I make a killing with ypn and adsense using the software, but I don't like relying on ppc earnings. Our company is a group of software developers. I would rather develop and sell the software, then use the earnings to fund our other web projects. We have 3 LARGE software releases to finish this year so spending the time on ppc just doesn't make sense any longer. It's bought me my house, my corvette, and everything else I have wanted over the past couple years so I can't complain. Just time to move on.
Yeah, I reckon 0-5K in a short time is dreaming. Slow and steady build up over time is the only way I see it working. And not relying too heavily on search engines for traffic cause they can burn you sooooo quickly and 5K-0 is the next step.
Hmmm...well I didn't read through all the pages...but I would suggest...that if you are going the blog route...A good way to do this is to make a good well content blog and build a static site around the blog. For example. I have an anime blog. If you goto my domain it takes you directly to the blog, however on the right side of the blog I have links to static pages...a website. For example, anime wallpapers, anime movie trailer downloads, a bunch of extra features to keep people coming back to the blog. they come to get the updated anime wallpapers, movie trailers, etc...but by coming for those, they read my blog! Since the blog is the first thing they see and they have to scroll for the rest of the site, they normally get caught by a headline or two. At least thats my plan and it seems to be working! Just an idea for bloggers
I agree with the poster above about blogs being a pain to maintain. At least a good one. If you're starting from scratch, you need traffic, and you need to make sites. Just concentrate on those and do blogs later. My 2cents. Scot
Sometimes it's better to start a blog in your native language, if it's not english. There are less competitors, well, no international competitors and it's good to get started.
If I make 100 USD each month after the first year and 250/month after 18 months and 500 after 2 years it's ok for me. In my opinion we have to have achievable goals.
Think. just sit around and think of what the internet needs. There are a lot of good ideas that have been done before and if you want to challenge them you better be willing to be in for the long haul. If you can come up with something new and fresh with good content that the internet actually needs then go for it. 5,000 dollars a month means that you are going to have to drive A LOT of people to your site. My guess would well over 50,000 uniques a month. So you are going to have to have a good site with good content. Even then it doesn't just happen. then you have to do all the other stuff that everybody else does. submit your site to directories, get links from high pr sites in that industry, spread the word in places like DP and on and on and on. GL HF with your journey. I'm on my way 6 bux a day now. haha
I like the 5k-0 is the next step part. I agree you need to have a site with staying power all on it's own. If you build it ( a fresh site with great content ) they will come