Making Money via Blogs?

Yes, I know people said that it is possible. Yes, I've heard about AdSense. In fact, I *have* placed 4 AdSense blocks on my blog.

The question is: Is it profitable?

Not without proper marketing of your blog, it won't.

So, we'll see if this blog generates enough money for me to leave my daytime job

But all is not well on Nirvana.

You see, because of the huuuuuuge amount of obnoxious, in-your-face, bandwidth-consuming (not to mention CPU-hogging) advertisements, many people browsed the web with ads blocked. Either by installing an extension (AdBlock Plus in Firefox), built in facility of the browser (Opera's blocker), or external programs (IE7Pro for IE7, or AdMuncher).

( Note: Internet Explorer 7 is now FREE for all... no more of that pesky Windows Genuine Advantage crap )

Someone (NOT me) said that such users are thieves. Not me. Because I'm 'guilty' of that myself.

However, for my monetary scheme to work, I request to ad-blocking users, please do allow ads coming in from adsense, i.e. allow "adsense.google.com". Besides, remember that AdSense ads are (1) Text-based, so it does not consume a lot of bandwidth, and (2) relevant to whatever contents a web page is presenting.

Another problem is JavaScript blocking. Yes, it is necessary for preventing popups and such. I also do that. But this blog is clean, I guarantee. So please allow JavaScript for "p-hack.blogspot.com" and "google-analytics.com".

Why do I need JavaScript enabled? Simply put: Google's AdSense also detected and considered the amount of visitors coming to this blog. They do it by a simple JavaScript hosted at my site and at google-analytics.com. Allowing both URLs above enables Google to record the number of visitors to my site.

Thank you for your assistance. May your hacked-life always be fruitful.

Over and Out.