Blogging for a second income - does anyone else here do this?

**Juice**

I'm curious too!

Ewaf

I promise to keep you updated. I will reveal the site soon when theres more content. Not even sure if it's going to work yet but we will see. Best thing about blogging as it only costs you the price of the domain ! (if you already have hosting) and if it fails you just try again.

I also bought another domain yesterday in the godaddy $1 offer (finished now I think), a nice .com domain that I'm going to setup a gaming niche website on.

Ewaf

Michelle-Matched-Bettor

Am I right in saying that .co.uk domain extensions are not eligible for WHOIS domain privacy?

Rummer

Just a quick note to thank the people on this thread for giving me the incentive I needed to start my own blog. Not going down the money earning route, but in the future who know.

SeduLOUs

Thank you guys. I have taken the first steps to creating my blog. Primarily for fun, but let's see if I can end up making a nice little earner

Bigbase

Michelle-Matched-Bettor wrote: »

Am I right in saying that .co.uk domain extensions are not eligible for WHOIS domain privacy?

You're correct.


I know why Ewaf probably wont tell you his blog, especially if he has a good unique niche. If there was even one new competing site, it would cut his earnings down alot.


Affiliate marketers tend to keep hush hush about their sites and let the traffic come from google and their targeted users

Emuchops

Does anyone know roughly how much site traffic a blog needs to have before Adsense(or any other ads on the blog) start to make even a little bit of money? I've ben blogging for around 9 weeks but my traffic and followers are very modest. Although I have no ads I'm just wondering at what point blogs start making money, after all it is something to aim for!

Bigbase

Emuchops, it depends on you. I normally add my adverts on straight away, but then again i've had my adsense account for around 7 years so i can add a new site quite easily.

If youre applying to adsense for the very first time, you may come unstuck if you're blog isnt getting any traffic.

Emuchops

Thanks for that . I do have some traffic, just not much. I had 38 views yesterday. What do you mean by 'I might come unstuck'? Do they withdraw the ads if the blog doesn't get much traffic?

Bigbase

Emuchops wrote: »

Thanks for that . I do have some traffic, just not much. I had 38 views yesterday. What do you mean by 'I might come unstuck'? Do they withdraw the ads if the blog doesn't get much traffic?

They might not approve you. But if youre blog has good content, they will. traffic will come naturally too