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• 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

  A new wave for generating CTR is launching in Feb! Click here to get the information and get setup prior to the launch!

• 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 a beginner, make sure to research you approach and objectives carefully and stick to them.

• The printable calendars dude

  February 24th, 2008 3:48 am

  Hi,

  thanks for the insights into how you earn your dollars… it’s great…

  I was just wondering too about the ‘problogger sponsors’ ads that you run on your top right side of your site. Do you find many people actually clicking through to those?

  You also use a nice lot of colour on your blog, I like that, it feels fresh. Keep up the great work, and keep making a difference.

  Thanks

  Martin :)

• blair

  February 24th, 2008 6:27 pm

  thank you. i really needed to read this article to get started

• jopals

  February 25th, 2008 7:16 pm

  Reginald,

  Thank you very much for the message, thank you man, my main blog has rank 2 in the Google PR. thanks for the advice, it really me help a lot.

• Abraham

  February 27th, 2008 12:26 am

  Is there any problem, if serving combination of ads with Adsense, Amazon, AuctionAds, Bidvertiser in single site?

• Reginald

  February 28th, 2008 3:46 am

  Thank you, Steve.

  I genuinely appreciate your comment.

• Reginald

  February 28th, 2008 4:12 am

  Any time jopals. I’m pleased my message made an impact.

• Saifuddin Akber

  February 28th, 2008 5:05 pm

  I am new to blogging and still experimenting with various revenue generating sites. Your article has introuced one new source and I will try out that as well. Thanks

• Blake

  February 29th, 2008 2:01 am

  I actually started blogging to track my progress with my reseller account, with no intentions of earning money, until I realized it was possible. I have been working on my blog illiteratepoet.com for a few months and still get little traffic and $0.79 from adsense. I think you need to have an established blog, more then 3 months or you are just wasting time trying to earn money. How long were you blogging before you started making any real money or get decent traffic, if you don’t mind me asking. Thanks for the post and any feedback.

• Free Flat Screen HDTV Free HD TV

  March 3rd, 2008 4:29 pm

  prior to reading this post I had never heard of Amazon advertising programs or Chickita. I’ll definitely be looking that way if I ever try to go full on with my own hosted blog…I still think ads aren’t the way to go for blogging.

• YouYap.com

  March 7th, 2008 2:34 am

  Thanks for the info. I am still learning on how to make money from my own forum/ blog site: YouYap.com

• Brian

  March 14th, 2008 7:10 am

  I don’t know, honestly, if there is a quick way to make money online, unless you actually do invest some money, in such programs as Google’s AdWords. I’ve read quite a few e-books on how to make decent money online, but only have made $5.39 by AdSense, thus far. Seen on my blog, http://moneymakersdatabase.blogspot.com I’ve tried, but I’ve only had it up for about 2 weeks now. What better free techniques exist that can be implemented to drive traffic to your blog?

• joharin

  March 14th, 2008 8:00 am

  Thanks a lot Darren, i’m still new in blogging and i have no idea that we can actually make money from blogging. Your site is full of ideas and inspirations, and i have no doubt to subscribe to it…:)
  Anyway keep up all the good work and hope that you will continue putting up more useful and wonderful tips.

  p/s-i’m planning to quote your name as one of the best bloggers…hope that that is ok with you…

• MELOVEAN

  March 19th, 2008 3:49 pm

  Hey thnks for writing this blog…i am very greatful to u…as i am new to this business..i wanted to see hw it works…ur article will surely help me earning some bucks…

  i would like to learn about how to get traffic to my blog…

  Regards,
  Melovean

• Hebrink

  March 23rd, 2008 4:41 pm

  Does Google hate TLA? is TLA caused PR down?, Thanks for the answer.

• Chakrit

  April 3rd, 2008 5:39 pm

  For me, the best way to make money blogging is to check out this web: http://www.cashbloggingnow.com; this guy makes over 30,000 thousand a month using this simple, yet effective system he uses.

