Good question Gadget.. right now I am focusing on stabilizing the income and see how much time I can save. Once I get more time, I am going to increase my average monthly income goal. Unfortunately there are only 24 hrs in a day :).

$2000 is quite good for a single blog. Good to see it is getting better.

my goal is 100$/daily in adsense earnings. its quite a challenge for me, and for all newbies for that matter. i check on my earnings everyday to motivate myself. I’m waiting for my first google check now. when i recieve it i will have it scanned and hang it on my wall

Congratulations! I am thinking about starting a blog, so I researched a a company to design it and they want $2,000 to put it together for me. I was taken back because I thought you could get on up for pretty cheap.

I see no reason to pay $2000 for someone else to set up your blog, Paul. Wordpress is free, and if you want you can buy a system like Semiologic Pro with a lot of plugins and tweaks already built in for a fraction of that price. Besides, if you want to be successful, I think you need to know at least some of the “underbelly” of your own blog so that you can know why things happen the way they do. This is just the beginning of the Search Engine Optimazation tricks you will have to learn in order to really make money with your blog.

@ Prosperity writer, I am eager to see the scan of check, just like Shoemoney.

@risoknop, I am really sorry to know that you are banned from adsense. They don’t even give a reason for banning and publisher remains clueless. But due to many other options in affiliate networking, it’s much easier now a days to switch to other money making options than relying on adsense only as in the past. This also in a way Motivation to make more money by spreading your risks with different money making options.

@ Paul, please don’t spend so much of money on starting a blog. $100 is decent amount, and if you don’t want to even spend that [on actual blog design and setup - I am not considering advertising or marketing costs here], I would be more than happy to help you out in setting it up and building it for you for free. I want to help you make money in some or the other way, and by saving your money - I would be helping you making money - Every penny saved is every penny earned

@ Tracy, thanks for the encouraging comment for Paul. Please keep on visiting my blog, I would love to see you around

@ Eric, I am so glad that you are learning few things from my little bit of knowledge base. I would certainly give some practical ways to make money than bluff tacts. Mostly my suggestions would be from my own experience and mistakes. Thanks for the nice quick review on your website.

I suppose you are using Wordpress:

1) Install Wordpress - make sure it works

2) Download the theme you like. Upload it to wp-content/themes/ folder.

2) Login to Wordpress and go to Presentation tab (if using 2.3) and activate the new theme there by clicking on it. If you are using version 2.5, go to Design Tab and activate the theme there.

3) Go to your blog and you should see your new theme

note that some of the older themes aren’t compatible with the latest Wordpress but those are really not good anymore so…

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/02/09/83-beautiful-wordpress-themes-you-probably-havent-seen/ - here you can see few nice themes for example… modern looking ones

Thank you risoknop!

I once heard that adsense doesn’t like you posting your earnings online. I see a lot of people do it but if its true then I don’t want to get banned. BTW I love your site already.

@ Metal, I am glad to see the earning, but I don’t want to stop here and eventually make it bigger and bigger.
@ Computer repair, thanks! Adsense does ban you for posting your total earnings anymore.
@ keylogger, do you think passionate person like me would be only sitting idle watching the money grow. No way! I would not mind to see it growing but the same time, I would be thinking how to make it double in coming months.

pheww thats a lots…..keep it up

Wow, you are doing great job! am inspired of taking my blog more seriously now

Hi. I’m not a blog newbie, but I’m a newbie to earning money online.

Yesterday, I was tallying up my monthly online earnings (a figure which I appreciate ‘cos I was earning NOTHING this time last year). To put it into context, I then added up how much I’d made online so far this year - and doing that made me realise how much I had achieved.

I wouldn’t even begin to compare my earnings with yours, and I won’t, but I think everyone should be congratulated regardless of what earning level they’re at. As you probably have experienced yourself, it’s often the initial, tentative steps that are the hardest.

take care and more power to you…may you continue to achieve and inspire others to empower their wallets.

That’s a really good motivation idea. You want to keep increasing your earnings so it is different each time someone comes to visit your site. I’m not so sure I want to do something like this on my site quite yet though :S

It’s great idea, but I want to know what is the best money making program that you have joined.. Whether Blogsvertise is the good ones?

It’s really encouraging to read stories like this one. I’ve only just started my blog and haven’t even started trying to make money out of it yet but this kinda gives me an idea of something to aim for.

i wonder whether my kind of blog will make money or not. i hve not even consider adsense for it yet.