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• Ashish Mohta

  February 8th, 2007 3:24 am

  I had been always wondering about this point.Glad you shared your sources.I knew some of them but this much i am little surprised.

  But guess for new bloggers very few of them will fit.Traffic is a major concern.I hope to use some of the impression based in coming months.

  Hope you are having fun out there

• Jan

  February 8th, 2007 3:37 am

  Interesting post Darren, always love the feeling of peeking in one’s kitchen and this shows what is doing well on the stove.

  I am still amazed that Chitika is your # 1, but with the product blogs you own I can image that it really works well together.

  Thanks for sharing!

• Char

  February 8th, 2007 3:47 am

  Thank you for taking the time to share this with us. Hopefully we have all figured out that there is no such thing as a quick buck, but with knowledge, patience and a good site, we can actually make money from blogging.

• Matt Coddington

  February 8th, 2007 3:49 am

  Darren, I thought you had some sort of blogging packet you sold … “Six Figure Bloggin” I think it’s called. Where would that fall on this list? (sorry if you mentioned it and I just missed it)

• Calvin AJ

  February 8th, 2007 3:57 am

  I’m slowly picking up pieces of what you’ve shared and experiment it myself over the last one year. But this year I’m hoping to do much better than last year. But building traffic is one of my major weaknesses. This year I’m trying to put into practise what I’ve learned from problogger.

  Thanks for sharing Darren.

• Juuso - Game Producer

  February 8th, 2007 5:34 am

  That’s a nice way to show where the money comes from. Thanks for the post.

• Anne

  February 8th, 2007 5:35 am

  That was a great report! I couldn’t imagine how you manage all that.
  Tough part is to keep the income stable.

• Martial Development

  February 8th, 2007 6:23 am

  Thanks for the info. I understand if you don’t want to give dollar amounts, but I wish you would have included rough percentages.

• Cucirca

  February 8th, 2007 6:33 am

  Thanks for the tips. I’ll have to make some changes now :)

• Maki

  February 8th, 2007 6:36 am

  I think that most bloggers don’t really make use of private ad deals and affiliate programs, which is a shame because I think they have so much potential.

  Good to see that Chitika is working for you. It’s definitely an ad program that I need to explore in detail..

• John

  February 8th, 2007 6:55 am

  Thanks, Darren. You know what would be cool, is if you gave your opinion/the facts on what sort of traffic levels each program might require as a minimum. For instance, Adsense can monetize any traffic level (above 0) while I believe TLA has various requirements, and may not even be worth using below some traffic threshold.

• The Reviewer

  February 8th, 2007 7:50 am

  How do you know when to cut someone loose and when to keep someone. You have tons of readers and hence can see change very quickly. I barely get 5 clicks a week on adsense. How do I know it just isn’t traffic. Should I be changing it up all the time? Should I be more patient. How do I know when one just isn’t working for me.

• Sarit

  February 8th, 2007 9:13 am

  Here’s a question about personal ads deals: how does one provide an interface providing munbers (clicks, impressions) to the advertisers?

• Darren

  February 8th, 2007 10:03 am

  The Reviewer:

  If your traffic is so low, then optimising your income sources is not the most productive use of your time. You could spend hours fiddling around with Adsense colours, placement, sizes, etc, and even if you found the absolute best combination you might only take your income from $1/week to $3/week.

  Spend the time increasing your traffic instead. If you could increase your traffic tenfold (not that hard on a site with little traffic to begin with), you’d take your Adsense income from $1/week to $10/week. Once you’re at that level, optimising the ads would be a productive use of your time.

• Anthony C

  February 8th, 2007 10:47 am

  Actually what amazed me, Darren, was that Adsense wasn’t your main income source! And six figures from blogging! Thats amazing lol! I myself had wondered just how much you made doing this job! Truly inspiring, great article, gave me some good tips :)

• Mike Panic

  February 8th, 2007 11:23 am

  I’m most curious about how long a trial period you give any one campaign before changing it or giving it the boot. From what I’ve found, a solid 3-4 weeks is needed to really gauge how well any given campaign will do, including color changes in adsense. Anything that is more often then that is really hard to tell if the increase / decrease is due to a change the regular readers are noticing or just a fluke.

• Technabob

  February 8th, 2007 11:54 am

  Darren:

  When you say that Chitika is your best performer, is that because you do a lot of referrals since your blog is about promoting blogs?

  I have a product oriented blog (gadgets, games, gizmos, etc…) with about 1500 visitors/day right now, and I do about 60% of my revenues from AdSense, 35% from Chitika (both eMiniMalls and RPUs) and about 5% from various other things like Amazon and Vizu polls.

  I’m just curious if might be able to do better with Chitika than I already do. My placements are contextual, and based on the headline of the product that I’m talking about in my blog.

