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How Much Do I Earn from Blogging?

Posted By Darren Rowse 4th of April 2005 ProBlogger Site News 0 Comments

This is a question that I get asked more than any other. I was brought up not to really talk about money and what you earn so I’m always hesitant to do so – but due to the large interest in the subject I’ve from time to time given some indication (it can be vague) of what kind of money blogging brings me.

Keep in mind that I have numerous blogs and these figures are not just for ProBlogger (in fact this blog is one of my smaller earners). I also use a variety of income streams including AdSense, Chitika, Text Link Ads and Amazon Associates (to name just four of the main ones).

update: here are my top earning income streams from my blogging..

Here are a few of the more recent posts I’ve done on the topic:

Earning a Six Figure Income from Blogging
Look what Blogging Bought Me – the house that Google Bought
Network Blogging vs Individual Blogging
I’m a Six Figure Blogger
Chitika eMiniMalls – How much do they Earn? – the day eMiniMalls became my number 1 earner!

I should clarify (as its a misconception that I often come across) that my earnings do NOT just come from this blog – rather I have 20 or so that I work on plus am now involved in various others through b5media which I am a co-director in.

I also earn my income via a number of courses including the Adsense program and especially Chitika’s MiniMalls.

I also always like to emphasise that blogging is NOT a get rich quick thing. To balance the links above (and before you run out and quit your job to become a Pro Blogger) I also STRONGLY recommend you take a look at some of the links and information that I mention in my ProBlogger Public Announcement Post.

About Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse is the founder and editor of ProBlogger Blog Tips and Digital Photography School. Learn more about him here and connect with him on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
Comments
  1. ohhh, look at me! I made $100,000 by being a marketing devil!

    You my friend are a waste of human life. Marketing serves NO useful purpose in human existance other than to turn people into mindless consumers and conformists which will distract them from making any progress on this planet becuase they are too concerned about saving that extra $ or getting the next gen Ipod.

    Please cease and desist with your marketing selfishness and do something which is of benefit to the world

    I thanks you

  2. I think, that blogger don’t need to think about money. Blogging is new way to communicate with other people and to find some new contacts in this big internet world.

  3. Yeah, as far as making money goes on my blog, I won’t even attempt to do so until I’ve got a large readership because I want to feel like I’m offering decent enough content (that would bring in visitors) to warrant my making money off of them.

  4. You must create unique and interesting content for you viewer. Next the more crucial is traffic. If you want to get listed on Google you may try this site

    https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/login

  5. Guy Kawasaki and Darren Rowse say they don’t make much money on their blogs!

                                              …

  6. ok yes ……..can you will make more money from your blog …
    But how much ???????
    oh ………. i don’t know ……

  7. My blog has been witnessing about 300 dollars a day and I have barely touched my full expertise.

  8. btw this is one of my blogs
    http://cheaperipods.blogspot.com

  9. I agree with the fact that a lot of times, it times up to a year to see a good amount of return on your investment.

  10. […] People have been talking about earning a six figure income from blogging per year. One of the best inspirations for us an ordinary bloggers is ProBlogger Darren Rowse who has been earning and writing about six figure income from blogging. […]

  11. […] The jury’s still out on this whole ProBlogger thing for me. While I’ve no doubt some people are making money at it, I think a lot of people are setting themselves up for a fall. […]

  12. People are making money, but only a few is making enough to live on it.

  13. i’ve started putting adsense on my personal blog. don’t seem very relevant atm though.

  14. Loads of money can be made online, all you need is good ideas and the knowledge to implement them.

  15. Woohoo, that’s a real blogging earning. I have been earning 4 figures from my website, and I started my blog. I realize it’s not a get rich quick scheme.

  16. i have already created google adsonce account and some sample addvertisemet posted my site but how to add my site to search engine i dont know ,please any one tell me how to add my site in search engine.

    thanks
    reagards
    kumar
    http://www.informatic.up.to

  17. I am also a newbie to internet business and make a site at http://www.500list.com with funny videos, community, news, articles, but never thought about blogging because it will require too much time to write, which is kind of overwhelming for me now.

  18. I finally crossed the threshold to be able to get a monthly check from Google 5 months ago. My thing now is how do I make that income grow larger.