• wways

  April 4th, 2008 9:36 am

  Chakrit…. he is making money by selling $47 product. The IntelliChat feature he has set up is ‘authorized to offer $20 discount to the next 10 people’. So we know how he is making money.

  I did not come across googleadsense or chitika advt in this website. Am I overlooking?

• William Love

  April 6th, 2008 4:17 am

  I just wanted to send everyone who visits this site some positive energy,especially those writers that are just starting out. Don’t give up! I want to leave you with a qoute from a man that has done more for a mouse than any pharmacuetical company I know. ” All of our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them”. Walt Disney

  Thank You,

  William Love

• james

  April 6th, 2008 6:29 am

  great blog mate, really enjoy reading it, thanx for recommending text link ads they’ve been great

• prefabrike

  April 7th, 2008 10:31 pm

  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.

• Orfej

  April 14th, 2008 8:03 am

  Maby, this text is very good but there is one important advertiser which is same as adwords and it is bidvertiser.Great money conversion.

• Reginald

  April 17th, 2008 7:13 am

  Orfej, what is the money conversion ratio?

• lowongankerja

  April 17th, 2008 1:19 pm

  thank’s a lot for your summary.
  lot of good ‘desired stuff’ here, but may be u know most of us have less earn from your list above.
  we know no body tell the truth how to make money blogging.

  Will you give us general description based on your experience to drive ‘traffic/money’ to our blog/site.

  Seem now is more hard competitive to reach that.

  regards,

• Reginald

  April 17th, 2008 10:16 pm

  lowongankerja, why are you under the impression that no one tells the truth about how to make money blogging?

  I would be also be curious to know how many of the participants of this thread are of the same impression.

• fuzion

  April 19th, 2008 9:28 am

  great article. i’m very interested in publishing some of my articles online and your website has been extremely helpful. keep it up!

• asosa

  May 3rd, 2008 4:03 am

  New day, new game. Thank you internet and people like you who a kind enough to share useful info to everyone. New players like me who didn’t mind to look the other means of making few $$ will definately use this advice. It something which I will try in the near future and see what is in store for me. Thank to all.

• Ryan McLean

  May 4th, 2008 11:39 pm

  I love the idea that you can make money blogging, because I love writing and I love blogging and I would love to make a decent income one day from blogging.

  I feel I have some real quality content to write about and I can be really helpful, just can’t wait till I start getting enough traffic to make enough money to work full time

• Planet Berry

  May 5th, 2008 12:29 am

  Blogging has great upside but it’s incredibly demanding work that you have to be prepared for if you are truly looking to monetize your site. Content must be updated regularly and a theme should be developed that you maintain a consistent approach and support path.

• Florencio

  May 5th, 2008 8:37 am

  That’s so nice! One day I would be like you. Until now I just got U$ 200 from Adsense and U$ 50 from SponsoredReviews, but it’s all. I have 700 readers and a pagerank 2. I hope my site (one day) will give me a lot of money like yours.
  Congratulations! I appreciate it!

• JP

  May 8th, 2008 2:41 pm

  Thanks for sharing the different ways that you make money blogging, hopefully you will be in the 7 figures this year.
  I started my first eBay Blog today about my eBay experiences. I run a business in NYC selling items for people on eBay. I’m trying to find others ways to make some extra money and spread the word about my site http://www.ASAPsellsIT.com since I get all must customers from word of mouth because rent i just too high to open an actual storefront right now.
  I can’t wait to try a few of these programs besides AdSense.

• Jrd

  May 15th, 2008 6:07 am

  Great article Darren. Yea Adsense been one of the top earners for many. Really interested to explore on Amazon Associates.

  Thanks for sharing!

• Rakesh

  May 18th, 2008 9:40 am

  Hi Darren,

  Thanks for sharing all this info with us, Im a newbie blogger and though the income seems mindblowing Im finding it a little difficult to make sense out of all this.
  Pardon me, but I might be asking you somethng too naive.
  What do I write about in order to get people to come read my blogs and more importantly what would bring them to my site.
  Would appreciate your advise.
  Thanks.

