Some people make beginners believe that they can earn money from blogging straight from day 1. They make you buy their tools, subscribe to their mailing list or lure you into a monthly subscription program that will cost you tremendous amounts of money. That’s why many people talk about a conspiracy and a so called “make money blogging scam”. There are even some affiliate programs that will lure you into their program by telling you that you can make $1000’s per month by putting links on a website.
It’s not that easy, but it’s also not as diifcult as many people think.

Let me tell you something about the real way how bloggers make money. The most popular way how people monetize their websites is plain and simple “advertising”. Two of the top players are Google Adsense and Chitika. I suggest you apply to both if you own a blog that is already receiving some visitors. However, advertising is cheap. The internet is growing, more and more sites offer ad inventory on their websites: Advertisers have a good choice and can be very picky. Of course they will only pick the best sites with the best converting traffic and a target audience that is interested in their products.
Unless you have a very big site that is receiving 20,000 and more visitors daily you will not be making much money off advertising. Well, there are of course exceptions: If you are receiving just 10,000 daily and you are in a highly competitive niche like “poker” or “home loans” you will probably earn some good money just by advertising, but highly competitives niches are also harder to rank for and you won’t receive 10,000 visitors per day that easily.

Anyway, if you want to really find out how people make money, I suggest you subscribe to my mailing list and download my free eBook to learn where the real money is.