Do you actually make money from blogging?

It’s an ageless question. I have read this everywhere…..from Yahoo Answers to Blogcatalog and forums.

It makes me wonder if those so-call experts are really making what they have claimed. Most bloggers don’t make money I believed. It’s not a matter of wrong strategies deployed but rather most of us started blogging without the thought of making money from blogging.

I have read many articles on Make Money Online but they all said the same thing. I would like to have my blog monetize but then to do it just for the money is not motivating enough. I failed at marketing.

SEO is like the doctrine for any aspiring Make Money bloggers but then despite the boast that SEO is the key to traffic, I remain skeptic about how a blogger could make money from Adsense or other blog marketing tools just by driving traffics to their blogs without interesting topics to convert them into regular readers. Most of the posts I have read are not original, simply put, the authors somehow copied from each other to churn enough posts to attract traffic or at least to make their blogs look content rich. You will find repetitive contents which discourage you to read another post of the same thing.

Nevertheless, I would like to have a profitable blog in the near future but it will not be possible if I have nothing to sell. Affiliate programs are not really appealing to me since they are as good as spams.

And I will most probably stand a better chance if I am using my blog to showcase my CV or I have a brick and mortar business and the blog serves as an advertising platform.

Since blogs have less credibility than “traditional” websites, it’s going to be very difficult to sell anything through this platform.

Forget about the big figures you saw, creating income via blogs is not going to work for everyone. I guess like any industries or sectors only a small percentage of the bloggers actually make it. It’s like trying to become a rich man it takes more than just hardwork, what we have seen are the minority who have make it and most of them failed.

I have not gone into into MMO blogs so I am not sure how much money a blogger  spend per month to keep the blog profitable. There must be hidden costs involved which are not presented to fellow bloggers.

Don’t assume it costs nothing, there’s no free lunch because the economic system doesn’t allow that to happen. Everything comes with a price so does MMO blogging.