Make a Living from Blogging?
Filed in: Make Money Online, Weblog — February 15th, 2006
An interesting interview session on “make a living from blogging” conducted by Wired News with Harold Davis
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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February 15th, 2006 at 8:24 pm
im gonna be the next one
February 15th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
time and dedication, and have lots of ideas to write.
February 15th, 2006 at 11:19 pm
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!
February 16th, 2006 at 2:28 am
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…
February 16th, 2006 at 7:32 am
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?
February 16th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
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.
February 17th, 2006 at 7:00 pm
“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.
February 17th, 2006 at 11:10 pm
It seem easy, yet so hard for me to get the 1st adsense cheque…
February 17th, 2006 at 11:32 pm
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,..
February 18th, 2006 at 2:29 pm
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 ..
February 18th, 2006 at 2:41 pm
another things .. heard stormpay is dead .. is it true .. if this happen all your money in stormpay will gone hahaahha
February 18th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
haaaa.?? is it true..? hm.. i still can access storm pay and use their features.. i still got $$ wif storm pay..
February 18th, 2006 at 6:12 pm
Wow! freemyspacelayouts……your website got around 35000+ visitors a day? You must be earning a lot already.
February 18th, 2006 at 10:00 pm
i heard that storm pay was down as well but my brother has made a mint on it
February 18th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
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.
February 18th, 2006 at 10:39 pm
hihihih .. not much … just a little bit .. daily visitiort increase 5% , yesterday just listed in yahoo directory .. will see another 20% increase next week
February 18th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
innostream.org is owned by me as well .. well my site has lots of content
February 18th, 2006 at 11:15 pm
wow, icic…haha I will analyse ur content on how you gain ur traffic kaakakak
February 19th, 2006 at 12:44 am
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..?
February 19th, 2006 at 11:42 am
freemyspacelayouts.org just register on dec 2005 , and start running on Jan 1
February 19th, 2006 at 3:42 pm
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
February 20th, 2006 at 12:53 am
@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.
February 20th, 2006 at 9:57 am
nop .. i dint pay money to promote my sites .. well it takes me 3 weeks to build the site with strong keywords in it ..
February 20th, 2006 at 10:11 am
build site with strong keywords only the get traffic? any other way?
February 20th, 2006 at 2:09 pm
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
February 20th, 2006 at 2:32 pm
Hi freenyspacelayout, how many % of your visitors is from Search engine? 50% or more? thanks!
February 20th, 2006 at 9:12 pm
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
February 20th, 2006 at 9:57 pm
check it on my webstats on my site .. u will know ..
February 21st, 2006 at 12:43 am
hehe… you can get a lot of information from the webstats you know.,
February 22nd, 2006 at 4:52 pm
How to check if a website is indexed by Google, Yahoo or MSN?
February 24th, 2006 at 8:36 pm
erm.. try to search your website…. at the search engines….
is there other easier way..?
November 22nd, 2006 at 10:45 am
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!