What does it take to make money blogging?

[ChickenFreak]

Originally Posted by JonathanQ

Anyways, I want to ask, if you are a new blogger, after how many months of work do you expect to earn about even $50 a month if you post lets say 2-3 times a week.

Infinite. By which I mean that most blogs will probably never reach $50/month in income. I would be very surprised if any significant percentage of blogs that are trying to make money make as much as ten dollars a month, ever. I would be even more surprised if the blog owners end up earning anywhere near minimum wage from those blogs, when you consider profit per hour working on the blog.

And, no, a great linking and marketing strategy will accomplish nothing whatsoever until you have fabulous, fabulous content. Marketing the blog is about getting people to come look at it, but if the content isn't great and they don't come back, it doesn't matter how many people came for one look.

Linking does exactly the same thing; if you manage to fool Google into thinking that a poor site is a good site, through link games, then the result is that people will see your site in search engine results and come to it. And, again, if the site isn't good enough to keep them and bring them back, all those linking games were a waste of time.

Content. Quality content. That's what matters. Once you have that down, once you're one of the very best sites in your niche, then some marketing _might_ be worthwhile.

[yankeem0mo33]

Great info! thanks guys. I'm a new blogger myself and I'm being realistic about making money. I know it will definitely not happen right away.

[VRecipes]

What methods of monetization would you recommend for a recipe blog/website?

[barbrine]

Oops, you are telling a very cruel truth, now I've to find another way to pay my bills.

[louhutt]

Thanks for bringng me back to reality!

[melvin]

Actually it takes a lot that you can't simply just say it in short amount of words. I make money from my blog ( it used to earn above $1000, but since getting a job, it dropped to less than a thousand).

If you're just getting started or you get very little traffic. You need dedication and proper strategies and then implement those things for the next two months or so. Even with that, you're still not guaranteed of money and sometimes it takes time, other people believe it takes luck, some say it takes a whole bunch of hard work but for me it varies among us.

But as long as your passion is there, anything is possible I believe.