Ok, I’m not making $1000/day already in less than two months of flogging a well flogged subject. A quick search with Google for “make money blogging” comes up with 1.2 million results, amongst the top 5 on the first page which I can assure you I will not be found. Yeah, I know, hard to believe.
So, why do I proclaim, “Making Money is Easy”? Well, I am not saying that making a lot of money is easy, at least not yet. What I’m saying is that the trickle of a nickel here and a quarter there shows that even a low effort, newbie blog such as this, with barely any content on the subject of monetizing blogs, nonetheless manages to attract one to two dozen visitors a day and generate some sort of revenue.
But how?
Compared to other well-established blogs on the subject, why anyone would bother following a link here, is a bit intriguing. Maybe the infomercial-sounding name, Turn Blogs Into Cash, might have something to do with it, who knows. Another possibility is the principle of non-competition. Maybe a link to here is the only one on some page somewhere out in the Internet, therefore without competition for attention on that page the link there has a 100% chance of picking up any potential traffic from it. A third possibility is that there might be other links on the same page, however none deal with the subject of making money with blogs, and in such an instance the principle of differentiation would be at work driving traffic here. A fourth scenario might be that with 1.5 billion people today combing the Internet at any given moment that random traffic is being gathered by my several dozen scattered URLs back to here by no more deliberate a process than the sheer statistical force of numeric attrition, or untargeted “web noise”, basically people poking around. My logs in fact indicate no traffic from any search engines yet, so that pretty well narrows it down to these explanations.
Now, the way I look at it is this. Even if the last explanation, theoretically the lowliest, least sophisticated, and most untargeted mode of driving revenue-generating traffic accounts for the revenue thus far, even that’s great! This information can be exploited. It means that simply continuing to regularly seed my URL 3 times a day, after a year or so, will generate about 100 times as many random sources of “web noise” visitors who would provide me with 100 times as much income. Clearly, I don’t need to get impatient and risk the costs of buying traffic or advertising, or expend the energy to come up with some brilliant new idea or gimmick, a “holy grail” pursuit that almost guarantees futile abandonment.
I believe Internet income is not a grandiose, complex, remote proposition reserved only for geniuses or lottery winners. It just requires combining a simple blog with ads and maintaining a steady, easy URL seeding effort, which is why I believe making money is easy.
So what if I don’t come up with the next million dollar idea or site. If three years from now I manage to only generate an extra $100 a day from this blog on top of whatever else I’m earning at the time, I could live with that.