• Sharon Sarmiento

  February 8th, 2007 12:14 pm

  Thanks for sharing all this Darren. The amazing part about the six figure income isn’t the fact that it comes from blogging–it’s simply incredible that any small biz gets to that income level within a few years of its inception. That’s HUGE.

  As for the blogging aspect of it–for all the work you do and all the time you put into keeping everything going, it makes perfect sense that you’re making some good dough. Your expenses are very little, but I wonder how many hours a week you spend working on all this stuff. (I will faint if you tell me you work a 20 hour week!)

  You work really hard. It’s divine justice that your effort should result in a hefty paycheck :-).

• Arun

  February 8th, 2007 2:09 pm

  Thats good information Darren. Do you think you can post percentage figures you earn of each of these income streams?

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• Bull

  February 8th, 2007 9:47 pm

  I tried to use chitika own one of my sites and it said something about don’t reach traffic requirements or something like that…or am I just mistaking i used it on http://www.randombull.net

• Brian Carr

  February 8th, 2007 11:02 pm

  Darren,

  I was wondering if it would be at all possible for you to expand upon the private ad deals. Did you actively seek these companies out or did they come to you? Are you getting paid a set fee for allowing them to advertise on your site or are you getting some sort of pay out for click-thru or sales conversions?

  Any information you can provide would be greatly appreciated!

  Thanks,
  Brian

• Amit Agarwal

  February 8th, 2007 11:19 pm

  A bit surprised to see that you are not using Feedburner – they seem to have a decent pool of advertisers and also offer pretty good CPM rates.

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• Peter Cooper

  February 9th, 2007 2:32 am

  What intrigues me is that you seem to have a good relationship with Google (I think one of your posts from a LONG time ago said you had contacts there), and yet you are also doing really well with Text Link Ads.

  Google doesn’t seem to be too pleased about text link ads in general as they form unnatural patterns in linking, and on Matt Cutts’ blog he talks about using rel=”nofollow” with such links if you still want to sell them. No-one seems to do this though.

  It’s a shame there’s no true ‘official’ word on this, since a lot of people are making money from both Google and TLA, yet Google seems rather at odds with Pagerank-driven text link advertising (as TLA tends to be – higher PageRank gets better money even if the traffic is poor).

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• Franck Silvestre

  February 9th, 2007 7:27 am

  It’s a good post. I only sell affiliate programs through my blog. I just started link sales to one of my popular blog, and it’s a good income generator.

  I will explore this new opportunity now.

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• frankp

  February 9th, 2007 12:48 pm

  Interesting post, thanks a million.

  I pop around here every now and then, but I don’t really know you or what you do so I have a couple of questions – which I realise you may not wish to answer (or possibly may not have the answers)… but in case you will/do:

  I’m a bit unclear on the six figure sum – how much (percentage speaking) comes from all the programs listed above? All of it?

  It would also be really interesting is to know how many hours a week you put into the blogging and related activities to make this sum from the programs listed…

  Many thanks for the post anyway!
  Best,
  Frank

• Darren Rowse

  February 9th, 2007 1:53 pm

  frankp – the above areas total ‘above six figures’. In addition there are a few other areas including my b5media wage and sales from sixfigureblogging.com

  how many hours a week – hmmm. It varies a lot – these days I’m more than full time on blogging although I spend less time actually blogging and more time working with and managing other bloggers with b5. I only actively blog here and at Digital Photography School these days.

• Emmet

  February 9th, 2007 5:06 pm

  We use Google Adsense and then sell some DVDs we make on our site. We don’t make much from the site, and are trying to learn how we can use some other programs other than Google Adsense. I was always under the impression that Google doesn’t like people using other programs in conjunction with theirs???

  We are really going into this blog stuff with some blind faith as a result of finding this blog quite some time ago. If we ever end up making real money from it, a lot of credit has to go to Darren for the inspiration. I didn’t realize how much could be made till I came here.

• Everton Blair

  February 9th, 2007 5:31 pm

  Hi Darren

  Have you tried my shoplincs module that automatically creates hyperlinks?

  http://www.connectedinternet.co.uk/2006/12/19/1208/

  It could give your Shoplink earnings a significant boost.

  Are you able to share percentage splits for each of your streams?

  Everton

• Everton Blair

  February 9th, 2007 5:35 pm

  out of interest Darren, why don’t you have a subscribe to comments option?

  Or, if you do why isn’t it visible as I can’t find it?

  It stops readers coming back to read new comments or responses to their own comments e.g. I might not know if you reply to this comment as I won’t get an alert, and there’s only so many times I’m prepared to check (if I remember) to see if you do respond.

