considering monetizing their web sites:
Putting ads on my site will cripple my traffic. The ads will drive people away, and they’ll never come back.
Well, in my experience this is absolutely, positively, and otherwise completely and totally… FALSE. It’s just not true. Guess what happened to my traffic when I put ads on my site. Nothing. Guess what happened to my traffic when I put up more ads and donation links. Nothing. I could detect no net effect on my traffic whatsoever. Traffic continued increasing at the same rate it did before there were ads on my site. In fact, it might have even helped me a little, since some bloggers actually linked to my site just to point out that they didn’t like my ad layout. I’ll leave it up to you to form your own theories about this. It’s probably because there’s so much advertising online already that even though some people will complain when a free site puts up ads, if they value the content, they’ll still come back, regardless of what they say publicly.
Most mature people understand it’s reasonable for a blogger to earn income from his/her work. I think I’m lucky in that my audience tends to be very mature — immature people generally aren’t interested in personal development. To create an article like this takes serious effort, not to mention the hard-earned experience that’s required to write it. This article alone took me over 15 hours of writing and editing. I think it’s perfectly reasonable to earn an income from such work. If you get no value from it, you don’t pay anything. What could be more fair than that? The more income this blog generates, the more I can put into it. For example, I used some of the income to buy podcasting equipment and added a podcast to the site. I’ve recorded 13 episodes so far. The podcasts are all ad-free. I’m also planning to add some additional services to this site in the years ahead. More income = better service.
At the time of this writing, my site is very ad-heavy. Some people point this out to me as if I’m not aware of it: “You know, Steve. Your web site seems to contain an awful lot of ads.” Of course I’m aware of it. I’m the one who put the ads there. There’s a reason I have this configuration of ads. They’re effective! People keep clicking on them. If they weren’t effective, I’d remove them right away and try something else.
I do avoid putting up ads that I personally find annoying when I see them on other sites, including pop-ups and interstitials (stuff that flies across your screen). Even though they’d make me more money, in my opinion they degrade the visitor experience too much.
I also provide two ad-free outlets, so if you really don’t like ads, you can actually read my content without ads. First, I provide a full-text RSS feed, and at least for now it’s ad-free. I do, however, include a donation request in the bottom of my feeds.
If you want to see some actual traffic data, take a look at the 2005 traffic growth chart. I first put ads on the site in February 2005, and although the chart doesn’t cover pre-February traffic growth, the growth rate was very similar before then. For an independent source, you can also look at my traffic chart on Alexa. You can select different Range options to go further back in time.
Multiple streams of income
You don’t need to put all your eggs in one basket. Think multiple streams of income. On this site I actually have six different streams of income. Can you count them all? Here’s a list:
1. Google Adsense ads (pay per click and pay per impression advertising)
2. Donations (via PayPal or snail mail — yes, some people do mail a check)
3. Text Link Ads (sold for a fixed amount per month)
4. Chitika eMiniMalls ads (pay per click)
5. Affiliate programs like Amazon and LinkShare (commission on products sold, mostly books)
6. Advertising sold to individual advertisers (three-month campaigns or longer)
Note: If you’re reading this article a while after its original publication date, then this list is likely to change. I frequently experiment with different streams.
Adsense is my biggest single source of income, but some of the others do pretty well too. Every stream generates more than $100/month.
My second biggest income stream is actually donations. My average donation is about $10, and I’ve received a number of $100 donations too. It only took me about an hour to set this up via PayPal. So even if your content is free like mine, give your visitors a means to voluntarily contribute if they wish. It’s win-win. I’m very grateful for the visitor support. It’s a nice form of feedback too, since I notice that certain articles produced a surge in donations — this tells me I’m hitting the mark and giving people genuine value.
These aren’t my only streams of income though. I’ve been earning income online since 1995. With my computer games business, I have direct sales, royalty income, some advertising income, affiliate income, and donations (from the free articles). And if you throw in my wife’s streams of income, it gets really ridiculous: advertising, direct book sales, book sales through distributors, web consulting, affiliate income, more Adsense income, and probably a few sources I forgot. Suffice it to say we receive a lot of paychecks. Some of them are small, but they add up. It’s also extremely low risk — if one source of income dries up, we just expand existing sources or create new ones. I encourage you to think of your blog as a potential outlet for multiple streams of income too.
Text Link AdsAutomated income
With the exception of #6, all of these income sources are fully automated. I don’t have to do anything to maintain them except deposit checks, and in most cases I don’t even have to do that because the money is automatically deposited to my bank account.
I love automated income. With this blog I currently have no sales, no employees, no products, no inventory, no credit card processing, no fraud, and no customers. And yet I’m still able to generate a reasonable (and growing) income.
Why get a regular job and trade your time for money when you can let technology do all that work for you? Imagine how it would feel to wake up each morning, go to your computer, and check how much money you made while you were sleeping. It’s a really nice situation to be in.
Blogging software and hardware
I use WordPress for this blog, and I highly recommend it. Wordpress has lots of features and a solid interface. And you can’t beat its price — free.
The rest of this site is custom-coded HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL. I’m a programmer, so I coded it all myself. I could have just as easily used an existing template, but I wanted a simple straightforward design for this site, and I wanted the look of the blog to match the rest of the site. Plus I use PHP and MySQL to do some creative things outside the blog, like the Million Dollar Experiment.
I don’t recommend using a hosted service like Blogger if you want to seriously monetize your blog. You don’t get enough control. If you don’t have your own URL, you’re tying yourself to a service you don’t own and building up someone else’s asset. You want to build page rank and links for your own URL, not someone else’s. Plus you want sufficient control over the layout and design of your site, so you can jump on any opportunities that require low-level changes. If you use a hosted blog, you’re at the mercy of the hosting service, and that puts the future of any income streams you create with them at risk. It’s a bit more work up front to self-host, but it’s less risky in the long run.
Web hosting is cheap, and there are plenty of good hosts to choose from. I recommend Pair.com for a hosting account. They aren’t the cheapest, but they’re very reliable and have decent support. I know many online businesses that host with them, and my wife refers most of her clients there.
As your traffic grows you may need to upgrade to a dedicated server or a virtual private server (VPS). My web server is hosted by ServInt.net. What I like about ServInt is that they have a nice upgrade path as my traffic keeps growing. I’ve gone through several upgrades with them already, and all have been seamless. The nice thing about having your own server is that you can put as many sites on it as the server can handle. I have several sites running on my server, and it doesn’t cost me any additional hosting fees to add another site.
Comments or no comments
When I began this blog, I started out with comments enabled. As traffic grew, so did the level of commenting. Some days there were more than 100 comments. I noticed I was spending more and more time managing comments, and I began to question whether it was worth the effort. It became clear that with continued traffic growth, I was going to have to change my approach or die in comment hell. The personal development topics I write about can easily generate lots of questions and discussion. Just imagine how many follow-up questions an article like this could generate. With tens of thousands of readers, it would be insane. Also, nuking comment spam was chewing up more and more of my time as well.
But after looking through my stats, I soon realized that only a tiny fraction of visitors ever look at comments at all, and an even smaller fraction ever post a comment (well below 1% of total visitors). That made my decision a lot easier, and in October 2005, I turned blog comments off. In retrospect that was one of my best decisions. I wish I had done it sooner.
If you’d like to read the full details of how I came to this decision, I’ve written about it previously: Blog Comments and More on Blog Comments.
Do you need comments to build traffic? Obviously not. Just like when I put up ads, I saw no decline in traffic when I turned off comments. In fact, I think it actually helped me. Although I turned off comments, I kept trackbacks enabled, so I started getting more trackbacks. If people wanted to publicly comment on something I’d written, they had to do so on their own blogs and post a link. So turning off comments didn’t kill the discussion — it just took it off site. The volume of trackbacks is far more reasonable, and I can easily keep up with it. I even pop onto other people’s sites and post comments now and then, but I don’t feel obligated to participate because the discussion isn’t on my own site.
