How Much Does Your Blog Earn?

"How much does your blog earn," is one of the questions that I get asked most often, and the answer might be shocking.

A lot of people message me here, email me or contact me on the WAHM forums to ask me how much money I make off my blog, and honestly, the answer is that I earn just about nothing through my blog - but that's because this blog wasn't created to be monetized, it was created to help myself and help others learn how to successfully find legitimate work from home jobs.


Don't get me wrong, I have a few referral links on here for sites that I work with and affiliate links for sites that have really impressed me with their quality, but in terms of straight forward revenue from advertising, I've made less than $30 in around 5 months.  Even those referral and affiliate links only bring in a few dollars here and there over time.

The big misconception comes from Adsense, you know, those ads on every web page in existence... While you might think that they just naturally pay you to have them on your page, it actually doesn't work that way at all.  Adsense revenue can be generated by pageviews, but that's a rare situation.  More often than now you will only generate revenue when someone clicks on those ads and then you'll earn anywhere from a few cents up to a dollar or two depending on what type of ad it was.

It is possible to make a decent chunk of change from Adsense, and it's something that I hope to master within the next 12 months with other blogs, but that's a whole other blog post...