Great story shoe. I hope I find my way and start earning some real money online. Nowadays my day job takes most of my time so I hardly spend any time on my blog/articles. I get 30$-40$ per month anyways.
Very well said !! The main thing will be the content. If we like our own website, then the half of the job done. Update daily, Bring new content and place ads that is suitable to the layout. Then the sucess will be there. Thanks for the info...
Hmm, I don't really talk about my own 'success' on here, but I'm bored so here goes. Hopefully this is motivating in one way or another. I started a music site back in 2002, and I was incredibly passionate about it. I taught myself everything there was to know, said goodbye to my social life for a good few months, and built a site which I was immensely proud of. The traffic began to trickle in...I wasn't even aware that a website could make money so I ran this site for about 3 years with absolutely no revenue streams in place. I made nothing from the site, a site which was pulling in a decent 3000 uniques daily. I was then contacted via email. Someone wishing to advertise on the site, I accepted and then began to realise I had something with the potential to make money. It was during this time that my webhost fined me for going iover my monthly limit. They fined me around $3000 and threatened me with legal action. Reluctantly, and bullied into it, I paid the money and closed the site. I lost all enthusiasm and let the entire site die and the domain soon expired. I was left with two main regrets; 1. I didn't earn money from the site which I should have. 2. I should have sold the domain and site to recover the losses. I did neither... About a year passed and I didn't even think about making sites, until my friend told me to make another one since I used to be so passionate about it. I threw myself into the biggest project of my life. A custom built, PHP coded backend, unique design SEO'd the crap out of, and promoted it until my fingers burned. All I paid for was the hosting and the domain. The site was again a music site, and when it was complete, I surpassed all my own expectations. The traffic began to grow, I learned more about SEO, about click through rates, about CPC, about CPM programs. I applied Adsense and some affiliate campaigns, and the money each money began to accelerate. First month, thirty dollars or so, after about 6 months, into the $500-600 area. I thought I had the 'magic fomula', so set up another site, a technology website, as I always set up sites that I'm passionate about so that I can offer valuable content. This second site started slowly, but I persisted, created a shit load of content and traffic again began to grow. This site is now my biggest earner. From Adsense, I'm earning $2 click on average from it, and generating 60 clicks daily with a modest CTR. It's only now, that I'm really pushing this site to the maximum, since if I manage to triple the traffic, I could effectively live off the earnings of this one site alone. I now have 4 sites, and every site has been an adventure...an adventure which I love to take, and love making resources which people respect and love to visit. I love the earnings, but I equally love the satsfying feeling of offering something informative, educational and fun. That's essentially my story in a rather large nutshell. Just believe in yourself and your ideas, learn everything there is to know (and abandon your social life for a little while ) If anyone has any questions, I'll try and answer them.
Is content really the king? If you write, they will come. I am an established blogger and write for a profitable tech blog (not owned by me). I am delving into my first personal blog in a niche area. I have the writing skills and the passion but traffic is still low after a few months. I enjoy the writing and the comments/interaction with others but wish I had more people visiting. Perhaps I need to keep doing what I am doing and at some point it will click.