I realize people have very strong feelings about blog comments and community building. Many people hold the opinion that a blog without comments just isn’t a blog. Personally I think that’s utter nonsense — the data just doesn’t support it. The vast majority of blog readers neither read nor post comments. Only a very tiny and very vocal group even care about comments. Some bloggers say that having comments helps build traffic, but I saw no evidence of that. In fact, I think it’s just the opposite. Managing comments detracts from writing new posts, and it’s far better to get a trackback and a link from someone else’s blog vs. a comment on your own blog. As long-term readers of my blog know, when faced with ambiguity, my preference is to try both alternatives and compare real results with real results. After doing that my conclusion is this: No comment. :)
Now if you want to support comments for non-traffic-building reasons like socializing or making new contacts, I say go for it. Just don’t assume that comments are necessary or even helpful in building traffic unless you directly test this assumption yourself.
Build a complete web site, not just a blog
Don’t limit your web site to just a blog. Feel free to build it out. Although most of my traffic goes straight to this blog, there’s a whole site built around it. For example, the home page of this site presents an overview of all the sections of the site, including the blog, article section, audio content, etc. A lot of people still don’t know what a blog is, so if your whole site is your blog, those people may be a little confused.
Testing and optimization
In the beginning you won’t know which potential streams of income will work best for you. So try everything that’s reasonable for you. If you learn about a new potential income stream, test it for a month or two, and measure the results for yourself. Feel free to cut streams that just aren’t working for you, and put more effort into optimizing those streams that show real promise.
A few months ago, I signed up for an account with Text Link Ads. It took about 20 minutes. They sell small text ads on my site, split the revenue with me 50-50, and deposit my earnings directly into my PayPal account. This month I’ll make around $600 from them, possibly more if they sell some new ads during the month. And it’s totally passive. If I never tried this, I’d miss out on this easy extra income.
For many months I’ve been tweaking the Adsense ads on this site. I tried different colors, sizes, layouts, etc. I continue to experiment now and then, but I have a hard time beating the current layout. It works very well for me. Adsense doesn’t allow publishers to reveal specific CPM and CTR data, but mine are definitely above par. They started out in the gutter though. You can easily double or triple your Adsense revenue by converting a poor layout into a better one. This is the main reason why during my first year of income, my traffic grew at 20% per month, but my income grew at 50% per month. Frequent testing and optimization had a major positive impact. Many of my tests failed, and some even made my income go down, but I’m glad I did all that testing. If I didn’t then my Adsense income would only be a fraction of what it is now.
It’s cheap to experiment. Every new advertising or affiliate service I’ve tried so far has been free to sign up. Often I can add a new income stream in less than an hour and then wait a month to see how it does. If it flops then at least I learned something. If it does well, wonderful. As a blogger who wants to generate income, you should always be experimenting with new income streams. If you haven’t tried anything new in six months, you’re almost certainly missing some golden opportunities. Every blog is different, so you need to test things for yourself to see what works for you. Failure is impossible here — you either succeed, or you learn something.
Pick your niche, but make sure it isn’t too small
Pick a niche for your blog where you have some significant expertise, but make sure it’s a big enough niche that you can build significant traffic. My wife runs a popular vegan web site. She does pretty well within her niche, but it’s just not a very big niche. On the other hand, my topic of personal development has much broader appeal. Potentially anyone can be interested in improving themselves, and I have the flexibility to write about topics like productivity, self-discipline, relationships, spirituality, health, and more. It’s all relevant to personal development.
Pick a niche that you’re passionate about. I’ve written 400+ articles so far, and I still feel like I’m just getting started. I’m not feeling burnt out at all. I chose to build a personal development site because I’m very knowledgeable, experienced, and passionate about this subject. I couldn’t imagine a better topic for me to write about.
Don’t pick a niche just because you think it will make you money. I see many bloggers try to do that, and it’s almost invariably a recipe for failure. Think about what you love most, and then find a way to make your topic appealing to a massive global audience. Consider what will provide genuine value to your visitors. It’s all about what you can give.
A broad enough topic creates more potential advertising partners. If I keep writing on the same subtopic over and over, I may exhaust the supply of advertisers and hit an income ceiling. But by writing on many different topics under the same umbrella, I widen the field of potential advertisers. And I expand the appeal of my site at the same time.
Make it clear to your visitors what your blog/site is about. Often I visit a blog with a clever title and tagline that reveals nothing about the site’s contents. In that case I generally assume it’s just a personal journal and move on. I love to be clever too, but I’ve found that clarity yields better results than cleverness.
Posting frequency and length
Bloggers have different opinions about the right posting length and frequency. Some bloggers say it’s best to write short (250-750 word) entries and post 20x per week or more. I’ve seen that strategy work for some, but I decided to do pretty much the opposite. I usually aim for about 3-5 posts per week, but my posts are much longer (typically 1000-2000 words, sometimes longer than 5000 words, including the monster you’re reading right now). That’s because rather than throwing out lots of short tips, I prefer to write more exhaustive, in-depth articles. I find that deeper articles are better at generating links and referrals and building traffic. It’s true that fewer people will take the time to read them, but those that do will enjoy some serious take-away value. I don’t believe in creating disposable content just to increase page views and ad impressions. If I’m not truly helping my visitors, I’m wasting their time.
Expenses
Blogging is dirt cheap.
I don’t spend money on advertising or promotion, so my marketing expenses are nil. Essentially my content is my marketing. If you like this article, you’ll probably find many more gems in the archives.
My only real expenses for this site are the hosting (I currently pay $149/month for the web server and bandwidth) and the domain name renewal ($9/year). Nearly all of the income this site generates is profit. This trickles down to my personal income, so of course it’s subject to income tax. But the actual business expenses are minimal.
The reason I pay so much for hosting is simply due to my traffic. If my traffic were much lower, I could run this site on a cheap shared hosting account. A database-driven blog can be a real resource hog at high traffic levels. The same goes for online forums. As traffic continues to increase, my hosting bill will go up too, but it will still be a tiny fraction of total income.
Perks
Depending on the nature of your blog, you may be able to enjoy some nice perks as your traffic grows. Almost every week I get free personal development books in the mail (for potential review on this site). Sometimes the author will send it directly; other times the publisher will ship me a batch of books. I also receive CDs, DVDs, and other personal development products. It’s hard to keep up sometimes (I have a queue of about two dozen books right now), but I am a voracious consumer of such products, so I do plow through them as fast as I can. When something strikes me as worthy of mention, I do indeed write up a review to share it with my visitors. I have very high standards though, so I review less than 10% of what I receive. I’ve read over 700 books in this field and listened to dozens of audio programs, so I’m pretty good at filtering out the fluff. As I’m sure you can imagine, there’s a great deal of self-help fluff out there.
My criteria for reviewing a product on this site is that it has to be original, compelling, and profound. If it doesn’t meet these criteria, I don’t review it, even if there’s a generous affiliate program. I’m not going to risk abusing my relationship with my visitors just to make a quick buck. Making money is not my main motivation for running this site. My main motivation is to grow and to help others grow, so that always comes first.
Your blog can also gain you access to certain events. A high-traffic blog becomes a potential media outlet, so you can actually think of yourself as a member of the press, which indeed you are. In a few days, my wife and I will be attending a three-day seminar via a free press pass. The regular price for these tickets is $500 per person. I’ll be posting a full review of the seminar next week. I’ve been to this particular seminar in 2004, so I already have high expectations for it. Dr. Wayne Dyer will be the keynote speaker.
I’m also using the popularity of this blog to set up interviews with people I’ve always wanted to learn more about. This is beautifully win-win because it creates value for me, my audience, and the person being interviewed. Recently I posted an exclusive interview with multi-millionaire Marc Allen as well as a review of his latest book, and I’m lining up other interviews as well. It isn’t hard to convince someone to do an interview in exchange for so much free exposure.