• Catherine

  May 24th, 2008 7:35 am

  Question about Private Ad Sales and text link ads. How many unique visitors do you think a blog should have before advertizing space for private ads?

  Also looking forward to your book arriving on my doorstep

• Reginald

  May 25th, 2008 10:56 am

  Just out of curiosity, I wonder what exactly is an accurate average of the time frame a blogger should expect to start seeing enough income so that their full time employment can be a thing of the past.

  Should one examine this fact, will success story house a time frame that is distinctly different from every one else?

  Just wondering….

• Rita

  May 26th, 2008 6:20 am

  Thank you so much for the list i’m saving your site as a fave, lots of great content!

• Luis Gross

  May 26th, 2008 10:06 am

  I am interested in the private ad sales. Currently I have the typical AdSense, but I’m becoming more and more interested in private ads. How do I go about getting these? I want to have all advertisers ready and place all ads in one day, I’ve seen people who have 1 private ad, and then 3 empty spots I’m trying to avoid that. How do I go about getting these advertisers to want to place their private ad on my site? And what’s a decent traffic rank to be even considered to have someone want to put a private ad on my site?

  Hope you can help me out Darren! Great post!

• Michael St Louis

  May 30th, 2008 12:33 pm

  Hey this is a great post. Thanks for the information. Lately I’ve been checking out your site because it’s a real inspiration to me. I’m just starting out with my blog and with making money online and it’s very helpful to get as much info as I can. I’ve subscribed to your feed and I plan on learning as much as I can on your site.

• Tebogo

  June 6th, 2008 9:48 pm

  This is one of the most informative posts I’ve read on monetizing your blog in a long while.

  One thing though, Have you used any blog marketing software that you might wanna share with us?

  Cheers…

• Reginald

  June 7th, 2008 3:40 am

  I’m with Tebogo.

  I would be interested in finding some referrals for practical yet functional blog marketing software.

• Income Tambahan

  June 10th, 2008 6:57 pm

  Thanks alot, I take the auction ads and i like it so much…hope make dollar for my web

• eRealMedia.com

  June 19th, 2008 2:50 pm

  Thanks for this imformative article and lots of useful links.

• Ken Pirok

  June 19th, 2008 4:16 pm

  Amazon can be very profitable in a few different ways. First, if you’re linking to your own products that are on Amazon, you make a bit of extra money.

  But, if you can get people to click through and buy expensive items, you really stand to make some cash. You can make a killing if your readers buy Kindles (Amazon’s ebook readers) through your site.

• Reginald

  June 20th, 2008 3:39 am

  I’m just putting this out there…. How many bloggers, whether veteran or new, actually become a success.

  Does anyone have the statistics on this? What is the ratio of successful bloggers online today?

• How To Make Money

  June 22nd, 2008 5:32 am

  We have found good success with Adsense also. The 250×300 text/image ads work great for us below post.

  Although, most of our income comes from digital sells (downloadable info) we are trying a few different things.

  I like to do more with direct ad sales (trying to get the traffic up for that to make it worth while)

  Kenney

• ruel

  June 23rd, 2008 3:30 pm

  Well for me, I’m just waiting effect of those ADSENSE, I can’t afford some other service in order to get more paid on the blog.

  http://myruel.blogspot.com

• george tomas

  July 2nd, 2008 9:29 pm

  I tell you thank you for having shared this information !

• Kevin

  July 7th, 2008 11:32 am

  Great info on ways to make money with a blog. I find that private link and ad sales are the most lucrative. With that being said, you need a steady flow of UV’s and a decent PR to get any customers to buy ads and links.

  …By the looks of your site, I don’t think you have any trouble finding buyers! Great job!

• Alex Wilson

  July 7th, 2008 12:49 pm

  Hi Darren,

  I find that Amazon only works well for me with my American sites, even though I am an Australian blogger.

  Its very rare that Australian’s buy off Amazon I have noticed.

  Cheers,

  Alex from Savings Guide Australia.

• Reginald

  July 13th, 2008 9:14 am

  Can anyone tell me the ratio of Adsense’s success to failure?

