I started http://kungfucorner.blogspot.com/ posted 7 articles, no gimmicks, made $14 in adsense this month. It's possible.
Build relationships with your reader through great content and smack some PPC and affiliate banners on the site, plus get boat loads of traffic.
More generic, same old advice. How about actually finding something you're passionate about and just writing. For instance, I like music, so I started a music blog and I write like a mad man, but LOVE it. Profit comes with it, if you are passionate.
If you want blog which can bring you money, you have to do only 2 things.. You have to have unique and interesting content and get traffic on that site. After some time, visitors will come alone from your backlinks, from search engines etc. If you need some help, be free to send me message in inbox. Best regards, - Dennis
How about the fact that I have 12 blogs, write on my own domains that I do not promote on here, because of blow hards like you giving stupid, generic advice that doesn't work. If you're making so much, why not come out with something unique, or something that hasn't been regurgitated 100 times before. I am in a far better position to give advice to someone that is starting out, because I proved the skeptics, like yourself wrong. They all say you can't make money with blogspot, and yet I do, and have for 10 years, without this generic piece of advice you tried to pass off as "gold".
Keep quality over quantity your top priority. Then do guest blog on blogs with similar a subject matter.
Make sure your SEO rate is higher enough... then you can place Google Ads or make warez download link like adfly and etc... that's all i know..
My advice for you: build your blog and FB fanpage at the same time, than buy FB ads and drive traffic to your blog (monetize with adsense is 1st priority, you can also earn with affiliate, but remember don't mix 2 things together that will decrease both income). And paid traffic always bring faster result with high quality traffic; if you choose FREE way to go, it takes you time and effort instead (without good result guarantee). By the way, even though you go with FREE method, driving traffic from social media, especially facebook and youtube, is far better than SEO (which is more and more expensive and harder).
I've just checked your site, and my opinion: the way you put your adsense ads will soon make your account closed by Google. Seriously.
making a profitable blog in no time is impossible. For a successful blog you will have to spend a lot of time writing quality content than build relationship with your users Do something so they regularly visit your blogs.
Great post! Only thing I would add to this is passion and interest. You need to have a passion/interest for the things you are writing about, as it will show in the quality of the content.
I made few blogs and websites previously, some of them were good enough to be sold after couple of months, others were just '' Rubish '', I would just advise to give for free what others sell. My blog was a freebies blog, I gave away free templates, Web Elements, Icons that i made my self, I got hired few times from few of the visitors, so I was making money from both sides. Think of something you wont get bored of doing all the time, and just give it away, every body loves free stuff good luck