Motivation
I don’t think you’ll get very far if money is your #1 motivation for blogging. You have to be driven by something much deeper. Money is just frosting. It’s the cake underneath that matters. My cake is that I absolutely love personal development – not the phony “fast and easy” junk you see on infomercials, but real growth that makes us better human beings. That’s my passion. Pouring money on top of it just adds more fuel to the fire, but the fire is still there with or without the money.
What’s your passion? What would you blog about if you were already set for life?
Blogging lifestyle
Perhaps the best part of generating income from blogging is the freedom it brings. I work from home and set my own hours. I write whenever I’m inspired to write (which for me is quite often). Plus I get to spend my time doing what I love most — working on personal growth and helping others do the same. There’s nothing I’d rather do than this.
Perhaps it’s true that 99 out of 100 people can’t make a decent living from blogging yet. But maybe you’re among the 1 in 100 who can.
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May 3rd, 2006 at 5:26 pm
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40. Creating a Better Life Says:
May 16th, 2006 at 2:24 am
The Personal Development Carnival
I first learned about blog carnivals from Steve Pavlina’s post on making money from your blog. So I went in search of a carnival specifically for blogs devoted to personal development of some kind.
I found nothing.
So I’m starting one!
The…
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May 18th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
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50. Jacin Steele » Blog Archive » Posting less makes readers happy Says:
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55. Text link ads an alternative to Google Adsense » BLOGGED:: affordable and reliable wordpress blog web hosting provider since 2002 Says:
June 18th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
[…] Steve Pavline has great success with text link ads. It took about 20 minutes. They sell small text ads on my site, split the revenue with me 50-50, and deposit my earnings directly into my PayPal account. This month I’ll make around $600 from them, possibly more if they sell some new ads during the month. And it’s totally passive. If I never tried this, I’d miss out on this easy extra income.” […]
56. California Microbusinesses Says:
June 22nd, 2006 at 12:45 pm
[…] The other approach requires content depth and detail. Steve Pavlina’s blog is an excellent example of timeless content with a focus on a very specific audience. Steve has written an article called, “How to Make Money from Your Blog” and I encourage anyone considering blogging for dollars to read this article. […]
57. eMoms at Home / How to Make Money From Your Blog Says:
June 22nd, 2006 at 8:07 pm
[…] He also has a great (and I mean really, really great) entry on How to Make Money From Your Blog. Besides affiliate marketing, I think blogging is the next perfect internet business for the work at home mom… […]
58. Working at Home on the Internet » Blog Archive » This Weeks Helpful Reads…Week 4 Says:
June 25th, 2006 at 1:36 pm
[…] How to Make Money From Your Blog by Steve Pavlina… Steve explains in detail how he went from $4/day to $200/day without all the paid marketing and promotion. […]
59. Mit Blogs Geld verdienen - SEO Blog Says:
July 11th, 2006 at 4:56 am
[…] Also wie mit einem Blog Geld verdienen? Hierzu habe ich den schon etwas älteren aber immer noch aktuellen Artikel how to make money from your blog von Steve Pavlina gefunden, welcher laut seinen eigenen Aussagen derzeit 200$ täglich mit seinem Blog verdient. Diesen Artikel kann man auch in einer gekürzten deutschen Übersetzung im eint Blog unter Wie man Geld mit Blogs verdient nachlesen und es gibt bei diesem Beitrag nicht mehr viel hinzuzufügen. […]
60. The biggest lie about Making Money Online at Seeking Revenue Says:
July 22nd, 2006 at 9:24 am
[…] Steve Pavlina made over $200/day from his blog. Notice he is not offering to sell you an ebook to show you how. He tells you how for free. Even then, can you do it? […]
61. |► Quanto pu� rendere un blog? - Pagina 2 Says:
July 25th, 2006 at 6:02 am
[…] Conosco un blog che fa 9000$mese con AdSense e ci credo. Ti riporto un link penso sia utile a tutti: How to Make Money From Your Blog […]
62. Niche Pot » How to make money blogging - gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": make … Says:
July 26th, 2006 at 3:16 am
[…] How to Make Money From Your Blog To make money from blogging it s important to be something of a jack of … Seriously i think everyone of you who wanna make money from blog must read this. … […]
63. OnlyOneMike.com » Why am I blogging? Says:
July 28th, 2006 at 4:09 pm
[…] Then, I found an article on Steve’s site that talked about making money from your blog. I didn’t know such a thing existed. I’d heard of google adsense, and I’d heard of blogging, but for some reason I never put the two together. So with my newfound knowledge I delved into the world of WordPress, trackbacks, pings, posts, blog carnivals. After finding a good theme, I wrote my first article. […]
64. | DropShipArea.com Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 4:33 am
[…] I was quite impressed with the information that Steve Pavlina generates about $600.00 and Matt does even better and gets about $700.00 per month from links sales through one channel. Yes, these two persons run well-known blogs on the Internet and at this time I will not dare compare my websites and online business with theirs. But I am still impressed and signed up with the service they both recommend: www.text-link-ads.com (aff link). […]
65. Mindful Entrepreneur - Work for Passion and Profit! Says:
July 31st, 2006 at 11:30 am
[…] Darren Rowse – ProBlogger Steve Pavlina ‘s Blog […]
66. » Monetizing: Making money from inspirewithhope.com · All Things Bright | inspirewithhope.com Says:
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:47 pm
[…] Oh well, nobody said it was easy. In fact, Steve Pavlina said not everyone can do it - “99% of people who try will fail” and he’s pretty smart. I’m smart too, we will see if that’s enough! […]
67. 10 Reasons to Develop Your Technical Skills Says:
August 4th, 2006 at 3:08 pm
[…] I’ve been earning income online since 1995, and I love it. It does require some technical skill to build an income-generating web site, but those skills are highly learnable, and it’s a lot easier today than it was 10 years ago. (For example, see How to Make Money From Your Blog). Sure I can write well enough, but without the technical skills to build traffic, this site would be a ghost town. I do the creative work, technology handles the grunt work, and visitors benefit from the value provided. It’s a pretty nice system. […]
68. 10 Ways to Monetize Your Blog » Conversion Rater Says:
August 5th, 2006 at 2:06 am
[…] First, I should preface this discussion by saying you first need to seriously evaluate whether you want to work at monetizing your blog. Steve Pavlina has a very thorough post that goes over what’s necessary to really do this well, and why the majority of people who try end up not generating significant income. […]
69. Net: Experienced » Recommended Skills Says:
August 7th, 2006 at 10:10 am
[…] From one of my favorite websites and inspirational personal development writers, Steve Pavlina, posts an article entitled, “How to Make Money from your Blog”, found here: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/. Within the article, once getting readers past the point of decided whether monetizing a blog is a worthy endeavor for them, he lists some core competencies (resources and capabilities) that are essential and helpful to pursuing this goal. The list is as follows: […]
70. Jason’s News » DO NOT MISS THIS LIFE-CHANGING ARTICLE! Says:
August 13th, 2006 at 12:09 am
[…] Here is the link: http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/ Participate! Leave your comment. […]
71. Frank Ristau » Adsense im Blog Says:
August 15th, 2006 at 12:18 am
[…] Wie man sieht habe ich Google Adsense Anzeigen ins Blog eingebaut. Viele meiner Seiten finanzieren sich mittlerweile ganz vernünftig durch Werbung. Bei einem Blog habe ich bislang allerdings keine Erfahrungen, ob man damit überhaupt Geld verdienen kann, bzw. worauf man bei der Einbindung von Adsense oder sonstigen Werbeeinblendungen achten muß. […]
72. All Tips and Tricks Says:
August 15th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
[…] The person who started this experiment and who is currently hosting it on his site is Steve Pavlina. It was the first time I heard about him and as I became curious to know more, I started to read some other articles on his site. Suddenly, I realized that I was reading for two hours already and I still found some more interesting facts and stories in his site. As I was just about to launch my first web projects, I found there some bits of information which I implemented and which proved to work well. Personally, I found some of the posts there rather peculiar, especially those related to sleep, diet and fitness habits, but nobody is forcing you to follow that path, Steve is just relating his experiments and their implications in his everyday life. […]
73. OnlyOneMike.com » How to Get Started Blogging Says:
August 17th, 2006 at 11:31 am
[…] Problogger has all sorts of articles and tips on blogging and making money. A GREAT article to read is by the ubiquitous Steve Pavlina. He has an article called “How to Make Money From Your Blog.” I highly recommend this article as it reveals all sorts of interesting tips. […]
74. Text Link Ads: First Ad Sold! » Dark Moon Blog Says:
August 22nd, 2006 at 2:44 pm
[…] There are a lot of blogs using and praising Text Link Ads. But I have experienced some cons of their system. First of all, they seem to be picky about which sites they accept. They didn’t accept my Speeltijd website, although it has more visitors than this blog. And secondly, they choose the price for the links on your site, and you can not directly influence it. […]