• Alex Griffin

  July 14th, 2008 8:55 pm

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

• Notebooki

  July 17th, 2008 7:36 am

  I am currently earning about 2 dollars a day

• Alex Wilson

  July 20th, 2008 4:41 pm

  Hi Daz,

  Love the post, read it about 50 times over the past few months.

  Thought I would share with you how I make a living blogging;

  1. Adsense. This makes up about 80% of my income.
  2. Commission Monster + DGM Affiliate Marketing. 20% of my income.

  I am yet to have personal advertisers as yet but am quite happy with earnings to date, per month I am clearing about $2000 in side money from my full time job in online advertising + growing.

  Blogs and sites I run include;
  - http://www.savingsguide.com.au – Saving Money Tips.
  - http://www.companyguide.com.au – Business Directory.
  - http://www.ajwilson.com.au – My personal blog.

• gout

  July 24th, 2008 8:52 pm

  …thanks from reading your posting, I already using amazone 2 days ago…..

• professional-seo

  July 25th, 2008 8:50 pm

  That was a good list on how to make money on blogging. As of now I am using the Google Adsense and for me it is the best

• devilcalledlove

  July 29th, 2008 5:41 pm

  A new Adsense alternative worth considering is Netklix.

• Reginald

  July 30th, 2008 6:41 am

  devilcalledlove,

  What makes Netklix any better? How long has it been around? Does it have a better financial turn over than adsense?

• Angela Swanlund

  August 1st, 2008 5:41 am

  I just started a new website and companion blog – due to an over abundance of TLA. LOL There is some money to be made with this method, but over time it really detracts from your content. Early on everyone was all about “key words” and of course they wanted their TLA sandwiched into a sentence within a block of content. This may have worked well for the advertisers – but it always bugged me as a web developer and writer. I guess the word that I’m hinting at is – deception. That form of advertising seems deceptive to me… almost as if we think if we disguise the link within content, the reader won’t realize it’s an advertisement. So I’ve gone back to the graphic ads in the side bars. In my experience they offer just as much earning potential. As a surfer, I expect to see graphic advertisements, but you never really know what awaits at the end of a key word click.

• chris

  August 3rd, 2008 9:16 pm

  I’m interested in learning through what sites do you find bloggers to pay to blog?

• shun2u

  August 3rd, 2008 10:35 pm

  hey, great..hope u continue earning much more..Now i everyday earning about $3 dollars.

• Pastilan

  August 7th, 2008 3:16 am

  Thank you for this very informative article. It helps a lot, especially to novice bloggers like me.

  But I have something to say about Widgetbucks. I have it in my four blog in the last four months and so far I have “earned” $0.006 from them. Yes, four months. My blog has a very small traffic but if I compare my earnings from Widgetbucks with what I earn from Adsense and Adbrite, I get to think that probably Widgetbucks is not counting properly the impressions and the clicks. In the last four months in the four blogs I have I got zero clicks from Widgetbuck whereas with Adbrite and Adsense I got many clicks. I think I’ll just remove Widgetbucks from my blogs.

• Make Money

  August 14th, 2008 10:18 pm

  It is impressive how well you do from your blogs and the different ways in which you promote them. How did you get on with WidgetBucks?

• charles

  August 25th, 2008 8:04 pm

  Nice article there darren. Actually, i was searching for things that can replace google adsense. Because i really hate the customer support. Anyway, i might try adbrite or other things. I have alot of affiliate programs but dont usually earn from them.

  http://www.resourcesandmoney.blogspot.com

• Boobe

  September 4th, 2008 11:38 pm

  I am using the Google Adsense and for me it is the best,because I earn whit this a pack money.

• Work At Home Jobs

  September 5th, 2008 8:29 am

  Good information, Darren. I use most of those myself but you’ve given me some new ones to consider.

• christine joy jusayan

  September 11th, 2008 7:26 pm

  It must be useful to me if i have a job on net less stress. I really want to have extra income for my family.

