Last year I made over 25k!

[bloggernoob]

Before i got into domaining, i started a blog. It's been a little over a year and i made over $25,000.00 with my blog. http://www.bloggernoob.com/bloggernoob-a-year-of-making-money-online/14/

Anyone else make money with their blogs? What types of websites are easiest to monetize? On my blog, i found that running contests worked best as far as marketing.

 

[mdamin76]

Wow! A PR2 site can earn 25K a year? Are you sure?

 

[bloggernoob]

yeah

takes a lot of networking and hard work, but yeah.

 

[Whogister]

Wow! A PR2 site can earn 25K a year? Are you sure?

PR doesn't mean squat anymore these days... I been making a decent living online, by mostly SEM, for 12 years now and NEVER had a site with a PR over 3.

Edit:
I should say it doesn't mean squat. I don't know...
But a site shouldn't be judged by just the PR.

 

[Optional]

Not many of us are willing to keep up the work as hard as you have for a full year to get to this point in that time.

I'm sure you will multiply that 25k result many times over in coming years.

 

[ameRie]

I'm not surprised at all. it may seem you really have putted a hard work on it, you deserved that.

 

[Timewarp]

Just read your article, good job and congrats on a great first year!

 

[luffo]

Great Blog! And Congrats on your 25k first year!

 

[BrendonA]

I just visited your blog. Lots of good information for making money online. In fact , it set me thinking if i should set up a blog and monetize it.
Thanks for sharing this and congrats on your 25k !

Edit : This is my 100th post !

 

[barefoottech]

Wow! A PR2 site can earn 25K a year? Are you sure?

Most sites and their earnings have very little connection with their PR.
I have PR4 sites that make $regfee and PR0/PR1 sites that make Regfee+ every day.

BloggerNoob , Congrats on doing so well .
It will only improve in 2009.

 

[advaita]

Well done noob, I've got a few different blogs and make around $100 a month - a long way off what you are making, but I will keep on keeping on. It's all about backlinks I'm told.

 

[barefoottech]

Proof positive that PR5 and Thousands of visitors are not needed to do well with
Blogs.

Bloggernoob, you should change your username to BloggerPro.

 

[bloggernoob]

thanks guys. i really appreciate the support and kind words of the namepros community. now...if i can just start making some money via domain names..i'll be a happy camper.

but yeah, PR helps, but is not the end all be all of blog monetization. Also, if you can SEO ur site, you can make a lot of passive income via adsense and affiliate commissions. this is something that i am slowly working my way towards.

Im still very much a noob. Hope to keep learning and sharing tho. If you guys have any suggestion or questions, please feel free to hit me up. Thanks all and happy holidays!

 

[aadisharma]

That's great earnings. Every blogger want such kind of stats for their blogs

 

[bizcorp]

nice stats :D very impressive considering your blog has only been up a year.

 

[bloggernoob]

what's pretty cool is that i did most of it with PageRank 0 i think that website age is also important so i hope that i can up the income in the new year. thanks for all of your positive feedback guys!

 

[hyped]

what's pretty cool is that i did most of it with PageRank 0 i think that website age is also important so i hope that i can up the income in the new year. thanks for all of your positive feedback guys!

Age is important, but here are some other things that might help you:

- The expiration date of the domain also plays a role in deciding rank. Renewing your domain now for an additional couple of years should help.
- The server that your site is hosted on effects your rank because some search engines take into account the legitimacy of other sites hosted on the same server when evaluating yours. Getting a static IP or upgrading hosting to your own VPS or dedicated server will help, although a dedicated server is overkill until your site is considerably larger.

There are other things that come to mind, but i'm leaving work now. i'll post some more helpful tips later

 

[Jacklin]

Its really a great achievement for you .. whats the secret btw??:P

 

[Keral_Patel]

I always remember your blog and sometimes some friends of mine do talk about you

Its no offense but we were having a nice talk about all those lovely pictures you put in your each post. It was a great idea though

Its really a great achievement for you .. whats the secret btw??:P

I think the secret is Hard work. There is no other secret as big as this one.

 

[bloggernoob]

thanks nick...yeah, hard work is usually the big secret.

hyped, thanks for the input. i'll renew the domain now. and if my blog grows, i'll consider upgrading hosting.