The stated goal is to be generating a full time income at the end of only one year and as of tomorrow, I’ll have only ten months left. As the title of this post suggests, I’ve got quite a way to go. In the month of August I made $50.00 just from from the Text Link Ads affiliate program. Unfortunately, that was the only source of income this month. While there’s no denying the ground I have left to cover, I still have reason to be optimistic. Several of the most popular blog monetization programs require your blog to be 90 days old before they’ll accept it into their program. As if that weren’t enough, others require your site to have a minimum Google PageRank to qualify for acceptance. As you may know, this blog has neither. So, until those two criteria are met, I don’t have real high expectations for the monthly income levels. I don’t want to sound like I’m just making excuses, I simply don’t think the income level is the proper way to judge success just yet. In my opinion, the number of RSS subscribers as well as the daily traffic numbers both suggest the blog is doing quite well. In fact, I’ll be publishing the monthly traffic statistics later in the week in hopes of generating some private ad sales to help jumpstart those income numbers while I wait for some of the other programs to open up to me. In the mean time, I’ll continue to post about any new monetization methods I come across and relay the results.
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You are one of my daily blogread since last month and I really find your blog very usefull, so just keep up the good work and I’m sure you’ll succeed in your goal
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Marina, thanks so much for the encouragement. Like I said, I’m still fairly optimistic about hitting my goal and either way, it’s going to be an interesting journey.
At the stage I’m in at the moment – I would dribble all over the place for $50. I’m personally going through the downward part of my blogging cycle… The dark and lonely valley of despair. Funny though I just finished three posts…?
Any easy tips to keep motivated, and not to be so impatient in terms of returns?
PS – I’m in South African $50 * 7
@Ben – keeping pushing on, this is the only blog I read religiously… and I’m an atheist*
*(that was for humorous reasons only and not to spur a religious debate of any kind ;P…)
keep up your work, i believe you can do it!
same as me, i am planning to start my own .com blog very soon.
–blog for dream–
http://ahtim-theblogger.blogspot.com
Congrats on your first $50. Before you know it, you’ll have private advertisers contacting you (if they haven’t already) to purchase permanent one way links, etc.
I can’t wait for the next PR update. Not because I care what my PR is (I really don’t), but advertisers certainly do.
Yeah, it sure would be nice if I could have a decent PR and magically make this blog 90 days old. I’m sure the patience will help me at some point down the road but for now I find myself screaming “T… t… t.. TODAY junior!” at Google.
What is the 90 days for? If it’s for PayPerPost or something like that just change the day of your first post
That way it’ll check and see that it’s over 90 days old.
Oooh sneaky. I’m not sure why I didn’t think of that…
It is for PayPerPost and ReviewMe. Although, come to think of it, neither one will do me any good until Google updates the toolbar PageRank.
Thanks for the suggestion though, Adam. I like the way you think!