How much money do you make from your blog per month (be truthful)?
Is it 0$, or 10$ … or 20 comments as an incentives?
Whatever it is. It’s a million dollar question frequently asked by newbie bloggers in every seminars, webinars and bloggers’ meet.
Millions of bloggers who blog with an intention to make money are in great dilemma and usually ask the below questions:
- Can real money be made from blogging?
- Can they earn good money to live a decent life out of blogging?
- What are the best possible monetization options for niche bloggers?
Money making bloggers – A reality check
There are 1000s of bloggers who earn quite a good amount of money to lead a lavish life. I’m going to mention just 5 of them.
1. Chris Coyier – Owner of CSS-tricks.com earns more than 5000$ per month selling AdSpace via BuySellAds. Checkout here …
2. Paul Andrew – Owner of SpeckyBoy.com earns more than 4000$ per month selling AdSpace via BuySellAds. Checkout here …
3. Tina Su – Owner of WorkAwesome.com earns more than 3500$ per month selling AdSpace via BuySellAds. Checkout here …
4. Taimur Asad – Owner of RedmondPie.com earns more than 5000$ per month selling AdSpace via BuySellAds. Checkout here …
5. Chris Hunter – Owner of BikeExif.com earns more than 7000$ per month selling AdSpace via BuySellAds. Checkout here …
These are just few examples of bloggers who make money simply by selling AdSpace on BSA. There are thousands of bloggers who earn mega-bucks from AdSense, or selling own products, or offering different services.
So, one thing is clear that bloggers can make good amount of money from their blogs to lead an independent and happy life.
How much money bloggers are actually earning
Recently I’ve conducted a poll on my blog moneyCtl.com, with a question “How much do you earn from blogging?”
Total 177 moneyCtl readers responded with their votes. And the result is as below:
1. 48% bloggers don’t earn a penny from their blog (despite a lot of time and efforts).
2. 39% of bloggers (26 +13%) earn less than 1000$ which can’t help them to lead an independent life as a full-time blogger.
3. 13% bloggers (9 + 4%) earn more than 1000$ and can think of leading an independent life as a full-time blogger.
4. Only 4% bloggers who earn more than 2000$ lead a decent life.
It’s also learnt that bloggers who usually earn more than 2000$ have been blogging for at least 4 yrs.
Inference: 4% of bloggers who are blogging for at least 4 years earn > 2000$. Out of 177 voters who have participated in the poll; few of them must be blogging for fun 
, without any intention of making money (fulfilling the very definition of blogging).
Can you make a living as a full-time blogger
Decision to make a living out of blogging as a full-time blogger is a great commitment. In the initial period, it is much more harder than earning money offline.
If you are really ready to put enormous time and efforts, along with your blood and sweat, then full-time blogging may be a good choice for you.
But yes,it’s not impossible. As I’ve mentioned earlier – There are lots of bloggers who lead a happy life earning big-bucks as a full-timer. So can you.
Best monetization options for you
It’s a pity that whenever a blogger thinks about monetization, he thinks of Google AdSense only.
Even though he is an expert in a particular field and can sell his products and services; he only thinks about AdSense. Moreover, monetization doesn’t mean selling AdSpaces to Google or BuySellAds only.
Monetization means “Earning money from your blog exploring all possible opportunities including selling own products and services.”
So, think about your blog and your expertise level. Can you develop a product or sell your expertise (services) via your blog? Do think about it …
Don’t restrict yourself to selling of AdSpace only, unless and until you are a part-time blogger without any products and services to sell. Below are few monetization options you can choose from:
1. Google AdSense, BuySellAds.com, direct selling of AdSpace., RSS advertising, Newsletter advertising.
2. Selling of own products on the blog like eBooks, Apps, Plugins, Software, Webinars etc.
3. Services like freelancing, training, consulting, speaking, designing etc.
4. Affiliate marketing, Job boards etc.
Act now …
Blogging is not a get-rich-quick scheme. If you have started blogging to make plenty of dollars without investing plenty of time and hard work, then today or tomorrow you will get a shock (may be 440Volts).
Developing a successful blog which earns decent money takes time – usually 4 yrs or so. Hard work is the cornerstone of every successful blog.
Only 4% of bloggers make money from blogging. You will be surprised to know – There are plenty of bloggers who have been blogging for more than 5 to 7 yrs and still not able to earn even 100$ per month. Failure rate is many fold than success rate.
Passion, hard work, discipline, patience and little amount of investment (money) are the ingredients of making money from blogging.
