How to Make 4 Cents a Week From Your Blog

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I made a nice discovery today of a great personal finance blog called Rich Minx. (What a great name!) The Rich Minx has written a hilariously insightful post on how to earn 4 cents a week from Adsense. As a low income Adsense user, I was nodding my head during the entire post saying to myself “Yep, I do that.”

My favorites were:

• Join networking sites that no one actually uses.
  Sign up for all the blog networking sites. This will generate some traffic, maybe 10 visits a day. That’s enough for your 4c. The funny thing is right before I read her post I had just signed up with BlogCatalog. Networking sites are nice in theory, but I honestly haven’t seen much traffic come my way after signing up with them.
• Digg your articles but don’t let anyone else Digg them.
  1 Digg, that’s enough to generate two or three visitors out of pity. I’ve dugg my own articles. I know it’s an internet faux pas, but who cares. Digging my sites haven’t brought me much traffic.
• Instead of blogging, just keep checking your stats and income.
  That day when you make 1c will encourage you to keep going. Am I ever guilty of this. I’m a total stats whore. There are times when I’m checking them every 10 minutes. I think I get the same pleasure from checking my sites as crack head taking a hit.

Stop by the Rich Minx. The content is awesome and she has a very sharp, fun-to-read writing style. Rich Minx is definitely going into my Google Reader.

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12 Comments

1. Rich Minx on 14.05.2007 at 12:38 (Reply)

   Wow, thanks!

2. Matt Keegan on 14.05.2007 at 14:31 (Reply)

   What you failed to mention is that even if you were to blog successfully day in and day out, Google will only pay you 4 cents for that one click anyway! Google has been getting mighty cheap of late.

   

3. Andrew Flusche on 14.05.2007 at 14:55 (Reply)

   LOL. A stats whore.

   I laugh because I’m one too!

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5. The Frugal Law Student on 14.05.2007 at 18:09 (Reply)

   Good point, Matt. Google/advertisers have been getting stingier and stingier with their money. The most depressing thing to see is 7 clicks but revenue that only adds up to $.50.

6. strange bird on 16.05.2007 at 10:06 (Reply)

   I’m only doing a little better at $.28 per week, but… ouch. How in the world will I even blog long enough to get to that $100 check???

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8. Sutocu on 30.07.2007 at 07:33 (Reply)

   Yeah, wasn’t cool to look at AdSense stats after the first couple of weeks and see 8 clicks worth 1c. They don’t seem to pay anything from international clicks… Anyway, made me change to BidVertiser. Still not many clicks, but at least each is worth something.

9. An Ordinary Life Insurance Employee on 02.12.2007 at 09:16 (Reply)

   Yeah….
   me too, I’m a stat addict……

   Always checking my site’s stat hourly when online and when visiting other’s blog I automatically scan for their extreme tracking or site meter…

   In fact while I’m writing this comment, my browser is opening this site’s sitemeter in another tab………

10. sell your house on 19.04.2008 at 05:19 (Reply)

    I was a stats whore too… right up until my traffic started dropping off.

    Now I ignore them because they were depressing…

    I have one site that I completely ignored for over a year, then I went back and noticed that it was getting between 100-200 hits per day. Then someone put a link up to it in Atlantic Monthly, and it suddenly jumped to 2000 hits the first day, 4000 hits the next and when the fuss was all over settled down at a slightly higher daily hit rate (about 200 per day now.)

    But I had to create a controversial site, and it has proven impossible to monetize…

    The traffic on my sensible sites is tough to kick-start.

11. where to copyright on 19.04.2008 at 05:22 (Reply)

    I have a copyright site that gets about 10-20 steady hits per day, and some weeks it gets decent clicks - but it has been hard to find effective affiliate sites for it.

    I always wondered why lawyers wouldn’t have affiliate programs. There are so many lawyers in the US, and they are all scrambling for business… I thought that I would find some law firms that would be interested in affiliate marketing…

    Maybe someday the lawyers will catch on.

12. Linda on 01.05.2008 at 07:37 (Reply)

    Put your Adsense ads inside your posts, Sure you will get more money than before….

    Don’t hide your Adsense ads…

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