Can We Really Make Money With Blogging?

I think the answer is yes, but it need a lot of effort. It took time to established fan-base of your blog, and getting the loyal visitors, and I would say it go to the content of the blog itself. It's easy to make a blog, easy to make so many entry, but the quality one? I did take a look of a lot of others blog, and I'm so surprised they got so many visitors when in fact the blog is so short of quality, let alone the prestige. I believe there are many ways for them to achieve that, but I never go for a short-cut, never in my life. So I will go for the difficult way, try to get the best of the blog, and lets see if people are interested with it.

When talk about money-blogging, it's mostly related to the ads, and there are several ways the blogger got paid; pay per click, pay per thousand impression (in which you got paid regarding how many of page views), direct advertisement, referral and some others. I'm just learning all these in the past month, and to be frank I have no idea what's all this before. It's tempted me, as it looks as easy money but when you doing it - it's never as easy as it may seems. Doing it right make it harder, but that's life - nobody going to give you money just like that.

Right now, in addition of looking the several potential of ads company whether its international-based (google adsense, chitika) or local (nuffnang for Malaysia), I need to learn the best way to locate the ad in the blog. Too many things actually, the blog template, colour scheme, header, widget, sidebar and most importantly good content. For the latter, I think there is no compromise - so I would give myself at least a year to really get a feel of blogging world. Till then, it's fine not to achieve much. But, with the blogging just being the part-time stuff, it's really not easy to put up consistent effort, actually - career world never give you free time. At least for most of the jobs in the world. I dont know if you could name a few jobs in which you can relax all the time, yes they are but no easily spotted on.

RIM