Written on November 15th, 2007 at 12:11 am by Darren Rowse

How I Make Money Blogging

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How I Make Money BloggingBelow you’ll find my latest update on how I make money blogging (this is something I post about every few months - although it’s been a over six months since I last did it ).

Also note - I go into a lot of detail on how I make money blogging in ProBlogger the Book.

How Much Money Do I Make from Blogging?

I get asked how much money my blogging makes me on a regular basis. These days I don’t go into specifics about it - all I will say is that it continues to be well over six figures per year (but less than seven figures). What you’ll find below are my top income streams - ranked from highest earnings to lowest.

Keep in mind that this is a summary of all of my blogs (not just ProBlogger). It does not include any income that I earn from b5media where I’m paid a salary as VP Training.

I hope you find it useful to see the mix and variety of ways that I earn a living from blogging.

1. AdSense

AdsenseDespite not using it here at ProBlogger any more I continue to use AdSense with real effect on my other blogs. While I do use AdSense Referrals and their search feature it is their normal ads that work best for me. I have them all set to show image and text based ads and find that 250×300 pixel ads work best (usually with a blended design).

2. Chitika

ChitikaLast time I did this sort of summary Chitika ranked #1. This time around it has been overtaken by AdSense - not because Chitika slipped in how much it earned but because AdSense went up and because I also replaced a few Chitika ad units with WidgetBucks ones. Chitika offers a range of ad units that I experiment with. I find their eMiniMalls work best and that Related Product Units are also good. Their Shoplincs product isn’t performing as well as it once did for me - mainly because I’ve been promoting it less and have driven less traffic to it. Over the time I’ve been using Chitika they’ve now earned me over a quarter of a million dollars!

3. Amazon Associates

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This has been one of my big movers in the last 12 months. I used to make a few odd dollars from it - however in recent times it has become a significant earner for me (as I’ve shared previously). This quarter it overtook TLA as my third biggest earner - largely on the back of me directing traffic to Amazon from my product related sites - mainly digital cameras. While the commission on cameras is only 4% this adds up when those that you refer buy higher ticket items.

4. Private Ad Sales/Sponsorships

private-ad-salesThis includes ad sales of the 125 x 125 ads here at ProBlogger as well as a couple of private ad deals that I did with sponsors on my camera blog (including sponsorships with Canon, Kodak and Adobe). This area has jumped up since last time also as a result of the new design here at ProBlogger and our expanded sales team at b5 who now sell ProBlogger’s ads for me.

5. Text Link Ads

TlaThe income from TLA has dipped slightly over the last few months simply because I took the decision to stop selling them here at ProBlogger and most of my other blogs. This was because I wanted to focus more upon selling the 125 pixel ads instead and felt that the ads I was attracting were not as relevant to this site as they could have been. As it turns out this might have been a good move because it seems Google has been penalizing blogs that run them lately.

6. ProBlogger Job Boards

Jobboardheader The job boards here at ProBlogger continue to grow each month in the number of advertisements that are being bought. This enabled me to invest most of the money that they’d earned a while back into getting a new back end for the boards and to redesign them. It hit me today that the boards are now bringing in around $1000 a month in revenue which is pretty nice considering that they are now so low maintenance to run! I’ve just given a development team a new brief to expand the job boards in the coming month so stay tuned for some new features coming soon which could see this revenue increase and more importantly for it to become an even more useful resource to readers.

7. Miscellaneous Affiliate Programs

miscellaneous affiliate programsI run a variety of affiliate programs on my blogs - most of which bring in smaller amounts of money that don’t really justify a category of their own. These include - - Digital Photography Secrets (a camera technique series), Pro Photo Secrets (a great photoshop product) , Yaro’s Blog Mastermind Mentoring Program, SEO Book (Aaron’s legendary resource). This area is set to continue to grow in the current quarter with me having had reasonable conversions from the promotion of the excellent Teaching Sells course.

8. Miscellaneous Advertising Programs

miscellaneous ad networksI also play with a number of other ad networks. Some I run as tests to see if I should review them here - and some are just advertising that run in the background on some of my smaller blogs. These include AuctionAds, Feedburner RSS ads, Vizu (a poll advertising system), Kontera and Bidvertiser. Together these don’t add up to major earnings for me - not because they are not good, but because I don’t use them heavily (a blog can only run so many ads on it).

I think that that covers most of it. Since last quarter I’ve also been experimenting with WidgetBucks as well as one other ad system that is still in a closed beta test. I’m certain that WidgetBucks will feature in next quarter’s list because I am getting good returns on that so far. In fact at it’s current earnings it’ll debut at at least number 4 on the list and perhaps even at number 3.

How Much do I Spend?

As mentioned last time - I don’t spend a lot of money in order to bring in my income. I do have some basic blogging costs (hosting etc) and play around with a limited amount of advertising (AdWords and StumbleUpon) but rely more heavily upon word of mouth and organic ways of drawing income into my blogs. I also have some costs in paying writers on a couple of blogs - but these don’t make up a massive part of the overall earnings each quarter.

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250 Responses to “How I Make Money Blogging”

  • terapixel

    November 15th, 2007 12:16 am

    Would be interesting if the recent Google AdSense Changes (”AdSense Make Ad Units Less Clickable”) will affect this order and your earning.

  • Jamie Harrop

    November 15th, 2007 12:23 am

    That’s quite interesting, Darren.

    It’s nice to see Adsense still has potential when used properly. It tends to get a lot of negative press, so it’s always good for those of us who still use it when we see somebody who is making his fair share. :)

  • Patrick Burt

    November 15th, 2007 12:43 am

    I’m curious to see how AdSense will rank on your list after the update reducing its hit area.