• frankp

  February 9th, 2007 10:30 pm

  Thanks Darren!
  That makes the info a lot more impressive!
  Many thanks for taking the time to answer.
  Cheers,
  Frank

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• Anne-Marie

  February 10th, 2007 3:10 am

  Did you read about NBC’s NYC affiliate holding a blog summit last month, and see the survey they gave to 130 of New York’s most read blogs (http://www.wnbc.com/news/10814198/detail.html)? They asked how much their blog made. Their answers:

  17% – over $1,000/month
  14% – $200-500/month
  4% – $100/month
  14% – less that $100/month
  51% – NOTHING

  Yet Henry Copeland of BlogAds was quoted in the Wall St. Journal (http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB117072031237598933-lMyQjAxMDE3NzAwNjcwMjYwWj.html) that “most self-employed bloggers take in between $2,000 and $10,000 a month from ad sales.”

  I guess that only applies to bloggers like you Darren (and more power to you!), not us little guys and gals. At least it gives me something in aspire to, and another reason to read you and get tips.

• Ragnar

  February 10th, 2007 5:07 am

  A very important thing though if you use ads on your websites, is that your website is well designed and that there is good conent on it as well. Or your visitors might not even stay long enough to look at your ads.

• frankp

  February 10th, 2007 5:58 am

  Hang on.. sorry – I’m still tryin to piece this together!

  Am I understanding correctly or are you saying you are earning 6 figures from advertising on your personal blogs – which is a of total two blogs???

  “It is a summary of the income from my own personal blogs – ie income from b5media (where I am an employee as well as a shareholder) is not included – either is income from Six Figure Blogging (which continues to sell at a reasonable rate) or any speaking or consulting work that I do (very little these days anyway).”

  ” I only actively blog here and at Digital Photography School these days.”

  Or is there residual earnings from blogs you no longer contribute to as well… or am I completely misunderstanding what you are saying?

  Many thanks,
  Frank

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• Darren Rowse

  February 10th, 2007 1:43 pm

  frankp – no, sorry but I wasn’t clear.

  I only blog on two of my blogs – but I have others writing for me on other blogs. For example my digital photography blog is maintained by another blogger for 99% of posts (I do the occasional one).

  I also have some inactive blogs that there is some continued earnings coming in from.

  so in summary – the above ’six figure earnings’ comes from the above income streams on blogs that:

  - I actively write on
  - I employ others to write on
  - that I used to write on but that are currently inactive

  In addition to this I do earn some income from my wage from b5media and the sales of six figure blogging.

  hope that’s clearer :-)

• Sixten Gran

  February 10th, 2007 2:25 pm

  I’m only a baby (symbolically speaking, actually I’m a toddler) and just started blogging and understand I have a long way to go. So, I was wondering if you or anyone else commenting here have additional suggestions on advertising programs that are good to start with before we have any traffic coming in? I have signed up for adsense.

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• Maddox

  February 12th, 2007 7:18 pm

  My bullshit detector just blew a fuse. Another lame attempt to make a few dollars by making AdSense newbies click on a bunch of referral links in hopes of learning something which may actually help them to make money rather than make a few more cents for the lame ass publisher. It’s time for a good, no-bullshit and free AdSense tutorial, which I am going to write here. Ok, here it goes:

  1. Get a domain and some decent hosting, the domain name should be able to reflect the topic of your site as much as possible.

  2. Add shit loads of good content, don’t just copy and paste randomly or just write something just for the sake of it, make sure it’s good, quality stuff which people will actually find useful, so that it helps them and it helps you as-well. Remember, if you continously post bullshit, useless stuff just in the hopes of getting some random hits and make a few dollars of them, just like this guy, your profitabilview ity may not last very long, as your site will be one of those “come and then press back button” sites. Eg. of quality sites are: http://www.engadget.com (Basically all sites of Weblogs, Inc.), http://www.neowin.net — Remember, you don’t need tons of writers etc, all you need is some basic writing skills, and know everything you can about your site’s topic.

  3. Don’t expect to make any decent income as of yet, just forget everything about the money right now. Keep adding more quality content, just be concerned about making your site content-rich, and that is no bullshit content again, and once you have enough content, submit it to search engines, directories and all kinds of shit you can find. Don’t do link exchanges, banner exchanges and crap like that, it sucks. Keep writing and eventually you’ll be able to find some visitors, not some random visitors, but real visitors, who may keep coming back to read your quality content.

  Just do what I said, make a good site, put google ads on that sucker, and keep adding content, and you’ll get there. Remember, if you do it for the money, you will never get it. Do it for fun, and helping others out, and you will get the returns very soon, and in proportion.

  You may want to know who am I? Well, I am Maddox. I have a site which has more page views than McDonalds, Coca-Cola and Pepsi combined. All it has is a black background, and white text, with a few no-bullshit images here and there. Why do a million people keep coming back to my site? It’s because of one thing: Content.

