Making money online by writing isn’t impossible, but it can take time. Depending upon your goals, it can take a lot of time, and a lot of hard work. Unfortunately, too many people give up before they can make money writing online because they can’t see around the bend to where the money starts coming in.
When I first started trying to earn money by writing online, I got approved for a Google AdSense account and then put the code on to the couple of blogs I started up. As you can imagine, I wasn’t impressed. I wasn’t even making a penny a day. At the time, there was a $50 or $100 minimum payout, so I got nothing. I stopped even logging into AdSense, but I kept writing.
Several months later I got something in the mail from Google. It was a letter in the actual U.S. Postal Service mail. (This was before they always sent out those “coupons” for $100 in free AdWords.) Curious, I opened it. The letter informed me that if I wanted my money from AdSense I had to verify some information and submit my W9 form.
I was fairly certain it was some sort of scam, but I logged into AdSense, and sure enough, there on the screen was the report showing that I had earned a little over $200 the previous month. I spent the rest of the day trying to piece together exactly what happened. As it turns out, a couple pages of my blog started ranking, and then some online attention was paid to those topics. The result was people searching and then visiting my site, and believe it or not, some of them click on ads.
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Make $1 Per Day
The really interesting part though was that the two other websites I had were make a few dollars each day as well. That, plus the little boost meant that not only was I going to get this check, but I was going to keep getting AdSense payout checks every month.
From that day forward, I realized that while hitting it big is great (it really is) there is also a way to make money from just consistently turning out quality content and letting the traffic and ads do their thing.
These days, I have several websites. Some promote other business activities, some are focused on products that I’m creating, and others, like this one, are informational. The purpose of the latter is to generate ad revenue. Obviously, the more ad earnings, the better, but the key thing to remember is that there is nothing wrong with starting small.
As a goal, shoot for every one of your websites to earn $1 per day. That doesn’t sound like much, but if you have five websites, that is $5 per day. Over the course of a thirty day month, that’s $150. Now, you aren’t retiring to Aruba on that, but it pays for your hosting, and internet access, and maybe a nice dinner. But, the really important fact is that whatever you did to get your site to earn $1 per day, you can do again, to get it to earn $2 per day. That’s $300 per month.
Keep going and eventually you can have five websites making $10 per day, or $1,500 per month. That’s not rich, but it’s worth doing, and more importantly, it’s worth keeping going. Can you earn $20 per day, or can you earn $10 per day with 10 websites? Either way, that’s actual earnings, and that’s before you do anything else like freelance writing work, or some web development, or whatever else.
Start small and keep going.