Two years trying to make money, I have made $3.94

I am a smart girl. I have read all of the post out there about making money blogging. I have set up blogs, put up a couple of posts, added the adsense feature and sat back and waited for my ship to come in. After 2 years, I have made $3.94.

I have read about bloggers making 6 figure incomes, just writing about their interests. I want to do that too. I have a lot of interests. I knit, I garden, I cook, I raise 2 teenage children, and a whole whack of other things besides. I want to cash in on this internet-extravaganza that a lot of other people are doing and making big bucks doing it.

I have realized that it is not enough to just write a couple of posts and sit back and wait. In order to make this endeavor a success, I have to blog, blog, blog. I have to add the appropriate content to make people come back for more, and most importantly, never give up, even if a month goes by and I don't get anywhere.

There are a lot of things I can do to make this a success. I have already signed up for Chitika. Lets say your blog is about, I don't know, widgets. If your reader finds your blog through google by typing in widgets, the Chitika displays ads targeted around widgets. I am adding this code to all my blogs, and see how it does.

Of course I have adsense enabled on all my blogs. I don't get much out of this...yet. I am assuming the reason for this is that I have not taken the steps necessary to get the traffic flowing through my content.

Over the next week or so, I will be continuously updating my blogs and trying to find new and interesting ways to promote them so I can get some traffic, and see if that makes a diffence. I was told that one way to get people to go to your blog is to comment actively on other peoples blogs. I will be trying this. Also, I will be seeking out forums on the topics I have my blogs based upon, and see how this goes.

Till next time,
Lori MacDonald
Earnings to date: $3.94