Comments on: Blog Revenue (Or, my Impossible adventure in Making Money Online)

By: Money Maker Blog

Money Maker Blog — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 00:50:08 +0000

Bloggers become popular very fast. You may be the next popular blogger on the net and make thousands of dollar monthly.

By: Make Money Online - Batch 85 | John Chow dot Com

Make Money Online - Batch 85 | John Chow dot Com — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 19:07:44 +0000

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By: Rea Maor

Rea Maor — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:07:51 +0000

Thank you.

By: Nafcom

Nafcom — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:58:04 +0000

Since your English is perfect otherwise, I more assumed it was a case of “not knowing”. Well, you write like some Americans I saw, so far not really that much noticeable.

By: Rea Maor

Rea Maor — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:45:36 +0000

Thank you for that, yes.. i still have several syntax and/or grammar mistakes,
as English is my second language i’m doing my best to avoid those mistakes.

By: Nafcom

Nafcom — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 21:31:21 +0000

Hope you don’t take this personal, but you could a bit of the readability of your blog. You confuse “its” and “it’s” (it is) pretty often, so people like me have to read such sentences a couple of times. Also you often write things with upper leading letter like “Laptop” or “Drive” eventhough it should be “laptop” and “drive”.

Apart from that your language is very good.

Also notice that I prefer to contact people directly by email and have all such conversations stored in my email client (which is M2). That’s why I had used your email address back then.

By: Rea Maor

Rea Maor — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:04:29 +0000

First of all, thank you for the Article you’re referred me to,
it’s VERY intresting and i’m sure to ReRead it again tommorow morning..

as for your Weblog, i understand that you have your domain now
(WEBJOURNEYMAN.COM) so come on.. i’ll give you FREE hosting and help you with all the WordPress assistence you’ll need.. Contact me to
d3bugg3r (at) gmail (dot ) com, it’s a matter of few hours untill the DNS changes and then you’re all good to go… what do you have to lose ?

By: webjourneyman

webjourneyman — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:58:37 +0000

Well yes, there was a time when Google liked me and my posts would show on the first results page when entering the title. That was when I updated it more frequently. Then I lost motivation and deleted it only to come back and restore it, thats when the 6 got added behind webjourneyman by blogger and since then it has been pretty much invisible on search engines.
I think you´re right, an all or nothing approach is too risky. I´d rather keep my dayjob at least while I owe the bank as much as I do.
An advice to you, do it full force while you´re still in your twenties, I´m in my thirties now and can feel how I grow more conservative and more risk aversive as I age. There is a great post b.t.w. on before mentioned blog with 10 reasons why it is stupid to get a job.

By: Rea Maor

Rea Maor — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 21:10:02 +0000

No.. no.. thats ok.. you can always feel free to post within the comments themselves.

well, lets start with your First question, the problem with your website (in my opinion) is not so much the Color of the text, but more lack of it..
you add posts and articles only once every week or so which isnt enough to get picked up by Search Engines nor would it attract enough people to generate interest and attract more people and traffic (does it make sense ?).
as for your Template, it’s little bit too dark for me.. i like lighter sites.. but again.. it’s my opinion.. other then that i really like your site (the few articles you have, i always find them interesting enough, so i come back and visit the site every now and then in hope to find new once)

as for the second question, i dont have a clear answer.. as i’m 23 years old myself and just finished my Mandatory time in the military just a year and half ago
(3 full years of service) i’m thinking up myself where should i go and what should i learn and in the mean time i have Full time job together with my Side projects
(this blog, the free forum site that i’m selling and few others) which doesnt generate enough money for living.. so while i’ll be the first in line to try and make my dream come true, i do understand that jumping into the deep water can be too risky.. and virtual life is one thing.. but unfortunately you’ll still have to pay bills and eat in the real world…

my best suggestion is find yourself some time, even before heading to sleep..
and write a post about anything on your mind… start to generate content..
write notes during the day and then at night (or between classes) try to find the
right time to upload them to the web..
start with a small site (just like you have) and make sure you dont just give up..
that way you’ll start to get click here, and click there.. dollar here and dollar there.. and when you see you have enough ground to stand on… then you can make that jump…

By: webjourneyman

webjourneyman — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:50:40 +0000

I´ve come accross this blog that I think is right up your alley (no affiliation b.t.w.) in regards to income perhaps read his post on making money from ones blog, especially take notice of what he say´s about placement:
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/05/how-to-make-money-from-your-blog.
I have a question for you and please tell me if you´d rather like me to enter it in the ask Rea Maor part. Does my blog layout suck? Is green fonts on black background too much?
Actually I have two questions. Situation is this: I´m studying for a degree in libaray and information science and have one year left, I work part time at a local library (all weekends plus 12 hours on working day´s). Recently I´m thinknig that since my dream is to be self employed I should quit my job and go full force into webdeveloping, the problem is that I´m scared of not earning enough to pay for rent, food, catfood etc. Should I take the plunge or continue as is hoping that someday I´ll have enough energy to work on my sites after school and work?