Happy blogging
About Nandita B.
My name is Nandita B, and I’m a SEO practitioner and part-time blogger. My sheer passion for sharing knowledge a webmaster needs drove me to create “A Webmaster’s Magazine” called SEOHour.com
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Buysell ads is not approving my blog, my traffic is good and em updating my blog daily, what could be the reason for rejection?
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Aha… Yes, you are right Nandita… I am really confused and dishearted too. That in spite of getting more than 165,000 page impressions with a lot more than 50,000 unique visitors. I am able to get only a 2-3$ per day. I don’t know what the heck is the problem with me. I am doing a lot of measures and things to know whats the cause behind it.. but is failing till day///lol
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Hi Sajid! I am also quite surprised reading this. This is hardly possible. The only reason I can predict is – if you are using pirated plugin/s or theme/s, this may happen.
Hi Sajid,
I’m surprised and almost disagree with your statement. You know, with 25,000 page views PM (moneyCtl.com) I was earning 4$ per day or around 100 to 120 US$ PM from Google AdSense. (due to the change of theme I’ve withdrawn the AdSense Ad temporarily).
If you are getting 165,000 page views, that also for a high paying niche blog (TopTenPlus.com) then there is something wrong. You have to place your AdSense Ad slots at the real HOT Spots for maximum clicks. Have a good brainstorming session and work it out. You deserve at least 20$ of revenue per day.
Well, I think I’m like Sajid or worse.
I have two blogs, domadis.com and http://applediario.com. Applediario receives an average of 6,100 unique visitors and 8.2 page views, but I just get daily 2 to 3 dollar daily. In that blog I don´t use Google Adsense because it is banned by google.
My other blog (domadis.com) receives an average of 1900 visitors and about 3000 pageviews for day and in that I use AdSense and receive the same, between 2 and 3 dollars daily.
Since I see blogs with many fewer visits and less page views earning much more than me, I wish someone would tell me what I’m doing wrong.
If someone manages to make me earn at least 12 dollars for day, I’m willing to give half of the profits.
Somebody???
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Yes nandita, you are right. With such data Sajid should earn much more. My blog http://www.getaheadindia.in started getting 600+ unique visit with 2500+ page views daily. I have started getting 4-5$ from last 15-20 days. Hope I can make it count in coming years.
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So true, i am also thinking about using advertisement in my blog but firstly i want to have around 1k visitors a day.
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For starters, I don’t recommend full time blogging. Blogging for starters is a trial-and-error process so if you are really planning to work full-time as a blogger, make sure to have a stable one first.
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I think SEO and blogging blogs have good income from Affiliates as compared to adsense…
Affiliates is much better way to monetize targeted and quality traffic.
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Hi nandita ..
very interesting. I really want full time to writing a blog but I had to learn in the real world. how to divide time to study and write on the blog to make money?
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I’m new to blogging and SEO (as I think) although I have been working in this sphere for about 2 years already. it is changing too fast. To be a successful blogger today means to offer something truly new to readers, things that noone presented before.
my website is approved by adsense 2 times but when i reachs at $10-$15 they disabled my adsense account every time. i am really very dissapointed now
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I haven’t really focused on monetizing my blog mainly because I do it part-time. I ‘m hoping to launch my ebook this June or July and I’d like to sell it rather than offering it for free because I’m conducting a lot of surveys for data for the book so making it premium only makes sense.
I never tried Buysellads, maybe I should. After all, a little monetization wouldn’t hurt!
Aditya
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i have only 500 page views per day.but per day i earning $10 from google adsense….
i think it may be due to google organic traffic…my 80% of traffic is comming from google. so i think for a blogger with high paying keyword and good organic traffic mean, he can earn minimum 100$ per day
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I am a new blogger coming to blogosphere by having passion for online world , but I also think about earning money online,as everybody thinks. So i started working hard….lets see how much I will make…
i am running three blogs but need had any earning till now because i never concentrated on that. I just want to make online presence through my content.
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Thank you for sticking up for us hard working bloggers who spend hours upon hours earning money. Yes you can make money blogging but you get what you put into it and it is more than a full time job. Just like starting any business you have to work for free for a long time
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hey mam m not getting adsense approval kindly look at my blog n suggest something….
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Hey Nandita,
Awesome post with great information. I really like the poll and i think making money with blogging is really a tough part which requires lots of hard work. For making money with blogging we requires lot of traffic and also update our blog continuously and for traffic we have to make backlinks. So in starting of the blog, we have to work hard and simply do bloging only for sharing information not for earning.
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