Making Money Blogging

Believe it or not some people actually make money online by running a blog. Unfortunately, I am not one of them. However there are all kinds of people that do make money and lots of it. If you're a regular Joe reader of The Big Bald Blog you may not know who John Chow is, but if you are a fellow blogger, the chances are real good that you know the name. John Chow is a member of what some people call the "A List" bloggers. And quite a few of these A List bloggers make big money with their blogs through selling ads, affiliate income, paid reviews among a host of other income generating devices.

Some bloggers even post how much money they are making to substantiate their authority in the blogging niche of "making money online." John Chow, owner of JohnChow.com is one of those people. In a recent post Mr. Chow recounts his revenue received in November as well as the traffic that his blog is receiving.

John started his blog, simply as a personal blog and thought that it might be fun if he tried to make money from it. As it grew and grew, we come to where he is now, another record breaking month in revenue. Here are the numbers courtesy of John Chow's post Blog Income Report - November 2007.

Total income from November was: $27,240.83. This was broken down by category with the bulk of the dollars coming from private ad sale amounting to over $12k. Folks, this is some serious money for operating a blog. Granted this is a full time job by itself to maintain such a highly visited site, but it pays well. John also has other businesses that he owns.

I have seen big money makers like Chow and Shoemoney in the past talk about how much they are making but I always wonder what kind of traffic you need to have to sustain that type of income. Well, he addressed that too.

John reported that he was getting 323,572 page views with over 185 K visitors. He then goes on to break it down and shows that he is making over $80 per 1000 page views. ShoeMoney said that he was getting about 75 thousand uniques per day when he was sent his famous check from Google.



So there you have have it, it's all about traffic. Buy you have to network to get the traffic to come. Once you have the traffic, it's all down hill from there. But wait is it. As this post was sitting in the draft bin, Mr. Chow posted another article about this very thing. He says that "getting traffic is only half the battle and it’s not even the most important half." According to the post, John's income growth is not proportionate to traffic growth. It seems that it is all how you monetize your blog. He does say that "If your blog is new then building traffic is your number one goal."

Initially, the goal of The Big Bald Blog was simply to experiment with SEO and find out what blogging was all about. Thanks to all of YOU we have had the added bonus of traffic that continues to climb. With out YOU, the reader, TBBB would be nothing.

I keep looking for that one thing, the one thing that can really make a difference and possibly generate some income. Something as revolutionary as I discovered on Saturday. This last weekend as I was deer hunting I used what proved to be the finest innovation in hunting since the firearm.

Now I may get in trouble here from the anti-hunting crowd but for those of you who are deer hunters, you have to go and pick up something called the "Butt Out" field dressing tool. It is simply amazing and I wish I had invented it. I got it at Wal-Mart for about $10. You will have to Google it and watch the video as I don't want to post it here. Once you discover what it is, you too will agree that it is truly an innovation.

I know this was a long and rambling post, but again, I want to thank the readers of The Big Bald Blog for stopping by and making this a great adventure!