I know that this site is supposed to be about making money online and all I can seem to talk about is building traffic to your website. I am trying to post regularly to this blog so I am sure that I will eventually get around to discussing ways to monetize from your site. I think I can take this website as an example. Currently, I do not have any ads or any other way to monetize on this site. The reason is because I have not figured out how I want to go about it. I always fear putting any kind of ad program on a site like this because I am afraid that I will be violating some kind of terms of service or something. One thing that I have heard people repeatedly say is to be better safe than sorry. For this reason, I have been looking into affiliate type programs that I have bought into in the past or new ones that might be emerging. At the very least, it always seems to me that if I bought it, maybe somebody else might want to buy it too. After all, this site is about making money, I may as well lead a few people in the right direction.

My point going into this post was supposed to be about my commitment that I am trying to make to this whole blogging thing. I have been bragging to my friends and family for years about how I can see that there is a lot of money to be made on the Internet and I really haven’t even scratched the surface as to the full potential.

I base most of my opinion on the results that I get from one of my sites in particular. I currently have one site that I have not touched in nearly a year and it is bringing in nearly $200 per month in ad revenue, so it doesn’t take much math to figure out that I don’t need too many of those sites to make a decent income. This income is coming from my site that gets about 13,000 visitors per month. My theory is that if I can replicate several sites to get around 10,000 plus visitors per month I should be able to make some decent change.

Previously, I never put too much effort into building the traffic on my sites. I have always known that if I put in just a little effort it would gain me new prospects almost instantly. I was always selling my own product of service so I did not pay too much attention to monetizing off ads or affiliate programs. I started to like the checks that would come in each month and it did not require me to do any billing or deal with any customer issues. I honestly just sat around and the checks just come in. Lately, I have been thinking that maybe I should put forth a little more effort into this. The only problem is that there are no guarantees in the end. There is no telling when it will start to pay or how much. Therefore, I decided to try to make a commitment. My goal is to get a minimum of 50 blogs going and load them with fresh content and then optimize them for the search engines. If I can just get half the success on those 50 sites as I am getting on my one that has sat idle for year. I could stand to make $50,000 annually by just sitting around. I am not going to say sitting around doing nothing because it will require a lot of writing. I have found that it is not too difficult to write but I am sure that there will be some sort form of burn out (there always is).

I have been plugging away on this blog without too much trouble, I really wonder how many of these I can do and have them all produce.

For now, I have been writing this one O.K. and I have started writing another and I just loaded up another WordPress blog today. We’ll see how well I do three.