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, 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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  • http://www.tuitionstudio.com/ Home Tuition Malaysia

    Hi freenyspacelayout, how many % of your visitors is from Search engine? 50% or more? thanks!

  • http://www.tuitionstudio.com Home Tuition Malaysia

    Hi freenyspacelayout, how many % of your visitors is from Search engine? 50% or more? thanks!

  • http://webblogerz.com/ Edwin

    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

  • http://webblogerz.com Edwin

    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

  • http://www.freemyspacelayouts.org/ freemyspacelayouts.org

    check it on my webstats on my site .. u will know ..

  • http://www.freemyspacelayouts.org freemyspacelayouts.org

    check it on my webstats on my site .. u will know ..

  • http://eims.daijoubu.org/ mr.eims

    hehe… you can get a lot of information from the webstats you know.,

  • http://eims.daijoubu.org mr.eims

    hehe… you can get a lot of information from the webstats you know.,

  • http://simplelife4u.blogspot.com/ Jessica

    How to check if a website is indexed by Google, Yahoo or MSN?

  • http://simplelife4u.blogspot.com Jessica

    How to check if a website is indexed by Google, Yahoo or MSN?

  • http://eims.daijoubu.org/ mr.eims

    erm.. try to search your website…. at the search engines….

    is there other easier way..?

  • http://eims.daijoubu.org mr.eims

    erm.. try to search your website…. at the search engines….

    is there other easier way..?

  • http://www.MakeSeriousMoneyOnTheInternet.com/ Malachy Godfrey, Godfrey Aeon

    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!

  • http://www.MakeSeriousMoneyOnTheInternet.com Malachy Godfrey, Godfrey Aeon Investing

    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!

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