  19. Still trying to get the checks coming in. I am going to try out the ebay affiliate program and see what they can offer. Wish me luck!

  20. A-List Review Project: #11 ProBlogger…

    July 20th I am turning 40, so to celebrate I am going to profile 40 of the A-List blogs, 2 per day each day, until my birthday. Previous reviews:  #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10There are……

  21. I am still an amateur on blogging but I can see the potential, I have a blog does not make much money but my website earning good with adsense, I get very high click-through rate > %60 hope I can do at least half of it on my blog with your tips. Thanks.

  22. Do people click on your adsense?

  23. Well my numbers are not so impressive. I earned $166.30 between Mar 31, 2005 to Jun 30, 2006. From personal web sites. It just covers my hosting expenses. But I have good news for you. I started life experiment earning money with blog. I will post monthly earnings and time I spend on my blog. I aim to spend 1 hour of my 24 hour day and try to earn 6 (six) digit income in a year. I aim to start as many blogs as nessesary. but still aiming to spen an hour. Now I am earning less than a 0.5 $ per day. It will be grat if I can multiply it by 100.

    Ok about experiment. this blog is ( http://nonsenseornot.blogspot.com/ ) not about any specific topic. It will may have anything. I wonder if that will attract serfers. in reality it will not but I want to test it.

  24. Nobody should assume that blogging as a profession takes minimal effort. One of the comments that I read above indicates somebody who is trying to do just that – the one about making six figures with only an hour’s work a day.

    The key to making a living off blogging is to approach it in the way that a professional writer approaches his work. Think about your craft. All of these strucutres regarding advertising and “blogging” are built by technical and smart engineers, but it’s up to people with ideas, style, and freshness to put them to use.

    Sometimes I think we forget that blogging is writing, and that writing is a gift to humanity that we don’t always have the chance enjoy at its highest level. We as readers and writers work with the content (you always hear about “user content”, “content providers”), and our mission ought to push the expected quality limits of the work we create.

  25. Thank you for your wonderful insights. Finally, there is a blog that helps the average joe getting into blogging. I just started blogging through my site http://www.jutiagroup.com and have yet to realize revenue. Any tips specifically tailored to my site would be greatly appreaciate?

    All the best,

    Scooter

  26. I ‘ve been on adsense for a while now, and I haven’t earned that much. What I decided to do is promote Google adsense itself instead of the ads. So I made up a simple website http://Qualitybase.org where webmasters and bloggers can easily sign up for adsense. I think I can earn more that way.

  27. […] Depressing if you look at this in a negative perspective, isn’t it? I guess that’s why you have probloggers telling you that blogging isn’t easy money. But then, look at it in a positive light, and something like this becomes a possiblity. […]

  28. It’s great that you make so much from blogging. I make very little from blogging, and mostly use blogs to drive traffic to my sites. Twenty blogs must take an awful lot of stamina. How on earth do you manage to keep on top of all those, and also make fresh and unique contributions each day?

  29. You’re really a blog nerd. Are you still managing other 20blogs? If so, can you share those links with us please :-)

  30. not personally any more. Some have closed and other are being written by others.

  31. I build my blogs around good content and information for others. If I make a few dollars off google and other associated affiliate based programs that is just a bonus. Good information & fun first …profits later!

  32. […] There are other ways to blog for hits, too. Some are bad, too. However, many methods, such as harnessing social networks, are a good way to get readership. Additionally, blogging for money is praisable, if done correctly. If statistics are an integral part of your blogging experience, don’t let it take over your common sense. Analyze how important statistics are in your blogging experience, and analyze how much your blog depends on readership. Is your content truly ‘better’ if people read it? What is your common goal in having the blog? Remember, the most important part of blogging is bringing out fresh content. We should all aim for that, shouldn’t we? […]

  33. […] 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. […]

  34. I am a newbie in blog. I spent a lot of time to build a website to earn some money like you did. But it seems still bad luck for me now. I will to read all ur blog maybe I will find a way to get rich like you. Hahaha !Thanks for all ur advices!

