Make a Living from Blogging?

Filed in: Make Money Online, Weblog — February 15th, 2006

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An interesting interview session on “make a living from blogging” conducted by Wired News with Harold Davis, the author of two Google books. His latest book is Google Advertising Tools.

Wired News: Can a blogger realistically expect to make a living from blogging?
Harold Davis: There are people who make a living blogging, but if you’re going to do it on your own, you darn well better have a ton of traffic. There are 10 million lonely bloggers and people probably only read a few thousand. If you’re going to make serious money off this, it’s a serious time commitment.

[Read How to Almost Live on Blogging]

My two cents

“Are you still blogging full time?”, some friends asked me. Maybe people don’t think a full time blogger can survive for a long time?

I, Liew Cheon Fong, am the one of the very first full time blogger in Malaysia. I am quite proud of it. :)

[Thanks, David]

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  • On the Adsense topic, I would be very cautious. We got a generic note from Google that 'click fraud' had been detetected on our account and that our account was suspended without recourse. We tried to find out the problem and sent a copy of our web logs showing no such unusual activity. Then we received another reponse which would not reveal any information but they claimed that they did have proof but, due to 'client confidentiality, could not reveal any of it.

    This story has been repeated to us by at least 30 of our readership over the last week or two. It would appear that this mostly happened when people were starting to get, or had a sudden boost, income from the Google Adsense program.

    This doesn't strike me as a good way to do business. The moral here is 'beware' and don't rely too much on Google Adsense just in case the same happens to your account to!
  • erm.. try to search your website.... at the search engines....

    is there other easier way..?
  • How to check if a website is indexed by Google, Yahoo or MSN?
  • hehe... you can get a lot of information from the webstats you know.,
  • check it on my webstats on my site .. u will know ..
  • Great info Liew.

    Recently, I've been discussing "blogging for profit" and "business blogging" with my marketing forum friends. I have blogged several topic about making money from blogging at "blogging for business: 5 tips" and a video tutorial at "Benefits of Blogging To Business Owners"

    Meanwhile, I'm writing a beginer guide to business blogging ebook and might title it as "Cash Puller Blog". Stay tune for once it is complete, I will annouce it through my blog at http://webblogerz.com

    Edwin Lim
    CEO/executive
    http://webblogerz.com
  • Hi freenyspacelayout, how many % of your visitors is from Search engine? 50% or more? thanks!
  • if u want to make money from the net .. get visitors from search engine .. higher chances they will click your cpc banner or adsense and also adbrite
  • build site with strong keywords only the get traffic? any other way?
  • nop .. i dint pay money to promote my sites .. well it takes me 3 weeks to build the site with strong keywords in it ..
  • @freemyspacelayouts
    wah..very fast.. did u use the paid service to promote your website?

    @katana
    I think so.., but you dont have to wait two weeks., you can work on more reciprocal links to get indexed by ajor search engines faster. I have a website that just take 1day to get indexed by google.
  • I'm still a newbie in blogging but my guess is that u had a lot of contents when registered it right?

    Hey, anyone can help me out on this one... google re-indexes around very two weeks...let's say i post a lot like 100+ entries in this two week time, will i be able to get lots of pages to be indexed by google? and therefore get lots of visitors once google reindexes. Can I pull off with this strategy? Anyone can give opinion on this? hehe
  • freemyspacelayouts.org just register on dec 2005 , and start running on Jan 1
  • well.., the website has been running for two years already right..no wonder it is well known and receive a lot of visitor a day.,

    er.., btw.., is that a blog..?
  • wow, icic...haha I will analyse ur content on how you gain ur traffic kaakakak
  • innostream.org is owned by me as well .. well my site has lots of content
  • hihihih .. not much ... just a little bit .. daily visitiort increase 5% , yesterday just listed in yahoo directory .. will see another 20% increase next week
  • Weird freemyspacelayouts, how did u get 39000 pageviews with only 2900 visitors a day...hehe

    and innostream.org will surely scream at u when they see ur site.
  • i heard that storm pay was down as well but my brother has made a mint on it
  • Wow! freemyspacelayouts......your website got around 35000+ visitors a day? You must be earning a lot already.
  • haaaa.?? is it true..? hm.. i still can access storm pay and use their features.. i still got $$ wif storm pay..
  • another things .. heard stormpay is dead .. is it true .. if this happen all your money in stormpay will gone hahaahha
  • i dont do full time blogging .. just doing part time ..
    but my internet income from site paypopup , adbrite , clicksor quite ok .. ADSENSE not really good ..
  • I got my 1st checque from internet but not from adsense.... left the checque at malaysia (dam..) cannot post the pic at my blog that time... ishk2,..
  • It seem easy, yet so hard for me to get the 1st adsense cheque...
  • "link: liewcf.com" search at Google.com indicated 108,000 links as at 18:59 today.

    Alexa.com indicated "Traffic Rank for liewcf.com: 24,694" as at 19:01.

    Fantastic figures.
  • erm..actually it is easy in Malaysia because earning USD500 would be arround the starting pay for any graduate....and it is a low target

    but for developed/high cost living country USD500 may be just enought for a week pay and after tax, you will barely survive.
  • nice living blogging. wish i can do that but it seems doing blog full time consume too much time. is it? how many hours u put in this blog liew?
  • pinvader...
    theres others already... e.g. mr kahsoon.. huhu~

    hm....tons of traffic huh... aiming 4 that first,later you can think of living with blogging...
  • liew, as soon as you have lovely contents, regular updates, and of course regular visitors and readers (for example, me ;) ) then go on. We're your long time supporters!
  • time and dedication, and have lots of ideas to write.
  • I, Liew Cheon Fong, am the one of the very first full time blogger in Malaysia. I am quite proud of it. :)

    im gonna be the next one :)
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