When is the last time someone earned a lot of money from blog? Maybe five years ago. These days blogs are only used to get traffic, either directly or via SEO, to pages where you sell the real product to the customer.
For a long while I actually made about $500/month from my blog, webkitchen.co.uk. That was even 2 years after I wrote the last post.
I know this sounds like a "you can too" commercial but I actually did. I posted it on text-link-ads.com and sold a load of text-link ads (i.e. google juice) at the bottom of the page. From that more marketers discovered me and then bought ads direct on a year upfront basis.
The amount paid ranged from about $20/month (of which I'd see half) with TLA to $100/month (I kid you not) for direct sales. It's whittled down to nothing now but it worked out about $10k or so of revenue over the two or three years after I finished blogging which wasn't too shabby.
Obviously Google could wake up one day and kill you for it but since I didn't have any audience I also wasn't bothered by that.
A great book and one that I am reading diligently as I work up to re-entering the world of blogging. I stopped blogging half a dozen years ago as I was making no money and using plenty of time. This time I intend to manage the time aspect more carefully and apply some gentle moneytization techniques.
This is completely false; thousands of people are still making loads of money from blogging. It's just not novel anymore, so you don't see any articles about it.
And yes, they've also realized that all those subscribers are good for more than just ads, so they're upselling them books and videos and seminars and whatever else.
I've made a few hundred dollars total over the past year or so. I don't blog for ad revenue, I blog for the fun of it. Basically all I do is stick a couple of relevant Amazon affiliate links on most of my posts. Whilst it's not a lot of money, it more than pays for the Linode server that my blog runs on.
Few hundred dollars over a year is nothing. Point of my message was that there are only a few people in the world who could live just by blogging and researching topics to blog about all day long.
Yeah, I know it's nothing. That's what I said. However, if I can make that amount of money for very little effort, blogging occasionally; somebody who does it full time, should be able to earn 50 times that. A reasonable salary in most of the World.
