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

JumboFlamingo

Great post! Thanks for sharing all these tips about blogging... I'm almost ready to resurrect the blog I started last year and then abandoned once I started getting readers... oh dear.

red_devil

I have just signed up to Wordpress and created name and avatar.

i dont know really how to get started though!

Will have a think over the weekend.

GettingItRight

Hi all!

In July I started blogging and the first thing I did was to sign up to the Today.com website. I am writing a blog which is more of personal experiences. At first it was a good idea, but now I'm far less motivated to keep typing away to expand the blog.

I'm in the early stages of my blog and have created about 6-7 posts. I think I should have never jumped the gun and started blogging without any knowledge or insight in what is required. With this is mind I have made a mistake, although I feel I'm learning as I go along.

My traffic is currently on 46 unique visitors for August. I did target 50 visitors at the start of August, so I guess I have not done too bad. Traffic has dwindled and I consider 2 unique visitors to be good (haha!) in any one day. I know though that to make any money at all I need this to rise far far far far beyond this.

For now, I have decided not to worry about traffic levels. I will build up the number of posts in an effort to try to give my blog some substance. Once this has been done I will focus on the display and then finally look at marketing etc.

As the OP says marketing is key. You won't get £100 cash monthly if you don't spread your links etc. It takes a lot of effort and a lot of time.

I will look into Blogger though if I can use affiliate links, but have not looked much into this. Today.com will only allow their own affiliate links

Bradley01

Nowadays blogging can be a source of passive income streams. You can earn residual income while blogging down your advocacies. You can invite ad posts into your blog-site. Each ad is equivalent to cash depending on size. By doing this, you are just guaranteeing a monthly income of up to thousand dollars.

domestic_goddess

I have a blog that I have been working on since about May time. I think I get between about 20 and 40 unique visitors a day but I don't make much money from it.

The google ads are quite low paid and blogger doesn't let you post affiliate ads into the actual post (as far as I know).

I did recently get contacted by an advertiser who wanted to advertise on my site and wanted to pay me £100 for a full years worth of ads but I declined this as I didn't really think the ad was relevant to my blog....

I enjoy blogging but I don't think I'll ever make a fortune from it

P.S. The link is in my home page if you want to have a look at my blog.

borders_dude

domestic_goddess wrote: »

I did recently get contacted by an advertiser who wanted to advertise on my site and wanted to pay me £100 for a full years worth of ads but I declined this as I didn't really think the ad was relevant to my blog....

Personally if it had been me I would have taken his money as long as the add wasnt !!!!!! or something highly imoral. Even if you dont think its relevant think of the fact you are getting £100 pounds for it!!!

tiff

Can anyone recommend any blogging forums?

dm4140b

I would recommend Google's blogger.com, (which becomes blogspot). Easiest to use blog imo.

tiff

Sorry, I was meaning forums, as in message boards.

dm4140b

lol

hmm it seems I cant post links, but Google is your friend in terms of finding any forums relating to blogging / setting up / adsense / whatever.