Making Money From A Blog

So much lately I have been focusing on Optimizing other web pages and not working on my blog. And what work I have done on this blog relies on Google Adsense for generating any income.

That's why its good to come across posts like the following which remind me about the importance of not putting all my eggs in the Google basket.

Making Money From A Blog - December Recap « John Chow dot Com:

"The blog is now making what most people would consider full time income. At $2,800 a month, most bloggers would be able to quit their job and concentrate on their blog full time. Keep in mind that you wouldn’t be able to do this if you just run Google AdSense. The most important lesson to keep in mind when it comes to monetizing a blog is the revenue mix. Find ad sources that will compliment each other and they’ll add to your overall income. Do not put all you advertising eggs in one basket."

John Chow’s website is an excellent example of a site geared towards making money online. While his title tag (John Chow dot Com The Miscellaneous Ramblings of a Dot Com Mogul) isn’t focused for generating any specific search engine traffic he more than makes up for it in promotions.

For instance his Review My Blog promotion in which he is exchanging backlinks for a review of his blog on your site. For a new blog that’s a great help as his site has a Page Rank of 4.

You can be sure I’ll be following his advice and looking into more ways in which to add to the revenue mix on my blog. (Such as utilizing his mix of AdSense and IntelliTXT.)

So as a beginning blogger, not only am I already overwhelmed at the amount of stuff to learn and implement on my many websites and blogs, now I'll just have to go back over everything to integrate other sources of ad revenue which is compatible with Googles AdSense TOS.

YAY!