  • Bontb

    November 15th, 2007 12:44 am

    I wondered how come you never wrote anything about TNX :) at least if you get referrals you can make a lot of money and also buy thousends of links rated by PR :)

    I make quite of money now with TNX but i spend all on advertising.

    Thank you for the list, it is nice to see where our problogger is generating income.

  • FreshAdriaticFish

    November 15th, 2007 12:50 am

    Hi, I’m absolute beginner in blogging but yesterday I earned my very first 0,03$ From Amazone Associates! I’ll start with AdSense soon.
    I’m regularly read your blog and try to follow your advices!

    Money is not my first motive for blogging so this 0,03$ maybe didn’t made me rich but they made me very happy!

    Thanks for all your great advices!

  • Darknight

    November 15th, 2007 12:53 am

    I wonder about adsense, after the less clickable ads are adsense still a good resource for make money online? My earning is decrease sooo far :(

  • Jason A Clark

    November 15th, 2007 12:59 am

    It’s interesting to see that you’re doing so well with Adsense while so many others are complaining about it or not having much luck at all.

    And it’s good to know that professional bloggers can actually make a decent income…actually it’s good to know that someone can be a professional blogger…and make an income.

    Keep up the good work!

  • Michael

    November 15th, 2007 1:00 am

    Thanks for the rundown. After looking at your list I’m a bit interested in the Amazon deal.

    Also, the first poster has an interesting question - will AdSense still rank high after they cut down on the clickable pixels? Only time will tell.

  • A. Marques

    November 15th, 2007 1:02 am

    I’m just curious to know how far is the Amazon revenue from the direct ad sales revenue. It would seem that with the kind of traffic you get and quality associated with problogger.net you’d be able to push direct ad sales to the top earner.

    Care to disclose a bit more? :)

  • jsanderz

    November 15th, 2007 1:10 am

    Its nice to see what you guys at the top use to earn a crust. I only use Adsense at the moment, but your list will help me to use some of the others.
    Many thanks.

  • Susan Gunelius

    November 15th, 2007 1:24 am

    As always, great post, Darren. I just started a new blog which I’m hoping to monetize in the future. This post really helps me start researching advertising methods and prioritize them in terms of their potential. Thank you for sharing your experience!

  • Dave

    November 15th, 2007 1:25 am

    It will be interesting to see how widgetbucks ranks against chitika, which in my eyes is its closest competitor.

    Love how this post also manages to include a number of affiliate links to products (as Darren mentions at the bottom of the post) - its a great way to round up all those potential earners and let the audience know about them.

    I think I one of probably the 99% of readers of this site who can only dream of numbers such as $250,000 (even if that is spread over the last couple of years or so).

  • worknplay

    November 15th, 2007 1:33 am

    Thanx for the post , Darren. It’s great to see that Adsense is still on top as lately a lot of people seem to have stopped using it.

    Also, what do you think of the new format of google adsense ( i am not sure if its out or coming out ). Before you could click on any place within the box to get the click counted but now you have to click on the heading or the link to count your click.

    Once again , thanx for the post. I wonder what you would charge if you did reviews here, that would be a money maker for you but again that would take the essence of this blog away

  • C.C.

    November 15th, 2007 1:35 am

    Here are a few more, granted it’s for a completely different niche, but the Glam Ad Network and Vizu polls are huge income streams for the entertainment/fashion blog industry.

  • jhay

    November 15th, 2007 1:48 am

    Now this has created a much bigger dilemma for me. TLA is working much better than AdSense on my blog and it’s helping me stay in school. If I stop using TLA and rely on AdSense alone, I risk putting all the eggs in one basket.

    I guess it’s time to seriously pursue other monetization means.

  • Shawn Farner

    November 15th, 2007 2:10 am

    Very nice work. I’m with everyone else in wondering whether or not the change to Adsense will bump out out of that #1 spot.

  • Joe

    November 15th, 2007 2:16 am

    While I’d love know your actual figures, this is still good for us out there who are looking for ways to make money. I’ve experimented with a lot of what you’ve listed here, and I’m trying to find the right combination still!

  • Boy

    November 15th, 2007 2:35 am

    Thank you for the list, it is nice to see where our problogger is generating income.

  • Deb Ng

    November 15th, 2007 3:20 am

    Thanks for putting your revenue sources out for all of us to see. Adsense is still my biggest money maker, though it took a drop this month. Number two for me is Kontera, it’s performing very well. I find my writing blog is hard to monetize, but it’s kind of fun playing around with different revenue sources and seeing what works.

  • Bill

    November 15th, 2007 3:32 am

    Thanks for sharing this Darren. While I currently make zero with my small little start of a blog, just knowing how much you make through your various blogs shows that it truly can be done. You have given some resources here that will definitely be coming across my radar in the near future as I expand in blogging and make some attempts to monetize it to cover hosting costs and have a family night out once a month (okay, so I have 5 children, so a nice dinner, movie with necessary popcorn and soda reaches nearly $200). Not very lofty goals, and certainly attainable - I just need to write more.

  • Matt

    November 15th, 2007 3:34 am

    I’ve also dumped Text-Link-Ads from my main blog at mattwardman.com, and I’m now taking a careful look at Google Ads, purely on the basis that Google is acting more and more like a monopolist, and I don’t like monopolies - even if I have to take a moderate financial hit.

    See the link on my name.

  • Christerical

    November 15th, 2007 4:02 am

    Newbie blogger here. Thanks so much for sharing stuff like this. It helps me focus on what to go after in terms of monetizing my blog. There’s so many ways to monetize that it can be overwhelming where to start or what to try.