  That’s it. Now close this window, as this is a site full of useless bullshit, just like the other thousand sites out there, selling guides and shit like that.

• Darren Rowse

  February 12th, 2007 7:45 pm

  Hi Maddox – thanks for the tips – I’m sure my readers will appreciate them. In fact if you take a surf around this blog and read more than just this one post you’ll see we share similar philosophies.

  It’s pretty easy to take one post and make assumptions about a whole site – but I’d encourage you to surf around and see that this whole site is actually about encouraging people to build quality sites with useful and unique content.

• Maddox

  February 12th, 2007 8:44 pm

  Darren Rowse,

  I would like to apologize and let everybody reading this know that what I stated earlier about this site in my previous post was wrong, and based on a very limited observations which I made. These include the way this particular article was written, and generally the high density of links, referrals and ads etc appearing on all pages of this site. As you may know, the kind of sites which I was referring to in my previous post, usually do contain so many links and ads in a similar fashion, and articles which do nothing but forward people to a bunch of other such sites, which do the same — forward them to other sites, which in turn forward them to other such sites. It’s a bad, endless cycle. I found this particular article through a Google search, and I was obviously very annoyed after reading this article and looking at the way the site is — with all those links and ads etc. This is what I hate the most in sites — especially blogs — so many links, and ads, and some blogs also have every other word as a link — and what do they provide the visitor in return? Nothing but bullshit, useless information.

  I’d like to conclude that after reading a few other articles on this site, I’ve found that it actually does have original and helpful content, which helps people, and that the ads etc are fair enough. Darren Rowse, you have done a great job, finally, I actually found an adsense tips website which actually makes an honest effort at helping people, and earns what it really deserves.

  Heh, Maddox has been proven wrong for the very first time.

  Wishing you continued success.

• Darren Rowse

  February 12th, 2007 8:52 pm

  Wow – thanks Maddox – I appreciate you taking a second look.

  I do know how it can look though – one of the weaknesses of blogs that rank well in SE’s is that posts can get taken out of context of the rest of the blog.

  Anyway – I do appreciate your comments.

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• Seshu

  February 15th, 2007 3:21 am

  Maddox

  Is that eye patch you wear, for real or do you think of yourself as a potty-mouthed pirate? Just curious.

  Talk about making assumptions …

  Seshu

• Jae

  February 16th, 2007 4:08 am

  Great post and the only difference between you and I is I use a place called “Linkworth” instead of “Chitika”. I actually had not heard of them before, but will check them out.

  I make the most from Linkworth & Text link ads (very similar). AdSense, Blogads, Amazon do ok, but not as good as the link brokers.

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• gurnygob

  February 20th, 2007 12:43 pm

  hi Darren i just had a great read. “how to make money from blogs” the info is good the comments bril. however one comment that grabed my eye more than any other was from The Reviewer I have copyed it here for the benefit of others in my posision…..”If your traffic is so low, then optimising your income sources is not the most productive use of your time. You could spend hours fiddling around with Adsense colours, placement, sizes, etc, and even if you found the absolute best combination you might only take your income from $1/week to $3/week.”…..you see this is me, and i am sure most of the blogging world out there. no traffic, no clicks, no nothing. I am new to the whole blogging thing, and i’m getting a bit fed up, finding it hard to see where i fit in or if i ever will, there must be millions of me’s out there. i started bloging because i’m 47years old, can’t work because of back probs, and i spend most of my time on the Internet trying to find out if there is some way i can make a few pounds. up to now my earnings are $1.99, some hope of getting past the big “$100″ mark. I have only being blogging for about a month maybe two. I would be thankful if you would take a wee look at my site and maybe drop me an email with some advice. I also have another blog on computers that i only just started its. http://pcblogblog.blogspot.com/ I know your a busy man but your advice would be most welcome. ps keep up the good work and thanks. yours truly. gurnygob. by the way, in Belfast, thats where i am from, a gurnygob is a person who yaps a lot, if you yap loud enough someone is bound to here, and come to your help. so please I’m a big gurnygob “help me”

• Agus Halim

  February 23rd, 2007 2:54 pm

  Thanks for sharing Darren Rowse

• Juan Rodriguez Villa

  February 27th, 2007 8:54 am

  Thanks for this post so informative and detailed. I have seen few professional bloggers like you that go into details when explaining the revenue sources they have along the year.
  Your post is simply cristal clear and 100% educational (in a blogger sense).
  I will follow your wise advices.

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• Dennis Bjørn Petersen

  March 1st, 2007 9:29 pm

  Thank you very much for sharing your tips. It seems I still have some way to go before I can join Text-ad-links. My traffic isn’t high enough yet, guess I’ll have to read a few more posts here :-)

• Richard Quick, Esq.

