Comments on: Blog Case Study – Is it time to Quit?

By: Vivian Love

Vivian Love — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:21:06 +0000

Read your article and then his 27 points. I have to admit, there is logic to his points. However, I keep thinking how can he think he can manage all of the websites and blogs successful. May be the first problem is stretch yourself too thin. The second one is to want success too fast. But then again, blogging may not for everyone, you know, like marriage is not for everyone.

By: Amber

Amber — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:19:25 +0000

I’m just begining to research better blogging. I thought this article was very helpful and encouraging even thought the “subject” (Jack) was not so encouraging.
Thanks for the tips.

By: David Andrew Wiebe

David Andrew Wiebe — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 02:18:06 +0000

Sometimes that’s exactly what holds us back – we push ourselves to do too much. Sometimes we can accomplish more by doing less.

By: Gaje Master

Gaje Master — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 03:08:00 +0000

six months should be a trial and error basis for your blog.I would actually give it a year to go through the trial and errors of a blog and probably even longer. I am still going through trial and error but would never give up on my blog. My goal is to build my blog up and then move on to the next blog and still maintain my first blog.

By: SEO Genius

SEO Genius — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:16:23 +0000

That was an excellent post, i have to admit part time blogging is very difficult and i have been blogging part time now for about 8 months however i am very patient and will stick with it until the end.

What i want to ask is if posting once a day is good enough, would it just take a little longer to succeed in blogging or would it really benefit me more to try and post twice a day?

I suppose the overall post quality is something to consider too.

By: Almakos

Almakos — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:49:55 +0000

when I first visited Jack’s blog I haven’t noticed adsense at all.
Guess visitors reaction is :
drop a blast look on blogger title ->
realise that it is blogger template ->
->jump to post title and continue with text.
| As a result Ads are skipped.
no pics…nothing.

In my case I guess I have just pics and no text ^^’ Guess it will also can result as a problem.
I have just begun posting and trying to gather all experience possible. I treat problogger as an ultimate starting point for a quality blogging.
Thanks!

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 13:01:00 +0000

Agree on the design/adsense placement. I think in building a successful blog income stream you have to treat it just like a business. It takes a long time to build reputation, content, grabbing your niche target…personally I think 6 months is really jumping the gun. I reckon at least a year…using social media sites effectively maybe less.

Keep up the great work! Love problogger, my main source of inspiration for deciding to go into blogging. Kudos!

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 04:44:44 +0000

I’ve spent a lot of time looking for ways to improve my new blog, I found all of your DO NOT tips here, as helpful as the DO tips elsewhere. Thanks for taking the time to help those of us trying to follow you down a road you’ve all ready navigated

By: MizJAI

MizJAI — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 17:31:26 +0000

Wow, two years later and this little post is still helping people. Thank you problogger, and I will keep coming back for more tips. I appreciate what you do

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:52:58 +0000

Thanks for the case study. It is also good to have an idea of how much someone makes in the first few months of blogging with Adsense.

By: nanette

nanette — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:42:31 +0000

Great advice, thanks. I know you are right about moving off blogger – I am very new to the whole blogging thing – I will have to put that on my To Do list.

By: Matt Batcho

Matt Batcho — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 16:34:53 +0000

Sad to say that because of a previous engagement I did nto get to read the whole post, BUT since I am a new blogger and the information seems excellent I will soon be back. I read the first three categories and they are excellent. Information regarding adsense and placement are worth their weight in gold. The site that my partner and I have started MindsOfWealth.com has been taking babay steps. Since reading this I believe will be on the way to leaps and bounds.

Thank You!

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:40:10 +0000

Good information here. I wandered into the party a little late for this blog, but I’m glad that I have come across this site, there is a lot of good information here. Thanks!

By: James

James — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:42:07 +0000

I wonder if you would publicly critique my blog (duckdown.blogspot.com). It has been growing in popularity and may exhibit different characteristics than others you have seen…

By: Jose Tudor

Jose Tudor — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 01:50:38 +0000

This is definitely a helpful post. And, I’d have to agree that if you want to make something of problogging you have to be in it for the long haul.

I’ve been blogging for about 2 months and my adsense revenue is probably averaging about $1.00 a month, definitely not what I need to live off of.

I can see already that it will take hard work to post multiple entries daily, and if I start additional blogs then that number increases by the number of blogs that I start.

I think you need more than wanting to make money at it to devote serious time to blogging. A driving passion should be a prerequisite for deciding to devote the necessary time it will take to become a successful blogger. And, I think one needs to define what successful means for them.

Jose

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By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:47:29 +0000

It’s so true that the people that say it’s easy to make money off blogs only want you to buy their book. When you buy their book, it’s only basic information too. Really disappointing.

By: Sherri Caldwell

Sherri Caldwell — Thu, 18 May 2006 21:06:58 +0000

I have spent the better part of my day today on problogger.net — thank you so much for all of this information and expertise. I am an old lady of blogging, with my first posts back in March 2003 — I had no clue what I was doing (still don’t, for the most part, but that’s why I’ve spent the day here!!), but I jumped into it because my tech hubby told me blogging would be big, and a great way to support my writing — something about search engines and links. (Blogging was also the only way I found that I could control my own website–updating content–and not have to rely on a techie.) He’s usually right about the tech stuff, so I listen. Now he’s told me I should look into Google AdSense…and that led me here. I loved reading about this 6-month blogger, and Darren’s brilliant analysis.

I would have to say, in 3+ years, I haven’t made much money to speak of, directly from the blogging (again, why I’ve spent the day here), and I can’t claim thousands of daily hits or visitors or whatnot, but I am building a steady, if smallish, following and there are many other benefits in networking and contacts–writing jobs, book sales, interviews, reviews, and other gigs–and people that have contacted me based on something I’ve written in a blog and they found it on a search engine.

It’s been a great 3 years, but I do hope in the next couple of months I can implement some of these ideas and practices and at least earn enough to keep me in java and into the next book deal!

Live, Love & Laugh,
Sherri

By: Janeth

Janeth — Tue, 25 Apr 2006 14:18:11 +0000

I just started my blog and have a long ways to go.

I took a look at Jack’s blog and he seems to still be blogging.

Maybe he was just having a bad week.

By: Certified Financial Planner

Certified Financial Planner — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 20:26:50 +0000

Yes…you should move off of blogger asap! They are a real pain these days! And getting worse ; (