While this is not from this blog, it is from blogging. No screenshots will be posted of my other blogs for various reasons. It’s up to you whether or not you want to believe me, but I’m not one to lie just to get a few readers.

$3,016.13 from one site I advertised a referral link for. This site I advertised for a good six months, so an average of about $500 a month. Not bad for my first blogging income.

Recently I’ve switched to advertising a new site. I thought I had it good before at the site above; however it taught me a lesson you’ll read about soon.  $1,784 since September on this newest site. That’s two and a half months at about $713 a month.

This s with contributing about 5 minutes of my time every day to write one post. That’s it. The rest of the work is done by readers and I simply collect my money. I’d say I spend maybe 2 or 3 hours tops a month working on it. That’s almost $300 an hour.

Stick with me, I have many things I can teach you.

I’m wondering how my blog will stack up with the other blogs out there once I get this blog approved for the payperpost site. I think I will receive quite a few offers for post if I go in at a low price. That’s where I’m unsure what to do. I don’t know how much I should charge, if I’m allowed to set a minimum price at all. We’ll have to see. I’ll report on this site once I find out how much I like it.

While I don’t want to spam my readers with paid plugs, it’s the only way for the blog to exist right now. I tried publishing content daily before but when I failed to make even a dollar after over a month I kind of lost interest considering one of my other blogs took off and starting booming.

I kind of avoided this blog for a while. I’ve finally decided that I want to give it another shot for a few reasons. I also have a few more options for making money with it as many sites won’t let you sign up until your site is x months old. At about 6 months old I’ll be able to use those paid plug sites which will make my time blogging closer to minimum wage than it was back when I first started this.

I was having issues getting my first dollar on here before. I’m going to rework some things and hopefully get this blog off the ground. If not, you can probably expect this site to fade into nothing again in a few weeks. Help encourage me with an RSS subscription.

I would like to make my first dollar with the blog while I’m gone. How great of a boost would that be to come back with an advertiser waiting to pay to advertise on my blog? I guess technically, I’ve earned $150 via the video camera I won in the Noob’s contest for the post about his contest on my blog, but that’s a prize.

What I will sell for my first dollar. I will sell you a 125×125 ad on my blog. I will sell up to six of these. I will sell up to five blogroll links. I will even go as far as lowering the price of a paid plug. $10 gets you a post about almost anything on this blog. These prices are a once in a lifetime chance on this blog. Only a dollar for a 125×125 ad or link, and only $10 for a paid plug.

These deals will only be available until I return from vacation. The first six comments saying they will buy a 125×125 will get the spots, the first five blogroll comments will get those spots, and I will take as many paid plugs as are wanted. Obviously, they will be published in order over a certain length of time.

So why not? I’m getting some decent traffic on this blog, and I’m going to strive to make it better. This could be your chance to get some exposure for very little money.

Welcome to the launch of tryingtoblog.com! I’ve been waiting to get this site up and running for quite some time. I’ve seen some of the bigger blogs in this niche, and let me be the first to tell you, I can do that. Obviously this is going to take quite some time as these blogs are large, established, and recognized. I’m not saying I will beat them, I’m saying I can do what they do no problem. They seem to slack off after they reach the top, and I am going to give them a run for their money, or in this case, subscribers.

My success is generally measured in two different categories by my visitors. The first of which is money. It’s a make money blog, so my readers are expecting me to be making money myself if I am teaching them how to make money with their blogs. The more money you make and announce with your payments, the more popular you seem to become. Second would be you guys, the RSS Subscribers. Blogs are all judged upon this provided they show their subscriber counts off to everybody. Honestly I’d be satisfied with close to 200, but to compete with the top dogs I’ll have to grow to the thousands.

So what kinds of posts can you expect from my blog? Well in short, posts that teach you how to make money, make a successful blog, and gain a readership. There are all sorts of topics I have written posts for already. There are the week long guides for improving traffic, there are the posts talking about how to monetize your blog, and much much more. You’ll have to subscribe to see them.

Still working out a few minor kinks in the layout. Hoping you won’t hold that against me seeing as I decided to forgo purchasing a customized layout for the time being. Bear with me, it will be a fun ride to the top.