  March 4th, 2007 5:12 am

  These are all, I suppose, excellent tips. However, you have missed the easiest and most profitable way to earn money from your blog: Demand a cover charge from every visitor.

  On my FranWorst.com site, I charge $1.00 per day cover charge. Of course, my visitors get access to wealth-building secrets that put them on the road to unthinkable wealth. Many are millionaires within six weeks. No one has ever complained or asked for their $1.00 back.

  How much do I make? Check my daily counter on the bottom right sidebar.

  Of course, few sites command the kind of traffic or provide the value that my site does, but even if you charge a nickel you’ll make a lot more than you’re making now.

  See you on the veranda!

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• Chelsea

  March 17th, 2007 6:21 pm

  Thanks so much for this article, it was exactly what I was looking for.

• pallav

  March 27th, 2007 7:06 am

  hy,
  this article was useful as i`m a new user . i wanted to know that from where i can get most ads for my blog.

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• Manish

  April 15th, 2007 11:49 pm

  Hey Darren! You really have provided very good information about how to make money for free. You always have provided very useful information and this information is also quit more impressible. Your work is really appreciable for the effort and time you have consumed to provide your visitor with very good information to make money for free of charge, hope you will continue same efforts in future providing with very good information to your visitor to make money. Thank you

• trung

  April 27th, 2007 4:37 pm

  I’m just starting a blog too. Wish me luck. My goal is just to earn $10/day.

• Ajay

  May 7th, 2007 10:38 pm

  Hi Darren,

  Which method of income would you reccomend for the site http://www.buy-webkinz.net ? I am in the process of creating a blog for buying webkinz toys. Would Chikita convert well?

  Cheers.

• Blogger que mas dinero ganan

  May 9th, 2007 8:45 pm

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• paul

  May 10th, 2007 7:40 am

  sounds good. I just bookmark your blog and want to learn more from you.

• Gustav S

  May 10th, 2007 10:07 pm

  Great post, your website is very comprehensive, I am bookmarking also!

  GS

• ravan

  May 17th, 2007 12:02 am

  Hi Darren,

  I really liked your website and your tips. I just started my blog a week back and getting around 100 hits per day. I dont know much about how to get traffic etc.
  I am just adding tips for electronics engineers.
  http://analogstuff.blogspot.com
  Hope some one will give me feedback on my blog.

  SK

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• cemshid

  May 23rd, 2007 7:03 am

  I have a Heroes Blog site, which is one of the biggest heroes blogs, great with Alexa (60,000 and moving up quickly), PR5 and will be updated to PR6, however i cannot manage to sell any text-link spot with Text-Link Ads or myself.. How can you promote these spots?

• Dominick

  June 5th, 2007 7:52 am

  My blog is slowly growing and gaining popularity. Glad to see many of the ad choices our site has made are listed as your top earners. We use Chitaka, Amazon, & Google primarily.

• liam

  June 7th, 2007 3:35 am

  Wow, only $100 with Adsense? What’s your average then?

  What kind of returns do you see when you spend a little on advertising? Does it make a huge difference?

  Thanks for these anyway, I’ll make sure to sign up with Chitaka when I hit the required traffic. How much do they pay you to add their sites to your lists :)

• Tallulah

  June 7th, 2007 1:18 pm

  Hey Darren — Six figure blogging!!! You’re my hero. Also want to thank you for the interview with Tim Ferriss. Bought his book and am ready to quit my job — oh yeah, just as soon as I start earning a six figure income on the internet.

  Question for you and your readers: Do you feel like your AdSense advertising campaign is worth the money it cost? Did you see a significant increase in traffic?

  All the best,

  Tallulah

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• Jon

  June 10th, 2007 3:12 am

  That is a fantastic rundown – I just found this site and look forward to reading future articles – yes, the domain is easy to remember!

  Jon

• Red Bull

  June 13th, 2007 5:01 pm

  Amazing info for a starter like me. I didnt even knew about text links ads. I look forward for more.

  Regards,
  http://www.cashpeers.com

• Bowrag

  June 19th, 2007 3:52 pm

  Love this… Best thing I have read in my short time on blogs. I have documented your thoughts and ideas and will implement them on my own blog. Thanks again

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• AshiuqeMohammad

  July 5th, 2007 3:30 am

  Hi, by sharing your informations your have done a great job.thank you for that. also i have just launch a site with “google adsense” &U now i am planning to host one of domain called ” logtoblog.com” & intend to make some money through bloging? so please give me your valuable feed back. with this name(logtoblog)in which way i can enter in to this ? what would be your oppinion about this name???
  Can i also do something like, the great “problogger.net”

  Regards,

  Ashique Mohammad
  http://www.comfortablerooms.com

• AshiuqeMohammad

  July 6th, 2007 12:57 am

  Darren i am waiting for your reply for my previous blog/

  Regaeds,

  Ashique Mohammad
  http://www.comfortablerooms.com

• Susan Payton

  July 11th, 2007 3:43 am

  Fabulous resource! It’s good to know we have options in advertising. I’m currently playing around with a few on your list, but will definitely check out even more!

