$14,436.45
Darren received a check of $14,436.45 from AdSense for the month of May 2005 from his collective websites/blogs. It surprised me as I never believed that one can actually make a living from blogging. It’s one dude in a million but his success is proof that one can really have fun and live well if you put quality efforts into whatever you’re doing.
Congrats Darren, I’m following right behind you man, stepping on your marked footsteps.
July 20th, 2005 at 4:15am
$14k is more than a living. I figure you need to make $100/day to make a living (assuming you get paid weekends and blogging does). That’s $3,000/m. I suspect with a little bit of effort, that a lot more bloggers could be at that level, than realize. Myself, I’m not there yet, but I suspect I will be my years end or early next.
July 20th, 2005 at 4:23am
I’ll be happy with $500/mo to start with considering I live in Asia at the moment, but yeah if we can make his kind of dough then life’s gonna get easy so damn fast.
Thanks for visiting man!
July 20th, 2005 at 10:21am
you can earn that much? oh dear. i’ve missed out on a new laptop, three pairs of shoes and more lacy underthings. i’m hating myself.
July 20th, 2005 at 10:29am
Funny how you interpret $14k. It could mean a change of life for me!
July 20th, 2005 at 6:55pm
WOW!!!!!!!!!! That’s impressive. I’ve just reached $100 from Adsense. That’s enough for a good night on the town at least. lol
July 21st, 2005 at 7:49pm
[…] • Scrivs writes Getting Rowse Money - ‘You must keep in perspective how long Darren has been doing this and how frequently. Could you honestly put in 12 hours a day, 6 days a week? I know I couldn’t. I would simply go insane. But think if you did?’ • 282 people ‘dug’ the story at digg with an array of comments ranging from wondering how I’ll spend it through to doubting it can be done. • rianjs.net writes - ‘I must have read every ProBlogger.net article on making money blogging, and most of it’s pretty reasonable and doable, if you have the time to devote to actually writing.’… • Escape Velocity makes some good comments about my ’secrecy’ on which of my blogs make the most money (maybe I am being a little paranoid - not that there is really any real secret if you’re willing to dig into ProBlogger a bit. • Warren Kinsella writes - ‘This guy says he makes ten big ones a month blogging. Not sure I believe it. There’s the faintest whiff of Ponzi scheme, here. Or is there?’ • Jermexpress writes - ‘It surprised me as I never believed that one can actually make a living from blogging. It’s one dude in a million but his success is proof that one can really have fun and live well if you put quality efforts into whatever you’re doing.’ • Retire Young and Wealthy writes - ‘…I don’t know if I could put that much effort into blogging. I would prefer to maintain a website, that you don’t have to keep adding entries to and doesn’t require too much maintenance.’ You’re not the only one - I’d love to have a passive income from a static site too - however the fact is that very few sites ever do achieve this. Search Engines like fresh content these days so sites that don’t update don’t tend to rank well over time. The idea of ‘easy money’ online isn’t one I subscribe to. […]
July 21st, 2005 at 8:30pm
thanks for the link - appreciate it. Keep blogging - you’ll get there!