• Mike Wagan

  September 19th, 2008 3:53 am

  Thank you Darren for this information. I will surely rely on Adsense as my starting grid and hopefully my growing blog will qualify for the other sources of income you have specified.

  I have also linked you through my post here:
  blogpayouts.blogspot.com

  Thanks again!

• Takumi86

  September 22nd, 2008 1:14 am

  All of these are PPC, actually there are many ways for making money blogging like Pay per Post or Snorty but still i found a very good information here, like Chitika ads sense, i might giviing a try on that one so thanks

• rukawaw

  September 28th, 2008 4:25 am

  Those are cool program which a beginner need to join besides adsense….thanks darren

• Rix Dezine

  September 28th, 2008 7:46 am

  Today I posted my first blog and was inspired not only by your book but from the money you can make. Thanx

• Yanto

  September 30th, 2008 5:50 pm

  Well, it depends on the person. Blogging is not always for money. But it keeps the ball rolling. At least, we hope that we can cover the hosting cost and the ISP fee from blogging. Otherwise, the cost would have to be covered with other offline earnings.

• vista-themes

  October 10th, 2008 4:37 pm

  It’s a good idea to higher writers to write on blogs. I think you can earn more using this technique. 5 persons can always write more than 1 person.

• دردشة

  October 11th, 2008 7:07 am

  ok

• Dennis Bay

  October 12th, 2008 2:23 pm

  straight to the point article darren, thanks again for the valuable info :)

• Dimitri

  October 13th, 2008 10:59 am

  I wonder if I can do it on wordpress.com blog or do I have to move to wordpress.org? can any one give me ideas?

• fracas

  October 15th, 2008 2:39 pm

  Dimitri, I’ve run a wordrpess.com blog called fracas for two years, and I can tell you that wordpress.com does not allow you to monetize your blog. As such, I’ve been working on a self-hosted blog called fraccers (which my name links to) where I am free to do as I please.

  If you want to know more, stop by fraccers or fracas.wordpress.com and leave me a comment. I’ll direct you to more information about wordpress.com if you should need it; I’ve written about it a few times and would be happy to help you out.

• Professional Lab

  October 17th, 2008 1:48 am

  I never have earned from any of this, frankly. (oh yes, except Adsense). Thanks darren for sharing!

• nizhag razhul

  October 17th, 2008 7:05 am

  Wow! I never know there was many more opportunities than adsense! thank you my friend! :}

  I as well am starting blog with my own friends at http://woorkathome.blogspot.com/

• Nathan Hangen

  October 23rd, 2008 4:58 pm

  Nice insight…on top of being penalized by Google for TLA, I have also found their support to be terrible. I don’t like to use Adsense very often, but I do like Amazon.

• p@r@noid

  October 24th, 2008 4:21 am

  This is one topic…which can never satisfy anyone..as no one will be ever happy with their own…advertisement program. because everyone need more…!!! :D

  though right now im using bidvertiser..and once my blog will reach 10000 hits i wil move to some big shot …advertisemnt company..!!! :)

• Make Money Quick

  October 25th, 2008 1:58 am

  Hey Darren, that was an absolutely PHENOMENAL post. I really can’t tell you how many times I’ve actually read this post over time. I keep checking back just to see if there’s any changes.

  Anyway I just simply wanted to say thanks. You provide a lot of amazing content here.

  Kenney

• Yopi

  October 25th, 2008 4:21 pm

  i’ve follow making money program above,but i have difficulty reach at the first search engine.I need your help and support,thanks

• Vishnu

  October 26th, 2008 4:20 pm

  This helped me out darren, you rock again…And i am into this things…

• Money Maker

  October 27th, 2008 10:07 am

  I know you get this a lot Darren, but excellent post man. Very to the point and helpful.

• Simon

  October 31st, 2008 9:11 am

  A very nice site to learn I’m new to all this looking around other site mine is so poor think I need to learn more

• uwak

  November 5th, 2008 11:58 pm

  You are very master and many experience getting money online…..so you don’t need spending money to promote your blog/web for getting much money….very nice posting,thanks

• John Patrick

  November 6th, 2008 5:33 am

  Can you have google ads and affiliate links on the same site?

