A post doing the rounds in the (shudder) blogosphere is Paula’s List of Blogging Salaries. On it, Paula works out from the monthly income of blog how much they get a year. This got me thinking about things, and how much I make per month. So, in true Mike’s Money Making Mission Stylee, here is my monthly earnings for last month (in $).
Text Link Ads: $63.29
Adsense: $37.36
AuctionAds: $11.61
Direct Sponsorship: £30 = $59.40
Amazon Affiliates: £15 = $29.70
Total: $201.36
Okay, not enough to go around the world, but it’s (just) over £100 a month, which makes it £1200 a year, doing something I enjoy doing, and will continue to do so even if I wasn’t doing that. It’s just a nice little bonus. That’s only the stuff that could be classed as “Monthly Income”. If we include things like signups for affiliate schemes such as Text Link Ads and Google Adsense, it could be a little bit more. Not bad for a - lack of a better word - “Personal” blogger, who isn’t really trying.
Anyway, why am I telling you this? Well Han has asked me to write a couple of posts explaining to people how I do earn what I do. So over the next couple of days, we will have Getting Easy Beer Money From Blogging. I am not going to write one of those dull, lifeless blogs which feature big words that even the blogger doesn’t understand, as he just scraped the article from somewhere else but changed the referral link. Nor I am going to tell you how to become a millionaire (because I do not know how). I will write a few posts explaining the methods I use to try and get a little extra cash from this here blog. If you’re skint, I do recommend trying these, as they’re very little work (as you’re already blogging), but could get a bit of cash in your back pocket.
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Rhys Wynne, the author of this blog, is a 20 something web designer from Colwyn Bay.
All I want is my $14.99 a month TLA back!! It pays for my hosting!!
Rhys - You crack me up so much; you are now officially on my Google Reader.
Anyway, you should seriously add the beer-money earned via “signups for affiliate schemes such as Text Link Ads and Google Adsense” to your next income numbers as well.
Take care, happy days, and I love your witty writing.
Paula
Look forward to reading your money making posts and thanks in advance for not using big words … and also thanks for the link!
Mike.
If you think about it, if that were earnings from a job youd be taxed on it too, so it effectively makes worth a bit more than that too
Thats a great article, even though you haven’t told me the secrets yet, like how do you get two columns of stuff on the right hand side of your blog, I could fit loads more things in that way!
Nice going on the money!
It makes me feel so morally superior knowing that I get hundreds more hits than everyone I know doing PPP/advertising/etc and therefore could theoretically make much more money, but choose not to do so anyway.
Han: No beer on top of that?
Paula: Thanks for the subscription! You won’t be (that) disappointed!
Mike: No worries, I’ll use small words. You can use big words such as “affiliate”, “marketing” and other words that can escape me. If I use them, people’d find it offensive.
Sibz: Shhhhhhh!
Mike 2: It’s interesting that, if you look at the huge bloggers, they have 2 columns. Hmmmm…I feel a blog post coming on.
Cheers Debbie.
Jem: You KNOW you want to plaster your site with Google ads