75. Blogteria:getting the most out of blogs Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 3:44 am
[…] The post has some great guide lines on how to make money online through blogging. In the end, how one monetizes their blog is really up to them. Steve outlines a fine process of constantly examining what works - and what does not work - on his blog and then makes changes appropriately. It’s well worth the read. How to Make Money From Your Blog. He really has some great stuff there considering the fact that the post is 7′000+ words long. […]
76. Make Money Online » Blog Archive » It doesn’t “take” money, to “make” money Says:
August 29th, 2006 at 2:06 pm
[…] Steve Pavlina is a successful pro blog publisher of the mindset, and the only money he spent setting himself up was the $9 it cost to register his domain. […]
77. 365questions.org » Blog Archive » Is short best ? Says:
August 31st, 2006 at 1:33 pm
[…] The exact contrary of Steve Pavlina : “I usually aim for about 3-5 posts per week, but my posts are much longer (typically 1000-2000 words, sometimes longer than 5000 words, including the monster you’re reading right now)”. […]
78. Bliss of Being » Blog Archive » When and When Not To Live By Statistics Says:
September 4th, 2006 at 3:15 am
[…] But there is a time when living by statistics aren’t such a good thing to do. The best time not to live by rule of thumb is when you are trying to do something creative and new. For example, starting a web site to make money is probably the last place you want to play the statistics game. Even Stive Pavlina agrees that “99% of the people who try to generate serious income from their blogs fail.” And thats exactly the statistic that he did not listen to when he started his blog. […]
79. Home Business Blog Says:
September 9th, 2006 at 12:24 am
Steve Pavlina about blog lifestyle
The most interesting point of view I have noticed at Steve Pavlina’s blog - how-to-make-money-from-your-blog.
80. Martial Development » Why Write About Martial Arts? Says:
September 16th, 2006 at 6:34 pm
[…] Blogs support passive income streams, including contextual advertising, sponsorships, affiliate programs and more. If your blog is popular, compelling, and relevant, you can even earn money while you sleep. […]
81. Blogging for Dollars Blog / Make money blogging Says:
September 23rd, 2006 at 4:03 pm
[…] * Steve Pavlina on How To Make Money From Your Blog […]
82. Как заработать на своем блоге « HotDog говорит … Says:
September 26th, 2006 at 12:18 am
[…] Отличная статья о том, как заработать на своем блоге. Рассматриваются моральные аспекты, а так же рекомендации по увеличению доходов со своего блога. Жалко, что на английском. Если будет время, то переведу ее на русский язык. Добавить эту новость на news2.ru […]
83. Blogging Tips Galore - Dream Jobs Dialog Says:
September 27th, 2006 at 9:53 am
[…] Steve Pavlina’s article about making money with your blog. (Note: Steve’s an interesting guy, so click here for more about him.) […]
84. AdSense Blogging Says:
September 27th, 2006 at 5:03 pm
[…] Итак, статья показалось мне преинтересненькой. Обычно то, что присылается от автоответчиков по поводу заработка в интернете, сводится к банальщине: "Купи софтинку за сто баксов, получишь бонусов на тысячу, и зробишь мильён - ну как я!" Была бы такая софтинка - я бы и тысячу заплатил, а если всё-таки сто баксов (без обманок), то купил бы десять копий и девять раздал. Жалко, что ли? […]
85. RF4.us blog » Blog Archive » Как заработать на вашем блоге. Says:
September 28th, 2006 at 4:55 am
[…] Отличная статья от одного из самых маститых блоггеров Буржуляндии. В целом, правда, очень похожа на обычную success-story, но тем не может быть менее очень полезной для всех, кто ведет или собирается стартовать свой блог. Статья на английском, но язык в целом понятный. Мне моих навыков хватило Must Read! http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/ […]
86. » De AdSense groot-verdieners » Enthousiasmeren Says:
September 30th, 2006 at 12:29 pm
[…] De lijst is beslist niet compleet want zo ontbreken Daren Rowse en Steve Pavlina. Met hun AdSense inkomsten overzicht horen ze toch beslist thuis in dit overzicht. […]
87. работа над ошибками» Blog Archive » Не зарабатываем в Интернете Says:
October 1st, 2006 at 3:34 am
[…] Читаю Стива Павлину - “Как делать деньги при помощи своего блога“. Нашёл ссылку на каком-то русском сайте или блоге, где кроме этой статьи было ещё много похожего материала. После несложных бухгалтерских выкладок жирным шрифтом выделяется первый вопрос: “Хотите ли Вы делать деньги своим блогом?“. Мой ответ - Нет, не хочу! Конец истории! Занавес! Дальше не читаю. […]
88. Doorway blog » How to Make Money From Your Blog Says:
October 1st, 2006 at 5:16 am
[…] http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/ […]
89. Zielorientiert » Blog Archive » Blogging als Full-Time-Job Says:
October 6th, 2006 at 12:48 am
[…] Steve Pavlina ist einer der Blogger, der es geschaft hat, seine Webseite in eine Geldmaschine zu verwandeln. Er legte Anfang dieses Monats seinen 2. Jahresbericht vor und erklärt zusätzlich dazu einige Grundlagen, um seinen Block zu komerzialisieren. […]
90. Knowledge Wise Way » Blog Archive » How to Make Money from Blogging Says:
October 6th, 2006 at 8:22 pm
[…] if you have the time you can read Steve full text here ( i am not affiliate to him- just sharing a good info) […]
91. Efetividade.net » Blog Archive » 10 dicas para ganhar dinheiro de verdade com seu site ou blog usando o Google Adsense (parte 1 de 2) Says:
October 12th, 2006 at 8:14 pm
[…] 1 - ASSUMA que você deseja faturar com anúncios: Esta dica vem em primeiro na lista porque se você não a seguir, não maximizará seu sucesso em nenhuma das outras. Na minha opinião, não há nada de errado em ser recompensado financeiramente por disponibilizar conteúdo ou serviços de sua autoria na web, e o Adsense é uma das formas menos intrusivas de fazer isso. Como diz Steve Pavlina (que fatura US$ 400,00 por dia com seu blog) no artigo “How to make money from your blog“, se você acha que há algo de errado, sujo, anti-ético, anti-comunitário ou mau em exibir anúncios no seu site, então não exiba. Mas se você for exibir, faça bem feito, e não algo escondido no fundo da coluna lateral direita, com cores sem contraste e uma borda de 5 pixels. Anúncios bem escolhidos merecem um local em que sejam vistos por todos os possíveis interessados. […]
92. Can a blog make money? | ChrisGribble.com Says:
October 15th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
[…] Steve Pavlina’s article on making money. It is as he describes it a monster but it is full of invaluable information on how to make money blogging. […]
93. Shoulders of Idiots » Web 2.0 and Setting Up Your First Blog Says:
October 18th, 2006 at 5:36 pm
[…] The second idea behind this site you may already have worked out. Some expert bloggers recommend limiting blogs to around 250-750 words as the optimum number to drive traffic to the site. This seems to me to be a little mercenary. After all if you have a good topic which you know plenty about why stop there. I did some research on starting a blog and ended up at the site of Steve Pavlina who has an excellent article on how to start up your own blog. Normally I would have trouble relating to someone who has both 7 habits of effective people and the Celestine prophecy on their reading list but forgetting about that he has a lot of interesting things to say (I particularly liked “How to become an early riser”). Therefore if you would like to know how to set up you own blog I suggest you read his article on the subject. I would add that I WordPress seems to be an excellent choice of software and I have found out that geography makes very little difference in choosing a web host, so choosing a US one tends to work out cheaper and will have more bells and whistles. In the end I choose LunarPages as although they are based in the US they also have a UK toll free hotline. […]
94. geniustypes.com » Five ways to Create Passive Income With Little or No Money Says:
October 24th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
[…] If you can generate traffic to your blog, you can make money with advertising or affiliate programs. This site is an example, but the king of monetizing blogs is Steve Pavlina. He has posted that his blog generates over $400 per day. He is successful because he has great content and is unselfish. He will tell you on his site exactly how he did it and how you can also. […]
95. How This Blog Attracted 100,000 Visitors in the First 30 Days–steve-olson.com Says:
November 1st, 2006 at 11:23 am
[…] Steve Pavlina – How to Make Money From Your Blog – This post is not only about making money, it is about providing value in your blog. He is brutally honest in this post. Do you have what it takes? […]
96. Blogging For Dollars - Internet Affiliate Marketing Tips Says:
November 6th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
[…] Found an excellent site if you are wanting to make money from your blog. It is agreat article on everything from Google Adsense to writing PHP. If you want to know the facts about making money from your blog, head on over to StevePavlina.com. […]
97. 98Fates.com » Blog Archive » In pursuit of a dream… Says:
November 8th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
[…] So, you’ve probably heard stories about people making money off their blogs – yet the first question I get from everyone I describe this project to is: how do you do it? Problogger.net has a number of excellent articles on the subject (like this one), and this article at Stevepavlina.com is also very informative. […]
98. Blog Marketing and Website Promotion Says:
November 14th, 2006 at 10:35 am
Blogger Makes $1000.00 A Day
Here is an example of what a good content management system can do for you along with old fashioned hard work and dedication to excellent content.