• LN

  November 10th, 2008 3:04 am

  I use Adsense for my site, because it seems to be the easy to use. It is true that Google takes a big part of the pie. Is there any other ads system that pays more than Google?

• Publicidad Internet

  November 10th, 2008 10:09 am

  I’m just a begginer, but i’m gonna try to use all those programs you use.

  My goal is gonna be to make just 10% of what you make! LOL

  Regards…

• Increased Endurance

  November 21st, 2008 2:37 am

  I too am just wrapping my head around many of the tools. I feel like the market is too saturated to get into it, but I think finding that solution that at least can ease some financial burden would be fantastic. even a 4 figure extra income would be nice. haha

• Robert Evans

  November 24th, 2008 5:37 am

  Great blog, fantastic information. I came across this blog while looking at books in Waterstones – UK.

  What I’ve learnt so far from your valuable information, I’ll be attempting to improve the earning power of my blog: http://www.capitalrobert.blogspot.com

• Planet Berry

  November 24th, 2008 7:38 am

  Social Networks and Social Cause. More and more we are seeing huge swings with respect to human voice. A Social Network (such as the one we have for College Football Fans) is a great example whereby the people can stand up to the Corporate World and voice a vote for change.

  Twenty two months ago Hillary was eyeing how to beat McCain to be the first Woman President in the USA. Ahh, she failed to see the power of the leveraged internet and voice of the people is no longer just the TV although still strong. The internet is where everything is transacting today. President Elect Obama figured it out and leveraged this throughout his campaign of twenty plus months.

  Today the College Football Season crowns a champions decided by the BCS Committee. What a farse. No playoff for all those MILLIONS at stake? We say FOUL. We say let’s vote via a Social Network we established this year. Click on our link and see for yourself the power of what we are doing with a Social Network design.

• Deskins Writing

  November 24th, 2008 1:56 pm

  Thanks for sharing this article! I checked the job board out and found some posts relevant to my line of work. I’m bookmarking it and I’ll be visiting it often in the future.

• Seo Algorithm

  December 13th, 2008 6:27 am

  Hi Darren,

  Thanks for providing great source on make money blogging. I am not familiar with many of the options you provided but I had an experience with ‘Chitika’. I know that it allows publishers whose websites have a good range of search engine traffic only. Can you suggest any other alternative in such cases??

• Planet Berry

  December 13th, 2008 1:14 pm

  Definitely the Long of Long Tail blogging. Nicely done.

• uwak

  December 13th, 2008 3:45 pm

  I just making little money from google ads…. triple up in two months by using tips from your blogs….thanks

• Frank Guillen

  December 13th, 2008 10:40 pm

  I am running the same ammount of chikita and adsense ads and adsense generates more than 200% of chitika.

  1:200, something strange because I have seen a lot of good reviews about chitika, but for me it is a space loss, hope some chikita generates more because I will have to delete their banners.

  Monthly Profit
  Google $500
  Chitika $22
  Widgetbucket $19

  All of those ads are in the same pages and have the same sizes of those from adsense.

• Ridho

  January 4th, 2009 9:46 pm

  I will try all of the program to get money. But, my problem is my blog don’t have pagerank.

• John

  January 9th, 2009 1:17 pm

  Very nice work. I have been debating for some time to try something like this. At the present time I have bought a domain and messed around with it for a few mnths but did not recieve even a penny of revenue, in the past 2 months I have used godaddy for cash parking and OMG it cost 3.99 to park and I made a whole 1.99 things are not looking good for the home team. Well I shall post back later if anything changesthanks for the info again.

• Vanni

  January 9th, 2009 11:59 pm

  I am using Google Adsense right now. Although Im not earning yet from that, I know this is the best start to play around in the world of blogging. Thanks for this wonderful blogsite.

• Make Money Online

  January 10th, 2009 7:56 pm

  Great motivating article. I am not that new to blogging. I have known about it for a year now but frankly speaking never attempted to make it big money. I think it’s time for me to take it seriously now.