    I also like Yaro’s “Throw things at the wall” type of give it a try and see if it sticks mantra that I’ve heard him talk about before.

  • Chris

    November 15th, 2007 4:22 am

    Thanks for this, Darren, a useful post as always. Interesting to see that Amazon is at #3, I’m just starting to get a trickle of income from there but can see that is likely to grow if I make my posts more product focused.
    Looks like I will also have to investigate Chitika as a potential earner, I’d not really considered them seriously before.

  • Fatgadget

    November 15th, 2007 4:40 am

    Hi Darren

    Very interesting post, and thanks for sharing the information with us on which one work best for you.

    It would be interesting to see a comparison top 10 list of how these income streams work on your different types of blogs, ie which ones work best on Problogger and which ones work best on one of your other blogs, i.e the Digital Camera one.

    I recently installed Chikita about a week ago and have seen great results with it on my gadgets blog.

  • Starfeeder

    November 15th, 2007 5:09 am

    I’ve tried Auction Ads and they are just too buggy for me, sometimes they don’t even display at all showing a missing page error.. which looks real bad :(

    I use their negative keywords like starcraft -boat - trailer, but I still sometimes get ads selling the Boat not the game lol…

  • Jason

    November 15th, 2007 5:14 am

    Thanks for sharing.

  • Jason

    November 15th, 2007 5:18 am

    BTW, I love the improvements with Widget Bucks! I’m about to try it again.

  • Max Powers at http://ConsumerFight.com

    November 15th, 2007 5:21 am

    Thanks for the information. Very informative to see how each one rates for you. Looking forward to the next report.

    You have a lot to analyze and keep track of which I would think would take up some significant amount of time.

    I can only dream of such problems at this point.

  • Advice Network Writing contest

    November 15th, 2007 5:32 am

    I’ve got a question. Of the programs you run, which do you feel offers the best value to the advertisers?

  • CompuWorld

    November 15th, 2007 5:40 am

    1000 only from job board..

    that is huge..and I want to hit the 1000 mark with all the income.

    Although i have been using adsene only until now but with a theme design in progress (I AM LOOKING FOR DESIGNERS :) ) and 125×125 ad spots to open up..I plan to hit the $500+ mark by may 2008 (that is when my studies end any I join a company)

  • Omar Yesid Mariño

    November 15th, 2007 6:02 am

    That is very impressive. These posts are really inspiring to people like me, who are looking for building a living from Internet. Thanks!

  • etavitom

    November 15th, 2007 6:03 am

    Thanks for the wisdom. This was a very informative post and I now understand how to monetize blogging…

  • carrie

    November 15th, 2007 6:59 am

    This post is NOT helpful. at all. more goobledegook about “look how I make money” while not actually saying how much money you are making.

    I know it’s rude to ask, but seriously. How much money does a blogger make from what you are talking about? cents? tens of dollars? hundreds of dollars? per day? per week? per year?

    useless information………………!
    but look at how many commments you get from quasi-spammers! gosh, you must be doing SOMETHING right.

  • Mike

    November 15th, 2007 7:29 am

    Thanks for the great list of programs that you use. This will help me in my endeavorers to make money blogging.

  • George

    November 15th, 2007 7:49 am

    Darren,

    I have seen a jump in my Adsense income the past few months as well, without doing anything differently. I was surprised that direct ad sales weren’t higher on your list.

    Very interesting post.

    - George

  • Antonio Howell

    November 15th, 2007 7:56 am

    Interesting that you are doing so well with Google.
    Was your PageRank affected by the Google slap on the whole NOFOLLOW paid links, TLA, etc?

  • Jason

    November 15th, 2007 8:46 am

    In your opinion, should a service based organization place ads like these throughout their site?

  • Darren Rowse

    November 15th, 2007 9:07 am

    terapixel (and others) - yep, I am going to be watching AdSense very carefully over the coming month to see how their changes impact earnings. I suspect they’ll go down a little initially but hope that they increase again as prices increase (fingers crossed). Otherwise I’ll move more ad units to Chitika and WidgetBucks.

    Bontb - never really been into TNX - when I was into text link selling I was happy with TLA. There’s only so many systems you can use at once :-)

    A. Marques - yes I’d expect direct ad sales to keep increasing - however Amazon continually surprises me with it’s own increases. I’d say in the next quarter that Amazon sales will still be up on direct ad sales as it’s the Christmas quarter (and last year Amazon leapt up about 30% in the last quarter) but then the first quarter next year it’ll come back down and direct ads sales could compete with it.

    Advice Network Writing contest - tough question. I think they each offer something different to advertisers and depending upon the product each could work. Probably AdSense seems to be most popular and with recent changes to their system it seems that advertisers are getting a better and better deal.

    Carrie - I’d encourage you to look a little deeper at the post. While I don’t mention specific figures for each one - if you do a little sleuthing you’ll get a better picture. For example I say that the overall income for a year is comfortably over six figures (ie per quarter it’s comfortably over $25,000 - I also mention that #6 on the list is bringing in around $1,000 a month (so you can deduce that numbers 1-5 are all above that figure), I mention that Chitika has earned me a quarter of a million since I started using it (so obviously that’s considerably higher than #6 and less than #1), I also link to a post about Amazon that talks about earning $2500 a month….

    While I don’t give specific figures I do purposely drop in some figures like that to help people gave some understanding of the earnings brought in by different parts of the list - I do this so that people will have some ability to gauge how much each earns in general/relative figures.

    Antonio - my page rank dropped to a 4 for a few days but then went back up.