  Susan Payton
  Egg Marketing’s Small Business Marketing Blog
  http://www.eggmarketingblog.com

• money maker

  July 14th, 2007 4:00 pm

  Wow 6 figures for a blog,
  that’s awesome, I wish I had so much to say ;)

  Does it take long to get to that kind of money ?

  Thanks and keep on the good work

• Business research intelligence

  July 18th, 2007 7:40 pm

  Nice information Daren! After earning money we have to transfer to our account! So you can write some post regarding that. Anyway its very helpful for me.
  Thanks

• Umesh Bhatia

  July 23rd, 2007 11:56 pm

  Found very much informative.I have been reading for few days on Googlecash.com.Mr Chris Carpentor has written a book on earning through Adwords.
  Yet to implement.Quite excited to know.
  Looking forward to make it happen.

  Shall like to interact more with you to understand and start earning.

  Umesh Bhatia

• speedcoder

  August 5th, 2007 2:07 am

  Very good resource you have here Darren. Thanks for sharing all your knowledge with me. I’ve started my own technology, tips, tutorials blog type of web two weeks ago and i am trying to at least do 1 article every two days. My articles are longs since i love writing and specially teaching others in a simple way. My page haven’t received any comment yet, but that doesn’t worries me for now. This i have done so far in two weeks: some Digg, Technorati, Tweak robots file, sitemap, and wrote about 10 articles (1,200 word count). Any advise anyone can share my site is http://www.clueq.com Hey Darren thanks! Keep it going buddy.

• Annie

  August 20th, 2007 10:10 pm

  Great post Darren, i find that there are many great alternatives to adsense, but am yet to get approved for chitika to try it out. Do you know what their traffic minimum is?

  Annie B.
  http://www.barbie-mp3-player.com

• surftec

  August 28th, 2007 10:49 pm

  using adsense for a year now, haven’t tried any other programs.

  Jose Gil
  ———————————-
  http://www.pinoymakemoney.com

• Dave

  September 4th, 2007 12:58 pm

  Great post. I just launched another blog-style site that will have dozens of contributors. It’s good to see what others are doing to help raise the profitability of their sites. I hope I will learn and apply these well.

  Thanks.

  Dave Weinberg
  http://Jewneric.com

• Sundaram

  September 16th, 2007 4:15 am

  Hi Darren,

  That’s a wealth of information which you shared with the world. It shows that you are genuine, generous and sincerely hope to see others succeed.

  I am a begginner to the world of blogging. Could you share with us how to edit the templates provided by free blog sites?
  Could we create our own blog page and upload it to the sites?

  Thanks.

• hydra888

  September 21st, 2007 6:13 pm

  Nice post! I’m a beginner, i’ll use some of those!

  You’ve just helped a lot of bloggers.

  Thanks!

  Life, Health and Power

• Jessica

  October 3rd, 2007 7:06 am

  Thanks for the info!

• analogstuff

  October 3rd, 2007 11:57 pm

  Its really nice to learn these things from you. I used to see google adsense in your blog earlier, once after reading this post only i have realized that u are not using adsense in this layout. You are an inspiration for me, i started blogging after reading your blog for quite some time.

• Paul

  October 4th, 2007 2:43 am

  Thanks for the info. I have just started out in the world of blogging, so your information about monetizing will really help.

• Stanford Matthews

  October 6th, 2007 9:40 am

  After a first visit it is obvious I will need to spend some more time here. Good time/information ratio here. Not much time and you get a lot of information.

• Tingmo

  October 7th, 2007 4:33 am

  i was expecting the affiliate sales to be on the top list. oh well.

• Alain

  October 7th, 2007 3:29 pm

  Great tips Darren.
  I really hope that as I increase traffic to my blog, some of these options become viable and available to me.
  Keep up your great work!

• JohnN

  October 9th, 2007 12:53 am

  Internet businesses are hard work. You have to be prepared for the hard slog. Good advice darren.

• David

  October 10th, 2007 2:06 am

  props for all your success, heres hoping i can make it too ;)

• Mike Stramba

  October 10th, 2007 4:39 pm

  Darren,

  Thanks for sharing your great tips.

  But it was is your comment :
  “I only blog on two of my blogs – but I have others writing for me on other blogs.” ..

  that is seemingly the real answer to “how to make money with blogs …” isn’t it?

  According to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Rowse
  you apparently have at least 20 blogs that you manage.

