There are as many complaints about an inability to monetize blogs, as there are...well...bloggers.
The idea of making a few blogging bucks is discussed on a number of well known, and less well known blogs.
Here are two examples. One is from both a heavy traffic blog. The other is from a relatively new blog.
Darren Rowse at Living Room often openly discusses ways to create income from your blog. And who can blame him. He has heavy traffic flow, regular and loyal readers; yet not a lot of income from his blog.
Darren has discussed donations to his blogging cause. He openly discloses (to his credit too) that he is an Amazon.com affiliate, earning a commission from sales through his blog. Many other bloggers, and indeed, static websites fail such an open admission.
I always have respect for those who play their cards face up, like Darren does, in regard to his revenue sources.
Another possible blog revenue producer, from on the blog advertising, went by the wayside recently.
Javaman at A Random Act of Blogging announced the failure of blog advertiser Skoobie.
Skoobie's business model was to pay bloggers for ads placed on their blogs. Skoobie would receive its revenue from the paying advertisers. Things obviously didn't go as planned.
Javaman didn't consider his loss, estimated at a vault breaking $1.25 USD, to be irreplacable as income.
Despite the failure of Skoobie, and other blog advertisers, the quest continues for blog income sources.
My income (disclosure time) from Blog Business World is from freelance writing, and from search engine optimization for other sites.
I would like to develop other revenue streams as well.
Like other bloggers, the problem of monetizing a blog continues.
Over time, we will find some good reliable ways to generate some cash from out blogs.
As the idea of blogging becomes more mainstream, the money is sure to follow.
I hope. :)