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99. StevePavlina.com - The Mother of All Blogs | Decubicled.com - Tied to the Office no More! Says:
November 14th, 2006 at 6:39 pm
[…] This post on how to make money from your blog currently has a Google Page Rank of 6. That is pretty good for a single post! It is over 7300 words! I think I can safely say it is more valuable than most ebooks on the subject that cost a pretty penny. I’m going to try to read most of it tonight if I can stay awake (I’m not a night owl). […]
100. Traffic Is Yor Ticket To Financial Freedom - Rugjeff’s Blog Says:
November 15th, 2006 at 8:20 pm
[…] The best article that I have read on this topic can be found here. Read it, read it again and believe every word! Remember, in internet marketing you are your own boss. You will not be fired, so don’t be afraid to fail. Take notes of what works and dismiss things that don’t. Work on building traffic and put up those ads. You deserve anything and everything you receive! […]
101. Luźne Uwagi » Blog Archive » Przykład dobrego marketingu internetowego Says:
November 16th, 2006 at 6:59 am
[…] Ciekawostka - Blog Steve Pavlina i jego notka, jak z bloga zrobić narzędzie do zarabiania - całkiem niezłego. Steve pisze, że dziennie jego blog przynosi mu 1000$. Autor: Marcin de Lehenstein Werndl - Zobacz stronę autora […]
102. Tim’s Blog » Blog Archive » Blog revenue: the business model Says:
November 17th, 2006 at 10:49 am
[…] I’d like to share something with you. Most people do not understand the business model at work in commercial broadcasting (and “commercial blogging”) very well. Steve Pavlina seems to understand it (How to Make Money From Your Blog), but I think I can make it explicit. […]
103. How to Make Money From Your Blog | The Best Online Earning Strategies Says:
November 21st, 2006 at 2:11 pm
[…] Read Steve’s excellent post here: How to Make Money From Your Blog blogging make money online online marketing website Filed under General Strategies, Blogging by admin. Permalink • Print • Email […]
104. Worldwide Success » The Art of Successful Blogging Says:
November 23rd, 2006 at 11:29 am
[…] Steve Pavlina.com – Steve is first on my list. Not only because he is a great example of what successful blogging is all about, but also because this was the site that inspired me to get started with Worldwide Success. Thanks Steve! In the article How To Make Money From Your Blog, Steve provides a detailed assessment of how to be successful with your blog. […]
105. How to Make Money From Your Blog Arejae.Com | Jom Belajar Programming Says:
December 4th, 2006 at 9:35 pm
[…] StevePavlina.com now making $1000/day. Would you like to know how he do it ? Let’s see what he can share with us. December 5, 2006 Related Post:Hoax : Pin number reversal ?To improve your English, think in EnglishWhat Does It REALLY Take to make $100K as a Service Professional?Hello WorldWelcome November Can’t find what you are looking for? Go Gooogle… […]
106. LWilliamLosapio.com » Five Blessings of Getting Canned From Google Adsense Says:
December 8th, 2006 at 11:01 pm
[…] What a huge discovery - I can create a blog and MAKE MONEY from it using easy and free advertising solutions. Imagine me sitting at my desk, wondering how cool it would be if I could just turn an interest like opinion writing and a geeky passion for free-market theory into a real revenue stream, maybe even–perish the thought–quit my day job. …pbtpbtpbt HAHAHA! Yeah, keep dreaming, bub. And then I stumbled upon this article from Steve Pavlina about making money, indeed, a LIVING, from blogging. After finding my way back into coherence from a shock-induced, get-to-know-the-floor incident (I fell out of my chair reading it), I got busy. [To those coworkers reading this, still no plans of quitting the 8-to-5 bit…] […]
107. LWilliamLosapio.com » Some Advice for Getting a Blog Up and Running Says:
December 19th, 2006 at 11:02 am
[…] Jeremy, I can totally relate to that perspective of wanting to get it up and running with all the pieces in place. My advice - DO NOT WAIT. Do not wait for every aspect of your site to be in place. Do not wait for some of the fancier technologies to be in place before you launch. I recommend you read this article from Steve Pavlina: How To Make Money From Your Blog. Essential reading for a new blogger. I don’t know what skill level you have with web technologies. This article goes over the specifics. In short, there is SO MUCH to learn that unless you are already an experienced web developer, you need to take it in steps. Just figuring out how to get advertisements placed in the right way took me hours of reading and experimenting. I still struggle with it, but I have a lot more control over it now than when I started. […]
108. Online Profits For Moms » Blog Archive » Great Example of A Highly Successful Blog Says:
December 22nd, 2006 at 4:47 am
[…] http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/ […]
109. My Back Yard :: Making money from your blog :: January :: 2007 Says:
January 2nd, 2007 at 3:27 pm
[…] Steve Pavlina’s blog has an entire post on "How to Make Money from Your Blog." […]
110. askTrina.com » Blog Archive » How To Make A Quickly Profitable Blog Says:
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:48 pm
[…] (Here’s the little bit of the post that you can actually trust: Steve actually did make it quite clear that making a profitable blog, especially one on his scale, is a very difficult endeavor. In fact, here’s the link to where he said as much if you don’t trust my word anymore. ) […]
111. The Fallacy of Technorati and Adsense » Expert Idiot Says:
January 7th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
[…] There are plenty of examples of bloggers making a decent living off of Adsense. One of the greatest examples I can think of is Steve Pavlina who by 2005 was making $4000/mo from Adsense. You might not have heard of him because he is pretty niche, but he is in the Technorati Top 100. […]
112. Turn Ons and Turn Offs: Blog Comments · Elaine Vigneault Says:
January 22nd, 2007 at 9:52 am
[…] Other successful bloggers, such as Mr. Pavlina, swear that turning off comments has made their blogs more successful because people who feel the need to comment do so in their own blogs, websites, forums, etc. and provide links back, which can increase traffic and search engine rankings. […]
113. Blogging for Money » Blog Archive » Google to Offer Bonus Incentive of $2000 Says:
February 2nd, 2007 at 8:37 pm
[…] Still not convinced? Steve Pavlina’s $1000/day should be a little more enticing considering that figure was updated in October of last year and Steve’s blog has been growing exponentially each month. […]
114. QMusings » Blog Archive » Why I Use WordPress As My Blog Platform Says:
February 3rd, 2007 at 12:47 pm
[…] Before I answer those questions, I’ll give you some background. I first read Steve Pavlina’s How To Make Money From Your Blog post. I had no real interest in blogging until I read this. This is an excellent post. It’s very long, but Steve discusses everything from your motivation behind blogging to frequency of posting to the various types of blogging platforms and available software. Steve recommended WordPress. Steve also linked to ProBlogger. I read through Darren’s Blogging For Beginner Series. […]
115. Top Blogs » Blog Archive » How to Make Money From Your Blog Says:
February 5th, 2007 at 1:16 pm
[…] Read more at StevePavlina.com Tags: Blogging, Income, Blogging for Money […]
116. Portfolio Widgets Says:
February 7th, 2007 at 5:06 am
Making Money with Blogs and Widgets
Widgets make it incredibly easy to put up a website that points users to useful links but never requires manual updating and generates revenue from AdSense. This is particularly easy with blogging platforms like TypePad, which make it easy to
117. News Flash: If You Think That You’re Going to Make Money Off a Blog You’re Fooling Yourself - Pick the Brain - Getting Smarter Every Day Says:
February 9th, 2007 at 10:04 am
[…] This is a reality check for neophyte bloggers who read an inspiring post (possibly by Steve Pavlina) and assumed starting a blog was the fast track to financial independence. All you have to do is follow the formula, stick with it for a year or two, and you’re sure to make it big. […]
118. eMoms at Home » Blog Archive » How to Make Money From Your Blog Says:
February 12th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
[…] He also has a great (and I mean really, really great) entry on How to Make Money From Your Blog. Besides affiliate marketing, I think blogging is the next perfect internet business for the work at home mom… […]
119. Idle Profit - The Great Internet Earnings Experiment Says:
February 14th, 2007 at 7:38 am
Why?