  Is it in fact 20 ? .. or what is the actual number?

  Can you list the blogs that you run? I’d like to read them to see if I can both a)recognize what makes them attractive to advertisers, (from a “learning-to-make-money-standpoint”) and b) just be entertained and/or learn something, as I love to read just for the sake of reading :)

  Mike

• Armaan

  October 11th, 2007 2:14 am

  Hi darren, Thanks for this information. I would like to happy to know who pays you relatively more.

• Petr

  October 12th, 2007 8:11 am

  Great posting. This is very helpful, and I like how you give details about each. It makes easier to then go and figure out which to try out on my blogs. Would you say that adsense would be a good start for a new blogger? I find adsense the easiest to use, and I also like to use amazon affiliates. I guess now I just need to build a traffic :)

• artofnet

  October 12th, 2007 5:52 pm

  Hi Darren,

  Thanks for sharing your earning streams. It will inspire me at least to point 1-3. But now I was work hard to build a good traffic site. I hope it can be true soon. Thanks.

• lucky

  October 18th, 2007 9:00 pm

  i just wanna earn money for my studies…..
  i have my adsense account and blog also.but how can i start to earnig.give me idea for it….

• Pinny Cohen

  October 21st, 2007 10:55 pm

  What is the easiest program for you in terms of maintaining the stability of the income?

• Sean

  October 26th, 2007 5:37 am

  Since Text link Ads are mentioned in this article, I thought some of your readers might like to read about my less than stellar experience with them before signing up. I’m not saying every TLA user will encounter the same problems I did, but sometimes it’s good to see things from a different perspective.

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• joe w

  December 13th, 2007 8:50 am

  thanks for the tips. i have not made any money yet but hopefully with your tips i can start. thanks again.

• MD

  December 20th, 2007 3:23 pm

  I might have to start using some of these. You say these are your top earners, so you use more than what’s on this list?

• flowers

  December 22nd, 2007 1:42 am

  Thanks I

• Andrew

  December 31st, 2007 4:38 pm

  I really do appreciate all this information you are sharing with us. Its really helpful especially for beginners like me to be able to read this information and understand it in half an hour. If i didn’t have your articles it would take me so much more time. So i can’t thank you enough.

  Regards Andrew

• Saim

  January 8th, 2008 3:52 am

  I use only Google adsense of the list above.It works very nice for me.I am planning to include Widgetbucks to the site as well.

• Wf

  January 8th, 2008 3:54 am

  I tried Text link ads but failed.Now using adsense.Works nice.Thanks for sharing this valuable info.

• Saad

  January 8th, 2008 3:57 am

  I earn very little a month.I wonder how much do u earn with all that.By the way which one earns you more & is the easiest to operate.

• computers blog

  January 16th, 2008 7:37 pm

  Thank you for giving information on money making!

• J5

  January 18th, 2008 7:28 pm

  I will definitely have to look into these. Does Yahoo not work well?

• Juan

  January 19th, 2008 2:48 pm

  Darren, nice work with your blogs! I just started my first blog and i’m looking for ways to promote it. There is plenty of help and ideas on problogger.net. My question to you is this: when you first got started blogging, what would have been the best advice you never got? Thx.

• Mittal Patel

  January 27th, 2008 6:18 am

  Such an informative blog. Liked it very much Darren. Keep helping new bloggers like me in this manner. :-)

• youtubes

  January 27th, 2008 8:40 pm

  Amazing info for a starter like me. I didnt even knew about text links ads. I look forward for more.

• Brisbane SEO Guy

  February 2nd, 2008 1:05 pm

  Any guidance as to what a unique visitor is worth? Based on the Wall Street Journal story about another blog (mongabay.com), each visitor is worth about 1.4 cents per visit.

  Is that about right in the case of problogger across all advertising revenue streams?

  I know it all depends on the niche and level of competition, but any guidance would be useful.

• $3,000 Money Blog

  February 23rd, 2008 3:22 am

  Why you’re not using Bidvertiser?

• moonburst

  February 26th, 2008 12:11 pm

  Nice to see you updated your list. I know that it takes more than just ads though, you have to have a massive influx of traffic everyday to even earn something on the net. Thanks for your sharing.

• Deepak Aggarwal

  April 3rd, 2008 9:13 pm

  Its really a good post, I had implemented the text links and google adsense and its giving good results.

  Keep posting good stuff. Thanks

  Deepak

• amparo

  April 16th, 2008 11:36 am

  im so new to this blogging i have a lot of content to share and a lot of stuff people like to know and i know i will do well in blogging but my question is how many blogging sites are out there, can you name a few… cause to make money you have to keep your options open i mean what sites do you have your blogs on or you just use one site

• @balootisme.com

  April 25th, 2008 5:10 pm

  my top earner with blog is just GOOGLE ADSENSE.

  and also affiliate program (more than Adsense)..

  how PROBLOGGER JOB BOARDS bring you money/revenue?