    Jason - I wouldn’t recommend it really. If you have a site for an organization I would have thought that the main purpose was to advertise that organization and what it offers. To put ads for other organization on it wouldn’t make a lot of sense to me as you’d be sending people away from the thing you want to sell.

  • turtie

    November 15th, 2007 9:38 am

    thanks for sharing your revenue sources. it really helps us new guys out, giving us an idea of where to start. also gives us encouragement to see that its working for people like yourself

  • Lara Saad

    November 15th, 2007 10:59 am

    Nice post Darren.

  • Chazzle

    November 15th, 2007 11:17 am

    You say you earn well over six figures, but not quite seven figures. if you don’t make seven figures, then you probably make exactly six figures, unless you earn something like $100,000.99, in which case you earn 8 figures, which is excellent.
    Regardless. Good site, but that was an imprecise thing to say on your part.

  • Darren Rowse

    November 15th, 2007 11:33 am

    Chazzie - I think you’ll find that it’s generally accepted that ’six figure income’ means over 100,000 - the ‘cents’ don’t count.

    I guess all I was saying is that I earn over $100k a year from blogging (comfortably) but that it’s not over $1m. Big gap yes - but an attempt to give at least some context to the post. For example without it the list could be from a blogger earnings 0.40c with #10 and $3.57 with #1 on the list.

  • Dmarie

    November 15th, 2007 2:49 pm

    Thanks. As usual very informative.

    If you don’t mind me asking; how many sites is this spread across? And is it fairly evenly spread? That info would be very useful to me.

    Thanks again.

  • great008

    November 15th, 2007 4:01 pm

    hmm good post. alot of people were saying bad stuff about widgetbucks but i guess they have worked out for you. well we will truly see if they pay u ha.

  • Mike

    November 15th, 2007 4:26 pm

    Very interesting. I have plenty of clicks on my music sites for CDs I recommend. But no orders yet. Im a little suprised since all of them are 4-5 star ratings on Amazon. It is all top quality music.

  • Gunjan

    November 15th, 2007 5:06 pm

    Thanks, Nice information on how to generate money through blog.

  • Mert Erkal

    November 15th, 2007 7:15 pm

    Not every blogger will reach to the same levels as you achieved Darren. I think the secret formula is persistence in blogging. Because you face with a lot of obstacles both mentally (yourself) and physically. Organic growth comes after so many years of persistence and hardworking. Thanks for sharing all this information. By the way, have you downloaded your gifts yet ? http://searchforblogging.com/index.php/2007/11/14/have-you-downloaded-your-gifts-yet/

  • Rt the fitness guy

    November 15th, 2007 7:19 pm

    Darren I am wondering whether you are coming up with any potential alternatives for Amazon? While their products are second to none the reports are crap as is the commission. Do you think any of this will improve with time? Do you think Chitika will offer a text link similar to the one you use at the end of each digital camera review?

    RT

  • Mark Penix

    November 15th, 2007 11:57 pm

    Darren,
    I think it’s important to illustrate in this post that even though you don’t spend a lot today, you might’ve spent a lot before your website grew to the size it is today. Relatively speaking of course.

  • Paidforwritedown

    November 15th, 2007 11:58 pm

    Give the result, the % how much you earn from each programme. Atleast show the % please.

  • Wikilaw

    November 16th, 2007 12:17 am

    Nice post Darren. Now how about some ways to increase traffic and clicks on non-product related blogs, the kind that most people enjoy going to?

  • mcangeli

    November 16th, 2007 3:24 am

    Nice post, however, I wonder how google’s recent Bitchslap on the blogging world is going to play out for things like TLA and other advertising methods.

    It looks like almost anyone who gets paid for blogging is being hit hard by this go round of the google update or is PR really on the way out this time?

  • Planet Berry

    November 16th, 2007 6:28 am

    Very interested in this topic. We recently added a new feature (very much like blogging) to our web site. It now has tthe ability to allow visitors to Publish Articles and comment on Topics either related to the articles or new subject. Curious to know how people here think of our new feature. Please visit us and let us know……http://www.planetberries.com/publish.html

    Thanks

  • Planet Berry

    November 16th, 2007 6:29 am

    RT,
    We had the same experience with Amazon unfortunately. Lots of work setting it up and it seemed like a natural and then 4 months later it was a very small return. In fact, would say we lost money on it given the labor hours!

    Thoughts?

  • Pierre Cutler

    November 16th, 2007 6:35 am

    Darren,

    Over the past 24 months, I always come back to your site. You’re keen insight, ideas, discussions, and suggestions are well worth my time. Job well done. Keep it up!

    Thanks for what you do.

  • Portal Feeder Member

    November 16th, 2007 7:33 am

    I’m actually surprised to see affiliate programs being ranked so low and also that you don’t use an affiliate network like Cj.com (unless that is lumped in the miscellaneous one).

    Comparing your results to John Chow’s results are quite interesting - although John Chow does flood his site with affiliate promotions.

  • ?

    November 16th, 2007 10:37 am

    Do you have a copyright on the “problogger” word? Yahoo is in your keyword base, taking your words.

    http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz/contest/

    “We can’t promise that you’ll become a problogger, but we can get you started on the right path. Enter our “Become a Problogger Contest” for a chance to win a prize package that will give you the TOOLS to help get you on the way to success . Good luck!”

  • bmunch

    November 16th, 2007 12:37 pm

    I took the lead on Amazon after you recommend it in one of your last post.

    But Amazon is really not a good affiliated program for me. The tracking system gets a bit crazy once in a while.

    Darren, I am surprised you used Kontera. Do your readers find it intrusive?