Welcome back! I’ve had a busy couple of days, so I haven’t had a chance to make a second post yet until now.
What I plan to cover in this post is a little backstory about myself and my reasons for starting this project.
First, a little…
120. Desika Nadadur . com Says:
February 14th, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Why and How I Started This Blog
For as long as I can remember, I have had the Writer’s Itch. I have been an avid reader for as long as I can remember. While I was growing up in India, I used to write poetry in my native languages of Telugu, Hindi and also in English. I filled …
121. Weblord » Blog Archive » Setting your niche marketing goal and achieve it Says:
February 15th, 2007 at 7:09 am
[…] Have you heard it somewhere that successful people begin with the end in mind? Well, that’s exactly the attitude that you need when you must have if you just started to make money with your blog. Keep your goal clear in your mind all the time. But while focusing on your main goal to make money with your blog, it’s better if you stay focused on your niche market. Let’s say you’re focusing on preparing Free Forex Signal, just like what my partner and I did on Kedai Emas, we make sure we stay focused and consistent with our blog’s objective, which is to provide Free Forex Signal daily for our blog visitors. And the monetization model will be a smoother process once you understand what your readers want from your blog. Well, obviously the readers of Kedaiemas want something that gotta do with Forex signal or anything related with it. And don’t be surprised if we’re not gaining any traffic digg or del.icio.us (at least, not yet). Most of the traffic are from forums where we have discussions with forumers with similar interest. Perhaps you wanna read this great post by Steve Pavlina about various ways we can take to make money with our blog. […]
122. Two Classic Blogging Income Mistakes and How to Overcome Them at Internet Marketing Tell All Says:
February 19th, 2007 at 11:25 am
[…] Proof that I’m right: Go to a prominent blogger’s site, one who makes a great income from their blog like Shoemoney, Steve Pavlina, or Problogger. Do you see 16 different banners for Amazon, Barnes and Noble, four different blog ad networks, Clickbank RSS Generated feeds and Google AdSense? Do the pages seem cluttered to you? […]
123. Why I Blog Says:
February 20th, 2007 at 5:03 am
[…] I didn’t even know what a blog was before I came across his article How to Make Money From your Blog. I was working day and night trying to create this website I had in my head. I had been studying code languages for months and struggling to produce my brainchild: a gathering place for people to discuss life, creativity, and entrepreneurship. […]
124. Article Discovery » Blog Archive » Making Money on the Internet Part 1 Says:
March 4th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
[…] The first blog is Steve Pavlina. Steves blog was started on Oct 1, 2004. By April, 2005 Steve was averaging a whopping $4.12 in daily income, about $124 a month. By October 2006 he was earning over $1000 a day, over $30,000 a month. That’s quite an increase over 19 months. The full story as told by Steve is How to Make Money From Your Blog As you will see when you read Steve’s blog Steve has written many, articles about personal development. […]
125. Freelancing Journey » Blog Archive » Monetizing Your Blog Says:
March 6th, 2007 at 3:24 am
[…] If you have never heard of Steve Pavlina you are missing out. Not only does he talk about monetizing your blog in the article I linked to, he offers insight on motivation, traffic, links to other sites with information about monetization. His site is Personal Development for Smart People, and the site is worth adding to your favorites for that reason alone. Lots of great stuff there to lift you up and help move you forward. Bookmark to: […]
126. How to Make Money from Your Blog - StevePavlina’s Shared Experimen at the upstair Says:
March 14th, 2007 at 6:38 am
[…] StevePavlina.com is now bringing over $1000.00/day while he started the site on Oct 1st, 2005 with only $9 for domain. In this article he share his experiment on monetizing his blog until he reach that figure. In the seriously long article (it’s the Steve way, he aways write a detailed article), he reveals 21 points (correct me if I’m wrong) from basic motivational questions such as: Do you actually want to monetize your blog?, Can you make a decent income online?, to How to Build Traffic and the final expenses. Although the article has been published over a year, it still worth read .. for ones who want to achieve freedom of living, generate income from home while in same time you enjoy to help others on your blog. That’s the goal. […]
127. » Blog Commenting-On or Off? Digital Phocus: “Focused on the Business of the Web” Says:
March 17th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
[…] Meanwhile, Steve Pavlina explains he was spending more time monitoring comments than he wanted to and decided to turn them off. Although he turned off the comments he left trackbacks enabled. He saw no drop off in traffic and actually, wished he canceled comments sooner. […]
128. Earn 10 dollars per day - in just one month » Blog Archive » Trackback for traffic Says:
March 19th, 2007 at 2:40 am
[…] Now here’s a fantastic post on the Steve Pavlina blog. Here’s one part of the post that I find very interesting “StevePavlina.com was launched on Oct 1st, 2004. By April 2005 it was averaging $4.12/day in income. Now it brings in over $200/day $300/day $400/day $1000/day (updated as of 10/29/06)”. He also talks about how to earn money, income strategies, traffic building, ads position etc. You should read it for sure, not just because of this trackback. Bookmark to: […]
129. Increase your Web writing income, for beginning and established writers » Fab Web Writer: Join The Instant Publishing Revolution Says:
April 12th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
[…] Most of the email messages I receive ask one question in various forms: “How can I increase my writing income?” My short answer is always - write for the Web. When you write for the Web, you cut down on rejections. In fact, you eliminate them. And you can make much more money than you will when you write for print publications:-) Steve Pavlina is making $1000 a day, and I’m sure that many people are making much more. […]
130. Blogging for Dollars Blog / Bloggers and blogging - are you determined to fail? Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
[…] I think Steve Pavlina, who’s an entrepreneurial blogger, makes upwards of $1000 a day. […]
131. Random Expressions » Blog Archive » The Great Technorati Favorite Exchange Says:
April 18th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
[…] Blogging is no longer ‘just an online diary’ experience. Today it has transformed into a mind-boggling mini-industry with blogs and posts devoted to help you popularize your site, and the best part - gather a huge traffic and on the side earn some money (well, make that lot’s of money, sample - Steve Pavlina’s site on Personal Development - this post here will set you reeling for sure!) There are more, but I will reserve that for a later post. Frankly, after reading all that the web has to offer on blogs/blogging I feel insecurely a novice, and the past three years look wasted, especially since I spent two precious years on the horrendously primitive Rediffblogs service. Even though I say it, I feel some of my finest writings came from that period, and though now I have transferred a vast majority of those posts to this site, I hope new readers will also check them out from the archives! […]
132. Announcing the $100 a Day Blogging Project · Art Of Money Says:
May 1st, 2007 at 9:31 am
[…] I was reading How to Make Money From Your Blog by Steve Pavlina and there was a section where he says… If you do decide to generate income from your blog, then don’t be shy about it. If you’re going to put up ads, then really put up ads. Don’t just stick a puny little ad square in a remote corner somewhere. If you’re going to request donations, then really request donations. Don’t put up a barely visible “Donate” link and pray for the best. If you’re going to sell products, then really sell them. Create or acquire the best quality products you can, and give your visitors compelling reasons to buy. If you’re going to do this, then fully commit to it. Don’t take a half-assed approach. Either be full-assed or no-assed. […]
133. Journey To Financial Freedom » How to Make Money from Blogging and Achieve Financial Freedom Says:
May 2nd, 2007 at 6:09 am