• Rizky Nur Zamzamy

  January 12th, 2009 5:43 am

  Have you considered using Ad Brite? In some forums with lots of visitors I found them using full page display ad from Ad Brite. Right now, I’m only using Adsense and I’m considering to use Ad Brite as well.

  Thanks for sharing your money resources!

• Rick Imby

  January 16th, 2009 1:22 pm

  Thank you for sharing your experience. It is interesting to see how you are doing. The numbers would be really cool but if I were you I wouldn’t share them either.

  Rick

• Denise

  January 18th, 2009 3:45 am

  Thanks for all these ways on how to make money blogging. I will definitely be using them.

• Danielsmonde

  January 25th, 2009 4:38 am

  Thanks for sharing this with the other bloggers. This post has become one of my favorites. I was wondering what are the other methods that bloggers make money of(besides google adsense).
  I’m not really using anything at the moment, but I will try all the methods that you listed here. Again, a big thanks.

• Rachel

  February 4th, 2009 11:12 am

  The is easy money and good money, what had been explained here is the easy money (pay per click). however the good money come from affiliate programs and affiliate networks where clicks can converted to sales and you can earn 100 times the pay per click value

• David

  February 13th, 2009 5:32 pm

  This takes hard work to earn money and feed your kids

• Sandeep

  February 15th, 2009 12:44 am

  Hi,

  I’m reading your blog since last few days, and I am very impressed with your ideas. I’m new to blogging and I started google adsense and have earned $37.45 in 23 days. I am very happy with my earnings with in 23 days. Soon I will implement advertising campaign and amazon affiliates. I am very thankful to you for your valuable blog.

  Thank you once again.

• Tom

  February 17th, 2009 8:26 pm

  If adsense works well, why do you not use it in your problogger site?

  Tom
  Retro Watch Blog

• Motivational

  February 25th, 2009 7:42 pm

  $250k from just chitika? Wow, are you a millionaire yet?

• Mohammad Afaq

  March 1st, 2009 3:41 am

  Its Really great of you to tell us how you make money from your blog and I will use some programs you mentioned here.
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• Helen - Free Links

  March 9th, 2009 11:01 pm

  Thanks for this awesome tips -
  I have followed a few of the links and have registered, now waiting to see how it fares…

  Nice blog by the way :)

• Bengali Tigaerz

  March 14th, 2009 12:02 am

  Some good tips there. It is best to generate some decent traffic first before trying to make money from your blog.

• MakeMoney

  April 4th, 2009 10:52 pm

  I started off blogging about niche stuff (ancient history, hidden history) i made $0.32 per month. I changed to multiple blogs, blogging about technology etc. I now make $10 – $20 per day. Thanks for the tips, great article.

  http://how2blog4money.blogspot.com/

• RachelB

  April 7th, 2009 2:27 am

  Thanks for spelling out exactly how you make money from blogging. This is a very useful post because of all the specific tips you provide.

• StevieA

  April 7th, 2009 11:26 pm

  Great Post Darren. The information you provide is fantastic whether you are a ‘newbie’ or have been in the ‘biz’ for awhile. You mentioned RELEVANCY. You have to be relevant with your information and with what ads you list. Relevancy is extremely important. Thanks again.

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• Online Income Made Easy

  April 9th, 2009 9:10 am

  Nice stuff, I haven’t monetized my blog yet but I’m considering it. My personal favorite is affiliate marketing due to its simplicity, just drive the traffic.

• Paul _ leeds photo daily

  April 19th, 2009 7:14 am

  I am a relative blogging newbie, 3 months so i need all the help I can get from people who know what to do. I set up Leeds Photo Daily because I could but now am looking at ways to see if there is money out there.
  Thanks for the info.

• Ronald

  April 21st, 2009 1:28 pm

  Thanks for sharing this Darren Rowse. I have a one suggestion for you, recently I join smartappsportal.com a few weeks ago and have been marketing it online. It has been going good for me.