  • Darren Rowse

    November 16th, 2007 12:55 pm

    bmunch - yeah it’s not something that I’ll use too much - but I thought I should test it to see how it works before I critique it too much. Surprisingly on the blog that I have it on I am yet to get one negative piece of feedback. While it’s not my personal taste I guess others are not as concerned :-)

  • Barbara Rozgonyi

    November 16th, 2007 2:57 pm

    Darren:
    Nice layout of ways to stack multiple revenue streams. Congratulations on your success! Thanks for sharing. What are your guidelines for types of affiliate products to recommend?
    Barbara

  • Phamen

    November 16th, 2007 3:16 pm

    Darren, I wonder why you are not using Adsense for content on your blog but it’s still the number 1 money maker for you?

  • Darren Rowse

    November 16th, 2007 3:55 pm

    Not sure which of these questions you’re asking Phamen:

    Why I am not using AdSense on my blog any more? - the answer to that is here.

    or

    Why it’s still #1 for me if I don’t use it on ProBlogger? - the answer to that is in the fifth paragraph of this post (the one on AdSense) where I write ‘I continue to use AdSense with real effect on my other blogs.’

    ie I don’t use it on ProBlogger (because it didn’t convert well here, plus other reasons in the video) and yet it does work well for me on other blogs.

  • Chad

    November 17th, 2007 2:08 am

    How long do you give Adsense before determining if it “converts well” on a blog?

  • ayahshiva

    November 17th, 2007 2:51 am

    i had severals times register at chitika mini mall, but every time did the apply, they always rejected my apply.
    so i got bored to try it again

  • Tommy

    November 17th, 2007 7:46 am

    I havn’t had much luck with AdSense lately. It’s great to see that it is still a viable option for income.

  • waigs

    November 18th, 2007 12:06 am

    IS THE REVERSE FUNNEL SYSTEM A SCAM

  • IdeaLog

    November 18th, 2007 7:53 am

    Unfortunately Amazon comes mostly for American bloggers. Chitila does too. Clicks in AdSense are more expensive when the person clicks from US or EU. Russian clicks are cheap :(.

    PS I think you stopped selling links to TLA because Google reduces PR of the sites with TLA links.

  • Nanna Brenda

    November 18th, 2007 6:24 pm

    I would like to thank you for this information. I took sometime to read it. We live and work from Home on the Homestead. So I do a large amount of my learning from reading articles such as what I just read here. I have not made any money yet from my blog, however, I am always game to except the money if it would work for me. I just mainly started my blog to share with others about the Homestead lifestyle we live here on our farm. I will be looking forward to reading more of your articles and passing it onto the whole Homestead group,

  • fathonix

    November 18th, 2007 10:41 pm

    like above, i think about the adsense ads, that caused drop ctr of many publisher in our country. but this price isn’t changed by now, it i known by mine only $,01 / click, how about you darren

  • Sangesh

    November 19th, 2007 12:29 am

    Hey Darren,

    You guys out in the australian, european and american countries are very lucky indeed. but poor us asian bloggers.

    can you plz suggest some ads which performs well in the asian continent?

  • sulario

    November 19th, 2007 6:51 am

    thanx darren. i m new in this world and ur suggestions seem to b helpful

  • Tom

    November 19th, 2007 1:54 pm

    Interesting report like usual! I was actually shocked to see Adsense as number 1. Keep up the good work :)

  • kher Cheng Guan

    November 19th, 2007 4:30 pm

    I think you need not have to reveal your earnings anymore. we all know you are still one of the top money-raking bloggers around. At least from the start of your post you clearly mentioned that your income comes from various blogs. Not like some other bloggers who do not tell the WHOLE truth.

  • akshay

    November 19th, 2007 9:16 pm

    nice tips……http://www.euphoriahere.blogspot.com

    my site had gud contents……and i think google do giv a fair chance becoz of algorithms to all sites being get ranked if content is original and gud

  • crab

    November 19th, 2007 10:05 pm

    Thanks for the great list of programs that you use.

  • Spearfishing Movies

    November 20th, 2007 4:29 am

    yeah i am looking for the amazon deal. thanks

  • harrier

    November 20th, 2007 7:33 am

    What should I charge for private ad sales?

    Is it better to charge a flat monthly/weekly rate or a per click rate?

  • Great Tips & How To Information

    November 20th, 2007 11:57 am

    Thanks for the update darren. It will be interesting to see if the new adsense changes affect your other blogs. I am talking about where the ad block is no longer a link, and only the text link is clickable.

  • Ask Dr. P

    November 21st, 2007 3:19 pm

    Quite helpful post! Gives me a jumb start to my blog. Thanks

  • Luxury Watch

    November 25th, 2007 11:59 pm

    Quite interesting guide. Adsense dosent allow a blog with many other unfortunally

  • Felix

    November 27th, 2007 3:22 pm

    Thanks for your information. I’m still learning how to make money from blog

  • Ben

    November 28th, 2007 12:40 pm

    Seems to me that the only people making money from blogs are they ones talking about how to make money from blogs. Hope I am wrong about this, but that is my impression.

  • Darren Rowse

    November 28th, 2007 1:37 pm

    Ben - that’s a common comment and I can understand why people might think it, however I’d say a couple of things:

    1. most of the bloggers I know who make good money don’t talk about it - because they don’t want others to duplicate what they do.

    2. most of the bloggers that I see writing about how to make money from blogs don’t make much money blogging (the niche is overcrowded and for some reason people think it’s an easy topic to make money from - it’s not and only a handful actually do well from it).