  35. I think more and more people is going after google adsense…..i think now the biggest challenge is not how much you earn, is how you can maintain the substantial income over the months. Further more, how to avoid being sabotaged by other people who copy and paste the google adsense code to other illegeal site is the biggest challange for the google adsense user now.
    thanks

  36. […] He posted up a short article with links that describes what he is using to generate this income. It is called: “How Much Do I Earn From Blogging?”. […]

  37. […] I’ve been reading from problogger.net and I’ve been inspired to think that I could write and perhaps suplement my income from writing and publishing it in blogs that people read, and sponsors link from and ultimately I make money from. It seems simple, and yet a distant and soon to be forgotten fantasy. Although perhaps it is worth a try. I’d like to do it, and momentarily anyway it soothes me to think it would work, although as it get’s late, this is perhaps just another idle fantasy that will go nowhere when I wake and the sun shines and reminds me that I am still just me. […]

  38. […] Hope it’s all not too much of a downer. While these posts don’t get the attention that some of my other posts get (like the one talking about how much I earn) they are important posts that I write in the hope ofgiving a realistic impression of ProBlogging as a strategy to earn an income. […]

  39. 1 blog or 20 blogs. Darren is making money. There is money to be made in blogging. We are seeing a new wealth generation machine unfold. The nice part is that it is readily available to almost everybody.
    http://www.ituloyangsulong.org

  40. Fairly new to this blogging game, although grasping the key essentials and I feel that I am well on my way to becoming a semi-pro blogger…
    Check out afew of my websites if you like;
    http://www.4Ustudents.co.uk
    http://www.studentinvesting.co.uk
    http://www.4Umoney.com

    Oh and well done Darren on your bloggin career…

  41. The interesting thing i have found since starting to blog myself, is what keywords and keyphrases people have had to enter in the search engines to find my weblog. Never ever seems to be the ones i am generally trying to target though which is a bit of a bummer, but visitors are visitors.

  42. I generally find that anything to do with “Make money by …. on the web” is a way for someone selling it to make money (eg, e-books, seminars, blogs etc). Just an absolute load of fluff.

    I don’t believe in having ANY advertising on my website, except for my own personal services. Hence I have a lot of satisfied visitors.

    How many people here actually bought ANYTHING from an online ad?

  43. I’ve personally become rather adblind to all ads and don’t even notice them anymore. it worries me sometimes, because I fear others are doing the same, but apparently not, since it’s stiill making me money every day.

  44. […] Darren Rowse makes six figures from blogging! I am not making quite that much, but I do have enough money to have fun on weekends and fund the ideas that pop into my head. […]

  45. […] It depends, and not always only on website traffic. Popular problogging website Problogger.net has a post about how much money a blog may earn. Darren Rouse is quick to point out that problogging is not a get rich quick scheme, and even as he claims to have purchased a house from Google Adsense earnings, he emphasizes that his blogging income comes from at least 20 blogs. Now that Darren and colleagues have founded a network blog company called b5media (I was briefly recruited as a network blogger for one of b5media’s content channels; more on that in another post), I am sure that Darren makes a very comfortable 6-figure income as a true professional blogger or problogger. […]

  46. AdSense is so over-rated. Most bloggers who play by the rules struggle to make the $100 payout within a year. Sponsored posts and direct selling to advertisers could be a more viable proposition for sustained, regular income.

  47. I think the most important element of a blog is its content. Without a good content, no one will come and read it ! If on the other hand you have good content, then people will be interested and could therefore be interested by your google ads !

  48. […] If you take a look at Darren’s post – How Much Do I Earn from Blogging? you will see that it’s in fact because he operates 20 blogs (that could be an old figure now) and I’m pretty sure if you did some analysis of Darren’s network, a small number of sites bring in the majority of his income (another example of the 80/20 rule). Those sites are very likely his heaviest trafficked sites, relying extensively on search traffic since search engine visitors are more likely to click ads, unlike Problogger.net readers who know very well what an AdSense or Chitika ad looks like. […]

  49. How much do I earn? Well, with Adsense a little under $11 for 2006 – whoo-hoo! I’m going to buy that island in Fiji.
    The reality is, you won’t make much unless you blog about celebrities, blanket products reviews, or existing content that’s already somewhere else so that the Search Engine’s hit you.

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