• Yanto

  April 22nd, 2009 3:35 am

  Thanks for sharing this. I’ve just signed up for Amazon Associates. But I think it’s still hard for me to earn through Amazon Associates. My blog is still very low for traffic. Hope I can increase it faster.

• shabareesh

  April 22nd, 2009 3:41 am

  @Yanto , Even i tried that buddy , seems its very hard to earn through that. Anyways i signed up a portal called smartappsportal.com . And also I got my first month payout. Seems to be very interesting site. We get entire support from the company itself , just half an hour a work a day n we can earn decent amount. Just give a shot. I m pretty sure you will like it. :)

• Ravi

  April 22nd, 2009 6:00 am

  Very Motivative Darren.
  I liked the way which you have mentioned there.
  But I will like to introduce one more service. It is smartappsportal.com and I am using it since three months.
  I have got a lot of money from its help and Now I can say that I have a successful web business.

  I think you should see this also.

  Thanks Again for this Post.

• Imraaz

  April 22nd, 2009 12:24 pm

  No dobt about it…blogging can make you some pocket money like mylot.com….but recently i’ve been in smartappsportal.com and i do make real money….real money ma homy…lol:)

  by the way great article bro

• sallygreat

  April 22nd, 2009 10:13 pm

  You must earn a lot of money in internet with all that.

  Me too, I do google adsense. Google does what he wants with and I can not control my earning.
  But 3 months ago I found smartappsportal.com in other blog . I signed up and I can tell you that I am more than satisfied. Everything is clear and the payment is very quick.

  Darren, try smartappsportal.com , I am sure that after two months you’ll write a great article about this company ;-)

• Imraaz

  April 24th, 2009 6:36 am

  i agree smartappsportal.com helped me get a PS3 , iphone and a Mac book…..:)

• S.Pradeep Kumar

  April 30th, 2009 8:03 pm

  It is a nice post ! I too want to make such posts ! But no income right now from my blog, since I consider money and blog different aspects ! :)

  Cheers !
  HellBound Bloggers

• Discount Juicy Couture

  May 8th, 2009 11:10 pm

  Thanks for the insight. I believe in multiple streams of income as well. It’s fine to have one in the beginning but for the long term it’s best to have many.

• Perika

  May 9th, 2009 3:59 pm

  Nice tips and great blog! Your ideas really helped. I am earning too, and I hope it’ll grow bigger. Im expecting to have a great change of it every now and then. Cheers for your post. I know you’ll be a successful one someday :)

• A Dawn

  May 12th, 2009 10:04 pm

  Darren, you are really great! Your articles are very helpful. It is nice to know that AdSense, affiliate marketing programs and advertising programs bring in a lot of money to you and other bloggers.

• A bird

  May 16th, 2009 12:00 am

  I’m a beginner blogger. I would like to make money by blogging but I don’t have any earning. This adventage for me to improve my blog.

• PaccM

  May 28th, 2009 12:22 am

  You’ve helped me out loads dude, really really useful information. I’m just starting out as a blogger (haven’t even been indexed by google yet), so any information I can find that saves me time and resources is invaluable.
  *adding bookmark*

  I’ll be back to reread later I’m sure.

• Chris

  May 28th, 2009 8:49 am

  Great summary – I’ve found Google is my #1 also, followed by Ebay and then Amazon – but I’m only earning well into the 3 figures per month! :)

• John

  May 28th, 2009 5:52 pm

  How many blogs do you run and do you outsource any of the content that you place on your blogs.

  I’m not a writer and writing endless post’s would be very hard for me.

  I look forward to hearing you response.

  Thanks John

• Jenny

  June 4th, 2009 12:21 am

  I recently started adding addsense. I was using more affiliate programs.

  thanks for the information

• Jamie

  June 4th, 2009 2:22 am

  Thank you for this informative article! It’s nice to see a real breakdown of what works!

• anto

  June 4th, 2009 9:34 am

  hhhmmm…i see now..nice tips
  but in order to make money from our blog, we will need to have a good audience and regular traffic to our blog.
  can you give me more tips about that?

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