  • Dawn

    November 28th, 2007 2:24 pm

    You have excellent info! I currently have 3 blogs. I am starting a 4th one now and I have an idea for a 5th. My first 3 are in blogger. My new one I just started is in word press, a little different then blogger but I think I am going to like it. My biggest challenge is traffic!
    I am going to have to try Chitika, I never heard of the before.
    Thank you and have a great day

  • chloe

    December 1st, 2007 12:46 am

    thanks for the links. i only use adsense and amazon.

  • Derrick Tan

    December 2nd, 2007 12:30 am

    Nice to know Adsense ranked high on your list. I felt that the payout of Adsense has dipped somewhat over the last few months. But it may be due to the ‘niche’ problem. All the best!

  • Joefrey Mahusay

    December 5th, 2007 1:11 pm

    Thanks for the links, I used Google Adsense for now, maybe sooner I’ve plan to use another advertising to make more income on my blog…www.plexup.com/blog/

    Thanks,
    Joefrey

  • Mark Abucayon

    December 5th, 2007 7:13 pm

    wow this is nice… can I put all of this ads in my website? as for the moment I have bidvertiser ads and currently waiting for the google ads to send me email confirmation… thanks for the links this really helps me adding my information. nice job.

  • hanif

    December 7th, 2007 1:50 am

    i`m interested in making a blog, but i still don`t know anything about blogging, and earning some money from it. hope you can help me with this.
    thank`s

  • sulario

    December 9th, 2007 9:21 am

    I have tried adsense, adbrite, cj, bidvertiser.
    adbrite is the poorest. it reported few click but my account was $ 0.
    cj seems to b serious but it takes time.
    widget is also poor.
    adsense is simply the best.

    see how finely I have managed ads in my site..
    Chek my website: http://www.contest.googlepages.com

  • Mark B

    December 11th, 2007 11:16 am

    Thanks for this, I am just getting started with my blogs and adsense. I’m going to be tweaking it as I learn and I appreciate all the tips you have provided here!

  • Mohammed

    December 14th, 2007 11:38 pm

    Ive just set up my blog and still figuring alot of hings out, your site has been very helpful thanks.
    Feel free to check out my site:
    http://mopedia.blogspot.com/

  • Ebony Jones

    December 18th, 2007 6:25 am

    My partner and I have just launched a blog - Last Sunday was launch day - and I am really interested in generating revenue to at least cover our hosting costs.

    We currently have 2 google adsense spots on our site. We currently have a very small audience - average about 1000 views a day - but we’ve only been up a week.

    The info about the other ad opportunities is interesting. Thnx!

    http://www.urbanswirl.com

  • Chris Thomson

    December 18th, 2007 8:27 am

    Thanks for the list. I haven’t had too much success with advertising on my blog, so I completely removed them for now, because readers don’t like ads (some don’t hate, but really, who LIKES them?), and I was not making any money.

    I’ve made $16 from Amazon Associates, which would be my most successful ad campaign (the 2nd would be $0.). Advertising really isn’t worth it for me, because I don’t get too much traffic. I am interested in Text-Link-Ads, because they are minimal, and aren’t ugly (after all, they are just text).

    Thanks! :)

  • MrCopilot

    December 23rd, 2007 12:41 am

    Interesting to see it laid out. Thanks for the data.

    If there is one thing I hate about this whole affair its the advertising. Either you have to micromanage it, or you let someone else do it (badly).

    Necessary evil and all that. I split the difference.

  • Free XBOX 360 Elite

    December 24th, 2007 10:48 am

    Thanks a lot. I’m learning a lot from leading your “money making” type threads!

  • Asif

    December 30th, 2007 11:56 pm

    well i have da full knowledge of HTML
    but can someone tell me how i can make money from MAKING BLOGGERS for PUBLICATION

  • Learning English

    January 1st, 2008 10:07 pm

    I got it, TLA made google angry.

  • krishna

    January 2nd, 2008 11:03 pm

    recently i read in some article about making money through internet.i tried to check it myself,unfortunately i couldn’t make more than few cents(surveys).anyway what i want to ask is what you write in your other blogs,reviews of products(like above) or simply write about produts.i mean do you say kodak cameras are better or digital cameras are good…..& can you give links to your other blogs,so that newbies like me can take some cues.

  • krishna

    January 2nd, 2008 11:15 pm

    just 1 more question.i’ve recently opened a blog on blogspot.at 1 post you said that they get good place throgh search engines( i guess :)).but i can’t find my posts in first 2 pages(i didn’t go further)why?& what do you think should new bloggers sign up to amazon,tla & all ,should i join them now or sometimes later.

  • minde

    January 5th, 2008 8:23 am

    I use Adsense and chitika. I think Adsense is simply a best, but and chitika is quite good tool. I recomend to all try it.
    My blog is: http://www.oldgamesblog.com

  • Scott

    January 6th, 2008 4:05 am

    Will Google Adwords allow one to place ad words on multiple sites?

    http://www.24hourapartments.com
    http://www.roommatesville.com

  • Scott

    January 6th, 2008 4:06 am

    anyone have any good tup on driving quick traffic to my blog?

    http://www.24hourapartments.com
    http://www.roommatesville.com

  • pavanmreddy

    January 6th, 2008 5:28 am

    Thanks a lot. Interesting to see it laid out

  • pavanmreddy

    January 6th, 2008 5:29 am

    How long do you give Adsense before determining if it “converts well” on a blog

  • RandomSpree

    January 6th, 2008 6:29 am

    Thank you for your tips. I’m still learning on how to put certain ads on my blog. Adsense is the best right now but I would like to experiment chitika too.

    Check out my blog: http://www.RandomSpree.blogspot.com

  • Jeff Adams

    January 7th, 2008 12:05 am

    Thanks for the tips, I tried doing my own blog for a while but found AdSense wasn’t working well with my dynamic articles. Then I found the likes of blogger.com and WordPress, which seem to make it a gazillion times easier to get crawled.