[…] Steve Pavlina from stevepavlina.com announced that he is making $1000 per day from his Personal Development Blog. Now should be more as this announcement was made in 10/29/2006. […]
134. Right and Wrong at the Same Time « “GReat, I Finally Told You” Says:
May 2nd, 2007 at 7:41 am
[…] Right and Wrong at the Same Time As I previously said, you can find out whatever you want. In many case, you’ll find the answer you want to hear and the answer you don’t. Guess which one we’re likely to pick? Lifehack.org says that you should allow comments and actively encourage more (20 TIPS THAT’LL MAKE YOUR BLOG), whereas Steve Pavlina turned off the ability to write comments on his blog and he wishes he had done it sooner (HOW TO MAKE MONEY ON YOUR BLOG). […]
135. The Definitive Blog Monetization Article at Facibus On Blogging Says:
May 6th, 2007 at 12:23 am
[…] I’ve found the definitive blog monetization article over at Steve Pavlina’s blog. I think that the best thing he does (and where it stands out over others like it) is that he asks the question “Do you want to make money from your blog?” - and once that decision is made, everything else is “how”. […]
136. Blog carnivals at Facibus On Blogging Says:
May 6th, 2007 at 12:24 am
[…] Steve Pavlina recommends blog carnivals as a way of increasing reader traffic. The wikipedia definition of blog carnival is: A Blog Carnival is a type of blog event. It is similar to a magazine, in that it is dedicated to a particular topic, and is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly. Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains permalinks links to other blog articles on the particular topic. […]
137. The Secret Of Blog Monetization : Content Quake Says:
May 10th, 2007 at 5:55 am
[…] It’s what we all want to know isn’t it? What is the secret behind making money from your writing? How can all those professional bloggers out there make it look so easy. With their massive amounts of feed readers, and countless ad opportunities and even an occasional whiff of their earnings, these guys are who we model ourselves after. […]
138. Travis Eneix » Some Pyramid Schemes are Nice Says:
May 10th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
[…] Blogging for profit is a Pyramid Scheme. (Well, blogging for profit doesn’t fit the definition exactly, but it’s got several important similarites.) But, is is one with a kind heart, mostly. My own process for entering the world of blogging for profit went something like this: Participating in the 2005 NaNoWriMo blew past some of my major blocks between me and my child-hood dream of making a living as a writer. Then, on a random spin one day I came across a post on Steve Pavlina’s site - How to Make Money From Your Blog. That article gave me the courage to decide to make real, sustained effort toward leveraging a blog for supplemental income. Dreams of avarice were tempered by Steve’s advice, and the advice of Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger.net. Darren’s encyclopedic archive on what is reasonable to expect from blogging for profit, and how to get the most out of it gave me more fuel for the push and helped keep my expectations sane (my dreams are another story.) Soon after I encountered LifeHack.org, which turned out to be an amazing resource for general tools and tips and is often a source of article inspiration. Then I came upon Leo over at ZenHabits.net and got further fuel for my fire. […]
139. Is Your Content King, or Queen? : iffect.net Says:
May 12th, 2007 at 6:02 am
[…] Why is it that Scobleizer, O’Reilly, Smashing Magazine, Micro Persuasion, and Steve Pavlina get huge traffic volumes? Is it because they have flashy designs, comment on 100 blogs every day, run the Top Commentators plugin, and organise competitions every week? No, it’s because their offered value is focused on their content. […]
140. Confessions of an A-List Blogger Says:
May 15th, 2007 at 11:06 am
[…] A year ago I wrote an extensive article called How to Make Money From Your Blog, which has since become one of the most widely referenced articles of its kind. The content is slightly dated, since most of my income now comes from commissions on joint-venture deals, not advertising, but overall the advice in that article is still valid. Dozens of bloggers credit that article for getting them started blogging for income, and some are generating results much faster than I did. While some people tell me it’s foolish to give away such information, especially for free, I’m more interested in helping others succeed than in worrying about competition. To me the notion of turf protection is rooted in scarcity thinking. More competition is only going to push me to keep growing, which is what I want anyway. […]
141. One Million and Beyond - to one million and beyond » Making Money Blogging Says:
May 16th, 2007 at 3:29 am
[…] Stevepavlina.com […]
142. How To Make Money With Your Blog Says:
May 18th, 2007 at 9:39 am
[…] Wow. This was an awesome find and has given me, a seasoned web designer and online marketer, a brand new batch of notes and to-do lists to take care of. It is a new project for me to be setting up something for myself, instead of building, designing, marketing for someone else. And with the introduction of Wed 2.o and it’s blogging, social networking, the world is my author, sub line - I find myself in the category of newbie along with so many others. I’ve scoured the web for relevant and helpful information that doesn’t have the heavy under tone of “buy me” and this is the absolute best article I have come across so far. Steve Pavlina writes at Personal Development for Smart People, which is his personal blog site. This particular article, which I HIGHLY recommend to ANYONE who is planning on monetizing their Blog is called How To Make Money Fom Your Blog and is extremely complete and informative. Steve gives reference to other great blogs and references which I have bookmarked for later use as well. […]
143. Are You a Troll or a Linkbaiter? | Rich Minx Says:
June 1st, 2007 at 4:32 am
[…] Resource Hook Link, link, link to helpful sites you’ve read. Having said that, here are a few bookmarked links I have: Self Made Minds blogs about the $5000 hour. Vince Cordic shows how to go from $0 to $100 a day. Steve Pavlina has an epic post on how to make money blogging. It’s 7000 words but more than worth the read. And the re-read. I enjoy the Face-Offs of successful bloggers at Daily Blog Tips. […]
144. Start Getting LinkBacks Effectively, No BS by Random Ramblings of Desi Baba Says:
June 8th, 2007 at 11:03 pm
[…] The AdSense money maker Steve Pavlina started out his blog exposure with BlogCarnival and now he makes 40k. So, BlogCarnival.com do really work so, try it. […]
145. Search Marketing Sage » Blog Archive » Can blogging full-time become a real paying job? Says:
June 11th, 2007 at 12:23 pm
[…] How do you gain visibility to your blog? I’m not going to try and improve on what Steve Pavlina said on his personal development blog. Can’t improve on perfection, right? Below is a bulleted list from Steve Pavlina: * blog publishing software * HTML/CSS * blog comments (and comment spam) * RSS/syndication * feed aggregators * pings * trackbacks * full vs. partial feeds * blog carnivals (for kick-starting your blog’s traffic) * search engines * search engine optimization (SEO) * page rank * social bookmarking * tagging * contextual advertising * affiliate programs * traffic statistics * email […]
146. The Secret to Creativity Says:
June 13th, 2007 at 1:01 am
[…] A seed was planted the day I read Steve Pavlina’s, 10 Reasons You Should Never Get a Job. Through that article I found How to Make Money From Your Blog and ever since I’ve been obsessed with creating a profitable website based on my own original writing. It wasn’t Steve’s monetary success that inspired me, it was his literary style. The wit, the humor, the brutal honesty, and the fact that people were eating it up and begging for more made me believe that I could do it too; that I could build a business around my passion. […]
147. 290% Increase in Revenue -- Three Sticks - www.mosesedwardmilesiii.com Says:
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:11 am
[…] My next goal for the blog is for it to replace my existing salary at my day job. Obviously, it I will need to make more than $0.53 per day to live, but I believe it can be done. For example, In 18 months years, Steve Pavlina went from making $4.12 to $1000 per day. […]
148. Info4BeingRich - Earning Money Online Made Easy Says:
July 7th, 2007 at 5:34 pm
Blog Carnivals - A Good Tool To Promote Your Blog
Once you have got some very good content on your blog, you may consider the option of submitting your blog to Blog Carnivals. Blog Carnivals are excellent place to exhibit your content and expose it to larger audience.
