Starting a Blog to make money? FORGET IT!

Written by Costa on July 26, 2007
Categories: Making Money

Okay. I am going to be real blunt here, I am not trying to be a wet blanket or anything but if your intention now is to start a blog and think you can make money from it next week, or next month or maybe next 3 months, you can forget it. Yes! FORGET IT! You won’t be making a single penny. It’s a fact. Even the top blogs you see around these days only started to make some money after 6 months of intensive work to get their blogs off the ground. So never, NEVER, listen to all those people who says things like “Start a Blog! Make Money This second!” They are bluffing you and they are misleading you to hell.

Adsense Won’t Make you Money

Everyone tells you, hey, Adsense is so easy money. Add some codes, write some post, money will come just like that. JUST LIKE THAT? JUST LIKE THAT? I wish it was really just like that, but the fact is, IT IS NOT JUST LIKE THAT. If your blog is one week old or maybe one month old and the only readers you have is you and your girlfriend or boyfriend or maybe your unmarried Auntie who is so bored, then you will know that it is NOT JUST LIKE THAT. In this case, Adsense in your blog is for exhibition purposes only. It is there to show that you too have Adsense just like everyone else. Trust me, that’s the main reason why you see Adsense in almost every blog, I am also one of them. t becomes something of an obsession that you must have Adsense or else you won’t be looking like a real blogger.

The hard fact is, it is damn difficult to making some decent money from Adsense or whatever Pay Per Click Advertisements that you might have read from all those Money Making Gurus UNLESS you have a readership base of at least 3000 daily hits. Get this fact into your head. If you don’t have at least 3000 visitors daily, FORGET ABOUT ADSENSE or whatever PPC Advertisements. There are other more viable ways. Come to think of it, I think I should be removing all those “exhibition” Ads that have at AhPek.com. Hehehe.. Yeah.. I am removing them right after I publish this post.

But…..on the plus side, if you are starting a blog to write Paid Post, then you better start cracking now. You don’t have to worry about how many readers you get, you don’t have to worry how many comments you see. Just write, write, write. After 3 months when your blog has some ranking, go for it. Bury all your conscience and just go for it. Cover your whole blog with paid reviews and lame filler articles. See if you feel proud of your blog then, but it’s okay. We have buried our conscience, so what the heck. When the money starts rolling in, everything is worth it. We may even start a new domain of our own and keep it clean from Paid Reviews so we can at least feel a little bit better and tell the world that we don’t totally blog for money.

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  1. simon
    July 26, 2007 at 9:35 pm

    aiyo ahpek, why sound angry lidat… cool down. primaril ppl should start a blog bcoz they want to blog, make money should be after you get tired of blogging…

  2. Farinelli
    July 26, 2007 at 9:48 pm

    It’s understandable, actually, since people nowadays are so money-minded. Money-minded and greedy.

    The worst is when they use platforms like Ping.sg to earn more clicks in hope of more money.

  3. uglyfatchick
    July 26, 2007 at 11:09 pm

    The first 2 years I blogged mainly for attention and also to “solve” my boredom.
    Now, I also blog for money. ah.. I love my blog! =)

  4. Paul
    July 27, 2007 at 11:37 am

    Haha…. U really tell e truth, the whole truth n nothing but the truth. But of course there’s exception few who make it too.

  5. lilian
    July 27, 2007 at 1:16 pm

    HAHAHA, now I finally got it right. What Simon said, I mean. I am tired of blogging for attention so now I blog for money and very happy with it.

    So, all you little kids out there, better listen to Blogigs.

  6. lilian
    July 27, 2007 at 1:53 pm

    Costa! You never do the JohnCow add feeds yet. Faster take the codes from my site and add lor. Ppl linking us wei.

  7. Costa
    July 27, 2007 at 2:33 pm

    Simon,

    Hehehee… not angry lah.. trying to stress a point only.

    Farinelli,

    Yea, all money faced now. I am also a money faced blogger, only can’t stand all those who go around telling people how easy it is. Hahahaa…
    But pinging for traffic is normal lah, even for people who don’t like money. Traffic is every blogger’s dream mah.

    chick,

    Right on.

    Paul,

    An exceptional few maybe, but i doubt anyone can just start a blog and make immediate money.

    Lilian,

    And I am just starting to crave for attention!! Hahahahaha…

    Yalah. I keep forgeting. will definitely do the list.

  8. helen
    July 27, 2007 at 6:28 pm

    Thank God for your post.

    I was thinking I must be doing something wrong becos I’m earning zit from these ads. Thank you Ah Pek.. I can rest in peace knowing it’s not my fault. I was misled, I was young and naive… OK, not that young lar.. but nevertheless, naive. lol

    Good write.

  9. ann
    July 27, 2007 at 7:21 pm

    yeah i am one of those who started blogging for fun then realise i could actually make some money from paid posts. on a whim decided to get a domain and a host. i m still building up my PR, still 0 so most of my paid posts are still on my first blog (but i hope to get rid of them soon. hope!)

  10. princessa
    July 27, 2007 at 8:24 pm

    Ouch. I didn’t know I “buried my conscience”…

  11. Vedis Teh
    July 29, 2007 at 7:34 pm

    Ah Pek,

    I am the one you described in your post…;D Started a blog to write paid posts and then when $$ began rolling in, felt that it’s time to write some real stuffs and real feelings….haha…