    Does anyone else host their own blogs via a database?

  • Steve

    January 7th, 2008 2:16 am

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  • Garg the Unzola

    January 7th, 2008 10:39 pm

    Come to think of it, an amazon affiliate is perfect for my blog.
    Thanks for the advice!

  • Lazy million dollar

    January 9th, 2008 4:47 am

    Congratulations!!!

    Blogs like this are our inspiration!

  • Free Blog Templates

    January 10th, 2008 2:42 pm

    Yeah, that’s quite a list. I wonder how many affiliate referrals you get from this post. I’m sure that’s one of the reasons you wrote it in the first place. :-)

    Congrats!

    ~David

  • Margaret

    January 13th, 2008 1:20 am

    I’ve just started blogging and am really finding a lot of helpful information on this site. Thanks for the review, I’m gonna check them out.

  • Music Hitz

    January 13th, 2008 4:04 am

    great…you give me more inspiration with your idea..!!!!!

    bravo…bravo….bravo…thank’s bro

  • Sean Chua

    January 14th, 2008 4:09 am

    Nice Post. Thanks alot for sharing. I am pretty new into blogging and have been using Adsense and Kontera in few of my blogs. Got 30 dollars in the Adsense account now and waiting for it to hit 100 dollars so that i can get the check sent to me..it took me 6 months thou to get 30 dollars. Kontera is not working yet for me. Zero dollars.

    Just started on WidgetBucks too. Yet to see results thou.

    Will consider other forms of avenue from your list of recommendations.

    Other of my blogs are:
    http://www.getstartedwithsuccess.com
    http://sean-chua.blogspot.com

  • Reverse Funnel System Review

    January 14th, 2008 12:16 pm

    You make really a lot of money. What do you do with this money? Spend all or invest in other business or sth??

  • Linux

    January 15th, 2008 1:27 am

    All I could say is Wow!!

  • ernan

    January 15th, 2008 1:52 pm

    making money with contextual ads such as Adsense is difficult unless you got many blogs that will get high rate of visitors.

    so far, in my blog paid to blog programs are the ones that is giving me some dollars.

  • Kat

    January 16th, 2008 12:45 am

    I’ve always found making money from blogging to be very… mystifying. I’m glad you wrote this post, so I could see how blogs do make money, but then… It has become even more of a mystery to me. You report here that you make most of your money from ads, as many other blogs and sites do, but I personally have never clicked on an ad in my life. I see ads (for some reason) as junk, or spam, and treat them like white space.

    Now I thought this is what all people do. I used to think all people equated ads to waste of space, but obviously I am wrong as this is how you make money. I just find it strange though. If I’m reading problogger for its content, or any site for that matter, why would I click on an ad to go to elsewhere?

    But that’s just me, and apparently I’m a minority.

  • Kat

    January 16th, 2008 12:47 am

    ^^ wait wait! I just want to add that sometimes I click on Amazon for the related books, but I’ve never clicked on a text link ad or any Google ad.

  • arshad

    January 16th, 2008 12:59 am

    what do u think of WIDGETBUCKS ?

  • linda cecil

    January 17th, 2008 8:27 am

    I am completely new to this - in fact, I’ve, for the first time ever, just learned from your site what the term “blog” means.

    So, suppose I have an idea for my own blog. And suppose I get a lot of “hits” or comments. And suppose I want to translate the traffic to money. How exactly does that work? Do people then have to pay to log onto my blog site?

    Help!

  • m07

    January 19th, 2008 4:55 am

    i still use adsense.by the way nice post once again

  • Airsoft Maniac

    January 19th, 2008 9:07 am

    Adsense rejected my blog due to it’s content. It’s about air soft. They said that they do not post advertisements on sites with weapons, however as most of you know airsoft is very different than real weapons. Amazon accepted and so did widgetbucks, I am trying to maximize revenue so if you know of an advertising site that does place ads on airsoft sites. If you do leave a comment.

  • Bestinterenetblogs.com

    January 21st, 2008 1:11 pm

    Thanks for the money making tips can always use the help.

    Thanks
    Steve

  • moonburst

    January 21st, 2008 2:27 pm

    I’m fairly new to blogging and keep on reading your materials. Hopefully I can find a way to assimilate each advice that you give us into my blog and be as successful as you are one day. Great advice as always.

  • Voice Of Dingchao

    January 22nd, 2008 2:05 am

    I like google adsense, but my site doesn’t have large traffic, so I can’t make much money from adsense. I also using bidvertiser.com, but it seems it is not targeted like adsense, I make few money from it.

    Now I am testing audio ads from V2P, I don’t whether I can make some decent money, time will tell.

  • phurbu t namgyal

    January 22nd, 2008 5:02 am

    wow the Job Boards rank 6th. Didn’t realize how powerful that is.

  • Steve

    January 22nd, 2008 8:48 am

    We are looking forward to the Feb 1 launch of PPP. Early stats are on-hold right now as the beta is just about over. Once launched we should begin seeing interesting $$’s as its all based on the Visit not the Click. We will get paid 100% on all visits so I for one am very curious. I will keep you all posted as we enter the first week. You can learn more on the free sign up by clicking on my name.

  • Buddy

    January 22nd, 2008 12:04 pm

    WIDGETBUCKS.com is my biggest earner. I make a pretty good deal of many every click that I recieve. widgetbuck is bringing in more than $700 a month!

  • Dave

    January 22nd, 2008 11:49 pm

    I would say that problogger.net is one of the great way to advertise your work, because it is effective and educative.

