Comments on: Blog World Expo 2008: Making Money Online with a Blog (#bwe08)

By: Melanie Nelson

Melanie Nelson — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:03:33 +0000

Dave,

I think your goals will depend on where you are in your blogging. When you’re just starting out, your goal may be to post at least three times a week. As you consistently meet that goal, raise that number to five times a week.

If you’re a fairly seasoned blogger and have ads on your site, you may want to consider setting a monetary goal for your site. Of course, this goal will not only depend on your ads, but on your posting (both quality and frequency–b/c it’s your posts that draw readers to the site and benefit the ads).

If you’re looking to break into a new niche, maybe you want to consider how many posts you want to do on that niche each week.

I hope that helps. Thanks for writing!
Melanie

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:58:33 +0000

What sorts of goals do you set for yourselves? $$$ targets or hits or whatnot?

dave@gourmetcuisineinc.com

By: Young Che

Young Che — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:45:10 +0000

The advice they give is right on point. Another guy to check out is ChrisBrogan.com. Keep your blogging fun and about stuff that you are interested in enough to make it engaging for your audience.

By: Tara

Tara — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:04:36 +0000

This is helpful info, thanks! I’m getting prepped to really get going on kidzorg.blogspot in the next few weeks and I appreciate the tips.

By: susieshomemade

susieshomemade — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:51:32 +0000

Great tips!!

By: sangeeth

sangeeth — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:19:20 +0000

thanks for sharing! really helps.being a begginer i really appreciate ur efforts in helping others!

By: Erica

Erica — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:38:39 +0000

I slightly disagree with John Chow, sure, if you want a full time income then your blog must be more than a hobby, but if you want to earn some ‘pocket money’ hobby blogging is sufficient (after an initial burst of intense work). I spend around two hours a week on my blog (I’d love to spend more but I have other commitments in the short term) and I make around $250 – $300 per month and rising, for 8-10 hours ‘work’ I’m pretty happy with that as a little side income. I wrote a series on blog income earlier this year – it’s under ‘ten tips to increase your blog’s income’ if anyone’s interested.