Blogging For Money – March 2007

After starting this site on March 8th, I’m happy to see that the traffic is building and I continue to meet more new people with their own interesting sites. With a little less than a month since starting, I thought I would do a month-end review of where I am at and review my progress towards becoming a Dot Com Mogul.
At the present time this site is not being monetized, so you might be wondering how I would have any progress to report at all. For those that do not know, I have another blog that goes by the name My New Choice and focuses on eliminating debt and building wealth. That site is monetized and is the only source of blogging income for the time being.
More Eggs In My Basket
After starting My New Choice back in August 2006, I entered the arena of blogging for money when I opened an AdSense account. As I any one that has used AdSense is aware, I was quickly addicted to checking my account to see if I had any clicks. The clicks were few and far between at the beginning but have been steadily increasing.
Following the mantra of John Chow, I knew that I had to do more than just AdSense though. The next addition to the site was Amazon, which I still use from time to time but for the most part was not going over to well.
As I continued to look for ways to optimize my earning potential, I applied for accounts with ReviewMe and Text-Link-Ads. While I was approved for ReviewMe, I was not as fortunate with Text-Link-Ads.
If you have applied for Text-Link-Ads and have not been approved, I strongly recommend that you call them directly and request that your account be approved. After hearing that advice from a few fellow personal finance bloggers, I gave it a try myself and my account was approved immediately. It took a little bit of time to get going but I have now sold 3 of my 6 ad spots!
Last but certainly not least, I just recently added Kontera ads to my site courtesy of the partnership between Kontera and John Chow. Kontera was not added to my site until March 29th but I already earned a very small amount. Until this partnership with John and Kontera, I had not even applied because my site did not meet the requirements defined by Kontera. If you haven’t done so already, I would encourage you to take advantage of this offer and apply for your Kontera account.
Okay…Get To The Money Already
As March came to a close and I began reviewing my Dot Com Mogul status, I realized that I had never actually sat down and tracked my earnings. Part of that is because I haven’t really earned enough up to this point to receive any money from anyone but that is all about to change.

To many of you this may seem like chump change but I am very pleased to have surpassed $100.00 in total blog earnings for the month of March. The biggest boost to my earnings were the ReviewMe reviews that I completed so it may be difficult to surpass these numbers in April. However, my goal is going to be to make a minimum of $125.00 for the month of April.
I’ve been giving thought to monetizing this site as well and that would certainly help with my goal for April. My focus has been on creating content and generating traffic but I may slowly begin implementing some of the same ads that I am currently using on My New Choice.
With a full month of Kontera and the possibility of two blogs being monetized, April should be an exciting month.