More traffic, more money? Wrong!
There was a story about the fake Steve Jobs blogger who revealed his real identity in 2007. The New York Times wrote about him. Almost every news outlet wrote about him.
The New York Times article sent him half a million visitors in a single day.
Do you know how much he made from that traffic?
Just a hundred dollars!
He made $1,039.81 for the entire month from Google AdSense. Disappointed! Daniel Lyons the fake Steve Jobs became a celebrity blogger and all he could show for it is $1,039.81.
I learned the hard way: while blogs can do many wonderful things, making huge amounts of money isn’t one of them.
I disagree with Lyon.
Blogging can make huge amounts of money. I know bloggers who are making thousands of hundred dollars from their blogs every month. Pat Flynn is one of them. Darren Rowse is one of them. Neil Patel is one of them. These guys do the right thing, monetizing the right ways.
Please, forget about AdSense. Forget about building a site and populating it with ads. There are different and better ways to do it.
Johnny B. Truant described his experience with AdSense in this blog post on Copyblogger:
Right around a year ago now, I made my first cent online. It was literally a cent — $0.01 — and it showed up in my Google AdSense account after a certain number of people had viewed an ad for dog food or a shiatsu massager or whatever on my old humor blog.
That first cent was exciting, because it proved that you really could make money online in the way it seemed that everyone said you could — by creating sites populated with ads, and then sitting back and letting the earnings pile up. Then, if the gurus were to be believed, it was only a matter of time before I would be living in Hawaii, while bikini girls used the Mona Lisa to wax my Lamborghini.
But that dream never came true with AdSense. It was only an illusion that never materialize with AdSense. In fact, Truant was disappointed with AdSense.
Then he changed course.
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