  • Steve

    January 23rd, 2008 2:21 am

    Absolutely agree Dave. I have already found 3 new partners to use their services becuase of ProBlogger!

  • Chris

    January 23rd, 2008 7:24 am

    A combination of Google, Yahoo, and commenting on sites such as this, provide optimal results.

  • Steve

    January 23rd, 2008 9:27 am

    Between this, SU and general Newsletter Subscribers we have begun to see a nice spike. Looking forward to the PPP launch Feb 1st

  • Lokapriya

    January 24th, 2008 12:44 am

    A very good inspirational topic .. Lots of ideas stored in here.. im looking forward to follow the methods mentioned in here for my blog http://www.lokapriya.com

  • rubu

    January 24th, 2008 5:02 am

    I think the secret formula is persistence in blogging. Because you face with a lot of obstacles both mentally (yourself) and physically.

  • Steve

    January 24th, 2008 5:20 am

    We always think about the golden rule of marketing. Never put all your eggs in one basket. We have multiple streams of revenue today.

    PPP
    SU
    Talk Fusion
    Site Build It
    Amazon
    Google
    Yahoo

    Nothing to retire on but a base to build on. Remember the Turtle is the fastest in the race to the ultimate finish line….

  • bhavesh

    January 26th, 2008 5:33 am

    i am only using google adsense, should i try other netwrorks too…???

  • Chris

    January 29th, 2008 7:12 pm

    Great article. It’s great to have a measuring stick to compare our own success (or failures) and have the motivation to get to the top of the mountain as well. congrats on you success, and I think I speak for a lot of people when I say thanks for sharing the info.

  • charles

    February 1st, 2008 11:01 pm

    How i hope that i can make more money by blogging, but at present, i can’t,

  • takeoffzone

    February 2nd, 2008 7:43 am

    Darren, you forgot to include the most important money generation income stream of all: WEB TRAFFIC. Without traffic or visitors, no one could make a cent out of all those advertising networks, they become irrelevant with the lack of visitors. Web traffic is the ultimate revenue generator, not Adsense or Chitika, etc. They are only a medium or system to translate that traffic into money. But I understand it is impossible to rank ‘traffic’ versus ‘income’ without a medium. Although, I must confess that I decided to give Amazon a try after reading your post. Thanks. - Javier.

  • Terry Tay

    February 4th, 2008 5:40 pm

    Thanks Darren, it’s nice of you to share where actually you are making money from. I’m applying some already.
    ~Terry

  • antz

    February 5th, 2008 3:09 am

    thank you for share your useful article. I am going to start making money from blog. Need your help.

  • Blogdigger

    February 5th, 2008 2:05 pm

    Very informative, but in order to make money from your blog, you will need to have a good audience and regular traffic to your blog.

  • Reginald

    February 6th, 2008 2:26 am

    Nice post. You provided a great list of resources. However, as each year passes, more and more employees are beginning to realize just how mundane, limited, and insecure their current jobs are. In an avid effort to match this emerging revelation, individuals are searching for business opportunities that could be relied upon should one get fired.

    Not to mention, with the current economic downturn, being your own boss is becoming more appealing and attractive to the employed masses.

    Journalist and TV host, John Daly, used his skill and experience to develop ‘The Real Money Show’, an invaluable online resource that reveals how to search for an online business capable of supplementing an income or even providing much desired financial security. You can email me for more info at info@johndaly.tv.

  • Slim

    February 7th, 2008 7:51 pm

    I’ve also started with google ads, but not in a blog but an normal website. Do you think it a good idea to combine it with a blog?

  • Slim

    February 7th, 2008 7:53 pm

    I’ve also started with google ads, but not in a blog but an normal website. Do you think it a good idea to combine it with a blog? You can find my website on http://www.slimmetjegeld.nl

  • Kajaria

    February 12th, 2008 12:44 am

    Hi Dareen,

    Great post and a perfect guidance for new bloggers.

    Can u advice how to increase traffic to my blogs.

    Advice on my other blogs are they perfect or not ?

    http://log2earn.blogspot.com

  • Reginald

    February 13th, 2008 6:21 am

    Congratulations on the official launching of your new blog.

    Because of you just being a beginner, make sure to research you approach and objectives carefully and stick to them.

    A realistic resource you should consider is http://www.realmoneyshow.com.

    If you have any question, you can contact me at info@johndaly.tv.

    Keep posting and congratulations.

  • Reginald

    February 13th, 2008 6:25 am

    Congratulations on the official launching of your new blog.

    Because of you just being a beginner, make sure to research you approach and objectives carefully and stick to them.

    Keep posting and congratulations.

  • jopals

    February 14th, 2008 12:55 am

    Please help me make my blog become popular like yours…thank you man.

  • MyLSS

    February 17th, 2008 8:15 pm

    Excellent resource! I hope to earn from blogging someday. :-)

  • Reginald

    February 20th, 2008 3:20 am

    Jopals,

    Let your personality shine brightly through your blog. Every popular blog has a distinct aura and ambiance. This usually results from respponses to the author’s personality that oozes through each post.

    Have a look at http://www.realmoneyshow.com. It might offer just the inspiration you need.

    Check out the site…and you can email me at info@johndaly.tv.

    Do not worry it caters to the beginner. You hold the key to making your blog popular.

  • Steve

    February 20th, 2008 5:49 am

    Reginald, you provide sage advice and a talent not often reflected in most web sites. Blogs on the other hand tend to do this very naturally. Its TxT messaging via Blogging in a sense. Although with Blogs at least we get whole words!

  • rubu

    February 23rd, 2008 3:21 am

    Because of you just being