I plan to earn 1000 USD
in next 6 months purely by blogging

April 17, 2007 · 1000 Dollars Milestone

I’ve started blogging just about 2 weeks ago. Today I decided to set the goal for the next 6 months to earn at least 1000 USD purely by blogging. It should be enough to cover some expenses for my family (wife and 18 months old daughter), and give me confidence that blogging does worth my time. How am I going to do reach this goal? No idea.

Currently I have three English blogs:

  • Blog Reviews — the one you are reading right now.
  • Apple Blog — blog about Apple Inc., and its i- and mac- products, about Apple’s fans and so on.
  • Meaning of Names — experimental blog about meaning of names, popular baby names and other things related to names. It is a niche site. I came up with the idea while using Wordtracker.com to find some competitive keywords for my projects. It happened that some of the phrases related to names are pretty popular and yet not very much used by other websites. We’ll see how the experiment goes.

Also I have two blogs in Russian (yes, I am Russian):

  • Apple Blog — same content as on the English one, just more Russia oriented.
  • CMS World — this is not exactly a blog, but more a directory of CMS (Content Management Systems) where you can compare different CMS side-by-side.

I have plans to open more blogs and sites, but I am inclined to wait a little bit, and let the ones I already have grow, and gain some ground. It is so easy to come up with the things to blog on, once you get started.

I count on Google Adsense as the main source of income. So far I got only about 20 USD from AdSense from all my blogs, which is a little disappointing. Perhaps, I will try some other affiliate programs as time goes by and my traffic increases. Traffic is my greatest concern these days.

Any ideas, recommendation or questions are more than welcomed! Stay in tune for updates.

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14 Comments »

Maki :: Dosh Dosh April 17th, 2007 @ 6:48 pm

Good luck on your quest! .. I guess doing paid posts on all three blogs will easily allow you to reach your goal. Direct advertising might also help.. if you’re interested in that, click on my name to read more :)

By the way I love your Apple blog.. it looks great!

Michael April 18th, 2007 @ 3:24 pm

Thanks for advice, Maki. It seems like my traffic and PR will not allow me to do much, at least right now.

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Matt April 21st, 2007 @ 2:11 am

You can do it, bud. All it takes to succeed is persistence.

Michael April 21st, 2007 @ 2:22 am

Thanks, Matt!

rob April 26th, 2007 @ 7:33 pm

Hey Michael,
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Shane May 1st, 2007 @ 11:54 pm

Michael, you’ll have lots of people offer you “great ways” to increase your revenue, but ignore them. Take off the AdSense ads and blog heads-down for 3 months–creating at least one great post a day on each of your blogs. Spend some time each day, too, doing some free things to get more traffic. If you do both those things, you’ll easily pass the $1,000 threshold in just the remaining three months–if not in Month 4 alone. Resist the temptation to monetize too early, though, You’ll sabotage yourself before you ever get started.

Shane May 2nd, 2007 @ 12:01 am

Oh, and switch to full posts for your feed. Until you prove that your content is worth clicking through to every single time, people are not going to stay subscribed to a partial feed. Heck, I even unsubscribed from ProBlogger when he switched to partial feeds for awhile.

See this post for more details.

Michael May 2nd, 2007 @ 10:09 am

Thanks, for advice Shane. I will defenitely follow it. It seems like AdSense is working not for me, but against me right now.

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Clarks August 21st, 2007 @ 5:17 pm

That’s nice, Wish you best of luck in your journey. Buy is it your part time job, or full time?

Michael August 21st, 2007 @ 5:26 pm

Technically my job is part time, but practically it takes over 40 hours per week, so it can be concidered full time )

shazad August 28th, 2007 @ 1:50 am

Good luck with the goal dude i will be taking tips from you for sure