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Can you make money from a blog

  • 09-10-2010 5:20pm
    #1
    Beverley Macca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭


    I have a blog and having checked the stats it would appear I'm getting 1,000 visits a day. Currently there are no ads on the blog.

    Could I make any money from it?


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  • #2
    mneylon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,740 ✭✭✭mneylon


    Short answer - yes

    How much would depend on the site's niche and what kind of adverts you put on it. The simplest option would be Google Adsense, but there are plenty of other options.

    Blog | Tweets



  • #3
    Black Swan
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 47,532 CMod ✭✭✭✭Black Swan


    Celebrity gossip Perez Hilton (pen name) was so poor he could not afford to pay for Internet access. He started his blog in free wifi access coffee cafes in the States about 3 or so years ago, and is now a multi-millionaire. Ironically, he did not have unique gossip sources, rather he just "borrowed" from other gossip sites, but his spin became outrageously popular (or unpopular if you were a target of his gossip blog). Advertisers love to link to his site and pay well. So yes, some have made money from blogging.


  • #4
    Beverley Macca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28 ✭Beverley Macca


    Hits now per day 1,333. I need some advice as to how to turn these hits into a few pints of guinness once a month.


  • #5
    cormee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,802 ✭✭✭cormee


    Beverley Macca wrote: »
    Hits now per day 1,333. I need some advice as to how to turn these hits into a few pints of guinness once a month.

    Hits? Do you mean pageviews? or visitors?

    Hits are an obsolete metric from the late 90's used to make your site sound extremely busy. One page with 100 images visited once would be 101 hits.

    If it's pageviews that would probably earn you about 15* pints of Guinness per month with Google Adsense. :pac:

    *Based upon my own eCPM of €2.53 - your own eCPM will depend on the the cost of advertising in the market you're blogging about.


  • #6
    Vurnon San Benito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,979 ✭✭✭Vurnon San Benito


    I asked the very same question a year ago.
    I can happily say that nowadays it's paid for my hosting and domain name for the next 50-60 years. :)

    Content is king, always remember that.
    Keep plugging away with quality articles, info etc and get yerself a nice little looking site. There is money out there waiting to be tapped in to :)

    Out of interest, what's the URL of the site?


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  • #7
    gaillimh_abu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18 ✭gaillimh_abu


    Beverley Macca wrote: »
    I have a blog and having checked the stats it would appear I'm getting 1,000 visits a day. Currently there are no ads on the blog.

    Could I make any money from it?

    You can for sure.. And i hope you do :)

    Depending on the niche - You can use affiliate links or you can sell links direct for examples to others in the Niche. If you have a "reasonable" Google Pagerank - it makes it more attractive to other webmasters.

    I had a successful Football Blog that I started and was earning money from:

    Google Adsense
    Backlink Sales ( Manually & also Automatically on 3rd part text link sales sites )
    Affiliate Link Purchases

    Best of luck


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