149. PinoyBlogero.com » Blogging For Money? - What other Bloggers Think Says:
July 14th, 2007 at 10:09 pm
[…] Let us hear what others have to say. All of us have our different opinions. Who knows, maybe we could learn a thing or two from each other. (Comments slightly edited) kidglove I like the way Steve Pavlina answers the idea on how to make money from your blog . For me, this should be the mindset of all bloggers. chris - charmed one I have heard about bloggers making money from blogging. […]
150. Bootstrapper » Get a Job or Work at Home? Says:
July 19th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
[…] If you want to know how he did it, read his How to make money from your blog, amongst other articles. It’s not a new article, but each time I come across a link to this article, I read it over again. It’s inspiring every time. […]
151. 7 Simple Sources for Passive Income Says:
July 26th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
[…] For more on passive income, check out “How to Make Money From Your Blog” from StevePavlina.com and “Five Ways to Create Passive Income with Little or No Money” from GeniusTypes.com. […]
152. Links To Resources For Making Money With Your Blog | Make money online! Says:
July 27th, 2007 at 5:37 am
[…] Steve Pavlina has a very faraway post about how to produce money with your blog. It should be called for reading for anyone who wants to start a blog and construct money doing it. […]
153. Build links by Going slightly Off-Topic Says:
September 4th, 2007 at 1:02 am
[…] I’m talking about a post made on the blog of Steve Pavlina, who writes about Personal development. Yet, one day Steve covered the topic of Making Money from Blog’s. According to Yahoo this has generated over 6,500 backlinks. I’m sure you would put the effort in if you thought you could get anywhere close to these results. […]
154. Why You Should Blog » I will change your life . com Says:
September 10th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
[…] Many people are making money from blogging. For some, it is a small amount each month to help pay the bills. For others, blogging equals big dollars. In his article How to Make Money From Your Blog, Steve Pavlina says that he makes $1000 per day (and that was as of 10/29/06 - it bet it is a lot more than that now). I recommend the aforementioned article for anyone interested in learning more on this topic. […]
155. pavlina, chow, rowse, make money online, problogger, dosh dosh, john chow | Online Cash Flow Says:
September 23rd, 2007 at 9:12 pm
[…] One of the first articles I read and was influenced by was an article written by Steve Pavlina. He wrote about how to make money from your blog. Not only was the article well written, but the numbers he listed in there were extremely eye catching. The fact that he was earning upwards of $1000/day from his blog was enough to intrigue me to read on. It is also nice to see a different style of writing as he writes extremely lengthy articles, unlike many of the bloggers now who write many shorter articles. Steve explains “This article is seriously long (over 7300 words), but you’re sure to get your money’s worth (hehehe).” An extremely long article, but if you have not yet read it, I would highly recommend it. […]
156. Real 4 Fabulous Bloggers « I make blog for fun and money Says:
September 30th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
[…] One of the first articles I read and was influenced by was an article written by Steve Pavlina. He wrote about how to make money from your blog. Not only was the article well written, but the numbers he listed in there were extremely eye catching. The fact that he was earning upwards of $1000/day from his blog was enough to intrigue me to read on. It is also nice to see a different style of writing as he writes extremely lengthy articles, unlike many of the bloggers now who write many shorter articles. Steve explains “This article is seriously long (over 7300 words), but you’re sure to get your money’s worth (hehehe).” An extremely long article, but if you have not yet read it, I would highly recommend it. […]
157. Sharing the Wealth: Five blog articles that have recently inspired me - Living the Well-Rounded Life at NeilSattin.com Says:
October 3rd, 2007 at 9:40 am
[…] First Link: Steve Pavlina’s How to Make Money from Your Blog. I remember well the first night that I stumbled upon (not literally, fellow stumblers!) Steve Pavlina’s website. It’s difficult to choose which article is the “most” inspiring - so I picked this article because it was the first one that I read, and it is basically what kicked me in the ass and got me to start writing. I’ve always loved to write, I just never knew that I could make a living at it, online, until I read that article. Just wait, after reading you’ll be ready to start your own blog. Feel free to ask for tips on how to do that - it’s not hard to get set up. Another aspect of this article that is totally in alignment with my mission here on NeilSattin.com is Steve Pavlina’s emphasis on providing value to the world through your blog content - which you mainly do by being true to yourself and offering your truth to the world through what you write. If you want to get inspired to write a blog, if you want to see how you can achieve financial independence through blogging, and if you are looking for some concrete steps to take - check this article out. […]
158. Think or Thwim » How I Plan To Make Money From This Blog Says:
October 5th, 2007 at 5:02 am
[…] I think Steve Pavlina’s essay about monetizing a blog is probably the best thing I’ve read about that subject. He makes a staggering amount of money: Steve Pavlina | How to Make Money From Your Blog […]
159. Randy Roedl On Wordpress Blogs Says:
October 5th, 2007 at 11:45 am
[…] After a couple of months I came across an article titled “How to Make Money from Your Blog,” written by Steve Pavlina. After reading this article I said to myself, “Damn, I think I can do it.” That is how I started blogging seriously. […]
160. Second Best Blog » Blog Archive » Hello world! Says:
October 6th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
[…] So here I am trying something new. I was encouraged to take the plunge after reading How to Make Money From Your Blog, and I’m really hoping that second best is good enough. […]
161. The Peculiar Club » Can Monetization Be Accomplished? Says:
October 8th, 2007 at 11:07 am
[…] My blog has been up for almost a year now and so far it has generated . . . drum roll please . . . exactly NO money. I know that there is money to be made out there. I’ve read the post at www.stevepavlina.com several times and it’s always an inspiration for working at my blog. He is blunt about the fact that not every one will grow rich from their blogs. In answer to the question “can most people do it?” the response is humorous but true: No, they can’t. I hope it doesn’t shock you to see a personal development web site use the dreaded C-word. But I happen to agree with those who say that 99% of people who try to generate serious income from their blogs will fail. The tagline for this site is “Personal Development for Smart People.” And unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your outlook), smart people are a minority on this planet. So while most people can’t make a living this way, I would say that most smart people can. How do you know whether or not you qualify as smart? Here’s a good rule of thumb: If you have to ask the question, you aren’t. […]
162. K1 | Web · Resources · Networks » Blog Archive » This Is How Steve Made The Money Says:
November 9th, 2007 at 1:54 pm
[…] http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog/ Share and Enjoy: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]
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