• Linux Pocket Protector

  April 25th, 2008 6:29 pm

  After 8 years, yes 8 years I kid you not, I’m making about $75 per week selling a very niche product. It takes very little effort and pays for my cable account.

  My advice is don’t expect overnight success.

  In hindsite what I should have done was set up 50 similar sites and cross-linked them.

  The site gets about 50 unique visitors per day and has done since 1999.

• Fanatic

  April 28th, 2008 6:38 am

  strange to see chitika at the top.

• Raman

  May 16th, 2008 6:25 pm

  Yes,I also agree,Chitika eminimall is tye lowest earner for my blog…..don’t know why??

• Bobby Johnson

  June 3rd, 2008 3:06 pm

  Good post, I like the many income streams you are getting. I am using some that you mention myself, but to the faint at heart. A little work is require in finding your niche, writing good quality content for your blog and using rich keywords.

  Over all, I am glad to hear that this is working for someone.

• Denise

  June 25th, 2008 1:39 am

  Wow, what an eye opener! Thanks for the info, Darren. I’m bookmarking your site and will coming back for more. I’m a full time college student, and I really like the thought of blogging to make some extra money. I currently have 1 website with not one ad on it – will will be changing shortly! I also have 4 blog sites that need some work. Six figures? — I have quite a bit to learn.

• gifts

  August 5th, 2008 3:28 am

  Pity that earning money from these types of blog programmes etc. is not available to the entire world, but only a select few in the really developed countries. Here in Africa we can’t use these services because of the PayPal issue. We are not able to receive Paypal payments into this country, and PayPal don’t care about us in any way. I have a US PayPal account but no US Bank account. Sorry, there’s nothing I can do with the money in there. I’m even struggling for them just to transfer it somewhere else. It’s not a lot of money, either!

• Christopher Clayton

  August 12th, 2008 8:47 pm

  @Gifts – Why dont you join as an advertiser somewhere that accepts paypal and do some small advertising campaigns for your blog with that money???

  You could easily put that money back into your blog. also some hosting services accept paypal as payment.

  =] just a tip!

  ive used most of these on blogs of mine and have made ‘OK’ money im gonna try out some of the rest soon.

  Cheers!

• Krish

  September 15th, 2008 6:27 am

  Hi Darren,

  Thanks for putting up this post. Its indeed very helpful specially I liked the way you have explained each of your main income sources which inturn helps me plan on things I should do :). I do part time blogging and have no plans to get into full time blogging in near future so looking to put some good contents that can bring me little money to keep me motivating write futher.

  Thanks once again for this post.

  Cheers,
  Krish
  http://www.bloggertalkz.com

• Afam Uzoechina

  September 17th, 2008 1:12 am

  Hello Darren,

  Thanks for this post.

  I love the way you took out time to explain clearly the different means of income.

  In a time like this when Google adsence has started bullying bloggers. Its really time we start looking at other income avenues

  Thanks
  http://www.free-trafficsecrets.com

• Buy New Webkinz

  September 18th, 2008 2:00 pm

  Ok, so I created a Webkinz site (http://www.buy-new-webkinz.com) and I have a question. The site itself appears to be a store, but it actually pushes people through to Amazon where all orders are handles. I am capturing the Amazon Associate kickback, but I am wondering if anyone else is taking this approach. I really don’t want to have my own e-store. I just want to push people through to other people’s stores. Is this a viable technique? Can anyone weigh

• sarpras

  October 22nd, 2008 3:15 am

  Google Adsense best for earn good income from home.

• projecthillhouse.com

  November 24th, 2008 12:46 pm

  I run 100 websites with the goal of making 1.00 per day. It is a struggle. I use adsense and commission junction.

• Manivannan Palanichamy

  November 29th, 2008 4:03 am

  I’m wondering whether you are Google adsense makes you lot of money; as of I’ve heard from several people, ad sense makes very little money, is that true?

• youlin

  January 2nd, 2009 7:16 pm

  Good sharing for blogger..But, is it real that 1 blog ONLY also can make money..?? I heard they have more than 1 blog to generate adsense $$ ?

• Professional Lab

  January 23rd, 2009 5:37 am

  Darren, Do you use dedicated server for hosting?

• bb

  April 1st, 2009 11:06 pm

  I need to make 500-1000 a month. Is that possible? Or do all these pay in micro-pennies?

• Oradiegwu Chikezie

  April 20th, 2009 6:19 pm

  Hi article, Darren. You are kind having to show us your channels of income unlike most internet marketers.Can i use the same adsense account to two or more different website.Who can answer me with this enquiry.

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